Louisville holds leads in both the men's and women's races at its own home invitational.
Louisville Press Release
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The University of Louisville men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams posted three NCAA A-cuts and 27 NCAA B-cuts on the second day of the University of Louisville Invitational at Ralph Wright Natatorium on Saturday. The Cardinals also saw seven meet records and four pool records broken on the second day of the invite.
“That was a great session.” Arthur Albiero, UofL head coach, said after day two’s events. “Really proud of the energy that the team had and the stands were packed. It was just a great night of racing. This is what we love to do. Much along the lines of what we tried to do yesterday to use as an assessment, and I thought last night was pretty good, but tonight, across the board, it was actually better. Especially with those 800 free relays, achieving automatic qualifying standard times. In this kind of setting, this meet, it’s pretty tough to finish with the 800 free relay, so I think it says a lot about this group and the leadership and what we are trying to do looking ahead, looking at the big picture. Excited for one more good day of racing tomorrow.”
Louisville kicked off the night with a bang as the women posted a meet and pool record and a NCAA A-cut time in the 200 medley relay. Alina Kendzior (24.84), Andrea Cottrell (26.91), Mallory Comerford (23.08), and Casey Fanz (21.69) touched first with a time of 1:36.52. The men followed that with a meet and pool record of their own in the men’s 200 medley relay as Grigory Tarasevich (21.81), Carlos Claverie (23.56), Josh Quallen (20.37), and Trevor Carroll (19:32) posted a time NCAA B-cut time of 1:25.06, just .01 off a NCAA A-cut.
In the women’s 400 IM, the Cards posted four NCAA B-cut times as Rachael Bradford-Feldman captured first place with a time of 4:10.95. Marah Pugh (4:12.05), Sofie Underdahl (4:16.29), Sophie Cattermole (4:18.36) finished two, three, and four, respectively. The men continued their record setting night with Etay Gurevich posting a meet and pool record and NCAA B-cut time of 3:43.96 in the men’s 400 IM to come in first. Jarrett Jones (3:48.53), Keegan Foulke (3:49.50), Jack Schultz (3:51.10), and Ryan Massey (3:53.24) followed second, third, fourth, and fifth, respectively.
It was a tight match in the women’s 100 fly as Hannah Magnuson touched first with a NCAA B-cut time of 53.77, as Lainey Visscher touched right behind her with at NCAA B-cut time of 54.04. Three Cards register NCAA B-cuts in the men’s 100 fly, with David Boland (46.97) touching first, Quallen (47.07) coming in second, and Harting (47.72) placing third.
Louisville grabbed the top four spots in the women’s 200 free with Abbie Houck (1:45.83) in first and Alex Sellers (1:47.84) in third both registered NCAA B-cut times. Rachel Grooms captured the third spot with a time of 1:48.94, while Fanz followed in fourth with a time of 1:49.06. The men grabbed the top five spots in their event, as Sam Steele touched first, posting a NCAA B-cut time of 1:37.01. Marcelo Acosta touched second at 1:38.34, while Barna (1:38.46) captured third, Derek Sander (1:38.78) took fourth, and Jonathan Zoucha (1:38.97) followed in fifth.
Lauren James (1:02.26) registered a NCAA B-cut time of 1:02.26 to win the women’s 100 breast ahead of fellow teammates Bradford-Feldman at 1:02.91 and Silvia Guerra at 1:02.25. In the men’s 100 breast event, Carlos Claverie captured a new meet record and NCAA B-cut time of 52.93 to touch first. Brennen Berger came in third with a NCAA B-cut time of 54.34, while Todd Owen (54.82) also recorded a NCAA B-cut to take the fourth spot.
Alina Kendzior captured the meet record and a NCAA B-cut time of 52.63 in the women’s 100 back to take first place. Magnuson captured third with a time 54.47 with Visscher touching fourth with a time of 54.43, which were both NCAA B-cut times. Quallen (47.95) out touched Greene (48.19) to take first place as they both posted NCAA B-cuts. Christian Garkani finished with a time of 48.62 to take third, and Massey finished fourth with a time of 49.05.
In the women’s 800 free relay, Louisville’s ‘A’ team of Pugh (1:47.19), Comerford (1:44.20), Houck (1:46.04), and Sellers (1:47.28) touched first to shatter the previous meet and pool records with a NCAA A-cut time of 7:04.71. The men took care of business in their event, also recording a new meet record. The ‘A’ relay team of Matthias Lindenbauer (1:35.59), Harting (1:35.65), Carroll (1:34.04), and Tarasevich (1:34.08) touched first with a NCAA A-cut time of 6:19.36.
In the women’s 1 meter diving, Breanna Price placed fifth with 254.80 points, Michaela Sliney placed sixth with 249.25 points, and Molly Fears placed seventh with 246.70 points. In the men’s 3 meter diving event, Sean Riley placed first with 299.05 points, while Evan Cooper finished third with 276.20 points.
After two days of events, here are the current standings:
Women:
1) University of Louisville - 1537
2) Florida International University - 1067
3) Ohio University - 697
4) Southern Illinois University - 640
5) Illinois State University - 517
6) Wright State University - 347
Men:
1) University of Louisville - 1722
2) Southern Illinois University - 1054.5
3) Wright State University - 828.5
