The University of Louisville won 17 races en route to a sweep of the University of Tennessee Thursday evening at the Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center. The No. 11 ranked Cardinals men beat No. 13 Tennessee 164.5-135.5 and the No. 3 ranked Cardinals women won 167-133 in the women's meet over the No. 11-ranked Volunteers.
"It is always a good challenge to go on the road to face a high quality opponent," said UofL head coachArthur Albiero. "As a staff, we really challenged both men's and women's teams to elevate their performance levels. The result was a total team effort and solid progression in many areas. Our seniors led the way and the whole group, especially our freshmen, are starting to show some learned technical adjustments in their races."
"We lost some races we do not normally use early in the meet," Tennessee head coach Matt Kredich said. "We definitely had some people bounce back after getting hit, but we just kind of got pushed down as a team and didn't stand back up as a team. To me, that was kind of the story of the meet.
The Vols won eight of 16 men's events, headlined by three-win meet for Sam McHugh (200-yard butterfly, 500 freestyle, 200 individual medley). Liam Stone (1-meter, 3-meter diving) and Kyle DeCoursey (50 freestyle, 100 freestyle) won two events each to help lead UT.
Senior Kira Toussaint recorded the fastest 100 backstroke time in the country so far this year in 51.79 seconds as the Tennessee women took first in seven of 16 events.
Freshman Meghan Small collected her first two career wins (200 backstroke, 200 IM), and sophomore Rachel Rubadue swept the springboard events.
Louisville went 1, 3, 5 in the women's 200-medley relay! The 'A' team of Alina Kendzior (25.57), Andrea Cottrell (27.51), Grace Oglesby (24.30), and Casey Fanz (22.15) touched first at 1:39.53. The men went 1, 3, and 5 in the 200-Medley Relay. Louisville's 'A' team of Grigory Tarasevich (22.35), Carlos Claverie(24.20), Josh Quallen (21.21), and Andrej Barn (19.78) combined for the win in 1:27.54.
Marah Pugh touched first in the women's 1000-free with a time of 10:03.03. Maggie Jahns followed in second at 10:09.61. Emily Moser and Sophie Cattermole touched fifth and sixth. For the men, Jarrett Jones touched second in the men's 1000-free with a time of 9:14.35 with Marcelo Acosta following in third, boarding a 9:20.25.
The Cardinals' Mallory Comerford took first in the 200-free with a time of 1:47.64. For the men, the Cards had a 1, 2, 3 sweep. Matthias Lindenbauer won with a time of 1:37.93, followed by Trevor Carrollat 1:38.81 and Samuel Steele at 1:39.86.
Alina Kendzior (54.26), Sophie Underdahl (55.98), and Hannah Magnuson (56.17) finished 2, 3, 4 respectively in the women's 100-backstroke. Grigory Tarasevich (49.02) just edged teammate Aaron Greene (49.58) in the men's 100-Backstroke to take first and second.
It was a 1, 3, 4 finish for the Cardinals by Andrea Cottrell (1:00.40), Silvia Guerra (1:02.94), and Rachael Bradford-Feldman (1:03.84) in the women's 100-Breaststroke. For the men, Carlos Claverie touched at 54.66 to take first in the men's 100-breaststroke. Brennen Berger was next for the Cards in fourth with a time of 56.65.
In the women's 200-Butterfly, Abigail Houck won in 1:58.78 with Marah Pugh touching third at 2:01.43.Zach Harting (1:46.53), Josh Quallen (1:48.75), and Etay Gurevich (1:49.74) went second, third, and fourth in the men's 200-butterfly.
Mallory Comerford (22.87) just out touched teammate Casey Fanz (22.97) to capture first in the women's 50-Freestyle. Andrej Barna and Trevor Carroll tied for second with a time of 20.37 in the men's 50-freestyle.
In the women's 3-Meter diving event, Molly Fears finished in second with a score of 301.28, whileAndrea Acquista placing in third with 297.53.
Sprinter Mallory Comerford touched first with a time of 49.83 in the women's 100-Freestyle. Trevor Carroll (44.48), Matthias Lindenbauer (44.79), and Andrej Barna (45.08) wemt 2, 3, 4 in the men's 100-freestyle!
In the women's 200-Backstroke, Alina Kendzior (1:56.90) touched second with Sofie Underdahl(1:59.57) taking third. Grigory Tarasevich made it a sweep by winning the men's 200-backstroke with a time of 1:43.82 with Aaron Greene finishing second with a time of 1:47.50!
Andrea Cottrell finished in 2:11.96 and Bradford-Feldman finished in 2:15.43 to take first and second respectively in the women's 200-breaststroke. Carlos Claverie (1:58.77) won the men's 200-breaststroke with Todd Owen (2:02.20) taking third and Etray Gurevich (2:05.97) taking fourth.
In the women's 1-Meter Diving event, Andrea Acquista placed second with 287.40 while Michaela Slineyplaced third with 269.93.
A 1, 2, 4 finish in the women's 500-Freestyle was led by Abigail Houck, who touched first at 4:53.61,Marah Pugh was second in 4:54.45, and Emily Moser was fourth in 5:00.24. Jarrett Jones placed second place in the men's 500-freestyle with a time of 4:27.54. Marcelo Acosta took fifth in 4:34.32.
Hannah Magnuson (55.23) and Grace Oglesby (55.35) finished third and fourth in the women's 100-butterfly. Louisville had the 1-2 finish in the men's 100-butterfly with Josh Quallen (48.18) followed byDavid Boland (48.42).
Rachael Bradford-Feldman touched third in the women's 200-IM, followed by Alina Kendzior who went 2:04.04. Louisville went 2, 3, 4, 5 in the men's 200-IM with Carlos Claverie (1:49.87) followed by Josh Quallen (1:51.05), Etay Gurevich (1:52.61), and Jonathan Zoucha (1:52.96).
In the men's 1- and 3-Meter Diving events, Daniel Fecteau finished third with a score of 322.88 and 325.73
Louisville finished second in the women's 400-Freestyle Relay. The 'A' team of Casey Fanz (, Mallory Comerford, Rachel Grooms, and Abigail Houck touched second at 3:20.50!
The Cardinal men won the final race of the day in the men's 400-Freestyle Relay. The 'A' team of Trevor Carroll (44.29), Matthias Lindenbauer (44.77), David Boland (45.23), and Grigory Tarasevich (44.11) touched first at 2:58.40.
