TENNESSEE VS. LOUISVILLE
- Results
- Hosted by University of Tennessee
- Thursday, October 27th
- 25 yards
- Dual meet format
FINAL TEAM SCORES
- Men: Louisville 164.5, Tennessee 135.5
- Women: Louisville 167, Tennessee 133
The Louisville Cardinal men and women came home victorious after traveling to Knoxville for a dual meet against the Tennessee Volunteers.
Louisville’s Mallory Comerford has been having a stellar start to the season, and today’s dual meet was no exception. Comerford swept the 50 through 200 freestyles for the Cardinal women, winning the 50 free in 22.87, the 100 free in 49.83, and the 200 free in 1:47.64.
Tennessee’s Kira Toussaint also put up a highlight swim today, posting the fastest time in the nation so far in the 100 back. Toussaint, who was using the meet as an opportunity to qualify for Short Course Worlds, win the race by body lengths with her 51.79.
On the men’s side, Louisville backstroke standout Grigory Tarasevich pulled in a backstroke double to help his team to victory. Tarasevich led a 1-2 finish in the 100 back with his 49.02 ahead of Aaron Greene‘s 49.58. The Cardinal duo returned for the 200 back, where Tarasevich won in 1:43.82 ahead of Greene’s 1:47.50.
Sam McHugh continued to be a major player for the Tennessee men, winning 3 individual events thoughout the meet.McHugh first went head-to-head with Louisville Olympic Trials finalist Zach Harting in the 200 fly, winning the race in 1:46.07 to Harting’s 1:46.53. He then went on the post wins in the 200 IM (1:48.21) and 500 free (4:25.05).
PRESS RELEASE – TENNESSEE:
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Six Vols won multiple events, but the Tennessee Volunteers lost to Louisville 164.5-135.5 in the men’s meet and 167-133 in the women’s meet Thursday at the Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center.
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.
“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.
Tennessee is back at it Friday with a double dual meet against Indiana and Kentucky in Lexington, Ky. The meet starts at 10 a.m.
“We’ve got potentially a greater challenge tomorrow with two really good teams and travel and coming off this meet,” Kredich said. “It’s up to our team to decide how we’re going to respond.”
INSIDE MEN’S SWIMMING: Freshman Taylor Abbott won his college debut in the 1,000 freestyle, rallying in the second half of the race to touch the wall first in 9:11.34.
Junior Sam McHugh won the 200 butterfly (1:46.07), the fifth fastest time in the NCAA so far; the 500 freestyle (4:25.05); and the 200 IM (1:48.21), the sixth fastest in the country this year.
Sophomore Kyle DeCoursey swept the freestyle sprint events for the second week in a row. He cracked the 20-second barrier for the first time this year to win the 50 freestyle in 19.96 (NCAA B-cut) and later won the 100 freestyle (44.29).
INSIDE WOMEN’S SWIMMING: On the women’s side, Meghan Small collected her first college win, beating Louisville at the wall in the 200 backstroke to win in an NCAA B-cut time of 1:56.86. She added a victory in the 200 IM in 2:00.63, another B cut.
Senior Kira Toussaint earned her first individual win of the season in the 100 backstroke 51.79, an NCAA B cut and the fastest time in college this year.
The Vols got a 1-2 finish in the 100 butterfly with senior Heather Lundstrom taking first in 54.81 followed by Madeline Banic.
Tennessee closed out the day with a victory in the 400 freestyle relay, with the team of Erika Brown, Micah Bohon, Small and Toussaint beating out Louisville 3:20.22 to 3:20.50.
IN DIVING Sophomore Rachel Rubadue went 2-for-2 in the women’s diving events, taking the 1-meter in 291.75 and the 3-meter in 343.95. Sophomore Emily Pelletier recorded a career-best 283.58 on 3-meter to finish second.
In men’s diving, Liam Stone earned a pair of victories with a season-best 440.18 on 3-meter and 379.50 on 1-meter. Sophomore Nick Rusek took second in both event, posting a career-best 343.28 on 3-meter.
“We had some really outstanding stuff with Liam winning both boards,” Tennessee diving coach Dave Parrington said. “This early last season, he wasn’t even close to these scores.
“Rachel Rubadue had an excellent performance. The standard of competition was a little tougher on the women’s side. On the 1-meter, Rachel won on the last dive, and that’s something I want to see. I want to see someone stand up and compete in that type of fashion.”
PRESS RELEASE – LOUISVILLE:
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 coach Arthur 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.”
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 Carroll at 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, while Andrea 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 by David 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.
