Swimming Downs Xavier

Friday, October 21

Louisville, KY

1 p.m.

University of Louisville

Xavier University

LOUISVILLE INVITATIONAL | Maggie Patterson

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October 21, 2016 | Swimming & Diving

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Cards win home opener

By: Garrett Nugent

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Cardinals recorded victories in every event in their meet against Xavier on Friday afternoon at the Ralph Wright Natatorium. The men defeated the Musketeers 210-65 while the women won 198-62.

"It's always good to get back to racing and racing at home. We never take that for granted." UofL head coach Arthur Albiero said after the meet. "I think the way this was set up was a chance for a lot of our freshman to really get a feel for what a home meet is like and we put a couple different people in different positions to see how they handle it and I think overall it was positive. There's a lot of things we've got to continue to learn and continue to do better. The road only gets tougher with tough meets coming up at Tennessee and then UNC at home, but it's good. I like where we are as a group and as a program. This is just an assessment for us and we have to take the things we are learning today into practice and make a big difference coming up."

Louisville kicked off the afternoon with the women's 200-medley relay. The foursome of Casey Fanz (27.46), Avery Braunecker (29.18), Mallory Comerford (25.01), and Rachel Grooms (22.58) led the Louisville 'A' team to a 1:44.23 victory. The Louisville 'B' team of Mackenzie Buss (27.00), Silvia Guerra (29.89), Maggie Patterson (25.82), and Alex Sellers (23.65) finished second with a time of 1:46.36. The men's 200-medley relay 'A' squad of Aaron Greene (24.03), Carlos Claverie (24.38), Josh Quallen (21.15), and Andrej Barna (19.95) took first with a time of 1:29.51. The 'B' relay squad took second with Matthias Lindenbauer (23.08), Todd Owen (27.04), Zach Harting (22.08), and Abel Aulbach (20.85) posting a time of 1:33.05.

In the longest event of the afternoon, the Louisville men and women cruised to easy victories in the 1000-freestyle. Maggie Jahns posted a time of 10:10.83 to take first, while Emily Moser followed with a time of 10:16.95 to finish in second. The men's finished with a 1, 2, 3, 4 sweep of the event with Jarrett Jones touching first with a time of 9:29.64, followed by Jake Schultz (9:33.78), Graham Barrett (9:47.80), and Nolan Smith (9:50.65) taking second, third, fourth respectively.

In the women's 200-freestyle event, Rachel Grooms (1:52.33) touched first, with Alex Sellers (1:52.87) in second and Sophie Cattermole (1:55.56) touching third. Matthias Lindenbauer (1:37.99) touched first in the men's 200-freestyle event, followed by Andrej Barna (1:41.33) and Sam Steele (1:41.33) touching second, and Derek Sander (1:42.97) touching fourth.

Louisville's Hannah Magnuson finished first with a time of 56.77 in the women's 100-backstroke, while Fanz finished third with a time of 58.16. In the men's 100-backstroke, Louisville swept with Grigory Tarasevich touching first at 46.00 while Josh Quallen (49.72) and Aaron Greene touched second and third, respectively.

In the women's 100-breastroke, Louisville's Silvia Guerra (1:04.48), Lauren James (1:05.40), and Manuela Sampaio (1:05.81) had a 1, 2, 3 sweep of the event. The men also had a 1, 2, 3 sweep in their event with Claverie (56.56) taking first, Brennen Berger (57.98) taking second, and Jonathan Zoucha (58.78) taking third.

In the women's 200-yard butterfly, Maggie Jahns touched first with a time of 2:06.61, while Paige Ezell (2:13.44) touched second. Another Cardinal sweep for the men's 200-fly with Harting (1:49.57), Etay Gurevich (1:49.85), and Ryan Massey (1:52.89) touching first, second, and third respectively.

It was a 1, 2, 3 sweep for both the men and women in the 50-freestyle. Avery Braunecker touched first for the women with a time of 23.67, followed by Lainey Visscher (24.16) second, and Andrea Cottrell (24.23) third. Trevor Carroll touched first for the men with a time of 20.49, followed by Mark Chernov (20.85) second and Andrej Barna (20.91) third.

Louisville had another 1, 2, 3 sweep in the 100-freestyle with Rachel Grooms posting a time of 50.81 to take first in the women's heat, followed by Visscher (51.63) second and Braunecker (51.99) third. Carroll took first with a time of 44.83 in the men's heat, followed by Boland (45.58) second and Barna (46.00) third.

Maggie Jahns posted a time of 2:06.89 to take first in the women's 200-backstroke with Marah Pugh (2:07.46) taking second. GrigoryTarasevich touched first with a time of 1:43.69 in the men's 200-backstroke while Aaron Greene (1:51.29) took second.

The 200-breastsroke was a Cardinal event as they swept both heats. Manuela Sampaio posted a time of 2:19.07 to take first in the women's heat, followed by Silvia Guerra (2:19.97) in second and Lauren James (2:20.07) in third. Etay Gurevich posted a time of 2:05.69 to take first in the men's heat, while Keegan Foulke (2:07.13) took second and Brennen Berger (2:07.64) took third.

Emily Moser touched first in the women's 500-freestyle with a time of 5:01.27, with Sophie Cattermole touching second for the Cardinals with a time of 5:03.81. Jarrett Jones touched first in the men's 500-freestyle with a time of 4:31.79.

Hannah Magnuson finished first with a time of 55.83 in the women's 100-butterfly, with Alina Kendzior touching second with a time of 56.79. Quallen (48.91) touched first in the men's 100-butterfly.

In the women's 200-IM, Rachael Bradford-Feldman posted a time of 2:06.44 to take first. In the men's event, Jonathan Zoucha touched first in the men's 200-IM with a time of 1:53.26.

In the women's 400-freestyle relay, Louisville's 'A' team relay of Magnuson (52.85), Braunecker (52.25), Grooms (50.27), and Visscher (53.09) touched first with a time 3:28.46. Louisville's men's 'A' team relay of Derek Sander (46.85), Grigory Tarasevich (44.55), Zach Harting (45.40), and Ryan Massey (45.95) touched first with a time of 3:02.75.