No. 3/11 Swimming and Diving Lead No. 20/20 UNC after Day 1

Friday, November 4

Louisville, KY

5 p.m.

University of Louisville

University of North Carolina

No. 3/11 Swimming and Diving Lead No. 20/20 UNC after Day 1

November 04, 2016 | Swimming & Diving

Session 1 Results

Cards post NCAA B cuts

By: Nancy Worley

LOUISVILLE, Ky. –The University of Louisville men's and women's swimming and diving teams made three NCAA 'B' cuts on Friday night against North Carolina at Ralph Wright Natatorium. The men (110-57) and women (93-74) both lead the Tar Heels after the first session.

"It was a good first day." said UofL head coach Arthur Albiero. "Some really good things happened. I think we gave a couple things away that we didn't have to and it creates a much tighter meet tomorrow on the women's side. The men have been very impressive today in a lot of different areas, not just really the one or two scorers, but the depth of it today. I am very impressed with that. That's what a two-day meet does. Today is over and we have to bounce back and be ready to go tomorrow morning, which is a great preparation for championship time. That's a good challenge for our group to be ready and it's going to be a heck of a day tomorrow. These guys are going to comeback for us, so we're ready."

In the women's 200-freestyle relay, Louisville's 'A' team of Mallory Comerford (23.14), Avery Braunecker (22.75), Rachel Grooms (22.76), and Casey Fanz (22.50) finished first with a final time of 1:31.15. In the men's 200-freestyle relay, Louisville's 'A' and 'B' teams placed first and second, respectively. The 'A' team of Trevor Carroll (20.51), David Boland (20.14), Grigory Tarasevich (20.07), and Andrej Barna (20.28) posted a time of 1:21.00, while the 'B' team of Matthias Lindenbauer (20.83), Mark Chernov (20.29), Matyi Kovacs (20.50) and Christian Garkani (20.71) went 1:22.33.

Rachael Bradford-Feldman placed first in the women's 200-IM, finishing in 2:01.01 while Alina Kendzior took third at 2:03.99. Josh Quallen finished first for the Cardinal men, touching at 1:49.62 while Etay Gurevich touched third with a time of 1:50.59.

In the longest event of the evening, the 500-freestyle, Abigail Houck posted first with a final time of 4:50.93, while Marah Pugh posted second with 4:52.76. In the men's event, Louisville placed second and third with Marcelo Acosta taking second at 4:25.30 and Jarrett Jones following with a time of 4:28.11.

In the following event, the women's 100-breaststroke, Louisville recorded a 1, 2, 3 sweep with Andrea Cottrell finishing first with a time of 1:01.06, Silvia Guerra touching second at 1:02.79, and Rachael Bradford-Feldman touching third at 1:04.41. Cardinal Carlos Claverie placed first with a time of 54.56 for the men's event.

In the women's 200-backstroke Alina Kendzior had a NCAA 'B' cut finishing second with a final time of 1:59.17, following in third Sofie Underdahl finished 2:00.73. For the men, Grigory Tarasevich placed first while also having a NCAA 'B' cut posting 1:40.32 while Aaron Greene placed second with 1:48.32.

Comerford posted first in the women's 100-freestyle with 49.24 while also achieving a NCAA 'B' cut. In the men's event, Lindenbauer (44:34) and Carroll (44.67) finished in first and second, respectively.

For the women's 200-Fly, Houck finished second with 1:59.84. In the men's event, Zach Harting finished first with a time of 1:48.88 and Jarrett Jones finished second at 1:49.62.

For the women's 400-medley relay, Louisville's 'B' team placed second with Sofie Underdahl (56.70), Silvia Guerra (1:05.34), Hannah Magnuson (55.24), and Casey Fanz (50.20) finishing with a time of 3:47.48. The 'C' team of Mackenzie Buss (57.78), Lauren James (1:04.52), Lainey Visscher (57.23) and Rachel Grooms (49.83) placed third with an end time of 3:49.36. In the men's event, Louisville's 'A' squad finished first with Tarasevich (47.51), Claverie (53.89), Josh Quallen (47.42), and Matthias Lindenbauer (43.97) ending with 3:13.09 while the 'B' team of Aaron Greene (50.14), Brennen Berger (56.08), David Boland (47.73), and Trevor Carroll (43.65) finished in third with 3:17. 60.

In men's 1-meter diving event Daniel Facteau placed second while scoring a new team record of 343.05, with Evan Cooper taking third with a time of 285.90.

In women's 3-meter diving event, Molly Fears and Andrea Acquista finished third and fourth respectively. Fears scored 300.15 and Acquista scored 298.35.

Louisville and North Carolina will wrap up their meet tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. at the Ralph Wright Natatorium.