Women's Swimming In Third After Day 2 at ACC Championships

Thursday, February 18

Greensboro, N.C.

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University of Louisville

ACC Championships (Women)

Women's Swimming In Third After Day 2 at ACC Championships

February 18, 2016 | Swimming & Diving

Two medals added to the Cards total.

By: Nancy Worley

After two days and six events, the University of Louisville women's swimming and diving team added a silver and gold to its collection. The Cards are ranked third with 395.5 points behind NC State (441.5) and Virginia (486.5) with two days of racing remaining at the Greensboro Aquatic Center.

"What a session we had tonight," said UofL head coach Arthur Albiero. "We competed with great team pride. From the very first swim, we were on fire. The team energy was incredible. And the performances were inspired. It was a fun night."

In the first event of the day, Virginia's Leah Smith pulled away from the 500-freestyle field by almost seven seconds lead and set a new ACC mark of 4:30.74, which is just tenths shy of the NCAA record of 4:30.37. Louisville freshman Mallory Comerford was into the wall second for a silver medal in 4:38.01 for a new school record. Cardinal junior Andrea Kneppers was seventh in 4:43.24. In the B-final, Abigail Houck dropped 0.60 from her preliminary time to finish fourth in 4:43.82 In the C- final, Marah Pugh won in 4:44.97 and dropped almost 3 seconds from her morning time.

In the 50-free, UofL star Kelsi Worrell won the gold with a 21.85 for the first ACC individual title for the Cards in the meet. She broke the ACC meet record by .02.

In the 200-IM A Final, freshman Rachael Bradford Feldman was fourth in 1:57.48 and Andrea Cottrell was sixth in 1:57.90. In the B-final, UofL freshman Alina Kendzior took the win in 1:57.7, a two second drop from her preliminary time. Sellers finished third in 1:59.63. In the C-final, freshman Manuela Sampaio took the seventh place in 2:02.35.

In the 200-free relay, the Cards touched fourth with a 1:28.64 behind NC State (1:27.5), UVA (1:28.4), and UNC (1:28.63) Despite a fast 21.40 split from Kelsi Worrell on the 2nd leg, Louisville was out-touched by just .01 behind UNC.

Action resumes Friday morning at 10 a.m. with the 400-IM, 100-fly, 200-free, 100-breast, 100-back and women's 3-meter diving preliminaries.