No. 8/11-Ranked Swimming and Diving Set to Host No. 6/12 Missouri in Two-Day Meet

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No. 8/11-Ranked Swimming and Diving Set to Host No. 6/12 Missouri in Two-Day Meet

January 05, 2017 | Swimming & Diving

Cards face the Tigers at 3 p.m. on Friday and 11 a.m. on Saturday

By: Nancy Worley

The University of Louisville men's and women's swimming and diving teams are set to host SEC power Missouri January 6-7 at the Ralph Wright Natatorium.

The No. 8 ranked Louisville men will take on the No. 6-ranked Tigers with the No. 11-ranked Cardinal women facing No. 12 ranked Mizzou. The two teams will clash at 3 p.m. ET on Friday and 11 a.m. ET on Saturday.

The Cardinals are coming off a win at the UofL Invitational which featured two NCAA A-cuts and 25 NCAA B-cuts while also breaking six meet records, five pool records, and two school records. The A-cuts came In the women's 400 free relay, when Louisville's 'A' team of Lainey Visscher (49.65), Mallory Comerford (47.59), Abigail Houck (49.39), and Casey Fanz (47.60) touched first with what was the third fastest time this year, setting a new meet and pool record and NCAA A-cut time of 3:14.23. In the men's 400 free relay, Louisville's 'A' team of Andrej Barna (43.79), Matthias Lindenbauer (42.96), Grigory Tarasevich (42.80), and Trevor Carroll (42.59) touched in first with the third fastest time this year, a new meet record, and a NCAA A-cut time of 2:52.14.

The Tigers' last outing was the Mizzou Invite on November 17-19. Over the course of the meet, the Tigers combined to set 10 school records and four individual NCAA automatic qualifying cuts. Two Tigers, seniors Andrew Sansoucie and Fabian Schwingenschlogl ranked first nationally in their respective events at the time, while senior Michael Chadwick ranks second in three events and third in another. In all, nine Tiger men own 16 top 10 times and six Tiger women have 10 top 10 times nationally.

The Cardinal men are led by Grigory Tarasevich who is ranked third in the 200-back (1:40.32), and 5^th in the 100-back (45.79). Marcelo Acosta is ranked sixth in the 1650 (14:47.79), ninth in the 1000 (8:58.68) and 11^th in the 500 with a 4:16.49. Carlos Claverie is fourth in the 100-breast (52.38), and second in the 200-breast (1:53.32). He also ranks 26^th in the 200-IM. Trevor Carroll is 23^rd in the 200-free (1:34.91) and teammate Matthias Lindenbauer is 30^th in the 200-free. Newcomer Etay Gurevich is ranked 11^th in the 400-IM (3:43.96), 18^th in the 200-fly (1:44.18) and 27^th in the 200-IM (1:45.47).

The men's relays are traditionally strong and this year is no different as the 200-free relay ranks 11^th (1:17.95), the 400-free relay is fifth (2:52.14), the 800-free relay is fifth (6:19.36) as is the 200-medley relay (1:25.06) with the 400-medley relay standing 15^th with a 3:09.06.

The Cardinal women can be found in the top times as well. Mallory Comerford is third in the 100-free (47.36), fourth in the 200-free (1:43.02) and sixth in the 500-free (4:37.64). She also is ranked No. 24 in the 50-free with a 22:26. Alina Kendzior is 21^st in the 200-back (1:53.61) and 30^th in the 100-back (52.63). Andrea Cottrell is fourth in the 100-breast (58.85) and sixth in the 200-breast (2:08.25). Abigail Houck is 23^rd in the 200-fly (1:56.50). Rachael Bradford-Feldman is 34^th in the 200-IM (1:58.29) and 25^th in the 400-IM (4:10.95).

The women's Cardinal relays rank as well. The Cards are 14^th in the 200-free relay (1:29.70), ninth in the 400-free relay (3:14.23) and seventh in the 800-free relay (7:04.71). The Louisville women are fifth in the 200-medley relay (1:36.52) and 8^th in the 400-medley relay.

The meet has a two-day format with the order of events listed below.

Event Order
Friday 1/6/2016 – 3 p.m.
Women 200 Free Relay
Men 200 Free Relay
Women 400 IM
Men 400 IM
Women 100 Free
Men 100 Free
Women 200 Back
Men 200 Back
Women 200 Breast
Men 200 Breast
Women 100 Fly
Men 100 Fly
Women 500 Free
Men 500 Free
Women 100 IM
Men 100 IM
Women 400 Medley Relay
Men 400 Medley Relay

DIVING 2:00 PM
Friday 1/6/2017

Men 1 mtr Diving
Women 3 mtr Diving
Women 1 mtr Diving
Men 3 mtr Diving

Saturday 1/7/2017 – 11 a.m.

Women 200 Medley Relay
Men 200 Medley Relay
Women 1000 Free
Men 1000 Free
Women 200 Free
Men 200 Free
Women 100 Back
Men 100 Back
Women 100 Breast
Men 100 Breast
Women 200 Fly
Men 200 Fly
Women 50 Free
Men 50 Free
Women 200 IM
Men 200 IM
Women 400 Free Relay
Men 400 Free Relay