No. 10 Cardinal Men to Send Nine and All Five Relays to NCAAs

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The No. 10-ranked University of Louisville men's swimming and diving team will send a nine swimmers to the 2022 Men's NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships March 23-26 in Atlanta, Georgia at Georgia Tech's McAuley Aquatic Center. The NCAA has released its official psych sheets (along with the invite line) for the championships today.

In total, there will be 235 participants representing 45 different schools at this year's championships.

All five of the Cardinals' relay teams made the field including the top ranked 200 medley relay team that won gold at ACC and put up the fastest time in the nation (1:21.84).

Nicolas Albiero is one of four Cardinals who qualified in two individual events. He will swim the 100 and 200 fly and is ranked No. 1 in the nation in the 200 butterfly. Newcomer Denis Petrashov will swim the 100 and 200 breaststroke. Olympian Murilo Sartori will swim the 100 and 200 freestyle and senior Daniel Sos will swim the 200 and 400 Individual Medley.

The UofL men divers did not advance out of the NCAA Zone Qualifiers held in Ann Arbor March 7-9.

Cardinal Qualifiers (Ranking, Event, Time)
Nicolas Albiero (1st, 200 fly, 1:37.92), (7th, 100 fly, 44.79)
Abdelrahman El-Araby (8th, 50 free, 18.83),
Dalton Lowe (16th 100 fly, 45.26)
Denis Petrashov (30th, 100 breast, 52.14), (13th 200 breast, 1:51.89)
Gustavo Saldo (21st, 200 fly, 1:41.80)
Murilo Sartori (11th, 200 free, 1:32.38), (21st 100 free, 42.18)
Evgenii Somov (4th, 100 breast, 51.13)
Daniel Sos (17th, 200 IM, 1:42.74)
Mitchell Whyte (11th, 100 back, 45.19)

(Alternates to be determined)

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No. 10 Cardinal Men to Send Nine and All Five Relays to NCAAs

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Evgenii Somov

Daniel Sos

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