Cardinals Complete Day 1 of Competition at the Louisville First Chance Meet

Cardinals Complete Day 1 of Competition at the Louisville First Chance Meet

February 15, 2024 | Swimming & Diving

By: Nancy Worley

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The University of Louisville men's and women's swimming and diving team completed the finals on Day 1 of the Louisville First Chance Meet Thursday evening at the Ralph Wright Natatorium.

The meet is designed to help swimmers improve their times or qualify for postseason. Louisville and Kentucky had swimmers in the water today. On Friday, Illinois women and Cincinnati will join the meet.

In the 200 IM Final, Zoe Vogelmann went 2:03.61 to edge UK's Paige Housman for the win.

In the 500 free, Paige Kuwata cut almost two seconds from her prelim time to post a 4:49.13. On the men's side, Kayden Lancaster won with a time of 4:25.90 just ahead of John Bossler's 4:30.75.

Adry Kasemets boarded a 1:03.02 in the 100 breaststroke for the Louisville women. Robert Ehrenborg put up the fastest time in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 56.18.

Krista Wheeler won the 200 backstroke with a time of 2:32.78, edging teammate Abby Karl's 2:33.07.

Drew Collins won the 100 backstroke with a time of 1:45.14 and fellow Cardinal Ryan Hogan went 1:49.01 for second place.

Bianca Costea won the 100 freestyle with a time of 48.96 to beat UK's Lily DeLong's 51.65. Caleb Duncan won the men's 100 free with a time of 44.05 with Owen Taylor touching second in 44.10 and UK's Brady McInerney into the wall third at the 45.52 mark.

In the 200 freestyle relay time trial, Dalton Lowe (19.65), Charlie Crush (19.17), Guy Brooks (19.09) and Matias Santiso (19.20) put up a pool record time of 1:17.11 and an A-cut.

In a 100 butterfly time trial, Karoline Barrett put up a 51.83 which was an NCAA B-cut, just shy of the A-cut time of 50.69.

Jackson Millard went 46.50 in the 100 backstroke in a time trial and set a meet record and got an NCAA B-cut.