Louisville Wins Six Events, Leads Louisville Invitational

Knoxville, TN - December 7, 2013: University of Louisville swimmer the 2013 AT&T Swimming Winter National Championships on December 7, 2013 in Knoxville, Tennessee at the Allan Jones Aquatic Center. Photo By Matthew DeMaria/Tennessee Athletics

Photo Courtesy: Matthew DeMaria/Tennessee Athletics

LOUISVILLE – The University of Louisville men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams picked up six wins tonight to establish the lead in the team standings following the first night of competition at their own Louisville Invitational. The Western Kentucky women and Connecticut men are in second, with Missouri State in third.

Louisville Press Release

The University of Louisville men’s and women’s swimming and diving sit atop the leader board after the first day of racing at the Louisville Invitational.

The No. 17-ranked women lead the field with 545 points, followed by Western Kentucky (397), Missouri State (287), Connecticut (286), and Southern Illinois (228).

The No. 5-ranked men lead with 731 ahead of UConn (311), Missouri State (296.50), Southern Illinois (278.50) and WKU (217).

“Lots of highlights today with this tournament format there were a lot of races and a lot of people stepped up. They made a case to be in contention for the championship lineup,” said UofL coach Arthur Albiero.

In the women’s 200-free relay, the University of Louisville foursome boarded the winning time of 1:30.67 posted by the foursome of Andrea Kneppers (23.45), Kelsi Worrell (21.63), Maggie Patterson (23.16) and an 22.43 anchor by Tanja Kylliainen.

The men’s 200-free relay was won by the Louisville A-relay team of Thomas Dahlia (20.50), Caryle Blondell (19.73), Matthias Lindenbauer (19.64 and Trevor Carroll’s anchor of 19.75 for the 1:19.25.

In the women’s 500-freestyle, Marah Pugh had a strong kick to put up the winning time in 4:47.42 with teammate Andrea Kneppers touching second in 4:47.95. Abbie Houck was eighth in 4:56.26.

In the men’s 500-freestyle, Trevor Carroll was the top Cardinal finisher with a third place touch in 4:25.30. Bryan Draganosky was fourth in 4:28.61, Jake Schultz went 4:29.53 and Matthias Lindenbauer was sixth in 4:32.23. Missouri State’s Miguel Davila was first in 4:24.25 with an NCAA B-cut.

Sean Piner won the 1-meter diving with a score of 337.15. Erica Belcher was the top Cardinal finisher in the 200-IM with a time of 2:20.29, an NCAA B-cut. Devon Bibault was fourth in 2:01.07 also a B-cut and Abby Chin was fifth in 2:02.46.

In the men’s 200-IM, Uvis Kalnins of Missouri State touched first with a B-cut time of 1:46.25. Nolan Tesone was the top Cardinal with a third place time of 1:45.74 with Josh Quallen touching fourth in 1:47.37 all B-cuts. Christian Garkani in fifth with a 1:50.49.

Chinyere Pigot of UConn hit the wall first in the women’s 50-free with a 22.6 just ahead of Cardinal Kelsi Worrell’s 22.78 both were B-cuts. Tanja Kylliainen was third in 23.14 and Andrea Kneppers was fourth in 23.40.

In the men’s 50-free, Thomas Dahlia and Aaron Young tied for first with a 20.43. Nick Hasemann snuck in fourth at 20.46 just out-touching Pedro Coutinho’s 20.50.

In the women’s 3-meter diving Emily Stalmack was the top Cardinal with a fourth place score 299.10. Andrea Acquista was fifth with a 297.05 and Alessandra Murphy was eighth in 281.20.

Western Kentucky won the women’s 400-medley relay with a time of 3:37.44. The Cardinals touched second with a 3:37.72 posted by Erica Belcher (54.59), Maggie Patterson 1:03.79, Tanja Kylliainen (51.14) and Kelsi Worrell’s anchor of 48.20, the fastest split of the race.

In the men’s 400 medley relay was first with a time of 3:10.85 posted by Grigory Tarasevich (47.16), Thomas Dahlia (54.24), Pedro Coutinho (46.17) and an anchor of 43.298 by Caryle Blondell.

Preliminaries start up again Saturday morning at 10 a.m. with the 400-IM, 100-fly, 200-free, 100-breast, 100-back, diving, 200-medley relay and the 800-free relay. Finals begin at 6 p.m. at the Ralph Wright Natatorium.

Results: Louisville Invitational, Day One

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