The black team won 10 events to post a 94-79 victory over the gold team in the University of Iowa swimming and diving team’s intrasquad meet Friday night at the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center Natatorium.<\/p>\n
“This meet was a lot of fun,” said UI head coach Marc Long. “You could tell we have a hungry bunch of student-athletes. This was a fun meet to break up training to get ready for next week. The student-athletes were competing all night.”<\/p>\n
The black team opened the meet with a win in the women’s 200-medley relay with the quartet of sophomore Carly O’Brien, junior Emma Sougstad, and seniors Allie Orvis and Olivia Kabacinski touching in 1:43.50. In the men’s 200-medley relay, freshmen Kenneth Mende, sophomore Jerzy Twarowski, junior Jackson Halsmer, and senior Mike Nelson posted a win for the gold team with a time of 1:31.05 to tie the team score at seven.<\/p>\n
Mende also took home the individual title in the 100 back, touching in 49.28.<\/p>\n
One of the highlights of the meet came in the diver’s 50 free when freshman Will Brenner touched with a time of 20.87 for the win. He finished .08 behind fellow freshman Jack Smith, who won the main 50 free in 20.79 seconds.<\/p>\n
Smith also was victorious in the 100 free, touching in 45.34 seconds.<\/p>\n
The black squad led, 86-79, going into the final event when the relay consisting of Brenner, junior Brandon Farnum, and seniors Jackson Allen and David Ernstsson swam a time of 1:22.48 to win the 200-free relay and secure the black team victory.<\/p>\n
Kabacinski and Sougstad also won individual events in the 100 free and 100 breast. Kabacinski posted a time of 51.01 seconds to win the free, while Sougstad swam a 1:03.11 to touch first in the 100 breast.<\/p>\n
The Hawkeyes are back in action on Oct. 15-16, hosting Michigan State and Northern Iowa (women).<\/p>\n
Iowa Athletics contributed this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The black team won 10 events to post a 94-79 victory over the gold team in the University of Iowa swimming and diving team’s intrasquad meet Friday night at the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":156477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[54870,52519],"class_list":["post-156476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college","tag-2015-iowa-black-gold-intrasquad","tag-iowa-swimming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n