{"id":238186,"date":"2017-01-21T16:47:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T23:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=238186"},"modified":"2017-01-21T22:36:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T05:36:50","slug":"acc-weekly-recap-leah-smith-and-cavaliers-jump-on-top-of-duke-and-unc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/acc-weekly-recap-leah-smith-and-cavaliers-jump-on-top-of-duke-and-unc\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC Weekly Recap: Leah Smith and Cavaliers Jump On Top of Duke and UNC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virginia headed down to the Triangle Area this weekend to swim against Duke Friday evening and then against rival North Carolina in a Saturday matinee. The Cavaliers swept all four meets, women’s and men’s, and senior distance swimmer\u00a0Leah Smith<\/strong> was outstanding in the process.<\/p>\n

Against Duke, Smith won the three longest events on the schedule: the 1000 free (9:34.77), 500 free (4:43.28) and 400 IM (4:14.44), all in Taishoff Aquatics Pavilion pool record-time. Teammate\u00a0Jen Marrkand<\/strong> won both the 200 fly and 200 back, while\u00a0Laura Simon<\/strong> swept the breaststrokes and\u00a0Morgan Hill<\/strong> won the 100 and 200 free.<\/p>\n

The Duke women, despite sweeping at least the top two spots in both the three-meter and platform diving, could not keep up with the No. 5 Cavaliers, losing 175-125. The Blue Devils did edge out UVA in the meet-opening 200 medley relay, 1:40.23 to 1:40.35, but they won only three swimming events after that.<\/p>\n

On the men’s side, Virginia used a balanced effort to pick up a 164-135 victory.\u00a0Brendan Casey\u00a0<\/strong>was the top performer for Virginia, winning the 200 back and 400 IM, and his teammates combined to win all but three individual swimming events. Duke’s\u00a0Peter Kropp<\/strong> swept the breaststrokes, and the Blue Devils also swept diving wins and wins in both the 200 medley and 200 free relays. Full results from Durham are available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A day later, Virginia headed down to Chapel Hill and swept North Carolina as well. Smith again won all three of her events, but she swapped out the 400 IM for the 200 free, finishing in 1:46.43 to go along with her top finishes in the 500 (4:46.35) and 1000 (9:38.38). Simon again swept the breaststroke events, and\u00a0Kaitlyn Jones<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>won the 200 fly and 200 IM.<\/p>\n

UNC’s\u00a0Hellen Moffitt\u00a0<\/strong>won both the 200 back (1:56.65) and 100 fly (53.79), and diver\u00a0Elissa Dawson<\/strong> won both the one-meter and three-meter events, but the Tar Heels fell by a score of 173.5-121.5.<\/p>\n

On the men’s side, Virginia won 170-130 for its first win against UNC in four years. Virginia’s\u00a0Ted Schubert<\/strong>\u00a0swept the butterfly events, and fellow Cavalier freshmen John Whiteside\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Joe Clark<\/strong> also had event wins.\u00a0UNC’s\u00a0Jorden Merrilees <\/strong>won\u00a0the 500 free and 1000 free, and diver\u00a0Jack Nyquist<\/strong> had two wins as well. Full results are linked here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Louisville Beats Notre Dame on Senior Day, Then Sweeps Rival Kentucky<\/h3>\n

Louisville hosted Notre Dame Friday night, and it took strong efforts from the Cardinal women to hold off the Fighting Irish. Louisville won 160-140, but that was despite an excellent effort from\u00a0Abbie Dolan<\/strong>, who won the 200 free in a swift time of 1:46.87, took the 100 free in 50.10 and then contributed to a first-place 200 free relay team.<\/p>\n

In their final home meets, Louisville seniors\u00a0Andrea Cottrell\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Abbie Houck<\/strong> each had two wins, with Cottrell sweeping the breaststrokes and Houck finishing first in the 200 fly and 500 free. On the men’s side, two of their fellow seniors won two events in\u00a0their\u00a0<\/em>final home meets as\u00a0Trevor Carroll<\/strong> won the 100 and 200 free and\u00a0Grigory Tarasevich<\/strong> swept the backstrokes.<\/p>\n

The top performer for the Cardinal men in their 179-121 win was\u00a0Carlos Claverie<\/strong>, who won the 100 breast, 200 breast and 200 IM. Teammate\u00a0Marcelo Acosta<\/strong> won the 1000 and 500 free. The only Irish event victories came from\u00a0Matt Grauslys\u00a0<\/strong>in the 200 fly and\u00a0Justin Plaschka<\/strong> in the 50 free. Full results can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Louisville swept rival Kentucky in Lexington, winning the women’s meet 167-133 and the men’s 176.5-123.5.\u00a0The Cardinal women saw plenty of familiar faces touching the wall first: Houck in the 200 free, 200 fly and 500 free, Cottrell in both breaststroke events,\u00a0Casey Fanz<\/strong> in the 50 free and\u00a0Mallory Comerford<\/strong> in the 100 free. The Cardinals also won both the 200 medley and 400 free relays.<\/p>\n

Against Kentucky, Carroll won the 50, 100 and 200 free, and Claverie, Acosta and Tarasevich each repeated their victories from Friday. Full results are posted here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Notre Dame, meanwhile, traveled to face IUPUI and finished first in all but two swimming events. Those results are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alabama Beats Georgia Tech and Florida State<\/h3>\n

The Crimson Tide out of the SEC swam both Georgia Tech (in Atlanta) and Florida State (in Tuscaloosa) this weekend and went 4-0 against the ACC. Alabama’s women beat the Yellow Jackets 150-91, and Georgia Tech only had two victories all meet, from Iris Wang<\/strong> in the 100 and 200 free. The GT men lost 145-96 to the No. 11 squad in the country.\u00a0Moises Loschi<\/b>\u00a0won the 200 breast for GT,\u00a0Ben Southern<\/b>\u00a0won the 200 fly, and Matt Casillas\u00a0<\/b>finished first in one-meter diving. (Results<\/a>)<\/p>\n

A day later, Alabama surged late to beat out the upstart Seminoles, 170-130. FSU senior\u00a0Lydia Ware\u00a0<\/strong>won the 100 free and 200 IM against Bama, while her teammates scored big points in the breaststroke events with\u00a0Natalie Pierce\u00a0<\/strong>(won 100 breast)\u00a0and\u00a0Christina Loh<\/strong> (second in 100 breast, won 200 breast).<\/p>\n

Alabama’s men won in comfortable fashion by a final score of 182-111. The Seminoles did get three wins, though:\u00a0Jason Coombs\u00a0<\/strong>in the 100 breast,\u00a0Max Polianski<\/strong> in the 200 fly and\u00a0Tyler Roberge\u00a0<\/strong>in one-meter diving. Full results are available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other meet results:<\/h3>\n