﻿{"id":296336,"date":"2018-02-14T16:49:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T23:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=296336"},"modified":"2018-02-14T16:49:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T23:49:27","slug":"nc-state-virginia-each-claim-relay-wins-at-womens-acc-championships-comerford-splits-140-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/nc-state-virginia-each-claim-relay-wins-at-womens-acc-championships-comerford-splits-140-26\/","title":{"rendered":"NC State, Virginia Each Claim Relay Wins at Women&#8217;s ACC Championships; Comerford Splits 1:40.26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the first day of action in Greensboro, N.C., at the women&#8217;s ACC championships, defending conference champion NC State and Virginia each won a relay as the two teams prepare to battle with Louisville for the conference crown throughout the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The top individual performance of the day came, unsurprisingly, from Louisville junior\u00a0<strong>Mallory Comerford<\/strong>, who recorded one of the fastest 200-yard free relay splits in history.<\/p>\n<p>After one day, UNC led with 151 points, just ahead of Virginia (143). They were followed by Duke (139), Louisville (138), Notre Dame (135), NC State (135), Virginia Tech (133), Florida State (131), Miami (109), Pittsburgh (101), Georgia Tech (87) and Boston College (60).<\/p>\n<p>Read about all events contested below, including women&#8217;s and men&#8217;s diving action.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/results\/2018-womens-acc-championships-day-one-day-1\/ncaa-college\/2018\/February\/14\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Full results<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>4&#215;50 Medley Relay<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The North Carolina State Wolfpack kicked off their conference title defense with a win in the 4&#215;50 medley relay. The team of\u00a0<strong>Elise Haan<\/strong> (23.59),\u00a0<strong>Anna Shumate\u00a0<\/strong>(27.33),\u00a0<strong>Krista Duffield\u00a0<\/strong>(23.27) and\u00a0<strong>Lexie Lupton<\/strong> (21.88) finished in a time of 1:36.07.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia Tech, seeded sixth headed into the event, surprisingly led after the butterfly leg and ended up finishing second in 1:36.35.\u00a0<strong>Klaudia Nazieblo<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Joelle Vereb<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Maggie Gruber\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Adriana Grabski<\/strong> swam for the Hokies. Virginia&#8217;s foursome of\u00a0<strong>Abby Richter<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Vivian Tafuto<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Anna Pang<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Caitlin Cooper\u00a0<\/strong>took third in 1:36.69. Cooper had the race&#8217;s fastest anchor split at 21.23.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina finished fourth in 1:36.82, followed by top-seeded Louisville in 1:37.09.\u00a0The Cardinals went with a team of\u00a0<strong>Alina Kendzior<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Mariia Astashkina<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Grace Oglesby<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Casey Fanz<\/strong>, meaning that\u00a0<strong>Mallory Comerford\u00a0<\/strong>will be available for three individual events and all four remaining relays.<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the top eight were Notre Dame (1:37.15), Duke (1:37.31) and Notre Dame (1:37.71).<\/p>\n<pre><b>Event 1  Women 200 Yard Medley Relay<\/b>\r\n==================================================================================\r\n         Meet: &amp; 1:34.89  2\/13\/2017 North Carolina State Universit, NCSU-NC\r\n                          E Haan, K Brumbaum, N Labonge, K Perry\r\n          ACC: % 1:34.89  2\/13\/2017 North Carolina State Universit, NCSU-NC\r\n                          E Haan, K Brumbaum, N Labonge, K Perry\r\n     American:   1:34.10  3\/17\/2017 California, Calif\r\n                          K Baker, A Weitzeil, N Thomas, F Osman\r\n         NCAA:   1:34.10  3\/17\/2017 California, Calif\r\n                          K Baker, A Weitzeil, N Thomas, F Osman\r\n    U.S. Open:   1:34.10  3\/17\/2017 California, Calif\r\n                          K Baker, A Weitzeil, N Thomas, F Osman\r\n                 1:36.89  A\r\n                 1:37.51  B\r\n    School                           Seed     Finals       Points \r\n==================================================================================\r\n  1 NC State                      1:37.25    1:36.07 A       64  \r\n     1) Haan, Elise JR                2) r:0.16 Shumate, Anna FR      \r\n     3) r:0.11 Duffield, Krista SR    4) r:0.26 Lupton, Lexie JR      \r\n             23.59        50.92 (27.33)\r\n        1:14.19 (23.27)     1:36.07 (21.88)\r\n  2 Virginia Tech                 1:37.96    1:36.35 A       56  \r\n     1) Nazieblo, Klaudia SR          2) r:0.47 Vereb, Joelle FR      \r\n     3) r:0.19 Gruber, Maggie SR      4) r:+0.0 Grabski, Adriana SR   \r\n             24.03        51.17 (27.14)\r\n        1:14.34 (23.17)     1:36.35 (22.01)\r\n  3 Virginia                      1:37.77    1:36.69 A       54  \r\n     1) Richter, Abby FR              2) r:0.05 Tafuto, Vivian JR     \r\n     3) r:0.34 Pang, Anna FR          4) r:0.13 Cooper, Caitlin SR    \r\n             24.28        52.51 (28.23)\r\n        1:15.46 (22.95)     1:36.69 (21.23)\r\n  4 UNC                           1:37.68    1:36.82 A       52  \r\n     1) Baldwin, Caroline SR          2) r:0.24 Hauder, Caroline FR   \r\n     3) r:0.36 Cole, Emma FR          4) r:0.27 Bauer, Brooke SO      \r\n             24.04        51.16 (27.12)\r\n        1:14.72 (23.56)     1:36.82 (22.10)\r\n  5 Louisville                    1:36.86    1:37.09 B       50  \r\n     1) Kendzior, Alina JR            2) r:0.16 Astashkina, Mariia FR \r\n     3) r:0.21 Oglesby, Grace SO      4) r:0.24 Fanz, Casey SO        \r\n             24.51        52.22 (27.71)\r\n        1:15.44 (23.22)     1:37.09 (21.65)\r\n  6 Notre Dame                    1:38.43    1:37.15 B       48  \r\n     1) Quast, Carly FR               2) r:+0.0 O'Donnell, Meaghan JR \r\n     3) r:0.16 Grunhard, Cailey FR    4) r:0.34 Revilak Fonsecaofia JR\r\n             24.44         33.67 (9.23)\r\n        1:15.28 (41.61)     1:37.15 (21.87)\r\n  7 Duke                          1:39.55    1:37.31 B       46  \r\n     1) Hess, Maddie JR               2) r:0.28 Hynes, Susan JR       \r\n     3) r:0.01 Marsh, Alyssa SO       4) r:0.17 Goldman, Leah SR      \r\n             24.76        52.86 (28.10)\r\n        1:15.41 (22.55)     1:37.31 (21.90)\r\n  8 Florida St                    1:36.95    1:37.71         44  \r\n     1) Cohen, Madeline FR            2) r:0.33 Pierce, Natalie SR    \r\n     3) r:0.19 Lovemore, Tayla SR     4) r:0.08 Smith, Lexi SR        \r\n             24.78        52.87 (28.09)\r\n        1:15.94 (23.07)     1:37.71 (21.77)<\/pre>\n<h3><strong>Women&#8217;s 1-meter Diving<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Florida State&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Blaire Mulka\u00a0<\/strong>won the first diving title of the meet, scoring 317.50 points to win 1-meter. She was followed by UNC&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Maria Lohman<\/strong>, who took second with 308.20, and Louisville&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Molly Fears<\/strong>, who came in third with 294.35.<\/p>\n<p>Miami&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Wally Layland\u00a0<\/strong>finished fourth with 292.10 points, ahead of Virginia Tech&#8217;s <strong>Ashylnn Peters<\/strong> (291.95), Duke&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Mackenzie Willborn\u00a0<\/strong>(282.70), UNC&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Elissa Dawson<\/strong> (278.95) and Virginia&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Kylie Towbin<\/strong> (277.85).<\/p>\n<pre><b>Event 2  Women 1 mtr Diving<\/b>\r\n=========================================================================\r\n         Meet: &amp; 361.85  2\/17\/2011 Abby Johnston, Duke\r\n          ACC: % 379.98  3\/3\/2007  Jenna Dreyer, Miami\r\n         NCAA:   361.55  3\/2007    Cassidy Krug, Stanford\r\n    Name           Year School            Prelims     Finals       Points \r\n=========================================================================\r\n<b>                             === Finals ===                              <\/b>\r\n \r\n  1 Mulka, Blair     SR Florida St         273.85     317.50         32  \r\n  2 Lohman, Maria    JR UNC                258.35     308.20         28  \r\n  3 Fears, Molly     SO Louisville         265.30     294.35         27  \r\n  4 Layland, Wally   SR Miami (FL)         269.50     292.10         26  \r\n  5 Peters, Ashlynn  JR Virginia Tech      271.50     291.95         25  \r\n  6 Willborn, Mack   JR Duke               262.20     282.70         24  \r\n  7 Dawson, Elisa    SR UNC                262.80     278.95         23  \r\n  8 Towbin, Kylie    JR Virginia           263.55     277.85         22<\/pre>\n<h3><strong>4&#215;200 Free Relay<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Virginia Cavaliers\u00a0came from behind to win\u00a0the 4&#215;200 free relay in 6:55.77. After\u00a0<strong>Morgan Hill<\/strong> led off in 1:44.86, none of the other UVA swimmers split 1:44 or slower:\u00a0<strong>Jen Marrkand\u00a0<\/strong>(1:43.69),\u00a0<strong>Paige Madden\u00a0<\/strong>(1:43.71) and\u00a0<strong>Eryn Eddy<\/strong> (1:43.51). It was Eddy&#8217;s furious finish that helped Virginia overcome a deficit that was almost two seconds heading into the anchor leg.<\/p>\n<p>Louisville, after leading almost the entire race, finished second in 6:56.32.\u00a0<strong>Sophie Cattermole<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Mallory Comerford<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Rachael Bradford-Feldman<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Arina Openysheva<\/strong> swam for the Cardinals, with Comerford blasting an amazing 1:40.26 split to give Louisville the lead.<\/p>\n<p>NC State&#8217;s quartet of\u00a0<strong>Lexie Lupton<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Elise Haan<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Hannah Moore\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Julia Poole\u00a0<\/strong>touched well back in third, with a time of 7:03.63. Notre Dame (7:04.31),\u00a0Virginia Tech (7:07.49), North Carolina (7:07.93), Georgia Tech (7:09.06) and Pittsburgh (7:09.09) also finished in the top eight.<\/p>\n<pre><b>Event 3  Women 800 Yard Freestyle Relay<\/b>\r\n==================================================================================\r\n         Meet: &amp; 6:56.21  2\/13\/2017 Virginia, University of, UVA-VA\r\n                          L Smith, J Marrkand, M Hill, K Jones\r\n          ACC: % 6:55.25  3\/16\/2016 Virginia, University of, UVA-VA\r\n                          L Smith, M Moroney, K Jones, J Marrkand\r\n     American:   6:45.91  3\/15\/2017 Stanford, Stanf\r\n                          S Manuel, L Neal, E Eastin, K Ledecky\r\n         NCAA:   6:45.91  3\/15\/2017 Stanford, Stanf\r\n                          S Manuel, L Neal, E Eastin, K Ledecky\r\n    U.S. Open:   6:45.91  3\/15\/2017 Stanford, Stanf\r\n                          S Manuel, L Neal, E Eastin, K Ledecky\r\n                 7:03.86  A\r\n                 7:07.86  B\r\n    School                           Seed     Finals       Points \r\n==================================================================================\r\n  1 Virginia                      7:03.03    6:55.77&amp;A       64  \r\n     1) Hill, Morgan SO               2) r:0.18 Marrkand, Jen SR      \r\n     3) r:-0.07 Madden, Paige FR      4) r:0.25 Eddy, Eryn JR         \r\n             25.20        51.12 (51.12)\r\n      1:17.92 (1:17.92)   1:44.86 (1:44.86)\r\n        1:58.36 (13.50)     2:35.77 (50.91)\r\n      3:02.21 (1:17.35)   3:28.55 (1:43.69)\r\n        3:53.24 (24.69)     4:19.49 (50.94)\r\n      4:45.73 (1:17.18)   5:12.26 (1:43.71)\r\n        5:35.52 (23.26)     6:01.55 (49.29)\r\n      6:28.66 (1:16.40)   6:55.77 (1:43.51)\r\n  2 Louisville                    6:58.41    6:56.32 A       56  \r\n     1) Cattermole, Sophie JR         2) r:0.30 Comerford, Mallory JR \r\n     3) r:0.29 Bradford-Feldmahael JR 4) r:0.46 Openysheva, Arina FR  \r\n             24.98        51.50 (51.50)\r\n      1:18.47 (1:18.47)   1:45.12 (1:45.12)\r\n        2:08.26 (23.14)     2:33.80 (48.68)\r\n      2:59.53 (1:14.41)   3:25.38 (1:40.26)\r\n        3:49.46 (24.08)     4:16.11 (50.73)\r\n      4:43.15 (1:17.77)   5:10.41 (1:45.03)\r\n        5:34.74 (24.33)     6:01.90 (51.49)\r\n      6:29.21 (1:18.80)   6:56.32 (1:45.91)\r\n  3 NC State                      7:10.01    7:03.63 A       54  \r\n     1) Lupton, Lexie JR              2) r:0.40 Haan, Elise JR        \r\n     3) r:0.41 Moore, Hannah SR       4) r:0.43 Poole, Julia FR       \r\n             24.35        51.00 (51.00)\r\n      1:18.54 (1:18.54)   1:46.87 (1:46.87)\r\n        2:02.18 (15.31)     2:37.42 (50.55)\r\n      3:04.86 (1:17.99)   3:32.51 (1:45.64)\r\n        3:56.90 (24.39)     4:23.65 (51.14)\r\n      4:51.06 (1:18.55)   5:18.28 (1:45.77)\r\n        5:42.65 (24.37)     6:09.54 (51.26)\r\n      6:36.89 (1:18.61)   7:03.63 (1:45.35)\r\n  4 Notre Dame                    7:11.98    7:04.31 B       52  \r\n     1) Dolan, Abigail SO             2) r:0.28 Sarazen, Kyra JR      \r\n     3) r:0.27 Heller, Lauren SO      4) r:0.25 Fore, Skylar FR       \r\n             24.41        50.70 (50.70)\r\n      1:17.70 (1:17.70)   1:45.20 (1:45.20)\r\n        2:09.48 (24.28)     2:36.41 (51.21)\r\n      3:03.86 (1:18.66)   3:32.06 (1:46.86)\r\n        3:55.91 (23.85)     4:22.37 (50.31)\r\n      4:49.44 (1:17.38)   5:17.51 (1:45.45)\r\n        5:41.52 (24.01)     6:08.70 (51.19)\r\n      6:36.14 (1:18.63)   7:04.31 (1:46.80)\r\n  5 Virginia Tech                 7:12.42    7:07.49 B       50  \r\n     1) Gyorgy, Reka SO               2) r:0.44 Grabski, Adriana SR   \r\n     3) r:0.41 Nazieblo, Klaudia SR   4) r:0.42 Hicks, Chloe SO       \r\n             24.71        51.29 (51.29)\r\n      1:18.24 (1:18.24)   1:45.27 (1:45.27)\r\n        2:09.59 (24.32)     2:36.45 (51.18)\r\n      3:04.33 (1:19.06)   3:32.12 (1:46.85)\r\n        3:57.38 (25.26)     4:24.85 (52.73)\r\n      4:52.50 (1:20.38)   5:20.04 (1:47.92)\r\n        5:44.82 (24.78)     6:11.85 (51.81)\r\n      6:39.68 (1:19.64)   7:07.49 (1:47.45)\r\n  6 UNC                           7:13.72    7:07.93         48  \r\n     1) Hauder, Caroline FR           2) r:0.20 Fields, Zhada JR      \r\n     3) r:0.36 Cole, Emma FR          4) r:0.28 Dryer, Robyn JR       \r\n             24.22        50.90 (50.90)\r\n      1:18.64 (1:18.64)   1:46.45 (1:46.45)\r\n        2:10.62 (24.17)     2:36.99 (50.54)\r\n      3:04.11 (1:17.66)   3:31.42 (1:44.97)\r\n        3:44.96 (13.54)     4:24.73 (53.31)\r\n      4:53.25 (1:21.83)   5:21.38 (1:49.96)\r\n        5:45.56 (24.18)     6:12.38 (51.00)\r\n      6:40.12 (1:18.74)   7:07.93 (1:46.55)\r\n  7 Georgia Tech                  7:12.02    7:09.06         46  \r\n     1) Wang, Iris JR                 2) r:0.18 Ilgenfritz, Emily SO  \r\n     3) r:0.38 Nugent, Celine FR      4) r:0.23 Kitchens, Kaitlin SR  \r\n             24.83        51.84 (51.84)\r\n      1:18.72 (1:18.72)   1:45.76 (1:45.76)\r\n        2:10.53 (24.77)     2:37.56 (51.80)\r\n      3:05.14 (1:19.38)   3:32.96 (1:47.20)\r\n        3:58.05 (25.09)     4:25.85 (52.89)\r\n      4:53.86 (1:20.90)   5:21.98 (1:49.02)\r\n        5:46.07 (24.09)     6:12.64 (50.66)\r\n      6:40.65 (1:18.67)   7:09.06 (1:47.08)\r\n  8 Pittsburgh                    7:13.04    7:09.09         44  \r\n     1) Daigneault, Valerie SO        2) r:0.17 Richey, Amanda SR     \r\n     3) r:0.49 Menahem, Shahar FR     4) r:0.47 Brown, Rachel JR      \r\n             25.24        52.19 (52.19)\r\n      1:19.39 (1:19.39)   1:47.16 (1:47.16)\r\n        2:11.65 (24.49)     2:38.33 (51.17)\r\n      3:05.99 (1:18.83)   3:33.46 (1:46.30)\r\n        3:58.46 (25.00)     4:25.70 (52.24)\r\n      4:53.38 (1:19.92)   5:21.06 (1:47.60)\r\n        5:45.91 (24.85)     6:13.63 (52.57)\r\n      6:41.66 (1:20.60)   7:09.09 (1:48.03)<\/pre>\n<h3><strong>Men&#8217;s 3-meter Diving<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>North 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Finishing third was NC State&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>James Brady<\/strong> with 402.35 points.<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the finalists were Notre Dame&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Joe Coumos\u00a0<\/strong>(401.15), Florida State&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Cameron Thatcher\u00a0<\/strong>(367.90), Duke&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Nathaniel Hernandez<\/strong> (344.90), Duke&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Evan Moretti\u00a0<\/strong>(341.85) and\u00a0Miami&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Zachary Cooper\u00a0<\/strong>(318.60).<\/p>\n<pre><b>Event 22  Men 3 mtr Diving<\/b>\r\n=========================================================================\r\n         Meet: &amp; 531.00  2\/20\/2014 Nick McCrory, Duke\r\n          ACC: % 531.00  2\/20\/2014 Nick McCrory, Duke\r\n    Name           Year School            Prelims     Finals       Points \r\n=========================================================================\r\n<b>                             === Finals ===                              <\/b>\r\n \r\n  1 Duncan, Greg     FR UNC                380.85     416.10         32  \r\n  2 Davidson, Joshu  FR Florida St         344.60     415.40         28  \r\n  3 Brady, James     SO NC State           369.60     402.35         27  \r\n  4 Coumos, Joe      SR Notre Dame         356.80     401.15         26  \r\n  5 Thatcher, Camer  SO Florida St         342.70     367.90         25  \r\n  6 Hernandez, Nath  SO Duke               343.55     344.90         24  \r\n  7 Moretti, Evan    JR Duke               400.40     341.85         23  \r\n  8 Cooper, Zachary  FR Miami (FL)         331.90     318.60         22<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the first day of action in Greensboro, N.C., at the women&#8217;s ACC championships, defending conference champion NC State and Virginia each won a relay as the two teams prepare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":194810,"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":[3,6],"tags":[49364],"class_list":["post-296336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-college","tag-acc-swimming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>NC State, Virginia Each Claim Relay Wins at Women&#039;s ACC Championships<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\".During the first day of action in Greensboro, N.C., at the women&#039;s ACC championships, defending conference champion NC State and Virginia each won a relay.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/nc-state-virginia-each-claim-relay-wins-at-womens-acc-championships-comerford-splits-140-26\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NC State, Virginia Each Claim Relay Wins at Women&#039;s ACC Championships; 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