{"id":597497,"date":"2024-10-12T16:34:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T23:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=597497"},"modified":"2024-10-13T11:22:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T18:22:19","slug":"louisville-women-indiana-men-top-smu-classic-owen-mcdonald-impressive-in-indiana-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/louisville-women-indiana-men-top-smu-classic-owen-mcdonald-impressive-in-indiana-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisville Women, Indiana Men Top SMU Classic; Owen McDonald Impressive in Indiana Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Louisville Women, Indiana Men Top SMU Classic; Owen McDonald Impressive in Indiana Debut<\/strong><\/p>\n

The University of Louisville Cardinals and Indiana University men were victorious at the SMU Classic held this weekend at the Robson & Lindley Aquatics Center in Dallas, with the six teams competing recording numerous elite performances at one of the season’s first invitational meets. Louisville’s women scored 329 points to outpace Auburn (294) and Texas A&M (293) while the Hoosier men beat Louisville 326-308, with Virginia Tech third (303).<\/p>\n

Louisville’s women opened the competition with\u00a0Kim Herkle<\/strong> topping the 400 IM in 4:09.67, and the team of\u00a0Summer Cardwell<\/strong>, Fernanda Gomes Celidonio<\/strong>,\u00a0Tristen Ulett<\/strong> and\u00a0Paige Hetrick<\/strong> swam a time of 7:07.46 to win the 800 freestyle relay. Herkle returned to the pool Saturday to win the 200 breaststroke (2:09.88), and Gomez Celidonio crushed the field in the 200 IM (1:58.51).<\/p>\n

The women’s meet opened with Auburn’s team of\u00a0Lora Komoroczy<\/strong>,\u00a0Stasya Makarova<\/strong>,\u00a0Abigail Gibbons<\/strong> and\u00a0Polina Nevmovenko<\/strong> hold off a surging Texas A&M team to win the 400 medley relay, 3:33.41 to 3:33.67. Makarova later won the 100 breaststroke (1:00.58), and Saturday’s session opened with Komoroczy, Makarova, Gibbons and\u00a0Lexie Mulvihill<\/strong> winning the 200 medley relay (1:37.25). Auburn won yet another relay to conclude the meet, with Mulvihill, Komoroczy, Gibbons and Nevmovenko topping the 200 free relay (1:29.50).<\/p>\n

Miami’s\u00a0Giulia Carvalho<\/strong> scored first place in the 50 free (22.06), 100 butterfly (51.87) and 100 free (48.56), and the Hurricanes’ Mia Vallee<\/strong> dominated diving winning 3-meter (343.00) and 1-meter (303.05).\u00a0Ashlyn Massey<\/strong> won the 200 fly for Miami in 1:56.55).<\/p>\n

Texas A&M’s\u00a0Chloe Stepanek<\/strong> fired off a time of 1:44.22 to top the 200 free by almost two seconds, and teammate Hayden Miller<\/strong> won the 500 free (4:43.39). Virginia Tech’s Carmen Weiler Sastre\u00a0<\/strong>won the 100 backstroke (52.17) and 200 backstroke (1:52.55). Her time in the 200 set an SMU pool record, and she was named<\/a> Swimmer of the Meet for also finishing third in the 200 free and fourth in the 100 free.<\/p>\n