{"id":604129,"date":"2025-02-01T14:10:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T21:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=604129"},"modified":"2025-02-01T14:10:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T21:10:02","slug":"tennessee-sweeps-duke-in-dual-meet-with-unusual-multi-day-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/tennessee-sweeps-duke-in-dual-meet-with-unusual-multi-day-format\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Sweeps Duke in Dual Meet With Unusual Multi-Day Format"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tennessee Sweeps Duke in Dual Meet With Unusual Multi-Day Format<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Tennessee Volunteers wrapped up their dual-meet schedule with a two-day trip to Durham, N.C., to face the Duke Blue Devils in a two-day meet following the usual event lineup Friday before a sprint-focused meet Saturday. The Tennessee women, the fourth-place team at last year’s NCAA Championships, overcame Duke by a 145-131 margin while the Tennessee men won 198-82. Notably, several events were contested on both days of the meet.<\/p>\n

Tennessee’s\u00a0Julia Mrozinski<\/strong> swam a mark of 1:44.11 to win the 200 freestyle, and\u00a0Camille Spink<\/strong> clocked 48.40 for the win in the 100 free.\u00a0Josephine Fuller<\/strong> blasted the field in the 200 backstroke with a time of 1:51.88.\u00a0Sophie Brison<\/strong> took first in the 500 free (4:50.27), and\u00a0Brooklyn Douthwright<\/strong> pulled away for first place in the 100 butterfly (52.37) before tying teammate Emily Brown<\/strong> for first in the 200 IM, with both clocking 1:58.38.<\/p>\n

The Tennessee team of Spink, Fuller, Mrozinski and Ella Jansen\u00a0<\/strong>won the 400 free relay in 3:14.09 to wrap up Friday’s competition. Returning to Taishoff Aquatics Pavilion Saturday morning, Douthwright was victorious in the 200 free (1:45.07), and\u00a0McKenzie Siroky<\/strong> came out on top of the 50 breaststroke, clocking 27.26 to beat out Duke’s Kaelyn Gridley<\/strong> (27.42) and Olympic-medal-winning teammate\u00a0Mona McSharry<\/strong> (27.50).<\/p>\n

Jansen was the winner of the 400 IM (4:10.37), followed by Fuller winning the 100 free (49.16) and\u00a0Amber Myers<\/strong> taking the 100 back (54.60). Siroky’s second win of the day came in the 100 breast (59.05), followed by Jansen winning the 100 fly (53.65) and Brown coming home first in the 100 IM (54.99).<\/p>\n

The meet began with an impressive Duke win in the 200 medley relay, with\u00a0Ali Pfaff<\/strong>, Gridley,\u00a0Kyanh Truong<\/strong> and\u00a0Tatum Wall\u00a0<\/strong>combining for a time of 1:35.41. Gridley split 26.57 on breaststroke, a bit quicker than Siroky’s 26.65, while Wall came home in 21.21 to hold off Spink (21.32). Pfaff was first in the 100 back (51.36), and Gridley swam a mark of 58.60 to win the 100 breast.<\/p>\n

Gridley returned to win a high-profile head-to-head matchup in the 200 breast, clocking 2:06.10 to convincingly beat Siroky (2:07.60) and Mona (2:13.26). Wall won the 50 free (21.90), and Duke’s\u00a0Audrey Portello<\/strong> captured first in the 1000 free (9:56.52), with Martina Peroni<\/strong> coming in first in the 200 fly (1:57.05).\u00a0Margo Omeara<\/strong> finished first in 3-meter diving (369.08).<\/p>\n

In Saturday action, Pfaff won the 50 back (24.72), and Truong topped the 50 fly (23.47). Wall again finished first in the 50 free (22.19) while Omerara won 1-meter diving (298.88) and the Blue Devil team of Wall, Truong, Pfaff and Clare Logan<\/strong> finished first in the 200 free relay (1:28.32).<\/p>\n