{"id":625862,"date":"2025-11-06T17:42:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T00:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=625862"},"modified":"2025-11-06T17:43:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T00:43:39","slug":"louisville-dominates-kentucky-in-annual-rivalry-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/louisville-dominates-kentucky-in-annual-rivalry-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisville Dominates Kentucky in Annual Rivalry Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Louisville Dominates Kentucky in Annual Rivalry Meet<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Louisville Cardinals hosted in-state rival Kentucky in dual meet action Thursday and emerged victorious by large margins. The Louisville women won every event en route to a final score of 218-82 while the men won by a similarly huge margin, 209-91.<\/p>\n

The Cardinals’ team of\u00a0Camille Murray<\/strong>,\u00a0Ella Welch<\/strong>,\u00a0Caroline Larsen<\/strong> and Dennis finished a second ahead of the field in the 200 medley relay with a time of 1:35.22. The Cardinals finished 1-2-3 in the event to kick off the all-around dominant performance. Dennis was brilliant on the anchor leg with a 20.77 split.<\/p>\n

Two of the relay members would later pick up individual wins: Murray was the winner of the 100 backstroke (52.88) while Larsen came in at 51.68 to top the 100 fly by two seconds.<\/p>\n

Louisville’s Leticia Fassina Romao<\/strong> finished 13 seconds ahead of the field in the 1000 freestyle at 9:36.24 while Summer Cardwell<\/strong> came home strong in the 200 free to take the win in 1:44.26.\u00a0Mia Cheatwood<\/strong> grabbed the top spot in the 100 breaststroke in a strong time of 58.97.\u00a0Billie Sherratt<\/strong> came in first in the 200 butterfly (1:57.74), and\u00a0Julie Mishler\u00a0<\/strong>came in at 22.01 for the win in the 50 free.<\/p>\n

Daria Golovaty<\/strong> blasted the final length to beat Welch in the 100 free, 48.46 to 48.54.\u00a0Xeniya Ignatova<\/strong> held off Kentucky’s\u00a0Xeniya Ignatova<\/strong> by the slimmest of margins to win the 200 back, 1:54.39 to 1:54.40, and Cheatwood doubled up in the 200 breast with a time of 2:07.85. Fassina Romao’s second win came in the 500 free at 4:42.21.<\/p>\n

In diving,\u00a0Samantha Helmboldt<\/strong> won 1-meter (293.33) and 3-meter (313.80). Cardwell wrapped up the individual swimming program with a win in the 200 IM (1:58.73), and the team of Larsen, Dennis, Mishler and Welch crushed the 200 free relay in 1:26.28, with Dennis going 20.95 on this occasion.<\/p>\n