Kentucky Swimming & Diving Beaten on the Road by Texas A&M

COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Competing towards its first SEC foe of the season, Kentucky swimming and diving achieved 10 NCAA B-cuts and 5 zone qualifying requirements in a highway loss to the Aggies on the Rec Middle Natatorium on Thursday evening.

The Wildcat girls took a lead into the meet’s last occasion, however finally completed on the brief finish of a 154-146 tally. The lads, in the meantime, had been topped 177-111 by the Aggies.

Proceedings started favorably for the Wildcats as the ladies’s 200-yard medley relay of Caitlin Brooks, Denise Phelan, Anna Havens Rice and Grace Frericks grabbed first within the evening’s opening occasion to place UK in entrance.

The consequence was simply the beginning of what was a standout efficiency for Brooks, who received each the 100 and 200-yard backstrokes whereas additionally putting second within the 100 fly. Brooks met the NCAA B-cut threshold in all three occasions on her option to incomes 22 factors towards the crew whole.

The Wildcats swept the rostrum within the males’s 1650 freestyle as freshman Levi Sandidge received his sixth particular person occasion of the younger season with a time of 15:10.40, putting him tenth on the UK all-time checklist. Sandidge was adopted by teammates Nick Caruso (15:21.75) and Adam Rosipal (15:31.11), with each Sandidge and Caruso’s occasions assembly NCAA b-cut requirements.

UK additionally discovered success within the 200 backstroke because the trio of Brooks, Lydia Hanlon and Torie Buerger went one-two-three, reaching NCAA b-cut marks within the course of.

Battling to the end line, the ladies Wildcats surged into the crew lead courtesy of a one-two end by Lauren Poole and Gillian Davey within the meet’s penultimate occasion, the 400 IM. The benefit wouldn’t final, nonetheless, as the house crew secured the ladies’s end in dramatic trend by recording first and second within the 200 free relay.

On the diving aspect, Kentucky secured wins in each 1-meter occasions with Sam Duncan choosing up the victory for the lads, whereas junior switch Claire McDaniels notched her first win as a Wildcat within the girls’s competitors. McDaniels rating of 315.38 locations her sixth in program historical past for the occasion.

UK Occasion Winners

• Ladies’s 200 Yard Medley Relay – Caitlin Brooks, Denise Phelan, Anna Havens Rice, Grace Frericks (1:41.45)
• Males’s 1650 Yard Free – Levi Sandidge (15:10.40)
• Ladies’s 100 Yard Again – Caitlin Brooks (52.98)
• Males’s 1 mtr Diving – Sam Duncan (314.25)
• Ladies’s 200 Yard Again – Caitlin Brooks (52.98)
• Ladies’s 200 Yard Breast – Gillian Davey (2:11.08)
• Males’s 500 Yard Freestyle – Nick Caruso (4:28.79)
• Ladies’s 1 mtr Diving – Claire McDaniels (315.38)
• Ladies’s 400 IM – Lauren Poole (4:13.29)

Kentucky resumes competitors when the Wildcats head to Columbus, Ohio for the Ohio State Invitational Nov. 17-19.

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