Swimming and Diving Opens Dual Meet Slate at South Carolina

BATON ROUGE, La. – The LSU swimming and diving group heads to Columbia, S.C., Saturday to tackle the Gamecocks within the Tigers’ first convention twin meet inside Carolina Natatorium. The meet is slated to start at 9:00 a.m. CT.

“We’re wanting ahead to going to Columbia to compete towards South Carolina,” head swimming coach Rick Bishop stated. “Anytime that we get the chance to compete towards one other SEC program it’s particular. The SEC is probably the most aggressive convention within the nation. We all know that South Carolina women and men are nice opponents, and we’re wanting ahead to the problem of going through them of their dwelling pool. We anticipate that our Tigers will rise to the problem and convey their finest performances in Columbia.”

The LSU diving group, which didn’t compete within the first regular-season meet of the season, is making ready for its opening act Saturday. Head diving coach Drew Livingston getting into his first season is wanting ahead to seeing what the fierce competitors of the SEC brings out in his divers.

“That is going to be an amazing alternative for us to face among the finest diving competitors within the SEC proper out of the gate,” Livingston stated. “I do know our athletes are excited! This can be a wonderful means for us to kick off our season and I can’t wait to see our athletes compete.”

On the diving aspect, LSU faces a proficient crop of divers from South Carolina together with the SEC Co-Diver of the 12 months, Brooke Schultz. Schultz, who transferred to South Carolina from Arkansas previous to the 2021-22 season, additionally picked up SEC Diver of the Meet on the 2022 SEC Championships. LSU, in response, sends the Feminine Freshman Diver of the 12 months Chiara Pellacani and an All-SEC Freshmen group member Adrian Abadia to compete within the extremely aggressive subject.

Within the first twin meet of the season, in contrast to LSU’s tri-team meet towards Vanderbilt and Tulane, each women and men will compete Saturday. Together with new LSU document holder Maggie MacNeil, the Tigers first swimming nationwide champion since 1988, Brooks Curry appears to be like to enhance on his junior marketing campaign.

Stay stats for the swimming occasions may be discovered on the MeetMobile app. Diving stats may be discovered on divemeets.com.

LAST TIME OUT

Behind MacNeil’s robust outing for her first meet within the purple and gold, LSU gained 12 of the 14 occasions. To start out out the season, the Tigers took the highest two spots within the 4×50 medley relay.

Within the particular person occasions, Jolee Liles opened the gap occasion slate with a win within the 100-yard free, ending with a time of 10:06.85. Allison Tomsuden rounded out the top-3 on the occasion with a time of 10:17.89.

For the 200-yard free, Reagan Osborne nabbed first place with a time of 1:50.08, whereas Chloe Cheng and Peyton Curry completed in second and third, respectively, with instances of 1:51.93 and 1:52.33. Within the 100-yard breaststroke, Abby Maoz gained with a time of 1:02.43 and Jadyn Jannasch claimed third place with a time of 1:04.21.

Sofia Sartori, a extremely touted athlete from Italy, claimed first place within the 200-yard fly with Jenna Bridges and Hannah Bellina closing out the highest three locations within the occasion. Equally, within the 50-yard free, three Tigers touched the wall in succession. Katarina Milutinovich claimed first place, whereas Michaela de Villiers and Emily Pawlaski touched second and third, respectively.

Sartori grabbed her second win of the meet within the 200-back, ending with a time of two:01.13. Within the 200-yard breaststroke, Hannah Womer and Jannasch claimed first and second with instances of two:18.50 and a couple of:21.66, respectively.

To shut out the meet, Bridges snagged first place within the 100-yard fly and Womer claimed first within the 200-yard IM.