Swimming and Diving Heads to Colorado for Tri-Team Meet

DENVER, Colo. – The LSU swimming and diving group heads to Denver, Colo., to compete in a tri-team meet Saturday with Denver and the Air Pressure Academy on the El Pomar Natatorium on the College of Denver’s campus.

The meet is scheduled to start at 10:15 a.m. CT with diving occasions beginning first. The diving portion begins with girls’s three-meter and males’s one-meter. After the primary set of six dives has been accomplished the lads will change to three-meter, whereas the ladies change to 1 meter.

“We’re all the time excited about development, and it is a nice aggressive expertise to construct on what we began final week,” LSU diving head coach Drew Livingston mentioned. “We all know we now have an extended solution to go this season, nevertheless it’s essential we take each alternative to enhance our performances. Coaching has been nice this week, so I’m excited to see what our divers can pull out this weekend in Denver.”

LSU’s swimming athletes are slated to start at 2:00 p.m. CT with the 200-yard medley relay. As a result of diving occasions occurring earlier than swimming occasions start, the meet will probably be one steady stretch of timed swimming finals.

This week, LSU’s tandem of Brooks Curry and Maggie MacNeil earned swimmer of the week honors for his or her efforts in Columbia on the campus of South Carolina. Curry, who swam for the primary time within the aggressive slate in opposition to the Gamecocks, clocked the quickest occasions within the SEC for the 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard freestyle. He completed with respective occasions of 19.45 and 43.25.

MacNeil earned her second swimmer of the week honor after successful three particular person races and swimming the third leg of a victorious 200-yard medley relay squad. Notably, MacNeil broke two extra college information within the 50-free and 100-fly. Her time of fifty.84 within the 100-fly cleared the NCAA ‘A’ customary and was the quickest unsuited time in NCAA historical past for the occasion.

The LSU males picked up their first SEC twin meet victory because the 2013-14 season when the Tigers defeated Texas A&M by a rating of 157.5-142.5. The LSU girls want to bounce again and seize their third and fourth twin meet wins of the season.

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Together with Curry’s efficiency, Joel Thompson picked up the win within the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:39.87 and Mitch Mason nabbed two wins in each breaststroke occasions. Griffin Curtis, a gradual freshman getting into his second season with the Tigers, touched the wall first within the 200-yard again with a time of 1:47.86.

LSU freshman Pawel Uryniuk additionally picked up a powerful win within the 100-yard fly with a time of 49.61.

Behind MacNeil’s second straight record-breaking efficiency, the LSU girls closed out the hard-fought twin meet with a few particular person wins. Allison Tomsuden picked up the win within the 1000-yard free with a time of 10:15.82 and Sofia Sartori added to her assortment of wins in her younger profession for the 200-yard fly. Sartori completed in first place with a time of two:00.03.

Within the backend of the meet, Jenna Bridges received the 500-yard free with a time of 4:57.17 and Hannah Womer got here out the victor within the 200-yard IM with a time of two:03.51.

On the boards, Chiara Pellacani and Helle Tuxen each grabbed top-2 finishes. Pellacani claimed second on three-meter with a rating of 350.03 and Tuxen nabbed second on one-meter with a rating of 304.50. For the lads, Zayne Danielewicz completed in second place on one-meter with a rating of 328.28 and Adrian Abadia claimed third on three-meter with a rating of 333.90.