2024 Tennessee Invitational
The 2024 Tennessee Invite begins tonight with the 800 freestyle relays.
Virginia is just not competing this night on the boys’s or ladies’s aspect, which is in-line with Todd DeSorbo’s typical strategy to midseason meets. In the previous few years, they’ve put their quickest swimmers on 4 relays to qualify for NCAAs and targeted on the 800 free relay at ACCs.
With Virginia out, it is going to be a two method battle between Tennessee and Kentucky for factors. On the ladies’s aspect, Tennessee is the clear favourite. They’ve all 4 swimmers coming back from their NCAA second place relay final 12 months, and Kentucky is but to have a swimmer beneath 1:50 this season.
On the boys’s aspect, nevertheless, it’s more likely to be a race to the end. Tennessee edged out Kentucky eventually 12 months’s SEC championships by 7 tenths of a second they usually have 3 of the 4 members of that relay once more this 12 months. Kentucky misplaced two of their relay members, however they’ve quite a lot of freshmen and sophomores that would step into these positions and do effectively.
Necessary Word: The highest two relays from every group will rating within the place they end. This implies if an A and B end first and second, that group will gather factors for each placements.
Girls’s 800 Freestyle Relay Timed Finals
- NCAA File: 6:45.91, Stanford- 2017 NCAA Championships
- SEC File: 6:48.59, Florida- 2024 NCAA Championships
- NCAA ‘A’ Lower: 7:00.86
- NCAA ‘B’ Lower: 7:05.56
- Tennessee A- 6:56.95 (A)
- Tennessee B- 7:00.95
- Kentucky A- 7:10.95
- Kentucky B- 7:14.78
The Tennessee Girls had been out quick with A leadoff Camille Spink touching first at 1:43.46 and B leadoff Josephine Fuller coming in at 1:43.92. Each ladies are effectively beneath the NCAA ‘B’ minimize of 1:46.85 with these instances. Freshman Ella Jansen on the A had an distinctive second leg, going 1:42.98. Rounding out the A relay was Julia Mrozinski with at third and Brooklyn Douthwright on anchor.
The Tennessee B relay was simply over the NCAA A minimize. Second leg Emily Brown went a 1:45.71. Julia Burroughs went subsequent at a 1:46.46, and Sara Stotler introduced it residence in 1:44.86 for his or her closing time of seven:00.95.
The Kentucky ladies all swam the quickest they’ve this 12 months. Coming in to tonight, they didn’t have any ladies beneath 1:50 this season. Each their A and B relays had all 4 ladies within the 1:47-1:49 vary. Their A relay led off with Maddy Hartley with a time of 1:47.35, second was Grace Frericks at 1:47.50, Lauren West went 1:47.46 at third and Hayden Penny introduced them residence with 1:48.64. At a closing time f 7:10.95, the Kentucky ladies are already quicker than their SEC time from final season of seven:13.21
Males’s 800 Freestyle Relay Timed Finals
- NCAA File: 6:02.26, Cal- 2024 NCAA Championships
- SEC File: 6:06.36, Florida- 2024 SEC Championships
- NCAA ‘A’ Lower: 6:15.80
- NCAA ‘B’ Lower: 6:18.42
- Tennessee A- 6:12.33 (A)
- Tennessee B- 6:23.09
- Kentucky A- 6:23.84
- Kentucky B- 6:30.94
Saying the Tennessee males had been additionally out quick can be an understatement. Jordan Crooks led off the boys’s A relay with a college report and nation main time of 1:30.00. Crooks was out fast at 20.48/22.74 to go 43.22 to his ft. He held on effectively although to convey it residence with 23.20/23.58 for a second 100 break up of 46.78. This time strikes Crooks as much as the #8 all time performer within the 200 freestyle. The remainder of the Tennessee A relay additionally did effectively. Gui Caribe went 1:33.81 at second, Joaquin Vargas was 1:34.31, and Bjoern Kamman introduced them residence at 1:34.21. Their closing time of 6:12.33 shattered the earlier Tennessee faculty report of 6:17.11 from 2018
Evidently Head Coach Matt Kredich had the same plan for the boys’s and ladies’s relays because the Tennessee B was additionally led off by certainly one of their prime 200 freestylers. Sophomore Nikoli Blackman led off the B relay with a 1:33.68 to assist the Vols place forward of Kentucky. The remainder of the relay, Charlie Krone (1:36.97), Griffin Hadley (1:36.76), and Jack Stelter (1:35.68) held on properly to beat the Kentucky A by lower than 8 tenths of a second.
Much like the ladies, the Kentucky males had a really constant relay, and had been really forward of the Vols B on the 600 mark. Justin Peresse led off in 1:35.85, which was behind Blackman from Tennessee, however Carson Hick‘s 1:34.09 and Ryan Merani‘s 1:36.20 had them forward of the Vols when the final legs dove in. Anchor leg and freshman Jack Haywood was out quick, however expertise gained out and the senior Stelter simply had extra on the again half. Haywood completed at a 1:37.70, which was nearly a second off his finest time.
The Tennessee Invite picks again up tomorrow at 10am Jap Time.
