Day 2 Prelims Stay Recap

2024 Tennessee Invite

• November 19-22, 2024
• The place: Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Middle — Knoxville, Tennessee
• Begin Instances: 10 am ET prelims/5 pm ET finals
• Psych Sheets
• Outcomes on Meet Cell: “2024 Tennessee Invitational”
• Stay Stream

After issues opened up final evening with the 800 free relays, the primary full day of motion on the 2024 Tennessee Invite is upon us with three swimming occasions on the docket Wednesday morning.

The ladies’s and males’s 500 free, 200 IM and 50 free will probably be on the schedule, with Virginia’s Gretchen Walsh and Tennessee’s Jordan Crooks headlining the motion.

Walsh is the defending NCAA champion and U.S. Open Document holder within the ladies’s 50 free, having blasted a time of 20.37 eventually season’s NCAAs, whereas Crooks is the second-fastest swimmer in historical past within the males’s 50 free and gained the 2023 NCAA title.

WOMEN’S 500 FREE – PRELIMS

• NCAA Document: 4:24.06, Katie Ledecky (Stanford) – 2017
• 2025 NCAA ‘A’ Minimize: 4:37.89
• 2024 NCAA Cutline: 4:41.19
• PDF Outcomes

1. Ella Jansen (TENN), 4:40.05
2. Aimee Canny (UVA), 4:40.43
3. Julia Mrozinski (TENN), 4:41.03
4. Cavan Gormsen (UVA), 4:41.32
5. Kate McCarville (TENN), 4:44.04
6. Bailey Hartman (UVA), 4:44.78
7. Sophia Knapp (UVA), 4:46.45
8. Emily Brown (TENN), 4:47.67

Tennessee freshman Ella Jansen led the way in which within the heats of the ladies’s 500 free, clocking a private finest time of 4:40.05 to enhance on the 4:40.67 mark she produced final month throughout a twin meet with Louisville.

Regardless of the modest drop, Jansen strikes up from ninth into fifth within the NCAA to date this season, together with leapfrogging Virginia’s Cavan Gormsen, who was within the discipline this morning and certified 4th into the ultimate.

After Jansen gained the primary warmth, Tennessee’s Julia Mrozinski (4:41.03) edged out Gormsen (4:41.32) in Warmth 2, with Mrozinksi taking greater than two seconds off her season-best time of 4:43.55.

Within the ultimate warmth, UVA’s Aimee Canny coasted to the highest spot in a time of 4:40.43 in what was her first time swimming the occasion this season. Canny set her finest time of 4:36.26 at this meet final yr.

MEN’S 500 FREE – PRELIMS

• NCAA Document: 4:02.31, Leon Marchand (ASU) – 2024
• 2025 NCAA ‘A’ Minimize: 4:10.74
• 2024 NCAA Cutline: 4:14.90
• PDF Outcomes

1. Carson Hick (UKY), 4:16.64
2. Joaquin Vargas (TENN), 4:18.14
3. David King (UVA), 4:18.91
4. Caue Gluck (UKY), 4:18.99
5. Levi Sandidge (UKY), 4:21.65
6. Dillon Wright (UVA), 4:22.55
7. Gus Rothrock (TENN), 4:23.71
8. Martin Espernberger (TENN), 4:24.87

Kentucky sophomore Carson Hick roared to the quickest time of the prelims within the males’s 500 free, touching in 4:16.64 to steer the sphere by a second and a half.

The swim for Hick cuts eight seconds off his season-best of 4:24.87 and strikes him into seventh within the 2024-25 NCAA rankings, and falls simply over a second shy of his lifetime finest 4:15.18 set eventually season’s SECs.

Tennessee’s Joaquin Vargas paced the third and ultimate warmth in a time of 4:18.14, bettering on his season-best of 4:21.28 as he gained a decent battle with Kentucky’s Caue Gluck (4:18.99), a Brazilian native who chopped greater than 11 seconds off his PB to qualify 4th.

Advancing in Third was Virginia’s David King, who got here inside two seconds of his private finest in 4:18.91 from the primary warmth. At the start of November in opposition to UNC, King clocked what was his season-best time of 4:21.51.

Tennessee’s Charlie Krone, the #2 seed coming in, had one of many quickest splits by 200 yards (1:43.14) however pale down the stretch, finally inserting seventeenth in 4:31.43. He set a finest time of 4:21.46 final season.

WOMEN’S 200 IM – PRELIMS

• NCAA Document: 1:48.37, Kate Douglass (Virginia) – 2023
• 2025 NCAA ‘A’ Minimize: 1:53.66
• 2024 NCAA Cutline: 1:57.03
• PDF Outcomes

1. Leah Hayes (UVA), 1:54.29
2. Josephine Fuller (TENN), 1:55.57
3. Sara Stotler (TENN), 1:56.75
4. Zoe Skirboll (UVA), 1:57.43
5. Katie Christopherson (UVA), 1:57.57
6. Ella Bathurst (UVA), 1:57.71
7. Ella Jansen (TENN), 1:58.09
8. Emily Brown (TENN), 1:58.66

Virginia freshman Leah Hayes blasted a time of 1:54.29 within the prelims of the ladies’s 200 IM, overtaking Texas’ Angie Coe (1:54.33) for the quickest time within the NCAA this season.

Hayes’ Splits: 25.17/27.97/33.12/28.03

Hayes, who went 1:56.22 within the occasion three weeks in the past in opposition to UNC, was inside putting distance of her private finest time, which stands at 1:53.57 from December 2023.

After Hayes posted that point within the third warmth, Tennessee’s Josephine Fuller adopted with a fast 1:55.57 clocking within the ultimate warmth, rating her 2nd total heading into tonight’s session.

Fuller, who set a PB of 1:52.04 final season en path to a Third-place end at NCAAs, now ranks sixth within the nation this season.

Sara Stotler got here inside six-tenths of her finest time in 1:56.75 to make it two Girl Vols within the high three, whereas Zoe Skirboll, Katie Christopherson and Ella Bathurst all posted 1:57s for UVA to qualify 4-5-6.

Claiming the ultimate two spots within the ultimate have been Tennessee’s Ella Jansen and Emily Brown, who have been simply minutes out of racing and qualifying for the ultimate of the five hundred free.

MEN’S 200 IM – PRELIMS

• NCAA Document: 1:36.34, Leon Marchand (ASU) – 2023
• 2025 NCAA ‘A’ Minimize: 1:41.03
• 2024 NCAA Cutline: 1:43.05
• PDF Outcomes

1. Sebastien Sergile (UVA), 1:43.80
2. Bjoern Kammann (TENN), 1:43.84
3. Noah Nichols (UVA), 1:45.35
4. Aidan Crisci (TENN), 1:45.41
5. Colin Bitz (UVA), 1:45.86
6. Logan Ingerick (UKY), 1:46.11
7. Matt Styczen (UVA) / Tony Laurito (TENN), 1:46.21
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Virginia’s Sebastien Sergile outdueled Tennessee’s Bjoern Kammann within the fourth and ultimate warmth of the lads’s 200 IM, each clocking 1:43-highs as the one two swimmers within the discipline sub-1:45.

After Kammann blasted out to an early lead with a 21.88 fly cut up, Sergile progressively reeled him in, out-splitting him on each different 50 to narrowly out-touch him, 1:43.80 to 1:43.84.

Sergile was simply shy of his finest time of 1:43.42 set at this meet final yr, whereas Kammann, a German native, raced the occasion for the primary time in yards.

UVA’s Noah Nichols certified Third in 1:45.35 thanks partly to a fast 28.62 breast cut up, whereas Tennessee’s Aidan Crisci superior 4th in 1:45.41, knocking greater than a second off his finest time (1:46.82).

WOMEN’S 50 FREE – PRELIMS

1. Gretchen Walsh (UVA), 20.88
2. Camille Spink (TENN), 21.33
3. Anna Moesch (UVA), 22.02
4. Jillian Crooks (TENN), 22.27
5. Maxine Parker (UVA), 22.36
6. Emily Armen (TENN), 22.66
7. Brooklyn Douthwright (TENN), 22.78
8. Amber Myers (TENN), 22.81

Gretchen Walsh fired off a time of 20.88 within the prelims of the ladies’s 50 free, falling simply 4 one-hundredths shy of her season-best and nation-leading time of 20.84 set throughout a twin meet in opposition to UNC.

The swim marks Walsh’s thirteenth beneath the 21-second barrier, with solely 19 having been achieved in historical past.

Tennessee’s Camille Spink was the one swimmer inside a second of Walsh, posting a sizeable lifetime better of 21.33, reducing her earlier PB of 21.74 set on the 2024 SECs to rank 2nd within the nation this season behind Walsh.

The efficiency strikes Spink into #2 in Tennessee college historical past, solely trailing Erika Brown (21.03).

Virginia first-year Anna Moesch rounded out the highest three with a season-best time of twenty-two.02, bettering on the 22.51 she set three weeks in the past in opposition to UNC. She holds a finest time of 21.73 set in April.

MEN’S 50 FREE – PRELIMS

• NCAA Document: 17.63, Caeleb Dressel (Florida) – 2018
• 2025 NCAA ‘A’ Minimize: 18.82
• 2024 NCAA Cutline: 19.13
• PDF Outcomes

1. Jordan Crooks (TENN), 18.29
2. Gui Caribe (TENN), 18.83
3. Lamar Taylor (TENN) / Nikoli Blackman (TENN), 19.15
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5. Micah Chambers (TENN) / Jack Aikins (UVA), 19.37
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7. Connor Boyle (UVA), 19.47
8. Spencer Nicholas (UVA), 19.63

WOMEN’S 3-METER DIVING – PRELIMS

MEN’S 1-METER DIVING – PRELIMS