Second annual All-Arizona Invite up subsequent for No. 3/18 Swim and Dive on Friday

TEMPE  – The first of three highway journeys this month for No. 3/18 Sun Devil Swim and Dive is about for Friday, Oct. 10, when Arizona State competes within the second annual All-Arizona Invite at 1 p.m. MST in Tucson, Ariz. The meet additionally options Arizona, Northern Arizona and Grand Canyon.

Similar to the house opener, the meet is not going to be livestreamed, however it may be adopted on Meet Mobile (with a subscription) and this system’s social media accounts: X (@ASUSwimDive) and Instagram (@Sundevilswimdive). 

When the meet was hosted in Tempe final 12 months, each ASU males’s and ladies’s groups had been victorious over their three in-state rivals. For the Wildcats, Lopes and Lumberjacks, Friday will mark the primary meet of their respective seasons.

Arizona completed second on the Big 12 Championships and had eight All-American ladies’s swimmers and divers at NCAAs final season. Grand Canyon completed third on the CSCAA National Invitational Championships on the lads’s facet, and the ladies’s crew completed tenth, respectively. Northern Arizona’s ladies’s crew gained the WAC title for the twelfth consecutive season. 

Ilya Kharun had a powerful exhibiting within the opener in opposition to UNLV by setting pool information in 1:37.94 within the 200m fly and the 100m fly at 43.91, which earned him Big 12 Swimmer of the Week honors. Jonny Kulow gained the 200m freestyle in 1:34.40 and graduate switch Remi Fabiani had a powerful exhibiting within the 50m freestyle, touching the wall in 18.89.

For the ladies, Miriam Sheehan gained the 100m backstroke in 52.24, which was the second-fastest time in program historical past. The junior additionally gained the 100m fly in 52.76, which is the eighth-fastest all-time. Freshman Alexia Sotomayor set private bests within the 100m backstroke (53.24) and within the 200m backstroke (1:55.44). Junior Sonia Vaishnani gained the 200m IM in a swift 1:58.67. 

Following Friday’s meet, the Sun Devils have per week off, earlier than heading to California for a tri-meet in opposition to former Pac-12 foes: California and Stanford. The meet is scheduled to start on Friday, Oct. 24 in Palo Alto, Calif. at 2 p.m. MST, earlier than concluding in Berkeley, Calif. on Saturday, Oct. 25 at 11 a.m. MST.