Vanderbilt Swimming | Swim Season Continues in Columbia

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The remaining month of the autumn season begins for Vanderbilt swimming Saturday with the primary of three meets in 4 weeks when the Commodores go to Missouri. The competitors will get underway at 10 a.m. on the Mizzou Aquatic Center, with Vandy taking over each the host Tigers in addition to McKendree.

It’s the primary time the Dores will compete since they opened the marketing campaign with a 160-101 victory at residence over North Florida on Oct. 4.

The Commodores claimed seven particular person victories towards the Ospreys, with each Aubrey Hull (50 and 100 backstroke) and Elayne Chen (200 and 500 freestyle) profitable two races. Merritt Zieminick completed first within the 1,000 freestyle, with two different newcomers—switch Natalie Strongyli (400 particular person medley) and freshman Lane Gooding (50 freestyle)—additionally contributing to the tally.

Quinlan Hinerfeld was runner-up within the 50 and 100 again, with Vandy additionally getting second-place finishes from Emily Constable (50 breaststroke), Melissa Cowen (100 breaststroke), Meredith DiPasquale (50 butterfly), Gooding (100 free), Kate Heintz (100 butterfly), Bailey Ratzburg (400 IM) and Zieminick (500 free) within the win.

“We took that time to get some really good training in, I feel like we’ve made some great strides in practice so it’s going to be good to see how that translates in a meet when we compete on Saturday,” head coach Jeremy Organ mentioned. “We’re trying to compete at a degree the place we really feel like we ought to be right now of yr, however we’re additionally trying on the subsequent few weeks the place we’ll face good competitors. I wish to see us go in there and show to ourselves that what we’ve executed over the past three weeks has ready us to do very well this season.

“So let’s throw some swims down and see where we’re at.”

This would be the fourth assembly within the sequence with the Tigers, and first since Missouri traveled to Nashville in October 2018. The Commodores are making their first look in Columbia for the reason that 2015-16 marketing campaign. Vanderbilt has by no means confronted McKendree in competitors.