Swim & Dive is Set to Host Notre Dame & Missouri – UK Athletics

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Kentucky swimming and diving Wildcats return to the Lancaster Aquatic Center on Friday and Saturday afternoon, taking over the Notre Dame Irish at 1 p.m. Friday and the Missouri Tigers on Saturday at 11 a.m.

This is the swim and dive Wildcats’ first look within the competitors pool within the new yr, and the hope is to begin it off with a number of momentum. The final staff competitors earlier than the vacations was again on Dec. 11 at Tennessee, the place each the lads’s and ladies’s groups fell to the highest 10 ranked Volunteers.

Neither the Irish or Tigers have checked within the prime 25 from December, which would be the first and second twin meets for the Cats towards an unranked opponent this season.

With just a bit over a month till the 2026 SEC Swimming and Diving Championship, the stage is about for the Wildcats to compete properly this weekend. Seeing bettering instances and scores all through the season to this point, key returners like diver Avery Giese, and swimmers Grace Frericks, Carson Hick, Devin Naoroz, Levi Sandidge, and extra will proceed to be enormous leaders out and in of the pool. The newcomers even have expertise of their very own on the midway level within the season, together with the freshman and college file holder, Falemana Tuufui who has been competing at an especially excessive degree in his first season with Kentucky.

Each of the twin meets this weekend is free admission for all followers on the Lancaster Aquatic Center. For people who can not make it in individual, each meets will stream on SEC Network+ and the outcomes can be found on the MeetMobile App.

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