No. 9/6 Cardinals End Competition at Texas Showdown

AUSTIN, Texas – The No. 9/6 University of Louisville males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving groups shut out competitors on the Texas Showdown on Saturday morning on the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swim Center. The Cardinal girls earned first place with 488 factors, outscoring No. 2 Texas (487) by one level and dominating No. 14 Ohio State (227). The UofL males got here in second scoring 459 factors, behind solely No. 1 Texas’ 540, however nicely forward of No. 16 Ohio State’s 159.

Louisville will return to motion on the street in Bloomington, Ind. to tackle the No. 3/9 Indiana University. Competition is about to begin at 2 p.m. ET at Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center.

Race-by-Race Recap
The Cards began Saturday morning’s session with the 200 again, the place Xeniya Ignatova led the ladies with a third-place end, posting a 1:55.37. Camille Murray (1:57.12) got here in fifth, Summer Cardwell (1:58.33) at seventh, and Sadie Murphy (1:58.60) rounded out UofL in eighth. Filip Kosinski topped the boys in third, clocking a 1:41.25. Jackson Millard (1:43.33) adopted in fourth and Nate Thomas (1:43.70) in fifth. Guy Brooks closed it out in seventh, handing over a 1:45.23.

Louisville swept the highest three within the girls’s 200 breast, beginning with Anastasia Gorbenko’s first place displaying of two:07.45. Mia Cheatwood (2:09.53) took second and Kim Herkle (2:09.58) completed third. Anna Inagaki wrapped up in seventh, notching a 2:17.35. Finnley Conklin paced the boys at second, posting a 1:55.77. Jake Eccleston (1:56.20) positioned fourth, Tommy Bried (1:58.02) earned sixth, and Grant Gooding (2:02.58) claimed eighth.

Three of the highest 4 girls’s 50 free finishers wore a UofL uniform, with Julia Dennis on prime in first place with a 21.55. Caroline Larsen (22.02) secured third and Julie Mishler (22.27) grabbed fourth. Abby Karl (22.92) notched eighth. Nikita Sheremet got here in second for the boys with a 19.11 displaying. Charlie Crush wasn’t far behind taking third with a 19.55, whereas Ethan Chauliaguet (20.02) completed sixth.

Kaitlyn Sallows led the ladies within the 200 fly, inserting third with a 2:00.27. Cardwell (2:01.61) adopted in fourth and Daria Golovaty (2:01.96) proper behind in fifth. Four Cardinal males completed consecutively, beginning with Gregg Enoch (1:43.38) in third, Bried (1:43.94) in fourth, Rian Graham (1:45.85) in fifth, and Thomas Powers-Hammond (1:45.86) in sixth.

The Cards earned the highest two finishes within the girls’s 100 IM and 4 of the highest 5 total spots. Gorbenko got here out on prime in first, recording a 52.42. Larsen wasn’t far behind, incomes second clocking a 53.70. Cheatwood posted a third-place end handing over a 54.88, and Ella Welch rounded out in fourth posting a 54.92. Crush secured fourth on the boys’s aspect with a 47.89. Aidan Paro (48.90) claimed sixth, Millard (49.74) seventh, and Nate Thomas eighth (50.97).

In the 1650 free, Leticia Fassina Romao notched third for the ladies with a 15:56.88, whereas Thilda Hall turned in a fourth-place time of 15:56.88. Kayden Lancaster paced the boys in third with a 15:22.86, whereas Oscar Isberg got here in fourth with a 15:33.77.

For males’s 1-meter diving, Ray Preas (325.20) took second, Rayce Winn (320.48) completed third, and Mack Molloy (314.55) positioned fifth.