Swim & Dive Report Seven Top-10 Performances in Season Opener

Tennessee hosted Louisville and Auburn in a double twin meet on Thursday, with the lads’s and girls’s sides incomes wins over Auburn. The Vols and Lady Vols couldn’t sweep the competitors, falling of their match-ups towards Louisville.

Bennett Greene continued his sturdy begin to the season with a pair of wins within the males’s 1-meter and 3-meter occasions. Greene improved on his seventh-best total rating in program historical past within the 1-meter, eclipsing the 400-mark for the primary time in his profession with a 400.80. He put up a 402.40 within the 3-meter competitors en path to his second win of the day, joined by Frazer Tavener in second place with a 382.55.

Desharne Bent-Ashmeil stepped up on the ladies’s aspect, incomes her first collegiate win within the 3-meter springboard. Ashmeil completed the competitors with a 341.20, the sixth-best rating in program historical past.

Gui Caribe picked up one other trio of wins on the day, taking each the 50 and 100 Free but once more. Caribe additionally helped the lads’s 400 Freestyle relay crew to the victory, joined by Nikoli Blackman, Pedro Sansone, and Kamal Muhammad to place up the fifth-best time in program historical past with a 2:48.02. Muhammad added a solo win within the 100 Fly, ending the occasion with a time of 46.10.

The ladies’s 400 Freestyle Relay crew additionally notched a prime ten time on the day. The group of Amelia Mason, Emily Armen, Juliana Bocska, and Camille Spink completed with a 3:11.01, the fourth-best all-time for the Lady Vols.

Ella Jansen earned three wins within the double twin, with victories within the 200 Free, 200 IM, and 500 Free. Jansen’s occasions in each the 200 Free (1:43.33) and 200 IM (1:56.25) allowed the sophomore to maneuver her means as much as ninth and tenth within the document books in each occasions.

The ladies’s 200 Medley Relay crew additionally notched the ninth-best time at school historical past, with the crew of Jillian Crooks, Emelie Fast, Emily Brown, and Camile Spink ending with a 1:53.22. Emily Brown added three different podium finishes to her day, with a win within the 200 Fly in a time of 1:55.33. Brown completed the competitors with a second place end within the 200 IM (1:57.13) and a 3rd place within the 500 Free (4:45.28).

Up subsequent, Tennessee has a break earlier than internet hosting the inaugural CSCAA Power 4 Dual Meet Challenge from Nov. 21-23 and the UT Diving Invitational Nov. 20-22. 

Men’s Results

• Koby Bujak earned the house victory within the 500 Free, with the Australian ending the occasion at 4:19.31.
• Martin Espernberger earned one other win within the 200 Fly, with the previous Olympian ending sturdy at 1:42.01.
• Nikoli added to his day with a second and third place end of his personal. Blackman completed in second place within the 100 Free of 42.39, together with his third place end coming within the 200 Free with a time of 1:32.96.
• Gabe Nunziata made his Tennessee residence debut, notching a pair of second place finishes within the 100 and 200 Breast.
• Ben Bricca picked up his prime three end within the 100 Backstroke, with a 3rd place end within the occasion coming in at 46.89.
• Mac Clark picked up a 3rd place end in his first residence meet of his profession, ending the 1000 Free with a time of 9:07.31.

Women’s Results

• Camille Spink earned herself a pair of podium finishes on Thursday, with the junior taking the win within the 100 Free. Spink earned her different solo podium within the 50 Free, taking second place with a time of 21.30
• Sophie Brison picked up the win within the 200 Back, with the junior ending in a time of 1:55.68
• Emilie Fast earned the win within the 100 Breast, ending the occasion with a time of 59.54.
• Alyssa Claborn completed in third place within the 100 Back with a time of 52.51 in her first residence meet of her profession.

Top 10 Times/Scores
4th: Amelia Mason, Emily Armen, Juliana Bocska, Camille Spink (400 Free Relay): 3:11.01
fifth: Nikoli Blackman, Gui Caribe, Pedro Sansone, Kamal Muhammad (400 Free Relay): 2:48.02
sixth: Desharne Bent-Ashmeil (3-meter springboard): 341.20
seventh: Bennett Greene (1-meter springboard): 400.80
ninth: Jillian Crooks, Emelie Fast, Emily Brown, Camille Spink (200 Medley Relay): 1:35.22
ninth: Ella Jansen (200 Free): 1:43.33
tenth: Ella Jansen (200 IM): 1:56.25