Duke Swimming Closes Common Season at UNC Invitational

DURHAM, N.C. – The Duke swimming workforce wraps up the common season this weekend, participating within the UNC Invitational for the Blue Devils’ ultimate tuneup forward of the ACC Championships. The three-day meet is slated for Feb. 4-6 inside Maurice J. Koury Natatorium in Chapel Hill.
 
DUKE NOTABLES & LAST TIME OUT:

• Duke’s girls’s squad is ranked No. 20 within the newest CSCAA Top 25.
• Duke swimming and diving posted seven occasion wins contained in the Allan Jones Aquatic Center, however in the end fell in its twin meet at Tennessee. The Twentieth-ranked Blue Devil girls dropped a 184-110 resolution to the No. 8 Volunteers, whereas the No. 11 Tennessee males posted a 198-88 win over Duke.
• Ali Pfaff competed within the 100 backstroke and earned the primary victory of the day for the Blue Devils, hitting the wall in 51.74 seconds.
• Duke posted a sweep within the 100 breaststroke with Kaelyn Gridley and Kalen Anbar accumulating the first-place finishes. Gridley pulled away late and completed in 58.53 seconds, whereas Anbar turned in a time of 54 flat within the tightly contested males’s race, out-touching his opponent by .03 seconds to get the win.
• Justin Wong pushed Duke’s win complete to 4 on the afternoon, as he swam 1:47.26 to assert the highest spot on the rostrum within the males’s 200 butterfly and transfer into No. 10 all-time on the Duke top-10 performers listing.
• Pfaff and Gridley secured particular person sweeps with wins within the 200 again and 200 breast, respectively. Pfaff touched in 1:52.94, whereas Gridley completed in 2:09.12.
• The girls’s 3-meter dive noticed Keira Lu complete a rating of 314.55 and decide up her seventh occasion win of the season.

 
UP NEXT:
Duke shifts its consideration to the postseason, beginning with the ACC Championships. The convention meet will happen Feb. 15-21 contained in the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

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