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Alabama Swimming and Diving Women Sweep Vanderbilt in Nashville
10/5/2019 1:07:00 PM | Swimming & Diving
The Crimson Tide women swept the individual races and both relays against the Commodores in UA’s second meet in two days
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Alabama women's swimming and diving team swept the individual races and both relays against Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tenn., Saturday, beating the Commodores 146-105. It was the Crimson Tide's second meet in two days after opening Southeastern Conference competition against Georgia in Birmingham on Friday.
Sophomore Rhyan White once again won both backstroke events, boosting her two-day individual win total to five, while classmate Kensey McMahon swept the distance freestyle events for the second meet in a row after winning the 500 and 1,000 freestyles against the Dogs and Commodores.
In all, Alabama won nine events against Georgia and 14 against Vanderbilt for a total of 23 across the two meets. Against Vanderbilt, Alabama took the top-two spots in eight races, including both relays.
HEAD COACH COLEY STICKELS SAID
"Having two meets in two days in two different cities can be a challenge, but our ladies kept their focus and swam hard today, giving us two good days of competition. We looked at back to back meets as a prelims/finals scenario that we will ultimately face later on during championship season. From here, we just need to keep our momentum moving in the right direction and continue to train hard as we move forward through the season."
MEET HIGHLIGHTS
- Sophomore Rhyan White followed a three-win day against Georgia with a pair of individual wins against Vanderbilt, taking first in the 100 and 200 backstrokes, going 53.79 and 1:56.17, respectively against the Commodores
- Sophomore Kensey McMahon doubled up her distances freestyle win total for the weekend after taking top honors in the 500 (5:02.79) and 1,000 (10:13.15) in Nashville
- Freshman Caitlin Reynera won the 100 and 200 breaststrokes, clocking times of 1:03.97 and 2:19.30
- Senior Alexis Preski showed her range, winning the 200 freestyle (1:53.15) and the 200 individual medley (2:05.02)
- Junior Flora Molnar won the 100 freestyle (50.14) and the 100 butterfly (55.29)
- Sophomore Cat Wright (200 butterfly/2:04.28) and senior Allie Surrency (50 freestyle/23.54) also contributed wins to the Tide's sweep
- White, Reynera, Molnar and Surrency opened the meet by winning the 200 medley relay (1:42.11), while Surrency and Molnar combined with sophomores Morgan Scott and Kalia Antoniou combined to touch first to close the meet in the 400 freestyle relay (3:25.26)
UP AHEAD
- After opening the season with back-to-back (or in the women's case, back-to-back-to-back) dual meets, Alabama returns to action with the Georgia Tech Invitational Nov. 22-24 in Atlanta, Ga.
- Alabama closes the fall semester with a pair of trips to Auburn, Ala., taking on the Tigers in a dual meet on Dec. 5, before returning Dec. 17-19 for the Auburn Diving Invite
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