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Alabama Swimming and Diving Heads to Knoxville for Tennessee/Virginia Meets
11/18/2020 2:15:00 PM | Swimming & Diving
The Crimson Tide will face both Tennessee and Virginia over the three-day event
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The Alabama swimming and diving teams continue the 2020-21 season this weekend with a three-day meet against both Virginia and host school Tennessee.
The format for this weekend's meet will be similar to what the Crimson Tide will see during the post season with prelims and finals each day. The meet gets underway Thursday and runs through Saturday at the Jones Aquatic Center on the Tennessee campus.
HEAD COACH COLEY STICKELS SAID
"This is another opportunity for us to get up and compete against some very good teams. Tennessee and Virginia are both top-10 caliber teams at the national level and are the defending SEC and ACC champions on the women's side of things, so it should be a very good meet. The format is similar to what we'll see during the championship season and will give us experience in racing twice in a day. One thing we want to work on is getting after it during prelims, because, as the saying goes, championships are won in the morning."
THE FORMAT
- The three-day event will feature prelims and finals each day
- Prelims will start each day at 10 a.m. ET, while finals get underway at 6 p.m. ET
- Thursday's events include the 200 freestyle and 400 medley relays, as well as the men's 1-meter and women's 3-meter springboards, 500 freestyle, 200 individual medley and the 50 freestyle
- The 200 medley and 800 freestyle relays as well as the women's 1-meter and men's 3-meter springboards, 100 butterfly, 400 individual medley, 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke and 100 backstroke are slated for Friday
- The meet concludes on Saturday with the 400 freestyle relay as well as platform diving, 200 backstroke, 100 freestyle, 200 breaststroke, 200 butterfly and the 1,650 freestyle
LAST TIME OUT
- Alabama opened its season on Nov. 6, scoring a pair of decisive wins over LSU, with the men outscoring the Tigers 194-104 and the women coming out on top 183-117
- Rhyan White and Kensey McMahon led the way for the women, winning three events apiece
- White dominated the 100 and 200 backstrokes, while also coming away with a win in the 100 butterfly
- McMahon swam away from the field in the 500 and 1,000 freestyles and took first in the 200 butterfly as well
- Morgan Scott won the 50 and 200 freestyle on the night, while Flora Molnar won the 100 freestyle and Caitlin Reynera won the 200 breaststroke
- Gracie Felner picked up a win in her first meet wearing the crimson and white of Alabama, taking the top spot in the 200 individual medley
- Derek Maas, Matt Menke and Nicholas Perera tallied two individual wins each to lead the men over the Tigers
- Maas won the 100 and 200 breaststrokes, Menke took top honors in the 100 and 200 backstrokes, while Perera won the 200 butterfly and 200 individual medley
- Colton Stogner led a 1-2-3 Crimson Tide sweep in the 100 butterfly
- Matt King opened his freshman season with the Crimson Tide by winning the 50 freestyle
- The women opened the meet (and the season) with White, Kaila Wong, Molnar and Cora Dupre winning the 200-medley relay
- The men went one-two in the 200 medley relay to open their meet, with Menke, Maas, Liam Bell and Jonathan Berneburg taking the victory
- Molnar, Dupre, Scott and Isabella Matesa touched the wall first in the 400 freestyle relay to close out the women's meet
- Berneburg, Bell, Cam Auerbach and King won the 400 freestyle relay and finish off the Tigers
NEXT TIME
- After opening the season with back-to-back road contests, Alabama opens its home slate Dec. 16 with Kentucky
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