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Alabama Swimming and Diving Closes Regular Season by Sweeping Georgia Tech on the Road
1/22/2021 5:17:00 PM | Swimming & Diving
The Crimson Tide brought home 18 individual and relay wins, including four events where the Tide swept at least the top-three spots
TUSCALOOSA, ALA – Alabama swimming and diving closed out its regular season with a sweep of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Friday afternoon in Atlanta, Ga., at the McCauley Aquatic Center.
The Crimson Tide women swept every swimming event, with Gracie Felner, Kensey McMahon and Rhyan White leading the way with two wins each. Felner won the 100 and 200 butterfly, McMahon dominated the 500 and 1,000 freestyles, while White swept the 100 and 200 backstrokes.
The Tide men took first through fourth in the 50 freestyle, with Sam DiSette leading the sweep. Matt King was just behind DiSette in second, while Jonathan Berneburg and Colton Stogner took third and fourth, respectively.
Interim Head Coach Ozzie Quevedo Said
"What a way to finish out the regular season. The women led from wire-to-wire, while the men fought for every point to get the win. We had some really strong events and some where we definitely have some finetuning to do before we get the postseason underway. I will say this, during the uncertainty of last spring and this summer, to actually get to have a regular season and be able to finish it off this way is a real blessing and it isn't something we take for granted. I take my hat off to our entire team, men and women, swimmers and divers, for continuing to trust the process as they find ways to get better every opportunity they come across. Now we turn our focus to the next leg of our season, the SEC Championships."
Relay Wins
- The Tide swept the relay events, opening and closing the meet with wins
- The UA women opened with a 1-2 finish in the 200 medley relay, with Morgan Scott, Kaila Wong, Flora Molnar and Kalia Antoniou posting a 1:40.01 for the win
- The men's team quickly followed suit in 200 medley relay, with Matt Menke, Derek Maas, Colton Stogner and Matt King stopping the clock at 1:28.06 to start the afternoon
- The women closed out their night with another 1-2 relay performance with Scott, Cora Dupre, Antoniou and Molnar winning the 400 freestyle relay with a time of 3:20.29, just ahead of the Tide's B relay
- King, Berneburg, Stogner and Kacper Piotrowski closed out the day and the Yellow Jackets with a win in the 400 freestyle relay, going 2:57.58
Individual Wins
- Six additional women joined Felner, White and McMahon in taking home individual wins for the Tide
- Scott picked up a win in the 50 freestyle with a 23.16, leading a 1-4 Tide sweep with Dupre, Flora Molnar and Jada Surrell taking home second, third and fourth, respectively
- The Tide also swept the top-four spots in the 100 freestyle, with Antoniou winning in a time of 49.58 and Scott taking second, followed by Dupre and Surrell in third and fourth
- Felner led a one-two-three Bama sweep of the 100 butterfly with 54.00, followed by Molnar and Ashley Voelkerding, respectively
- Dupre picked up a win of her own in the 200 freestyle (1:48.22), with Cat Wright winning the 100 breastroke (1:03.23) and Caitlin Reynera winning the 200 breastroke (2:17.50)
- Diana Petkova closed out the individual races with a win in the 100 IM (57.07)
- Matt Menke and Jake Marcum joined DiSette in picking up individual wins for the Tide
- Menke dominated the 100 backstroke, touching the wall over a second before the rest of the field with a 48.35
- Marcum picked up a win in the 200 backstroke with a 1:48.50, followed closely by Eric Stelmar in second
Up Next
- Alabama opens the postseason with the SEC Championships, which will be broken into three different segments this season
- Women's swimming February 17-20 at Gabrielsen Natatorium in Athens, Ga.
- Men's and women's diving February 17-20 at the Mizzou Aquatic Center in Columbia, Mo.
- Men's swimming February 23-26 at the Mizzou Aquatic Center in Columbia, Mo.
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