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Alabama Swimming and Diving Sweeps Birmingham Southern at the CrossPlex Friday Afternoon
10/22/2021 7:45:00 PM | Swimming & Diving
The Crimson Tide won very event on the day, including four relays, four diving and 24 swimming events
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The Alabama men's and women's swimming and diving teams came away with wins in the Crimson Tide's first road meet of the season, beating Birmingham Southern at the Birmingham CrossPlex Friday afternoon. The Crimson Tide men won 194-91, while the women come out on top 201-85.
In addition to being its first road meet of the season, the contest also served as the Tide's Power of Pink meet, with the team wearing pink caps in support of Alabama Athletics' breast cancer awareness initiative.Â
Cora Dupre led the women's team, winning the 200 freestyle, 200 backstroke and 200 individual medley. Derek Maas and Kaique Alves paced the men with two individual wins each. Maas finished first in the 200 individual medley and the 100 breaststroke, while Alves won the 100 butterfly and 200 freestyle.
Head Coach Margo Geer Said
"The team is continuing to make strides in coming together and performing at the level they are capable. Today was a great opportunity for our student-athletes to get some competition experience away from our home pool and overall, the effort was good. We were able to have some people swim in some different events and we are continuing to translate our training habits into race efforts. As we are moving closer to our mid-season meets, there is certainly a lot more work to be done, but we are making great progress toward our goals for the championship season."
The Women's Meet
- The Crimson Tide women opened and closed the meet with relay wins, with Rhyan White, Avery Wiseman, Morgan Scott and Kalia Antoniou taking top honors in the 200 medley relay and Scott, Gracie Felner, Kailyn Winter and Cora Dupre closing things off with the 400 freestyle relay win
- Dupre also notched individual wins the 200 freestyle, 200 backstroke and 200 individual medley
- Kensey McMahon won the 1,000 freestyle, while Mela Delmenico was first in the 500 freestyle
- Scott won the 100 backstroke and 100 freestyle and Antoniou won the 50 freestyle to go with their relay titles
- Kasia Norman won the 100 breaststroke, Jocelyn Fisher won the 200 breaststroke
- Rhyan White touched the wall first in both the 100 and 200 butterfly
- Tanesha Lucoe won the 1-meter and 3-meter boards
The Men's Meet
- Matt Menke, Trey Sheils, Ben Hines and Kaique Alves started the men's meet off with a 200 medley relay win, while Bernardo Bondra de Almeida, Alves, Hines and Jonathan Berneburg closed the competition with a 400 freestyle relay victory
- Derek Maas won the 100 breaststroke and the 200 individual medley while Alves touched first in both the 100 butterfly and 200 freestyle
- Hunter Jaynes won the 1-meter springboard, while Mohamed Farouk took first off the 3-meter board
- Blake Peeples won the first individual race of the day, taking top honors in the 1,000 freestyle and Gil Kiesler picked up the win in the 500 freestyle event, while Berneburg won the shortest race of the day, the 50 freestyle
- Rookies Bondra de Almeida and Linus Kahl both won individual events with Bondra de Almeida taking first in the 100 freestyle and Kahl in the 200 butterfly
- Eric Stelmar won the 100 backstroke, while Menke took first the 200 backstroke
- Sheils added the 200 breaststroke win to his relay victory
Up Next
- For it's next meet, the Crimson Tide returns to the Alabama Aquatic Center to open its Southeastern Conference slate against LSU on Friday, Nov. 5
- The Alabama-LSU meet is slated to start at 12 p.m. CT with diving, while the swimming events will get underway at 1 p.m. CT
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