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Delta State
Alabama Swimming and Diving Sweeps Delta State to Open the 2021-22 Season
9/24/2021 7:00:00 PM | Swimming & Diving
The Crimson Tide won all 32 events on the day including four diving, four relays and 24 individual races
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The Alabama swimming and diving teams opened the 2021-22 season with a strong showing Friday afternoon in the Alabama Aquatic Center, sweeping Delta State. The Crimson Tide men won 223-72, while the women came out on top, 217-78.
Alabama won all 32 events on the day, including four relays, four diving events and 24 individual races. The Tide used a potent mixture of veterans and newcomers on the day.
Matt Menke paced the Tide men with three individual wins after leading off UA's winning 200 medley relay to open the meet. The junior won the 100 and 200 backstroke and the 200 individual medley.
Rookie Avery Wiseman, blazed a similar path for the Tide women, swimming the breaststroke leg on the Tide's first-place 200 medley relay for her first win wearing the crimson and white, before reeling off two individual victories in the 100 and 200 breaststroke.
Head Coach Margo Geer Said
"It was great to be back competing today and it was excellent to have our fans with us in the aquatic center. We were very pleased to see some good habits show up in our races. We have a lot more that we can improve upon going forward, but today we made a good start, and now we will seek to build on it and keep moving ahead."
The Women's Meet
- Morgan Scott and Cora Dupre, who closed last season by winning the 400 freestyle relay at the NCAA Championships, picked up right where the left off, while Avery Wiseman and Kailyn Winter picked up their first UA wins by combining to take top honors in the 200 medley relay
- Wiseman also won the 100 and 200 breaststroke
- Kensey McMahon won the Tide's first individual race of the season, taking top honors in the 1,000 freestyle before coming back later in the meet to win the 500 as well, giving her the distance sweep
- Kalia Antoniou won the 100 and 200 freestyle, while Rhyan White won the 200 backstroke
- Dupre won the 100 backstroke and the 200 individual medley
- Gracie Felner won the 50 freestyle and 100 butterfly, while Morgan Liberto won the 200 butterfly
- Off the springboards, Tanesha Lucoe won the 1-meter and Natalie Donkle won the 3-meter
- Antoniou, Felner, Maddie Mechling and Winter closed the meet by winning the 200 freestyle relay
The Men's Meet
- Matt Menke, Trey Sheils, Derek Maas and Jonathan Berneburg won the 200 medley relay to open the meet while Jack Zhu, Ben Hines, Maas and Jake Marcum closed the meet with a 200 freestyle relay victory
- Menke also won the 100 and 200 backstroke and the 200 individual medley
- Gil Kiesler earned his first wins for the Tide, racing to top honors in the 1,000 freestyle, before returning to win the 500 later in the day
- Kaique Alves won the 100 and 200 freestyle, while Sheils took first in the 100 breaststroke
- Nicholas Perera touched first in the 200 butterfly and 200 breaststroke
- Berneburg came out on top in the 50 freestyle, while Maas got to the wall first in the 100 butterfly
- Off the springboards, rookie Mohammed Farouk won the 1-meter and Keivn Li won the 3-meter
Up Next
- Alabama travels up the road to the Birmingham Crossplex to take on Birmingham Southern on October 22 for its first road meet
- After the BSC meet, the Tide returns home November 5 to open Southeastern Conference competition with LSU
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