The Kentucky swimming and diving program put its talent on display Friday in the first appearance of the 2018-19 season, the annual Sun Shall Shine meet.
Each year, the program inaugurates its season with a Blue-White scrimmage. This year’s schedule-opening affair featured 32 events, advertising each swimmer and diver in the program. While the Wildcats took advantage of the competitive setting that the intrasquad meet offered, it was also the first time family and friends could catch a glimpse at the team.
For the second-straight year the White squad came out on top, while Blue finished not far behind.
“I thought it was a pretty good day for the cats,” said head coach Lars Jorgensen. “The first meet out I didn’t really know what to expect, we’re still trying to go through some hard training, still trying to get into shape a little bit. I thought some people performed really well and some people performed not so well. So, we’ve got some work to do.
We’re facing against a really, really good Indiana team on Wednesday along with Notre Dame who is really good, and Missouri is obviously a really tough SEC competitor. We’re going to see where we stand on Wednesday, but for the first meet out some good things and some things we really need to work on and clean up, but that’s why you do these early season meets so hopefully we’re good by March whenever it actually matters.”
Kentucky will travel north to Bloomington, Indiana, to compete in its first official meet of the season – a tri-meet headlining Indiana and Notre Dame. While Missouri will also be featured at the meet, the Wildcats and the Tigers will not compete against one-another. Missouri will play host to Kentucky on Nov. 1-2.
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BLUE SQUAD
Men: Shane Anderson, Kyle Barker, Matthew Beach, Austin Haney, Jason Head, Andrew Huenniger, Trent Lakes, Seb Masterton*, John Mitchell, Hank Siefert, Mike Summe, Alex Taylor and Peter Wetzlar
Women: Emma Dellmore*, Lauren Edelman, Geena Freriks, Riley Gaines, Izzy Gati, Cara Hudson*, Olivia Huffman, Paige Kelly, Kyndal Knight*, Morgan Lakes, Sarah Loheide, Lizzy Merriman, Alex Nelson, Kathryn Painter, Gaby Pires, Kelly Rodriquez, Asia Seidt and Madison Winstead
WHITE SQUAD
Men: Wyatt Amdor, Louis Barker, Daniel Blake, Connor Blandford, Glen Brown, David Dingess, Jarod Kehl, Chase Lane*, Daniel Orcutt, Josh Swart and Mason Wilby
Women: Bailey Bonnett, Kayla Churman, Courtney Clark*, Lauren Denham, Savannah Dupuis, Kailey Francetic*, Ali Galyer, Jaida Garrett*, Hayley Griesser, Parker Herren, Jaclyn Hill, Haley McInerny, Payton Neff, Alaina Potts, Sophie Sorenson and Caroline Szydlowski
*Denotes diver
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
1. Women 200 Medley Relay
2. Men 200 Medley Relay
3. Women 1,000 Freestyle
4. Men 1,000 Freestyle
5. Women 200 Freestyle
6. Men 200 Freestyle
7. Women 100 Backstroke
8. Men 100 Backstroke
9. Women 100 Breaststroke
10. Men 100 Breaststroke
11. Women 200 Butterfly
12. Men 200 Butterfly
13. Women 50 Freestyle
14. Men 50 Freestyle
15. Women 1 Meter Diving
16. Men 3 Meter Diving
17. Women 100 Freestyle
18. Men 100 Freestyle
19. Women 200 Backstroke
20. Men 200 Backstroke
21. Women 200 Breaststroke
22. Men 200 Breaststroke
23. Women 500 Freestyle
24. Men 500 Freestyle
25. Women 100 Butterfly
26. Men 100 Butterfly
27. Women 3 Meter Diving
28. Men 1 Meter Diving
29. Women 200 IM
30. Men 200 IM
31. Women 400 Freestyle Relay
32. Men 400 Freestyle Relay
– GO CATS –
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