The Tennessee men's and women's swimming teams won the Tennessee Swimming Invitational at the Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center on Saturday night.
The Lady Vols won the four-day event featuring three teams with 963 points, followed by Virginia Tech (907) and Kentucky (605).
UT's Aleksa Akerfelds won the 1,650-yard freestyle in 16 minutes, 30.16 seconds and Alex Barsanti was first in the 200 breaststroke in 2:16.97.
The UT men won with 1,180 points, followed by Virginia Tech with 753 and Kentucky with 571. The Vols make 34 NCAA qualifying standards and broke nine school records, winning all 18 events at the meet.
"Today proved to be a great end to an amazing competition for our team," UT coach John Trembley said.
Jonas Persson broke the school record in the 100 free in 42.40. The previous best was held by Ricky Busquets (42.64).
Nolan Morrell won the 200 backstroke in the second-fastest time at UT in 1:42.81.
The 400 freestyle relay team of Morrell, Persson, Anders Storvik and Jimmy Dabney set a school record with a first-place time of 2:52.62.
And there was more. Carl Jones won the mile freestyle in 15:05.53, Brad Craig won the 200 breast in 1:55.49, Greg Houchin won the 200 butterfly.
UT's Michael Muscari won the platform event with 304 points.
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Comments » 2
BillVol writes:
Why do we have to have "intercollegiate" in the name of the aquatic center. Isn't that obvious anyhow?
BillVol writes:
Also, Roland Julian, where are you???
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