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Vols Lead UNC After Day 1 of Dual Meet
October 21, 2016 | Swimming & Diving
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Senior Colleen Callahan and junior Sam McHugh won two events each Friday to lead Tennessee to first-day leads over North Carolina in the two-day dual meet opener at Allan Jones Aquatic Center.
The Tennessee women won five individual events and lead North Carolina 96-90. The UT men won four individual events and bookended the day with relay victories to push ahead of North Carolina 99-87.
The meet resumes Saturday at 10 a.m. Admission is free.
"We had some nice surprises, which is always the case in the first meet of the year," Tennessee head coach Matt Kredich said. "Our seniors and veterans like Colleen led the way, but we also got to see freshman we hadn't seen in competition yet. Kyle DeCoursey looks like a man on a mission out there. Same for Sam McHugh."
Callahan led two 1-2-3 Tennessee finishes in her two events, winning the 200-yard individual medley in 2 minutes, 1.73 seconds and the 100 breaststroke in 1:02.81.
McHugh clocked a pair of NCAA B-cut qualifying times in his two individual victories, swimming the 200 IM in 1:48.16 and the 200 butterfly in 1:47.93.
Other day-one winners for the UT women included: Madeline Tegner in the 500 freestyle (4:53.05), Heather Lundstrom in the 200 butterfly (1:58.54 - NCAA b-cut) and Rachel Rubadue on the 1-meter springboard (320.25 - career best).
For the men, Peter John Stevens won the 100 breaststroke in 54.28, an NCAA B-cut time. Kyle DeCoursey swam an NCAA B-cut 44.19 to win the 100 freestyle and was followed in second by teammate Ryan Coetzee.
The Vols' team of Coetzee, DeCoursey, Austin Hirstein and Gleb Ionichev won the 200 freestyle relay in 1:21.37. Joey Reilman, Stevens, Coetzee and DeCoursey won the 400 medley relay in 3:16.60.
INSIDE DIVING: Rubadue scored one win during the four diving competitions on the first day of the meet. Five of Tennessee's six divers recorded at least one career best, including Rubadue's 320.25 on 1-meter, the fifth-highest score in program history.
Both men's springboard competitions featured head-to-head competitions between UT junior Liam Stone and UNC's Jack Nyquist. Stone, the reigning NCAA champion on 1-meter, tried out a new dive in competition as Nyquist took first on 1-meter (363.75 to 359.93) and 3-meter (446.93 to 431.78).
"We have very high level competition on the springboards for this time of year," Tennessee diving coach Dave Parrington said. "Jack put on a great performance in a contest between two of the top divers in the country, and he came out ahead today."
