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Tennessee Invitational
Michigan Picks Up Another 11 NCAA 'B' Cut Times on Day Two of Tennessee Invitational
11/18/2022 11:05:00 PM | Women's Swimming & Diving
» Michigan collected 11 NCAA 'B' cut times on the second day of the Tennessee Invitational.
» The team of Sophia Kudryashova, Katie Crom, Riley Francis and Christey Liang claimed the Wolverines' first win of the event in the 800-yard freestyle relay with a time of 7:04.51.
» The Wolverines return to the pool Saturday (Nov. 19) at 10 a.m. for the final day of the Tennessee Invitational at the Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center.
Site: Knoxville, Tenn. (Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center)
Event: Tennessee Invitational (Day 2 of 3)
Score: No Team Scoring
Next U-M Event: Saturday, Nov. 19 -- at Tennessee Invitational, Day Three (Knoxville, Tenn.), 10 a.m. (prelims)/6 p.m. (finals)
• Complete Day 2 Results (PDF)
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The University of Michigan women's swimming and diving team picked up its first event win to highlight its second day of competition at the Tennessee Invitational on Friday (Nov. 18) at the Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center.
In the final event of the night, the team of Sophia Kudryashova, Katie Crom, Riley Francis and Christey Liang finished first in the 800-yard freestyle relay (7:04.51) to claim Michigan's first victory of the weekend.
The quartet of Casey Chung, Letitia Sim, Brady Kendall and Lindsay Flynn kicked off the night with a third-place finish in the 200-yard medley relay with a time of 1:37.49.
Coming off of a third-place finish in the 200 medley relay, Kendall swam her way to a fourth-place finish in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 52.73. In the 'B' final, there were five Wolverines in Natalie Kan, Ella Jo Piersma, Noelle Kaufmann, Katie Crom and Megan Glass. Kan touched the wall first, Piersma third, Kaufmann fourth, Crom fifth and Glass sixth.
Kathryn Ackerman led the Wolverines in the 400-yard individual medley, touching the wall second in 4:11.22, with Devon Kitchel and Claire Donan finishing sixth and seventh, respectively.
Crom kicked on the jets in the 200-yard freestyle, dropping more than a second and a half from her prelims swim to finish second in a time of 1:44.89. Riley Francis finished sixth and Christey Liang seventh in the 'A' final behind Crom. Kudryashova finished 10th, Malia Amuan 11th, Glass 12th and Piersma was 15th overall.
In the 100-yard breaststroke, Sim was the fastest Wolverine, touching the wall fifth with a time 0f 1:00.08, and Kitchel finished eighth. In the 'B' final, Donan finished seventh with a time of 1:02.70.
Chung swam her way to a seventh-place finish in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 53.75 seconds. In the 'B' final, Kaufmann finished sixth, and in the 'C' final, Amuan finished seventh.
On the diving side, Lucy Hogan and Kiarra Milligan finished eighth and ninth while Evie Johnson and Chrismon Clark finished 11th and 12th on the 1-meter springboard.
The Wolverines will return to the pool Saturday (Nov. 19) for the final day of the Tennessee Invitational at the Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center. Prelims begin at 10 a.m., with the finals starting at 6 p.m. Both, along with action in the diving well, will be streamed live on SEC Network+.
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