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Todd DeSorbo on UVA Against Florida: “They continue to exceed expectations”

VIRGINIA VS. FLORIDA

Reported by YanYan Li.

WOMEN’S 400 FREE RELAY

  • NCAA ‘A’ Cut: 3:14.40
  • NCAA ‘B’ Cut: 3:16.32

Top 3:

  1. Virginia ‘A’ relay — 3:11.34 (EXH)
  2. Florida ‘B’ relay — 3:18.37
  3. Virginia ‘B’ relay — 3:20.96 (EXH)

Virginia exhibitioned all of their teams for their relays, so Florida’s Talia Bates (49.37), Micayla Cronk (49.98), Katie Mack (49.68), and Ekaterina Nikonova (49.34) technically won in a 3:18.37. Virginia’s Gretchen Walsh (47.61), Kate Douglass (47.08), Maxine Parker (48.22), and Alex Walsh (48.43) touched the wall first with a time of 3:11.34 though, obliterating the NCAA ‘A’ cut time by over three seconds.

Walsh’s 47.61 leadoff time concludes a series of incredible performances from her today. It would have been fast enough to score at NCAAs, and is the third-fastest time of the season behind MacNeil and Douglass’ marks.

FINAL SCORES:

Men: Florida 189, Virginia 111

Women: Virginia 180, Florida 115

As expected, Florida won on the men’s side and Virginia won on the women’s side of the meet. Florida did beat Virginia 304-291 in the combined team scoring, although that likely wouldn’t have been the case if the Virginia women didn’t exhibition several of their events.

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SwimGeek
2 years ago

The addition of Maxine Parker seems to be working out very well for UVA and Maxine — 22.2 unsuited in October bodes very well for her and bolsters the UVA relays even further. Separately – it looks like S. African star Aimee Canny hasn’t raced yet – but she’s on the website roster. Any word on her?

Yanyan Li
Reply to  SwimGeek
2 years ago

She’s coming spring semester.

SwimJim
2 years ago

That pic is creepy
Just saying

Meow
2 years ago

This headline makes it sound like the “they” is Florida.

Yikes
2 years ago

Didn’t Florida men exhibition several of their events as well? Maybe it evened out.

iLikePsych
Reply to  Yikes
2 years ago

Doesn’t look like it

Yikes
Reply to  iLikePsych
2 years ago

My bad, read it wrong.

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