Courtesy: Tennessee Athletics
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee swimming and diving program opens the 2019-20 season Friday afternoon with the annual Orange and White Intrasquad Meet at the Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center.
The meet begins at 3:30 p.m., and admission for all regular-season meets is free of charge. Tennessee’s clear bag policy will be in effect.
This is the eighth year of the men’s and women’s combined Orange and White Meet. The Orange squad leads the series, 4-3, after snapping the White team’s two-meet winning streak last season. Team Orange took down Team White, 314-276, winning 18 of 32 events.
The Orange team returns seven event winners from a year ago in Stanzi Moseley, Meghan Small, Emily Sykes, Alec Connolly, Eien McGee, Nathan Murray and Matthew Wade. Moseley, Small and Sykes each won two events in 2018 with Connolly, McGee, Murray and Wade winning one apiece.
The White squad returns eight event winners from last season in Erika Brown, Tess Cieplucha, Sinclair Larson, Alexis Yager, Taylor Abbott, Matthew Garcia, Gleb Ionichev and Josh Walsh. Brown and Small each won two events last year while Abbott swept the 1,000 freestyle, 200 butterfly and 500 freestyle for the third-straight season.
The Vols’ intrasquad meet is different than most as the swimmers and divers are selected to either the Orange or White team as freshmen and remain with that team for the rest of their career.
UP NEXT:
Following the intrasquad scrimmage, the Vols will travel to Wilmington, N.C. for a dual meet with UNC Wilmington on Friday, Sept. 27 and an open water race on Saturday, Sept. 28.
ORANGE & WHITE INTRASQUAD MEET
ORDER OF EVENTS
200 Medley Relay
1000 Free
200 Free
100 Back
100 Breast
200 Fly
50 Free
3M Diving
100 Free
200 Back
200 Breast
500 Free
100 Fly
1M Diving
200 IM
400 Free Relay
ORANGE ROSTER
MEN
Nolan Briggs
Brett Champlin
Alec Connolly
Owen Devine
Joel Giraudeau
Marc Hinawi
Oskar Hoff
Parker Kaye
Luke Massey
Eien McGee
Lucas Mills
Nathan Murray
Tim Raab
Keegan Richardson
Patrick Townsend
Braga Verhage
Matthew Wade
Tommy Weir
WOMEN
Mallory Beil
Grace Cable
Mary Cayten Brakefield
Isabella Gable
Madison Graham
Hannah Holman
Carrie Johnson
Danika Katzer
Stanzi Moseley
Amanda Nunan
Tjasa Pintar
Elle Renner
Kendall Shields
Meghan Small
Emily Sykes
Emily Ann Wolfson
WHITE ROSTER
MEN
Taylor Abbott
Benjamin Blevins-Boor
Luke Brice
Jarel Dillard
Matthew Garcia
Will Hallam
Michael Houlie
Gleb Ionichev
Ethan Sanders
Scott Scanlon
Seth Thompson-Bailey
Spencer Tussing
Josh Walsh
WOMEN
Erika Brown
Ana Celaya Hernandez
Tess Cieplucha
Alexandra Gebel
Bailey Grinter
Whittney Hamilton
Kaitlin Harty
Kara Holt
Lyndsey Huizenga
Sinclair Larson
McKenna Morello
Nikol Popov
Trude Rothrock
Abby Samansky
Megan Sichterman
Natalie Ungaretti
Alexis Yager
This is the year for the HooHooLEEmann to get after it. Can he shock the world and win NCAA in the 100 breast? Uhhh – certainly! Lets ALSO see Garcia/HooHoo/Brage/Conwaytwitty take the SEC title in the 200 Med and hang on at NCAAS for win #2 of 2020.The possibilities are almost endless for this year’s squad of coonskin madhatted Volunteers! Best wishes to all team members, parents, coaches and alumni for an amazing experience at UT 2019/2020. GO VOLS.
ORANGE ORANGE ORANGE
GO ORANGE