Knoxville, Tenn. – The Kentucky women?s swimming and diving team continued their strong showing finishing day two at the Southeastern Conference Championships in third place in Knoxville, Tenn. The women with 330 points trail second place Auburn by eight points and first place Georgia by 46 points. The men currently rest in seventh place with 160 points.

The Wildcat women were once again led by their diving unit. Four UK divers finished in the top-seven of the 3-meter diving event led by junior Joey Brown who had a 327.40 score to finish third. Senior Jessica Thompson, defending SEC 3-meter champion, finished fourth while sophomore Kari Retrum and senior Jillian Becker finished sixth and seventh respectively.

The Cats also received a pair of special performances from the Bradford sisters, sophomores Heather and Jenny, in the 50 freestyle swim. Jenny Bradford led all swimmers in the preliminary round with a time of 0:22.21. In the finals, Jenny turned in a career-best and school record time of 0:22.10 to finish second to Georgia?s Kara Lynn Joyce. Heather finished in fifth and also posted a career-best time of 0:22.88 in the preliminaries.

The women?s 200 freestyle relay team of the Bradford sisters, junior Nikia Deveaux and senior Joanna McLean also had a good showing with a fourth place finish and a time of 1:31.11. The team finished just shy of gaining an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships.

?We had some real good swims today,? head coach Gary Conelly said. ?The Bradford sisters were awesome. Jen?s (Bradford) time (0:22.10) was really special. The 200 freestyle relay team just missed an NCAA A cut by a tenth of a second but should still get an NCAA invite. The lady divers also came through once again for us.?

The SEC Championships will continue tomorrow at 10 a.m. EST at the UT Aquatics Center with the 400 IM. Fans can check ukathletics.com for a complete recap of the day?s action.