LEXINGTON, Ky. – The swimming and diving Wildcats took on Vanderbilt and Texas A&M on Friday, with dive competing strongly in Lexington while the swimmers dominated the pool in Nashville with a new program best time along with a handful of top ten times and scores. The Wildcat men defeated Texas A&M 193-107, with the women beating Vanderbilt 206-55, but falling Just short of Texas A&M 151-147.

The divers started off the day in Lexington competing against Texas A&M. We saw two event wins in the platform and 1M dive from sophomore Avery Giese, who has had a fantastic year on the boards. Freshman Rock Sweet won the platform dive as well, recording the seventh best score in program history with 368.85. Kristy Pfaff picked up the exhibition 3M dive win, additionally.

Down in Nashville, it was once again the freshman in Falemana Tuufui, setting his own program best 50 free time once again in 19.19, a .01 difference from his previous record set last Friday against Notre Dame.

Two other swimmers saw top ten times, the first being Cayden Pitzer in the 100 breast, finishing in 53.56 for the fifth best time in program history. Javier Lopez Guillen swam the sixth best program time in the 200 fly, 1:44.05.

Continuing to roll on the men’s side with event wins, Carson Hick (4:19.36,8:49.51) won the 500 free and 1000 free, Caue Gluck picked up the 200 free event win in 1:37.25, Lysander Osman and Devin Naoroz battled for the 100 and 200 backstroke, with Osman taking the 100 in 46.03 and Naoroz the 200 in 1:43.17. Adomas Gatulis (52.35,1:56.87) rolled through the 100 and 200 breastroke, winning both on the day. Tuufui picked up the 100 free event win as well notching 42.86, Nunez Del Prado won the 100 butterfly in 47.03, and the men’s 400 free relay rounded out the day with an event win as well.

For the women’s squad, Paige Housman (9:53.84) picked up the first event win in the mile, freshman Sarah Anne Shaffer finished strong in the 100 breast in 1:01.96, Ally Frame (1:57.45) won the 200 back, Madi McGlothen swam a 4:47.18 in the 500 free for an event win, and Hayden Penny (1:59.14) rounded out the day with a victory in the 200 IM.

The Wildcats will find their way back to the Lancaster Aquatic Center on Jan. 30 for Senior Night against Cincinnati. Nine seniors will be honored as the Wildcats hope to make one final push before the 2026 SEC Championship on Feb. 16-21.

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