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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.- The Virginia men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams will host Auburn on Friday (Oct. 26) at the Aquatic and Fitness Center in Charlottesville, Va. The three-session meet featuring the No. 7 Cavaliers women’s team and No. 16 men’s team will open with swimming events at 10 a.m., followed by diving events at 2 p.m. The meet will close with an evening swimming session beginning at 5 p.m.
Swimmers will compete in a random order of preselected events. The Cavaliers and the Tigers will alternate selecting the order of each session’s events from a hat prior to the start of each race. A relay event will open and close each session, which will also be randomly selected from the group of the 200 and 400 medley and freestyle relay.
The Cavalier divers will compete in the 1m and 3m boards.
Admission to Virginia swimming and diving meets is free to the public. Public parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis at Slaughter Recreation Center and the parking lot closest to the West Gate at Scott Stadium.
Fans can follow the action through links at VirginiaSports.com or with the Meet Mobile app. Updates will be provided throughout the meet on the team’s official Twitter account (@UVASwimDive).
Meet Information
Date: Friday, October 26
Location: Aquatic and Fitness Center- Charlottesville, Va.
• Swimming- 10 a.m.
• Diving- 2 p.m.
• Swimming- 5 p.m.
Promotions
The 5 p.m. swimming session will be a Sabre Rewards event. The first 250 students will receive Domino’s pizza, while all students will be able to check in to the meet for five sabre points.
In the Rankings
The Cavaliers lead Auburn on both sides of the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America’s latest poll. The Virginia women’s team holds the lone top 10 ranking in the meet, entering this weekend as the No. 7 team nationally. The Cavalier men are No. 16 in the national poll.
Auburn ranks 17th on the women’s side and is receiving votes in the men’s poll.
Against the Tigers
• The two teams last met in 2005, with Auburn sweeping the quad meet which included Penn State and Purdue. Auburn entered the competition as the top ranked men’s program and second-ranked women’s team nationally. The Cavaliers ranked 13th in the men’s rankings and 18th in the women’s poll. Auburn won a combined 26 out of 38 events over the two days of competition.
Last Time Out
• The Cavaliers captured their second dual meet win and first ACC victory of the season last weekend, sweeping Pittsburgh in a dual meet. Virginia topped the Panthers 172.5-122.5 in the women’s competition and 180.5-114.5 in the men’s meet.
• Virginia won 25 of 32 events, with Eryn Eddy (Loveland, Colo.) leading the women’s team with a win in the 50, 100 and 200-yard freestyle. The men’s team had three swimmers capture a pair of wins at the meet. Brendan Casey (Santa Monica, Calif.) placed first in the 500 and 1000-yard freestyle, while Justin Grender (Cincinnati, Ohio) swept the 100 and 200-yard backstroke and Keefer Barnum (Louisville, Ky.) swept the 100 and 200-yard breaststroke.
• Sydney Dusel (Naperville, Ill.) captured wins in the 1m board and the 5m platform at the meet.
The Tigers
• This Friday’s dual meet is the first for Auburn’s men and second of the season for the women, after topping Florida Gulf Coast in its season opener 163-73.
• At last year’s NCAA Championships, the men’s team captured a 12th-place finish, while the women’s team finished 16th.