EVANSVILLE, Ind. –Six school records. Twenty-five top 10 fastest times in program history. Twenty-one various pool records.
For most swimming and diving programs, that would be considered a great season. For the University of Evansville swimming and diving teams, that was just the first month-plus of the season.
Now, after two months off from competition, the UE swimming and diving teams will return to the pool this Saturday at 12 p.m. (central) when they head east to Louisville, Kentucky to face Bellarmine University in a dual meet. Saturday's meet will take place at the Mary T. Meagher Aquatic Center in Louisville.
"We are excited to get back to competition," said UE head swimming and diving coach Stuart Wilson. "Both teams have been working really hard over the last two months, and it will be good to get into the pool on Saturday and be able to compete against another school and see how we stack up.
"This will be a good measuring stick to see where we are at after our winter training period, as we begin to prepare for the conference championship portion of our schedule beginning next month."
UE last competed on November 13 at the A3 Performance Invitational in Carbondale, Illinois, where both the men and women placed second in the five-team meet. The UE men are currently 3-0 in dual meet action, while the women stand at 4-1.
Both teams have broken three school records each so far this year. On the men's side, sophomore Jackson Caudill (Mount Sterling, Ky./Montgomery County) broke both the 1,000- (9:35.58) and 1,650-yard freestyle (15:57.49) school records at the A3 Invitational, while freshman Carlos Souto Vilas (A Coruna, Spain) broke the 100-yard breaststroke school record (55.74). Meanwhile, on the women's side, junior Sarah Jahns (Lilburn, Ga./Parkview HS) reset the 200-yard backstroke record (2:00.17), while freshman Sveva Brugnoli (Rome, Italy) and junior Maya Cunningham (Yakima, Wash./Eisenhower HS) made history in the 200- and 400-yard IM respectively with new school-best times of 2:04.39 and 4:27.16 at the A3 Invitational.
Finishing right behind UE at the A3 Invitational was Saturday's opponent, the Bellarmine Knights. Bellarmine currently stands 2-1 on the men's side in dual-meet action, and 3-3 on the women's side this year.