Louisville Sweeps Xavier In 2025-26 Season Opener ...Middle East

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Louisville vs Xavier

The Louisville Cardinals opened their season against Xavier University on Friday, winning a commanding victory by sweeping every individual event win across the men’s and women’s meets.

Women’s Meet Recap

The Cardinals opened the meet with a sweep of the top three spots on the women’s medley relays with the fastest swimmers spread out among the top three relay teams.

The ‘B’ team of Xeniya Ignatova (26.16), Caroline Larsen (27.70), Sophia Rodriguez (24.51), and Daria Golovaty (23.00) took home the gold with their final time of 1:41.37.

Freshman Julie Mishler got out to a fast start on the ‘B’ medley relay, swimming the fastest backstroke split of 25.53, while senior Julia Dennis had the fastest freestyle split on the ‘A’ relay of 22.44.

Dennis swam the 50 free and 100 fly at the meet, finishing 2nd in the 50 free at 22.83. This time was nearly a second faster than the 23.51 she swam the same weekend last year. She came in just two tenths behind sophomore teammate Caroline Larsen who swam 22.61 for the win, three tenths faster than her time from this meet last year. Mishler finished 3rd in 23.03

Dennis was exhibition in the 100 fly, swimming 58.96 to mark her 2nd time swimming the event while in college. Larsen won this event as well, touching in 54.47 to win by nearly three seconds.

Larsen also swam on the winning Cardinal 400 freestyle relay, splitting 49.63 on the opening 100 to lead the team of Summer Cardwell (50.58), Xeniya Ignatova (51.12), and Leticia Fassina Romao (53.54) to a final time of 3:24.87.

The Cardinals were also bolstered by dual event winners in Mia Cheatwood, Daria Golovaty, and Xeniya Ignatova.

Cheatwood took both breaststroke events, swimming 1:02.01 in the 100 and 2:16.28 in the 200. Both these swims were about a second faster than she swam at this meet to open last season.

Sophomore Golovaty won the 100 and 200 freestyles in 50.58 and 1:49.87, and Freshman Ignatova had an excellent first showing with a sweep in the backstroke events in 55.50 and 1:59.88.

Other Cardinal Event Winners

Xavier had some strong swims, earning spots in the top three in a few events over the course of the meet.

Junior Ava Tenhundfeld swam 2:10.85 in the 200 IM to finish 2nd overall.

Senior Jordyn Libler finished 2nd in both breaststroke events, touching in 1:02.76 in the 100 and 2:19.32 in the 200, and Norah Simich finished 2nd in the 100 fly at 57.11.

Olivia Oyster also earned a top-three finish with her 3rd place swim in the 100 freestyle of 51.04.

Men’s Recap

The Louisville men saw huge performances from a few of their freshman to help the Cardinals sweep the men’s events.

Finnley Conklin, Nikita Sheremet, and Oscar Isberg all brought home wins, making five of the 12 individual event winners first-year team members.

Conklin and Sheremet started the meet with a win in the 200 medley relay. Conklin swam the breaststroke leg in 24.44 and Sheremet swam 19.59 on the freestyle to join sophomores Rian Graham (back- 22.01) and Thomas Powers-Hammond (fly- 20.92) coming together in 1:26.96 to win by just over two seconds.

Conklin went on to sweep the breaststroke events, swimming 54.85 in the 100 and 2:01.01 in the 200. His 100 time was just over a second off his lifetime best of 53.54 from last December, and his 200 was just over three seconds off the 1:57.99 he swam, also in December.

Sheremet swam very well in his first ever SCY meet, taking home wins in the 50 free with his 19.83 and in the 100 free with his 44.06. He was only four tenths off the NCAA standard in the 50 free, which sits at 19.43.

Sheremet also swam on the winning 400 freestyle relay. Matias Santiso led the team off in 44.27 before handing off to Sheremet who split 44.09. Kayden Lancaster swam 45.88 in the 3rd position and Charlie Crush split 45.92 as the anchor to bring the team home in 3:00.16

The final individual freshman event winner was Isberg, who was also swimming his first SCY meet. He swam 4:30.12 in the 500 free, touching 19 seconds ahead of 2nd place.

The freshmen weren’t the only younger swimmers leading the Cardinals. Of the remaining seven events, four were won by sophomores.

Gregg Enoch won the 200 butterfly in 1:47.44 and the 200 IM in 1:48.48. This 200 IM time was more than two seconds faster than the 1:50.60 he swam at this meet last season.

Filip Kosinski won the 200 backstroke in 1:47.98 and Rian Graham won the 100 fly in 47.88 to round out the sophomore event champions.

The other three events went to seniors. Tommy Bried won the 1000 in 9:17.85, a new lifetime best to drop from the 9:36.21 mark he set back in 2020, the last time he swam the event.

Guy Brooks took the 100 free in 1:37.60, about a second slower than he started the season last year, and Charlie Crush won the 100 backstroke in 49.47, almost exactly the same as the 49.40 he swam at this meet last year.

Xavier also had a few top three finishes. Ethan Leamer swam 9:51.16 in the 1000 to take 3rd, and his brother Aiden Leamer finished 2nd in the 100 fly in 50.35.

Sean McGinley swam 46.24 in the 100 free to finish 3rd. Owen Schwebach swam 4:49.93 in the 500 free and Diego Valdes swam 1:56.47 in the 200 IM with both finishing 2nd overall.

Up Next

Louisville will next swim October 10th-11th at the SMU Classic.

Xavier’s next meet is tomorrow, October 4th, when they swim a double dual against Bellarmine, BGSU, St. Louis, Butler, and IU Indy.

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