Missouri v. Kentucky
January 10, 2026
Lancaster Aquatic Middle, Lexington, KY
SCY (25 yards)
Outcomes
Ultimate Scores:
Ladies: Missouri 180, Kentucky 120
Males: Kentucky 168.5, Missouri 131.5
In a contest between a pair of SEC counterparts, the Kentucky Wildcats and Missouri Tigers cut up their assembly with the Tiger ladies rising victorious 180-120, whereas the Wildcat males battled to prime Missouri 168.5-131.5.
Ladies’s Recap:
Missouri’s ladies surged to 11 wins on the day, to the Wildcats’ 5.
Opening up the meet, the Tigers stormed to an early relay victory within the 200 medley relay. The quartet of Annabelle Wentzel (25.43), Zara Zallen (27.02), Kylee Sullivan (23.21), and Francesca Smith (22.09) mixed in 1:37.75 to open the meet with a win for Missouri.
The Tigers have been unstoppable within the dash freestyle races. Zallen, the junior, earned wins in each the 100 free (48.90) and 200 free (1:47.03), whereas Smith, a junior, led Missouri’s 1-2-3 end within the 50 free, clocking 22.79, the one swimmer within the occasion below 23 seconds.
The butterfly occasions additionally confirmed to be dominated by Missouri; senior Paige Striley led one other 1-2-3 sweep within the 100 fly, blasting a successful time of 53.92. Sullivan was 2nd in 54.06, and Wentzel rounded out the Tigers’ podium in 55.10.
Sophomore Maeve DeYoung and Sullivan led the best way within the 200 fly for the Tigers, ending as the highest two performers within the occasion; DeYoung turned within the prime time in 1:59.75, whereas Sullivan completed simply behind in 2:00.30.
Senior Gabriela San Juan Carmona topped all performers within the 3-meter diving with a successful efficiency of 343.65 for Missouri.
Senior Karolina Financial institution picked up a pair of breaststroke wins for Missouri. Within the 100 breaststroke, Financial institution overwhelmed the sector, touching practically a second and a half of the sector in 1:00.14. She later picked up the 200 breast victory in 2:11.86.
The Tigers closed out the meet the identical means that they began, with a relay win; Zallen (23.13), Smith (22.30), Financial institution (22.64), and Katie Kuehn (23.11) notched the 200 free relay victory in 1:31.18, practically a full second quicker than Kentucky (1:32.04).
Kentucky’s success was highlighted within the distance occasions. The Wildcat ladies completed 1-2 within the 1000 free as sophomore Katy Jost (9:56.07) and junior Paige Housman (9:57.58) led the best way to earn worthwhile factors for Kentucky.
Jost later added the five hundred free to her win whole, finishing the space free sweep in 4:49.63.
Kentucky additionally added a win within the 200 again by the use of senior Fernanda De Goeij, who led the race from begin to end, touching over two seconds forward of the sector in 1:55.34.
Kentucky sophomore Hayden Penny was unfazed within the 400 IM, cruising to the win by greater than 5 seconds in 4:12.89.
Wildcat sophomore Avery Giese led the best way on the 1-meter board, ending with a successful rating of 278.48.
Males’s Recap:
Kentucky’s relays mirrored the Missouri ladies, bookending their day with wins in each the 200 medley (1:24.88) and the 200 free (1:17.79) relays.
Freshman Falemana Tuufi swept the dash free occasions for Kentucky. Within the 50 free, Tuufi powered to the win in 19.50; his teammate, AJ Terry, completed 2nd for the Wildcats in 20.20. The 100 free noticed Tuufi narrowly out-touch Luke Nebrich of Missouri by eight hundredths of a second in 43.11 to safe the win.
Wildcat junior Carson Hick took the 1000 free in 8:52.05 with a ten-second cushion between him and his freshman teammate Dziugas Miskinis, who completed 2nd in 9:02.59.
Miskinis picked up a win of his personal within the 500 free, clocking 4:25.54, incomes Kentucky the sweep throughout each ladies’s and males’s distance freestyle occasions on the day.
Sophomore Adomas Gatulis surged to the 100 breast win for Kentucky in 52.89. Gatulis was the one swimmer within the occasion below 54 seconds.
Kentucky junior Devin Naoroz mirrored De Goeij’s success within the 200 again, comfortably successful the occasion in 1:44.39; Missouri’s Jan Zubik completed 2nd in 1:44.94. Nobody else on the occasion completed quicker than 1:47.
Senior Levi Sandidge additionally earned an enormous win for Kentucky within the 400 IM, main the 16-length race from begin to end, finally touching greater than ten seconds forward of the sector in 3:42.55.
Zubik, the Missouri senior who completed 2nd within the 200 again, earned two wins for the Tigers, sweeping the butterfly occasions. Zubik led a 1-2 end for Missouri within the 100 fly, touching simply forward of sophomore teammate Matthew Judkins (47.30) to win in 47.04. Within the 200 fly, it was a runaway win for Zubik, clocking 1:43.11. Judkins as soon as once more completed 2nd in 1:44.65.
Missouri freshman Oliver Millán de Miguel secured the tight win within the 200 free, touching simply over half a second forward of Kentucky’s Logan Ingerick (1:37.76) in 1:37.15. The highest 4 finishers within the occasion all completed inside a second of one another.
Juniors Tanner Braunton and Tommaso Zannella every picked up wins on the boards for the Tigers; Braunton led the best way on the 1-meter in 348.38. Zannella took care of enterprise on 3-meter, locking up the very best level whole in 353.03.
