Vazquez, Down-Jenkins Break Three-Meter School Records

Friday, January 20

Chapel Hill, N.C.

2 p.m. (Diving) / 4 p.m. (Swimming)

North Carolina

Virginia

Photo by: Jeffrey A. Camarati

January 20, 2023 | Swimming & Diving

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – A pair of school records from divers Aranza Vazquez and Anton Down-Jenkins highlighted the first session of a two-day tri-meet for the University of North Carolina men's and women's swimming and diving teams, which competed Friday against NC State and Virginia at Koury Natatorium.

Tar Heel divers impressed on the 3-meter board with Vazquez and Down-Jenkins breaking their own program records. Vazquez posted a score of 409.60 to top her previous mark of 393.08 and Down-Jenkins' final tally of 461.05 crushed his previous best of 450.05, both set last season.

Emily Grund (379.10) and Haley Marshall (310.50) placed second and fourth, respectively, on 3-meter to earn valuable points for the Tar Heel women with Grund jumping up to No. 3 all-time in UNC history. Alex Hart (423.55) made it a 1-2 finish for the men by placing second and moving to No. 5 in the record book.

Grace Countie sprinted to fourth in the 50 freestyle with a time of 22.55 while Sophie Lindner also registered a fourth-place showing by stopping the clock in 1:57.67 in the 200 backstroke. Also recording a top-6 finish for the women was Ellie VanNote in the 200 butterfly at sixth with a time of 2:00.18.

UNC's 200 freestyle relay team of Countie (22.97), Olivia Nel (22.37), Greer Pattison (22.48) and Skyler Smith (22.68) combined to finish third in 1:30.50.

On the men's side, Louis Dramm clocked in at 4:27.16 for fifth in the 500 freestyle and Aidan Crisci flew to sixth in the 200 butterfly in 1:49.85.

"We're going against the best competition in the world in NC State and Virginia," said head coach Mark Gangloff. "There are areas we need to improve upon and be a little sharper in some of our races, but that's why we scheduled this meet: to put ourselves up against the best so we can become the best."

The Tar Heels are back in action for the second session of the two-day tri-meet tomorrow at the Willis R. Casey Aquatic Center on NC State's campus, with diving beginning at 10 a.m. ET and swimming set for 11 a.m. The meet will be streamed on ACCNX with live results available on Meet Mobile.

Saturday's competition will see the 200 medley relay, 1000 freestyle, 200 freestyle, 100 backstroke, 100 freestyle, 100 breaststroke, 100 butterfly, 200 IM and 400 freestyle relay as well as 1-meter diving.