DURHAM - The Duke swimming and diving program continues the fall portion of the season this week at split sites, competing at the NC Invite hosted by NC State and the Tennessee Invitational hosted by the University of Tennessee. Both meets will run Thursday through Saturday, with swimmers competing at the NC Invite and divers competing at the Tennessee Invitational.
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KNOW THE OPPONENTS – NC INVITE
No. 4/4 NC State, No. 6/2 Stanford, Penn State, No. 5/NR Arizona State, No. RV/NR Army, George Washington (Diving Only) and UNC Asheville (Diving Only)
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KNOW THE OPPONENTS – TENNESSEE INVITATIONAL
Carson-Newman (Swimming Only), Florida Gulf Coast (Women's Diving Only), Georgia Southern (Women's Diving Only), No. 16/14 Michigan, No. 23/17 North Carolina, No. NR/23 South Carolina (Diving Only), No. 13/7 Tennessee and No. 9/1 Virginia
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NOTABLES
- The Blue Devils have posted three top-10 all-time performances already this season.
- Junior Sarah Foley, freshman Kaelyn Gridley and Martina Peroni have combined for 11 NCAA-B cuts through the first three meets of the year.
- Gridley posted the third-best time in the 100-yard breaststroke in program history, clocking 1:00.82. She also tied the fifth-fastest time in program history in the 200-yard breaststroke, equaling Emily Barber in 2011 with a mark of 2:12.64.
- Peroni captured a 10th all-time finish in the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 1:58.83, becoming the second freshman to post a top-10 time this season.
- Senior Emma Shuppert posted the third fastest 50-yard backstroke in the ACC, clocking a time of 24.27.
- Gridley swam the fastest 50-yard breaststroke time in the ACC, posting a 27.87 mark at the Blue vs. White Intrasquad to begin the season.
- In the 400-yard IM, Foley posted an NCAA B-Cut time of 4:13.18, nearly three seconds faster than the rest of the ACC competition.
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