University of Tennessee Athletics
Pair of Vols Receive SEC Athletes of the Week
October 15, 2014 | Swimming & Diving
The Tennessee Swimming and Diving teams have had a fairly successful first few meets on the road to start the 2014-2015 season, posting identical 2-1 records after meets at UNC Wilmington, Queens and North Carolina.
The Southeastern Conference has also taken notice of the Vols' fast start. The SEC announced its athletes of the week for the first time this season Tuesday and the Vols have a pair of representatives on its initial list. Junior Sean Lehane is the current male swimmer of the week, while redshirt junior Mauricio Robles is the male diver of the week.
Lehane was a part of the winning 200 yard medley relay team and also won the 100 yard butterfly with a career-high time of 50.88 in Tennessee's season-opening meet at UNC Wilmington. At Queens (N.C.), he won the 200 yard freestyle (1:39.97) and the 200 yard backstroke (1:44.89) and swam the first leg in the winning 200 yard medley relay squad. Lehane then had a hand in three victories at North Carolina, finishing in first place in both the 100 yard backstroke (48.23) and the 200 yard backstroke (1:44.37) while being a part of the winning 200 yard medley relay team. He was also a part of the 200 yard freestyle relay that finished second.
In the first meet of the season at UNC Wilmington, Robles won the one-meter springboard with a total of 327 points, and earned the highest mark in the exhibitioned 3-meter springboard competition. He then followed that up with a first-place finish in the three-meter springboard at North Carolina with a final score of 412.65 points, just 5.45 points shy of his career-high mark which he set at the 2014 SEC Championships. Robles closed out the meet with a second-place finish in the one-meter springboard with 354.23 points.
Tennessee opens up its home portion of the schedule Thursday with the annual Orange and White intrasquad meet at 3 p.m. The first regular season home meet is Oct. 31 at 2 p.m. against Indiana and Kentucky at the Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center.
