Women’s Swimming and Diving preview: Virginia, Penn State, West Virginia

WHAT: No. 6 Texas (4-1) continues its fall dual-meet season with a triple dual against No. 25 Penn State, West Virginia and host No. 18 Virginia.

WHEN:
Friday, Nov. 8
Diving – 1 p.m. CT
Swimming – 5 p.m. CT

Saturday, Nov. 9
Swimming - 9 a.m. CT

WHERE: University of Virginia Aquatic and Fitness Center – Charlottesville, Va.

LIVE RESULTS: HERE

Event Schedule
Friday, Nov. 8
1 p.m. CT - Diving
5 p.m. CT - Swimming
200 Free Relay
200 IM
500 Free
100 Breast
200 Back
100 Free
200 Fly
400 Medley Relay

Saturday, Nov. 9
9 a.m. CT
200 Medley Relay
1000 Free
50 Free
100 Back
200 Breast
100 Fly
200 Free
400 IM
400 Free Relay

LAST TIME OUT: Texas swept Indiana and Michigan in a double dual meet on Oct. 25 in Bloomington, Ind. The sixth-ranked Longhorns topped the 10^th-ranked Hoosiers by a 155-141 count and knocked off No. 17 Michigan by a 210-90 margin.

TUCKER, IVORY-GANJA EARN BIG 12 RECOGNITION
The Big 12 Conference announced Oct. 30 the selections of Texas senior Samantha Tucker as the league's Women's Swimmer of the Week and UT junior Emma Ivory-Ganja as its Women's Diver of the Week.

Tucker produced college swimming's 10^th-fastest time in the 200-yard freestyle with her mark of 1 minute, 47.95 seconds against Texas A&M. Ivory-Ganja, an All-America transfer from UCLA, won the three-meter diving event at Texas A&M with 338.40 points.

Tucker and Ivory-Ganja collected the first Big 12 weekly awards of their respective careers.

THE 2013-14 LONGHORNS: Under second-year head coach Carol Capitani (cap-it-TAN-ee), second-year assistant coach Roric Fink and 19^th year diving coach Matt Scoggin, Texas returns eight All-Americans from the 2012-13 team that won the Big 12 Championship and placed ninth at the NCAA Championships.

Senior Sarah Denninghoff, now a 16-time All-American, posted seven All-America finishes in individual and relay events last season in her first campaign as a Longhorn. Her All-America classmates include Samantha Tucker, Alex Hooper, Ellen Lobb, Lily Moldenhauer and Maren Taylor. Juniors Kelsey LeNeave and Gretchen Jaques also have earned All-America honors on relays.

Tucker collected her first individual All-America selection in the 200 freestyle at the 2013 NCAA Championships. Tucker has joined Lobb, Hooper and Moldenhauer to earn multiple All-America honors in relay events over the past three seasons.

Senior Maren Taylor leads a traditionally strong corps of Longhorn divers. The Arlington, Va., native made a triumphant return to the sport last season after rehabilitating a dislocated right elbow sustained at the 2011 NCAA Championships.

Taylor earned All-America honors in the one-meter and platform diving events last season before earning a spot on the U.S. roster to compete at the FINA World Championships, where she placed 11^th in the three-meter event. Freshman Murphy Bromberg also represented the U.S. at Worlds in Barcelona and placed seventh in the synchronized platform diving event with Ohio State's Cheyenne Cousineau.

Sophomore diver Meghan Houston added a bronze medal in the three-meter synchronized diving event at the World University Games in Kazan, Russia.

All totaled, Texas welcomes 12 newcomers in the form of 10 true freshman and two transfers. Junior diver Emma Ivory-Ganja earned All-America honors in the three-meter and platform diving events last season at UCLA. Junior swimmer Kimmy Phillips was an NCAA Championships qualifier last season for North Texas.

Texas has picked up significant early contributions from freshmen Tasija Karosas, Madisyn Cox and the aforementioned Bromberg. Cox won two swimming events in the win over Rice and added three more wins in UT's victory over North Carolina. Karosas registered wins in the 100 and 200 backstroke events against North Carolina.

Bromberg swept the one- and three-meter diving events in the win over North Carolina.

The University of Texas at Austin Athletics

Women’s Swimming and Diving preview: Virginia, Penn State, West Virginia