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Women’s Swimming Preview: Texas Invitational
12.02.2013 | Women's Swimming and Diving
Longhorns close the fall with the annual Texas Invitational at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
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WHAT: No. 9 Texas (7-1) closes out the fall season with the annual three-day Texas Invitational. The meet resumes as the Texas Invitational this season after being contested as the USA Swimming Winter National Championships last season.
The meet features all 18 swimming events contested at the Big 12 and NCAA Championships. Diving events will not be contested at this meet.
WHEN:
Thursday, Dec. 5 through Saturday, Dec. 7 (full schedule below)
10 a.m. CT prelims/6 p.m. CT finals each day
WHERE: Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center – Austin, Texas
PARTICIPATING TEAMS: Texas, UCLA (women only), USC, Arizona, BYU, Wisconsin, Penn State, Harvard, UC Santa Barbara and Oklahoma Baptist.
LIVE RESULTS: HERE | Frequent meet updates also will be available at Twitter.com/TexasWSD.
ORDER OF EVENTS
Thursday, Dec. 5
10:00 a.m. (prelims) Heat Sheet
100 butterfly
500 freestyle
200 IM
50 freestyle
15 minute break
200 freestyle relay
6:00 p.m. (finals)
200 freestyle relay
500 freestyle (women)
100 butterfly
500 freestyle (men)
200 IM
50 freestyle
15 minute break
400 medley relay (timed final)
Friday, Dec. 6
10:00 a.m. (prelims)
400 IM
200 freestyle
100 breaststroke
100 backstroke
15 minute break
200 medley relay
6:00 p.m. (finals)
200 medley relay
400 IM
200 freestyle
100 breaststroke
100 backstroke
15 minute break
800 freestyle relay
Saturday, Dec. 7
10:00 a.m. (prelims)
200 backstroke
100 freestyle
200 breaststroke
200 butterfly
1,650 freestyle (heats swum fastest to slowest; fastest heat will contested at finals)
6:00 p.m. (finals)
1,650 freestyle (fastest heat, men's & women's)
200 backstroke
100 freestyle
200 breaststroke
200 butterfly
15 minute break
400 freestyle relay (timed final)
LAST TIME OUT: Texas swept No. 18 Virginia, No. 25 Penn State and West Virginia in a quad meet last month (Nov. 8-9) in Charlottesville, Va. UT defeated host Virginia by a 196-157 count and knocked off Penn State by a 242-111 margin. The Longhorns defeated Big 12 foe West Virginia by a 297-41 count.
THE 2013-14 LONGHORNS: Under second-year head coach Carol Capitani (cap-it-TAN-ee), second-year assistant coach Roric Fink and 19th 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 11th 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.
