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Texas Invitational
Women’s Swimming Preview: Texas Invitational
11.30.2014 | Women's Swimming and Diving
Longhorns cap the fall season with annual three-day meet at UT’s Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
WHAT: Nine-time national champion Texas (5-1) wraps the fall season with the annual three-day Texas Invitational. 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. 4 through Saturday, Dec. 6 (full schedule below)
WHERE:
Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center – Austin, Texas
PARTICIPATING TEAMS: Texas, USC, Arizona, BYU, Wisconsin, Utah, Wyoming, Harvard, Incarnate Word, Hawai'i (men), UC Davis (women) and Notre Dame (women).
TELEVISION: The evening finals ("A" finals only) will air on Longhorn Network. Sam Gore (play-by-play) and Josh Davis (analyst) will have the call.
RESULTS: http://sidearmstats.com/texas/swim/index.htm
ORDER OF EVENTS
Thursday, Dec. 4
10 a.m. (prelims)
100 butterfly
500 freestyle
200 IM
50 freestyle
15 minute break
200 freestyle relay
6 p.m. (finals)
200 freestyle relay
500 freestyle (women)
100 butterfly
500 freestyle (men)
200 IM
50 freestyle
15 minute break
400 medley relay
Friday, Dec. 5
10 a.m. (prelims)
400 IM
200 freestyle
100 breaststroke
100 backstroke
6 p.m. (finals)
200 medley relay
400 IM
200 freestyle
100 breaststroke
100 backstroke
15 minute break
800 freestyle relay
Saturday, Dec. 6
10 a.m. (prelims)
200 backstroke
100 freestyle
200 breaststroke
200 butterfly
1,650 freestyle (heats swum fastest to slowest, fastest heat contested at finals)
6 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
MORE ON THE LONGHORNS
- Texas returns 21 swimmers and divers, including eight All-Americans, from the 2013-14 squad that won the Big 12 Championship and placed ninth at the NCAA Championships.
- Senior diver Emma Ivory-Ganja, now in her second season at Texas after transferring from UCLA, earned All-America honors on all three boards at the 2014 NCAA Championships. Ivory-Ganja was the NCAA runner-up on platform and placed seventh in the three-meter event at the NCAA meet. Sophomore Murphy Bromberg joins Ivory-Ganja as an All-American on three-meter last season.
- USA Swimming announced earlier this month the selection of UT sophomore swimmer Madisyn Cox to the U.S. roster for the FINA Short Course World Championships set for December in Qatar. The Lubbock native earned honorable mention All-America honors as a freshman in the 200 IM and won her first Big 12 title in that event last February.
- Senior swimmer Sarah Denninghoff returns after sitting out last season as a medical redshirt. The 13-time All-American placed eighth in the 200 backstroke at the 2013 NCAA Championships in her first season as a Longhorn after transferring from Arizona.
- Versatile senior swimmer Gretchen Jaques gives Texas options in the sprint breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle events. The Californian joined current teammate Brynne Wong and former teammates Lily Moldenhauer and Ellen Lobb to tie the school record and place sixth in the 200 medley relay last season at the NCAA Championships. Jaques also scored individually last season in the 100 breaststroke.
- Sophomore swimmer Tasija Karosas joined teammate Kelsey LeNeave to help Texas place ninth in the 800 freestyle relay at the NCAA Championships. Karosas won her first Big 12 title last March with a personal best of 1:53.49 in the 200 backstroke. LeNeave scored her first individual points at an NCAA Championship last March with her 16th-place finish in the 200 freestyle.
- Three-time NCAA Championships qualifier Kaitlin Pawlowicz returns after posting top-three finishes in the 500 freestyle and the 400 IM at 2014 Big 12 Championships.
- Senior swimmer Skylar Smith is a former Big 12 champion in the 200 IM who has qualified for two NCAA Championship meets.
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