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Women’s Swimming and Diving Preview: Texas A&M
11.04.2014 | Women's Swimming and Diving
Undefeated Longhorns welcome Texas A&M in UT’s home opener at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
WHAT: Nine-time national champion Texas (5-0) hosts its home opener this week against Texas A&M (3-0). The Longhorns compete in their home confines for the first time this season after taking on a rigorous early-season road swing that yielded road wins over California, Stanford and Michigan in addition to neutral-site wins over Indiana and Louisville.
Former Longhorn Colleen (Lanné) Cox will be honored prior to the meet. The former two-time NCAA champion will be inducted into the UT Athletics Women's Hall of Honor Friday morning.
WHEN/WHERE:
Friday, Nov. 7 – 4 p.m. CT
Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center – Austin, Texas (admission is free)
LIVE RESULTS: http://sidearmstats.com/texas/swim/index.htm
LAST MEETING: Texas A&M defeated Texas by a 152-148 count on Oct. 18, 2013 in College Station. Texas won the last meeting in Austin by a 197-103 count on Nov. 4, 2011.
LAST TIME OUT: Texas finished off its season-opening road swing without a blemish last week, as the Longhorns picked up impressive wins over Stanford (Oct. 30) and California (Oct. 31).
LONGHORNS AMONG THE TOP 25
Senior Gretchen Jaques and sophomore Madisyn Cox have posted top national individual swims in the opening weeks of the season. Jaques holds the nation's fastest time to date in the 100-yard breaststroke with her mark of 1:00.15 from the Stanford meet. She also boasts the No. 6 mark nationally in the 200 breaststroke at 2:12.10.
Cox produced the top 200 IM swim thus far this season with her mark of 1:58.56 in the quad meet win over Indiana, Michigan and Louisville last month. The Lubbock native also ranks sixth nationally in the 400 IM (4:13.84) and owns top-10 national marks in the 200 freestyle (8th, 1:47.24) and the 500 freestyle (10th, 4:48.55). Cox was named last week to the U.S. roster for next summer's World University Games in South Korea.
Below is a complete listing of the Longhorns' performances that rank among the nation's top-25 this season.
50 Freestyle
16. Gretchen Jaques – 22.87
100 Freestyle
22. Rebecca Millard – 50.26
200 Freestyle
8. Madisyn Cox – 1:47.24
500 Freestyle
10. Madisyn Cox – 4:48.55
16. Kaitlin Pawlowicz – 4:49.25
23. Kelsey LeNeave – 4:50.98
1000 Freestyle
4. Kaitlin Pawlowicz – 9:44.68
100 Backstroke
11. Tasija Karosas – 53.66
24. Sarah Denninghoff – 54.68
200 Backstroke
6. Tasija Karosas – 1:56.02
100 Breaststroke
1. Gretchen Jaques – 1:00.15
20. Bethany Leap – 1:02.36
200 Breaststroke
6. Gretchen Jaques – 2:12.10
12. Bethany Leap – 2:13.90
15. Madisyn Cox – 2:14.32
100 Butterfly
7. Kelsey LeNeave – 53.49
15. Brynne Wong – 54.05
200 Butterfly
11. Kelsey LeNeave – 1:58.68
19. Kaitlin Pawlowicz – 1:59.59
200 IM
1. Madisyn Cox – 1:58.56
17. Skylar Smith – 2:01.91
400 IM
6. Madisyn Cox – 4:13.84
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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