The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
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Arizona & SMU
No. 6 Women's Swimming and Diving leads No. 11 Arizona, SMU through day one of double dual
01.30.2015 | Women's Swimming and Diving
Longhorns win four events on day one of the double-dual meet.
AUSTIN, Texas – No. 6 Texas won four events and assumed the lead in its double-dual meet against No. 11 Arizona and SMU Friday evening at UT's Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
The Longhorns opened up a 115-70 lead over SMU and a 96-90 lead over Arizona. The Wildcats lead SMU by a 97-88 margin heading into the meet's final session, which gets underway Saturday at 10 a.m. CT. Longhorn Network will air live coverage of Saturday's swimming events with Sam Gore (play-by-play) and Brendan Hansen (color analyst) on the call.
UT senior Emma Ivory-Ganja kicked off the meet by winning the three-meter diving event with 330.25 points. Senior Kaitlin Pawlowicz led the Texas contingent in the 1,000-yard freestyle and posted a second-place time of 9:41.32. Junior Meghan Houston led the Horns in the three-meter event by taking second with 293.65 points.
Texas added a second-place showing in the first relay of the day, the 200 freestyle relay, in 1:31.55. Senior Gretchen Jaques notched the Longhorns' first swimming win of the evening and claimed the 200 breaststroke in 2:11.63. The Californian ranks fifth nationally in that event with a mark of 2:08.60 from last month's Texas Invitational.
All-America sophomore Madisyn Cox produced arguably the swim of the evening with her performance in the 400 IM. The Lubbock native won the event in 4:06.37, good for a personal best, the fourth-fastest mark at UT and the No. 5 time in the country this season. Pawlowicz notched a second-place time of 4:16.35.
Texas wrapped meet's opening day by claiming the 400 medley relay. Sophomore Tasija Karosas, Jaques, senior Kelsey LeNeave and freshman Rebecca Millard were victorious in 3:38.06.
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