The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
University of Texas
Big 12 Championships
02.25.2015 | Men's Swimming and Diving
Horns sweep night one of the four-day event.
AUSTIN, Texas – No. 1 Texas made a clean sweep of the three events contested Wednesday evening on night one of the Big 12 Championships at UT's Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
Texas assumed the lead in the team standings through day one with 117 points while TCU took second through the first session with 115 points. West Virginia sits in third with 43 points.
Texas opened the evening by claiming the 200-yard medley relay in 1 minute, 24.46 seconds, good for a NCAA automatic-qualifying cut, though the Horns had already earned an automatic cut in December at the Texas Invitational. Senior Kip Darmody led off in 21.37 while junior John Murray picked up the breaststroke leg in 24.38.
Freshman Joseph Schooling recorded what is believed to be among the fastest 50-yard butterfly splits of all time with his split of 19.66 seconds. Freshman Brett Ringgold anchored the relay in 19.05.
All-America senior Will Chandler captured the men's one-meter diving crown with 441.50 points while All-America junior Cory Bowersox took second place with 403.45 points.
Texas closed out the first night of competition with an easy win and an NCAA automatic-qualifying cut in the 800-yard freestyle relay. Freshman Jonathan Roberts teamed up with sophomore Jack Conger, senior Clay Youngquist and Schooling to finish in 6:15.98, well under the NCAA "A" cut of 6:22.81.
Conger opened the morning time trials by setting NCAA, American and U.S. Open records in the 200-yard butterfly. Video from the race is available here: http://www.texassports.com/news/2015/2/25/MSWIM_0225150658.aspx
The day two preliminary round at the Big 12 Championships gets underway Thursday at 10 a.m. Central.
