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Big 12 Championships
No. 6 Women's Swimming and Diving assumes early lead at Big 12 Championships
02.25.2015 | Women's Swimming and Diving
Longhorns win both relays on night one of the four-day meet.
AUSTIN, Texas – No. 6 Texas claimed both relay events and assumed the lead in the team standings Wednesday evening on night one of the Big 12 Championships at UT's Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
Texas leads the event with 80 points while Iowa State holds second place with 68 points. West Virginia sits in third with 62 points while TCU is in fourth with 58 points. Kansas rounds out the team standings with 32 points.
Texas opened the evening by winning the 200-yard medley relay, as sophomore Tasija Karosas, senior Gretchen Jaques, sophomore Brynne Wong and freshman Rebecca Millard finished in 1 minute, 37.42 seconds, good for an NCAA automatic-qualifying cut. The relay marked the event's eighth-fastest swim in school history.
The Longhorns closed the night with their win in the 800 freestyle relay, as sophomore Madisyn Cox, senior Kelsey LeNeave, Karosas and Millard finished in 7:07.04, just under the NCAA automatic-qualifying cut of 7:07.20.
The day two preliminary round at the Big 12 Championships gets underway Thursday at 10 a.m. CT.
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