The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
University of Texas
Big 12 Championships
02.26.2015 | Women's Swimming and Diving
Longhorns have won all seven events contested through two days of competition.
AUSTIN, Texas – Texas won all five events and opened a sizable lead in the team standings Thursday evening on day two of the Big 12 Championships at UT's Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
Victorious in all seven events contested through two days, Texas leads the four-day, five-team event with 402 points. Iowa State holds second with 205.5 points while TCU sits in third with 158.5 points. Kansas sits in fourth place at 150 points while West Virginia is in fifth place
Senior Kelsey LeNeave opened the evening by securing her third career Big 12 title and second consecutive league crown in the 500 freestyle, where she was victorious in 4:43.01. Classmate Kaitlin Pawlowicz followed closely behind in second at 4:43.44 while freshman Sammie Hashbarger rounded out a one-two-three Texas finish in 4:48.91. Sophomore Smacker Miles added a fifth-place time of 4:50.22.
Sophomore Madisyn Cox followed by successfully defending her league title in the 200 individual medley. The Lubbock native scored her second straight Big 12 crown in the event at 1:56.94. Former Big 12 champion Skylar Smith took second at 1:58.82 while sophomore Tasija Karosas placed third at 2:00.42. Sophomore Jordan Surhoff took sixth in 2:01.72 after dropping a huge chunk of time in the preliminary round at 1:59.51.
Senior Gretchen Jaques led a one-two-three Longhorns finish atop the 50 freestyle and took her third league crown in 22.21. Sophomore Brynne Wong took second in 22.71 while freshman Rebecca Millard filled out the third spot in 22.82. Freshman Mimi Schneider added a sixth-place mark of 22.88 while sophomore MaKayla Markey took eighth in 23.28.
All-America senior Emma Ivory-Ganja led a Longhorns trio atop the one-meter diving standings and captured her first career Big 12 title with 331.10 points. Junior Meghan Houston took a close second with 318.95 points while All-America sophomore Murphy Bromberg claimed third at 292.25. Junior Kristina Hoffmann placed fifth at 269.90.
The Longhorns finished off their fifth win in as many events Thursday evening and blew away the 400 medley relay field in 3:33.87, just under the NCAA automatic-qualifying standard of 3:34.25. Karosas led off in 53.60 before Jaques split 58.56 on breaststroke. LeNeave picked up the butterfly leg in 53.18 before Millard anchored in 48.53.
Friday's Big 12 Championships preliminary round gets underway at 10 a.m. Central at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
