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No. 6 Women's Swimming and Diving overpowers TCU on Senior Day
02.06.2015 | Women's Swimming and Diving
Longhorns await Big 12 Championships in Austin later this month.
AUSTIN, Texas – No. 6 Texas captured 13 of 15 events and raced to a 157-111 victory over TCU on Senior Day Friday evening at UT's Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
Seniors Sarah Denninghoff, Gretchen Jaques, Kelsey LeNeave and Emily Rose Williams opened the meet with a convincing win in the 200-yard medley relay in 1 minute, 41.81 seconds.
Denninghoff returned on short rest to claim the next event, the 200 freestyle, in 1:46.00. Senior Kaitlin Pawlowicz followed in second at 1:51.00. Sophomore Tasija Karosas led a one-two Texas finish atop the 100 backstroke in an impressive mid-season time of 53.48 seconds. Sophomore Brynne Wong followed in second at 56.01.
Jaques, the nation's second-ranked swimmer in the 100-yard breaststroke, posted an easy win in the event and led a one-two-three Texas showing in 1:00.03. Sophomore Jordan Surhoff clocked 1:01.35 for second place while senior Skylar Smith took third at 1:04.45.
LeNeave, a top-10 swimmer nationally in the 200 butterfly, returned to win the event in 2:00.23. Sophomore Madisyn Cox added a second-place mark of 2:01.71.
Freshman Mimi Schneider registered a strong midseason time in the 50 freestyle and won the event in 22.32, good for the No. 21 time in the country this season. Classmate Rebecca Millard led a Longhorns quartet atop the 100 freestyle and was victorious in 50.57. Cox took second in 51.07 while freshman Sam Sutton posted a third-place mark of 52.89. Sophomore Cheyenne Low took fourth in 53.21.
Junior Meghan Houston led a Texas quartet atop the one-meter diving standings and took the win in 340.20. Senior Emma Ivory-Ganja followed in second at 324.30. Sophomore Murphy Bromberg took third at 296.10, and junior Kristina Hoffmann placed fourth at 288.38. Ivory-Ganja won the three-meter board on her Senior Day with 389.55 points while Houston took second at 377.93.
LeNeave notched her second individual win of the night in the 500 freestyle and cruised to victory in 4:54.41. Likewise, Jaques earned her second win of the night and paced a trio of Horns atop the 100 butterfly in 54.25. Wong added a second-place mark of 55.17.
Texas swam the remaining events as exhibitions, but Karosas came away with the win in the 400 IM at 4:24.93. The Horns finished off the meet with their win in the 200 freestyle relay in 1:34.21.
Texas hosts the Big 12 Championships from Feb. 25-28 at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
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