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No. 7 Women's Swimming and Diving cruises past No. 4 N.C. State, 166.5-127.5
11.04.2016 | Women's Swimming and Diving
Horns win 11 of 16 events, improve to 6-0 on the season.
AUSTIN, Texas – No. 7 Texas claimed 11 of 16 events and improved to 6-0 by way of a 166.5-127.5 victory over No. 4 N.C. State Friday evening at UT's Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
The Horns opened the meet the same way they did in Thursday's contest against Texas A&M, with a win in the 200-yard medley relay. Seniors Tasija Karosas, Madisyn Cox and Brynne Wong and junior Rebecca Millard teamed up to win in 1:38.35.
Sophomore Joanna Evans returned after a short layoff from the 1,000 freestyle to win the 200 freestyle from lane one in 1:47.66, good for an NCAA "B" cut. Her classmate Remedy Rule took second at 1:47.93. Karosas won the 100 backstroke for the second time in as many days and was victorious in 53.21.
Cox returned to lead a one-two Texas finish in the 100 breaststroke and claimed the win at 1:00.39. All-America sophomore Olivia Anderson took second at 1:00.78. Sophomore Lauren Case took on one of her strongest events, the 200 butterfly, and came away with the win in 1:59.42, just under the NCAA "B" cut of 1:59.59. Millard tied with N.C. State's Kylee Perry for the win in the 50 freestyle at 22.55 but claimed the 100 freestyle for herself at 48.78.
Karosas finished off a sweep of the backstroke events by winning at 200 yards in 1:55.45. Cox followed suit and completed a Longhorns sweep of the breaststroke events with her victory at 200 yards in 2:10.40.
Sophomore Meghan O'Brien led a one-two-three Texas showing atop the final one-meter diving standings with 311.25 points. Freshman Alison Gibson took second with 289.28 points while sophomore Sofia Rauzi took third with 285.08 points. O'Brien finished off a sweep of the springboards with her winning mark of 363.38 on three-meter.
Texas hits the road next week and heads to the west coast to take on California and Stanford.
POST-MEET COMMENTS
Texas head coach Carol Capitani
On looking towards the rest of the season: We did some tough racing. It was a total team effort, which was really fun. We do have two big teams next week; we're racing Cal and Stanford out there. We learned what we can do better. We learned our strong points. We matched up really well with N.C. State, so it was fun to be in this position.
On the importance of taking things one meet at a time: That's kind of what we are doing, taking it one meet at a time…working on the little things. There are still a lot of places where we can get better, but I think we're in a good spot right now. The focus is trying to make sure we keep our training up while we have all these meets.
On any surprises tonight: There weren't a lot of surprises. They have some superstars. Hannah Moore is one of the best distance women in the country, so she gave Joanna [Evans] a run for her money. It was fun to see Joanna come back in that 200 free and win it because after racing a 1000 that's pretty difficult to do. It was good to see Remedy Rule keep on knocking it out and getting good times. Madisyn [Cox], as always, is winning. It was good to win the sprints; Rebecca Millard shined. I think I could name almost everybody because we had a lot of great swims as a team. That's not surprising, and that's where we want to be, but we want to still do it by being honest with our work.
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