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No. 4 Women's Swimming and Diving Preview: Big 12 Championships
02.18.2016 | Women's Swimming and Diving
Longhorns looking for their fourth straight Big 12 title and 14th overall Big 12 crown.
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Big 12 Championship Headquarters
WHAT: Nine-time national champion No. 4 Texas hosts the 2016 Big 12 Swimming and Diving Championships.
WHEN/WHERE
Wednesday, Feb. 24 through Saturday, Feb. 27
Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center – Austin, Texas
The full championship schedule can be found here.
ADMISSION
Finals sessions: $10 adults/$5 youth
Prelims sessions: $6 adults/$4 youth
*Admission is free for Wednesday's finals
LIVE RESULTS: http://sidearmstats.com/texas/swim/index.htm
LIVE DIVING SCORES: DiveMeets.com
BIG 12 CHAMPIONSHIPS HISTORY
Texas has won 13 of 19 Big 12 Championship meets. The Longhorns won the 2015 Big 12 Championships in Austin with 1,109.5 points. Diving coach Matt Scoggin was named as the Women's Diving Coach of the Meet for a third straight time and 12th time overall. Former Longhorn Gretchen Jaques was named the Outstanding Women's Swimmer of the Meet, and Murphy Bromberg was selected as the Outstanding Diver of the Meet.
Texas has won 141 Big 12 individual swimming titles, 64 Big 12 relay crowns and 40 Big 12 diving championships. UT serves as the Big 12 Championships host for the 11th time.
The women's portion of the Big 12 Championships features Texas, West Virginia, TCU, Kansas and Iowa State. The men's championships feature Texas, West Virginia and TCU.
CAREER BIG 12 INDIVIDUAL TITLES
3___Tasija Karosas (2014 200 back; 2015 100/200 back)
3___Madisyn Cox (2014 200 IM, 2015 200/400 IM)
1___Meghan Houston (2013 3m diving)
1___Murphy Bromberg (2014 platform diving)
1___Rebecca Millard (2015 100 free)
1___Sammie Hashbarger (2015 200 free)
1___Tasija Karosas (2015 100 back)
1___Brynne Wong (2015 100 fly)
CAREER BIG 12 RELAY TITLES
5___Rebecca Millard (2015 200 FR, 400 FR, 800 FR, 200 MR, 400 MR)
4___Tasija Karosas (2015 400 FR, 800 FR, 200 MR, 400 MR)
3___Brynne Wong (2014 200 MR, 2015 200 FR & 200 MR)
2___Madisyn Cox (2014 800 FR, 2015 800 FR)
2___Mimi Schneider (2015 200 FR & 400 FR)
Big 12 Championship Event Capsules
Day 1
200 Medley Relay
Top Seed: Texas, 1:38.11
2015 Champion: Texas (Karosas, Jaques, Wong, Millard), 1:37.42
Texas Big 12 Titles: 15
800 Freestyle Relay
Top Seed: Texas, 7:02.85
2015 Champion: Texas (Cox, LeNeave, Karosas, Millard), 7:07.04
Texas Titles: 11
Day 2
1-Meter Diving
2015 Champion: Emma Ivory-Ganja, Texas (331.10)
Texas Titles: 13
500 Freestyle
Top Seed: Quinn Carrozza, Texas (4:42.81)
2015 Champion: Kelsey LeNeave, Texas (4:43.01)
Texas Titles: 7
200 IM
Top Seed: Madisyn Cox, Texas (1:54.29)
2015 Champion: Madisyn Cox, Texas (1:56.94)
Texas Titles: 14
50 Free
Top Seed: Rebecca Millard, Texas (22.26)
2015 Champion: Gretchen Jaques, Texas (22.21)
Texas Titles: 15 (7 straight)
400 Medley Relay
Top Seed: Texas, 3:33.56
2015 Champion: Texas (Karosas, Jaques, LeNeave, Millard), 3:33.87
Texas Titles: 14
Day 3
3-Meter Diving
2015 Champion: Murphy Bromberg, Texas (368.65)
Texas Titles: 14
400 IM
Top Seed: Madisyn Cox, Texas (4:06.55)
2015 Champion: Madisyn Cox, Texas (4:05.08)
Texas Titles: 11
100 Butterfly
Top Seed: Mimi Schneider, Texas (53.02)
2015 Champion: Brynne Wong, Texas (53.13)
Texas Titles: 13
200 Freestyle
Top Seed: Quinn Carrozza, Texas (1:45.83)
2015 Champion: Sammie Hashbarger (1:48.95)
Texas Titles: 11
100 Breaststroke
Top Seed: Jordan Surhoff, Texas (1:00.06)
2015 Champion: Gretchen Jaques, Texas (58.71)
Texas Titles: 10
100 Backstroke
Top Seed: Tasija Karosas, Texas (52.51)
2015 Champion: Tasija Karosas, Texas (52.49)
Texas Titles: 11
200 Freestyle Relay
Top Seed: Texas, 1:28.94
2015 Champion: Texas (Wong, Millard, Schneider, Jaques), 1:29.05
Texas Titles: 12
Day 4
Platform Diving
2015 Champion: Murphy Bromberg, Texas (411.30)
Texas Titles: 13
200 Backstroke
Top Seed: Tasija Karosas, Texas (1:50.49)
2015 Champion: Tasija Karosas, Texas (1:52.74)
Texas Titles: 10
100 Freestyle
Top Seed: Rebecca Millard, Texas (48.41)
2015 Champion: Rebecca Millard, Texas (48.84)
Texas Titles: 14
1,650 Freestyle
Top Seed: Joanna Evans, Texas (9:42.77)
2015 Champion: Kaitlin Pawlowicz, Texas (16:01.92)
Texas Titles: 9
200 Breaststroke
Top Seed: Madisyn Cox, Texas (2:07.86)
2015 Champion: Gretchen Jaques, Texas (2:08.94)
Texas Titles: 8
200 Butterfly
Top Seed: Remedy Rule, Texas (1:55.89)
2015 Champion: Kelsey LeNeave, Texas (1:56.21)
Texas Titles: 8
400 Freestyle Relay
Top Seed: Texas, 3:15.68
2015 Champion: Texas (Millard, Karosas, Schneider, Jaques), 3:17.00
Texas Titles: 12 (5 straight)
KAROSAS SMASHES SCHOOL, BIG 12 RECORDS AT TEXAS INVITATIONAL
All-America junior Tasija Karosas chopped over two seconds off of the school record and handily eclipsed the Big 12 record in the 200-yard backstroke in her final swim of the Texas Invitational in December.
Karosas began the meet as the third-fastest Longhorn ever in the 200 backstroke, but her breakthrough mark of 1:50.49 obliterated the Big 12 record of 1:51.54 set by Missouri's Dominique Bouchard at the 2011 Big 12 Championships.
Karosas' swim eclipsed the school mark of 1:52.58 set by two-time U.S. Olympian Kathleen Hersey at the 2009 Big 12 Championships. Her 1:50.49 ranks second nationally.
Karosas earned honorable mention All-America honors last season in the 100 and 200 backstroke events.
COX POSTS TOP NATIONAL TIME AT TEXAS INVITATIONAL
All-America junior Madisyn Cox registered the nation's top time in the 200 individual medley and added two additional top-five national marks at the Texas Invitational.
Cox handily won the event at the Texas Invite in 1:54.29, good for the nation's top time of the season and the No. 3 mark in school history. The Lubbock native also posted the nation's No. 4 time in the 400 IM (4:06.55) and the No. 5 national mark in the 200 breaststroke (2:07.86).
The 2015 Big 12 Swimmer of the Year is the only returning college swimmer to place among the top eight in both the 200 and 400 individual medleys at the 2015 NCAA Championships. Cox was a silver medalist for the U.S. in the 200m individual medley last summer at the World University Games.
MILLARD LEADS POTENT SPRINT GROUP
Sophomore Rebecca Millard leads a young but potent sprint group heading into the home stretch of the 2015-16 season. The Californian posted the nation's No. 10 time in the 100 freestyle (48.41) and the No. 18 national mark in the 50 freestyle (22.26) at the Texas Invitational.
Millard teamed up with classmates Mimi Schneider and Sam Sutton in addition to freshman Brooke Hansen to post an NCAA automatic-qualifying mark in the 200 freestyle relay at the Texas Invite. The quartet finished in 1:28.94 and edged Arizona by one one-hundredth of a second.
Millard joined Hansen, Cox and Karosas to post an NCAA automatic-qualifying mark in the 400 freestyle relay (3:14.29) at the Texas Invite.
FRESHMEN MAKING IMMEDIATE IMPACT
Texas welcomed an 11-member freshman class (8 swimmers, 3 divers) that has added considerable speed and depth to what was an already formidable team.
Joanna Evans of The Bahamas parlayed a productive summer of international swimming into a strong start in her first semester of college. Evans posted the nation's No. 4 time in the 1,000 freestyle (9:45.10) at North Carolina, and she added the nation's No. 7 mark in the 1,650 freestyle (16:07.78) at the Texas Invitational.
Evans placed sixth in the 800m freestyle for The Bahamas last summer at the Pan American Games in Toronto.
Austin native Quinn Carrozza holds the nation's No. 9 time in the 200 backstroke (1:53.47) in addition to the 22nd mark in the 200 freestyle (1:45.83), the No. 24 time in the 500 freestyle (4:42.81) and the 25th national mark in the 1,000 freestyle (9:57.22).
Remedy Rule clocked the nation's ninth-fastest mark in the 200 butterfly (1:55.89) at the Texas Invite, while Olivia Anderson registered the No. 16 national mark in the 100 breaststroke (1:00.21).
Texas' diving newcomers also have made their mark. Meghan O'Brien, the younger sister of UT men's diver Sean O'Brien, was recognized as a Big 12 Diver of the Week.
MORE ON THE LONGHORNS
- Texas returns 16 swimmers and divers, including six All-Americans, from the 2014-15 squad that swept the Big 12 Championship and placed seventh at the NCAA Championships. It marked the top NCAA team finish at Texas for head coach Carol Capitani, who is in her fourth season with the Longhorns.
- Versatile All-America junior swimmer Madisyn Cox returns as one of the nation's premier individual medley swimmers. The Lubbock native is the only returning swimmer in the nation to place among the top-eight in both the 200 and 400 IM at the 2015 NCAA Championships. She joined former Louisville swimmer Tanja Kylliainen as the only swimmers to complete the feat last season.
- Cox, the 2015 Big 12 Swimmer of the Year, won bronze in the 400 IM and silver in the 200 IM at the USA Swimming National Championships in August. She won silver for the United States in the 200 IM over the summer at the World University Games. She ended 2015 as the world's ninth-ranked swimmer in the 200m individual medley.
- Junior All-America swimmer Tasija Karosas ranks as the second-fastest Longhorn ever in the 100 backstroke (51.76) following her strong performances at the 2015 NCAA Championships. Karosas provides Texas additional depth in the 200 IM and the 200 freestyle.
- Junior All-America swimmer Brynne Wong has been a mainstay on Texas' sprint relays, and her versatility as a sprint freestyle and butterfly swimmer makes her a valuable contributor on the Longhorns' medley relays.
- Sophomore swimmers Rebecca Millard and Mimi Schneider return as All-Americans in the 200 freestyle and medley relays.
- Texas welcomed a dynamic group of freshmen that ranked as the nation's No. 4 recruiting class by SwimSwam.com. The class includes eight swimmers and three divers. UT also welcomes junior Maggie D'Innocenzo, who swam her first two seasons at USC. D'Innocenzo is the younger sister of former Texas men's swimmer Nick D'Innocenzo.
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