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No. 7 Women’s Swimming and Diving Preview: NCAA Championships
03.14.2016 | Women's Swimming and Diving
NCAA Championships open Wednesday, March 16 in Atlanta.
WHAT: Nine-time national champion and four-time defending Big 12 champion No. 7 Texas concludes its season this week at the NCAA Championships. Texas has qualified 10 swimmers and two divers for competition, and the Longhorns will compete in all five relays (200, 400 & 800; 200 & 400 medleys), as well.
Swimmers
Olivia Anderson (1st appearance, 100 & 200 breast)
Quinn Carrozza (500 free, 200 free & 200 back)
Madisyn Cox (3rd appearance, 200 & 400 IM, 200 breast)
Joanna Evans (1st appearance, 500, 200 & 1,650 free)
Brooke Hansen (1st appearance, 50 free & 100 free)
Tasija Karosas (3rd appearance, 100 & 200 back)
Rebecca Millard (2nd appearance, 50 & 100 free)
Remedy Rule (1st appearance, 100 & 200 fly)
Mimi Schneider (2nd appearance, 50 free, 100 fly, 100 free)
Jordan Surhoff (1st appearance, 100 & 200 breast)
Divers
Meghan Houston & Meghan O'Brien (1-meter & 3-meter)
WHEN/WHERE
Wednesday, March 16, 6 p.m. ET (800 freestyle only)
Thursday, March 17-Saturday, March 19 (10 a.m. prelims/6 p.m. finals)
McAuley Aquatic Center – Atlanta, Georgia (hosted by Georgia Tech)
CHAMPIONSHIPS INFORMATION
http://www.ramblinwreck.com/sports/c-swim/spec-rel/ncaa-champ.html
LIVE RESULTS: http://www.atlswim.net/LiveResults/2016NCAAW/index.htm
LIVE DIVING SCORES: www.DiveMeets.com
LIVE VIDEO
Wednesday & Thursday finals + Thursday-Saturday prelims
http://atlantaswimming.com/Webcast
Friday & Saturday finals
www.espn3.com
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS HISTORY
Texas ranks second all-time with its seven NCAA women's swimming and diving team championships (1984-88, 1990-91). The Longhorns posted a meet record of 746 points when they captured their last NCAA title in 1991. That record still stands today. UT also won AIAW national championships in 1981 and 1982.
Texas placed seventh with 164 points at the 2015 NCAA Championships in Greensboro, North Carolina after placing ninth at the previous two national meets. UT has finished among the top-10 at five straight NCAA Championship meets.
In addition to its nine national championships, Texas has registered three NCAA runner-up finishes and three third-place showings. Texas has finished in the top-five at 14 of 32 NCAA Championship meets, most recently in 2009.
The Longhorns have won 70 NCAA individual and relay championships, good for No. 4 all-time. Laura Sogar won UT's most recent NCAA individual swimming crown in 2013 (200 breaststroke). Texas' last NCAA diving champion was Jessica Livingston in 2007 (platform).
Texas boasts the most NCAA titles in the 200 backstroke (seven), 200 freestyle relay (nine), three-meter diving (T-1st with four) and platform diving (T-1st with four).
MORE ON TEXAS' NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS QUALIFIERS
All-America juniors Madisyn Cox and Tasija Karosas will make their third consecutive NCAA Championships appearances, while junior Jordan Surhoff will make her NCAA Championships debut. Sophomores Rebecca Millard and Mimi Schneider each will compete for a second straight year at the NCAA Championships.
Freshmen Olivia Anderson, Quinn Carrozza, Joanna Evans, Brooke Hansen and Remedy Rule will join the five upperclassmen in Atlanta, and freshman Nora McCullagh will be available as a relay alternate.
Senior diver Meghan Houston will compete for a second straight year at the NCAA Championships. Freshman diver Meghan O'Brien joins her brother – UT redshirt junior men's diver Sean O'Brien – as a first-time NCAA Championships qualifier. The O'Briens are the second set of UT sibling divers to qualify for the NCAA Championships in the same year and the first since Jessica and Drew Livingston in 2009.
The Women's Swimmer of the Meet at the 2016 Big 12 Championships, Cox holds the nation's No. 3 seed in the 200-yard individual medley (1:54.29), the No. 4 seed in the 400 individual medley (4:04.67) and the No. 11 seed in the 200 breaststroke (2:07.86). The Lubbock native, who won all three of her individual events at last month's Big 12 Championships, is the only returning college swimmer who placed among the top-eight in both the 200 and 400 IM races at the 2015 NCAA Championships.
Karosas brings the No. 4 seed in the 200 backstroke (1:50.49) and the No. 11 seed in the 100 backstroke (51.40) to the NCAA Championships. The Stowe, Vermont, native set school, Big 12 and Big 12 meet records in the 100 backstroke at the Big 12 Championships to go with her school and Big 12 records in the 200 backstroke from December's Texas Invitational.
Surhoff, tied as the fourth-fastest Longhorn ever in the 100 breaststroke, earned her ticket to the NCAA Championships with her mark of 1:00.06 in the event, which ranks 21st nationally. She finishes as the runner-up in the 100 breaststroke at the Big 12 Championships.
Millard holds the 11th seed in the 100 freestyle (47.88) and the 23rd seed in the 50 freestyle (22.20) after winning both events at the Big 12 Championships. Schneider won the Big 12 title in the 100 butterfly at 52.54, good for the No. 29 seed at the NCAA Championships.
Anderson earned her NCAA Championships invitation by way of her No. 22 national mark in the 100 breaststroke at 1:00.06, which matched Surhoff's qualifying time.
Carrozza earned NCAA invites in all three of her individual events, headed by her No. 21 national marks in the 200 freestyle (1:44.99) and the 200 backstroke (1:53.47). The Austin native also ranks 36th in the 500 freestyle (4:42.28). Carrozza won her first Big 12 individual title last month in the 200 freestyle.
Evans posted NCAA qualifying cuts in her primary events, the 500 and 1,650 freestyles. The Bahamian freshman is seeded 17th in the 500 freestyle (4:39.97) and 18th in the 1,650 freestyle. Evans became the first Longhorn in 24 years to clear the 4:40 mark in the 500 freestyle, as she won the event in 4:39.97 at the Big 12 Championships.
Rule is seeded 21st in the 200 butterfly after posting a mark of 1:55.89 at the Texas Invitational in December. She won the Big 12 title in the event at 1:57.95.
Hansen was the last swimmer to make the cut in the 100 freestyle, as her mark of 48.77 made her the 40th and final swimmer for the event.
Houston and O'Brien earned NCAA Championships bids in one-meter and three-meter diving at the Zone "D" Diving Meet at Texas A&M.
TEXAS CLAIMS 14th BIG 12 TITLE
Texas finished off its second straight sweep of the conference meet and its fourth Big 12 team title last month as the Big 12 Championships came to a close Feb. 27 in Austin. The Longhorns captured their fourth straight league crown with 1,043 points. Kansas finished as the runner-up with 650.5 points.
Texas made a clean sweep of the post-meet awards with All-America junior Madisyn Cox taking top honors as the Women's Swimmer of the Meet. Senior Meghan Houston was named the Women's Diver of the Meet, and swimmer Joanna Evans was tabbed as the Women's Newcomer of the Meet.
The league's coaches selected Texas head coach Carol Capitani as the Women's Swimming Coach of the Meet, and Matt Scoggin was named the Women's Diving Coach of the Meet.
KAROSAS ADDS SECOND BACKSTROKE RECORD AT BIG 12 CHAMPIONSHIPS
Texas All-America junior Tasija Karosas set school and Big 12 records in the 100-yard backstroke at the Big 12 Championships to go with her school and league marks in the 200 backstroke from the Texas Invite in December.
Karosas now holds all of the UT and Big 12 backstroke records for herself after winning the 100-yard backstroke in 51.40 seconds. The swim topped the previous school, Big 12 and Big 12 meet record of 41.48 by Lily Moldenhauer at the 2014 Big 12 Championships.
Karosas set school and Big 12 records in the 200 backstroke at the Texas Invitational. She 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.
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 what was then 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 final 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 and then lowered her personal bests to 22.20/47.88 at the Big 12 Championships.
Millard teamed up with classmates Mimi Schneider and Sam Sutton and 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.
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