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No. 1 Women's Swimming and Diving sweeps Arizona in dual meet
01.27.2017 | Women's Swimming and Diving
Top-ranked Longhorns win all 16 events, await Senior Day meet Saturday morning
AUSTIN, Texas – No. 1 Texas (10-1) won all 16 events en route to a 164-128 win over No. 18 Arizona Friday evening at UT's Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
Texas opened the meet with a victory in the 200-yard medley relay, where seniors Tasija Karosas and Madisyn Cox joined sophomore Remedy Rule and junior Rebecca Millard to finish in 1 minute, 38.79 seconds.
Sophomore Joanna Evans, a Rio Olympian for The Bahamas, won the 1,000 freestyle by two seconds in 9:54.07. Cox followed up her split on the 200 medley relay with a winning mark of 1:45.93 in the 200 freestyle. Karosas kept the Horns unbeaten through four events with her 53.62 in the 100 backstroke. The Vermont native lowered her school mark in the 100 backstroke twice last month at the Texas Invitational.
Senior Jordan Surhoff, an honorable mention All-America a year ago in the 100 breaststroke, won the same event Friday afternoon in 1:00.76. Freshman Lauren Case added a win in the 200 butterfly at 1:58.16 while senior Maggie D'Innocenzo took second at 2:02.55.
Millard returned to claim the 50 freestyle at 22.61, and after a 15-minute break, she completed a sweep of the freestyle events by winning the 100 at 48.78. Karosas finished off a sweep of the backstroke events and won the 200 backstroke at 1:56.23. Karosas is the UT and Big 12 record holder in both the 100 and 200 backstroke events.
Sophomore Meghan O'Brien claimed the one-meter diving event with 316.80 points while her classmate Sofia Rauzi notched a third-place total of 269.40 points. O'Brien completed the diving sweep for Texas with her 360.90 points on three-meter.
Sophomore Olivia Anderson delivered a Longhorns sweep of the breaststroke events, as he claimed the 200 breaststroke in 2:15.95. Cox led a one-two Texas finish atop the 500 freestyle with her win at 4:44.78 while Evans took second at 4:49.56. With the team win in hand, Texas elected to complete the remaining swimming events as exhibitions, though the Longhorns won all of those events. Case edged out Arizona's Annie Ochitwa to win the 100 butterfly at 54.37.
Cox finished off her third win of the day in the 200 IM at 1:56.64, and the Horns wrapped up their sweep of Arizona with a victory in the 400 freestyle relay at 3:19.90.
Texas will honor its eight-member senior class Saturday at approximately 9:35 a.m. CT, and UT will take on Arizona in an exhibition meet at 10 a.m. The meet will air live on Longhorn Network.
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