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No. 3 Women's Swimming and Diving leads No. 10 Indiana and No. 18 Florida at double dual
10.20.2017 | Women's Swimming and Diving
Longhorns win seven events on night one in Gainesville.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – No. 3 Texas captured seven events and assumed leads over No. 10 Indiana and No. 18 Indiana on day one of the team's double-dual meet Friday evening.
The Longhorns lead the Hoosiers by a 138-105 count and Florida by a 167.5-75.5 margin. Indiana leads Florida, 144-99. The same three teams begin the second and final session on Saturday at 9 a.m. Central. Live video is available to SEC Network subscribers via WatchESPN.com and the ESPN mobile application (cable log-in required).
Junior diver Meghan O'Brien scored the first Texas win of the day on three-meter with her total of 349.50 points. Redshirt junior Murphy Bromberg returned to collegiate competition and placed fourth with 301.25 points. Bromberg led Texas in the one-meter competition with her third-place total of 288.95 points.
Texas opened the swimming portion of the meet with a second-place mark of 1 minute, 39.62 seconds in the 200-yard medley relay. Junior Joanna Evans gave the Horns their first win of the meet, as the Bahamian Olympian claimed the 1,000 freestyle in 9:45.93.
Indiana's Kennedy Goss took top honors in the 200 freestyle, but UT effectively canceled out the Hoosiers' points with their second-, third- and fourth-place finishes. Junior Remedy Rule took second at 1:47.37, and her classmate Quinn Carrozza placed third at 1:48.20. Freshman Evie Pfeifer took fourth at 1:48.56.
Senior Rebecca Millard registered the second swimming win for the Longhorns in the 50 freestyle. Millard, the school record holder in the event, was victorious in 22.86 seconds. Junior Anelise Diener added a fourth-place mark of 23.58.
Junior Brooke Hansen led the Horns in the 200 IM with her third-place mark of 2:01.27. Rule, just minutes after racing the 200 freestyle, posted an impressive early-season time in the 100 butterfly with her winning mark of 53.51 seconds. Sophomore Lauren Case placed fourth at 54.96.
Millard completed a victorious double with a winning mark of 49.71 in the 100 freestyle. Diener followed in third at 51.36. Sophomore Claire Adams put up a dominant swim in the 100 backstroke and took the win at 52.52 seconds, nearly 1.5 seconds ahead of her nearest competitor.
Evans joined Millard in posting a second win on the night, as she edged freshman teammate Evie Pfeifer for the win at 4:46.64 in the 500 freestyle. Pfeifer took a close second at 4:46.96. It took the world record holder in the 100m breaststroke to knock off Texas junior Olivia Anderson Friday night in the 100-yard breaststroke. Indiana's Lilly King took the win at 59.46 and Anderson took second at 1:00.64, an impressive early-season time.
Texas wrapped night one of the double-dual meet by taking second in the 400 freestyle relay at 3:20.94, just .01 behind Indiana.
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