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Evans eclipses 25-year-old school mark at Big 12 Championships
02.23.2017 | Women's Swimming and Diving
Olympian Joanna Evans topples Erika Hansen’s 25-year-old mark in the 500-yard freestyle while Madisyn Cox lowers her school and Big 12 marks in the 200 IM.
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AUSTIN, Texas – Texas sophomore Joanna Evans toppled a 25-year-old school mark, and senior Madisyn Cox lowered her own school mark in the 200 IM, as No. 3 Texas swept night two at the 2017 Big 12 Championships.
Evans kicked off the night by breaking the long-standing school mark in the 500-yard freestyle, where she was victorious in 4:36.97. The swim broke the previous school mark of 4:37.73 set by Olympian Erika Hansen at the 1992 NCAA Championships. It also took down the Big 12 mark of 4:37.81 set by Texas A&M's Cammile Adams at the 2011 Big 12 Championships.
Freshman Lauren Case placed second in the event at 4:40.09, and sophomore Quinn Carrozza took third at 4:45.97. Senior Maggie D'Innocenzo placed sixth at 4:49.56.
Cox followed by lowering her school and Big 12 marks in the 200 IM, as she claimed her fourth straight conference title in the event at 1:52.82, one one-hundredth of a second off her 1:52.83 school mark from the Texas Invitational in December. Sophomore Nora McCullagh added a second-place mark of 1:58.89.
Junior Rebecca Millard secured her second straight league crown in the 50 freestyle at 22.03. Freshman Claire Adams took second at 22.33 while sophomore Anelise Diener placed third at 22.61. Sophomore Remedy Rule took fourth at 22.62 while sophomore Brooke Hansen placed seventh at 23.16.
Sophomore Meghan O'Brien captured her first career Big 12 diving title and claimed the one-meter event with 338.80 points. Freshman Alison Gibson placed second with 327 points while sophomore Sofia Rauzi took fourth with 293.15 points.
Texas wrapped the night by winning the 400 medley relay, as senior Tasija Karosas joined Cox, Rule and Millard to finish in 3:31.05, well under the NCAA "A" cut of 3:33.40.
Texas leads the championships with 355 points while Kansas holds second with 208.5 points. Iowa State holds third with 206 points, and West Virginia sits in fourth 188 points. TCU is in fifth with 154.5 points.
Day three of the Big 12 Championships begins Friday at 10 a.m. CT.
