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No. 4 Women’s Swimming and Diving Preview: Arizona State, No. 20 Arizona
01.24.2018 | Women's Swimming and Diving
Longhorns take on Pac-12 foes in final road trip of the regular season.
WHAT: Nine-time national champion No. 5 Texas (6-0) takes to the road once more when it visits Arizona State and No. 20 Arizona.
WHEN/WHERE
No. 4 Texas at Arizona State
Friday, Jan. 26 – 3 p.m. CT
Mona Plummer Aquatic Center – Tempe, Ariz.
Live Video: http://pac-12.com/live/arizona-state-university-2
No. 4 Texas at No. 20 Arizona
Saturday, Jan. 27 – Noon CT
Hillenbrand Aquatic Center – Tucson, Ariz.
LAST TIME OUT
Texas defeated Auburn by a 175-117 margin on Jan. 8 in Austin.
ANDERSON, BROMBERG WIN BIG 12 HONORS
The Big 12 Conference announced the selectionS of Texas junior Olivia Anderson as the league's Women's Swimmer of the Week and UT junior Murphy Bromberg as the Big 12 Women's Diver of the Week (Jan. 11).
Anderson swept the breaststroke events as Texas remained unbeaten and finished off its sixth dual meet win of the season over Auburn. Her 27.37 breaststroke split on UT's 200 medley relay "B" entry was by far the fastest among the seven breaststroke swimmers in the relay.
The two-time U.S. Olympic Trials semifinalist trails only a pair of Texas teammates as the Big 12's second-fastest swimmer in the 100 and 200 breaststroke events.
Bromberg helped the Texas women win the team title and helped UT win the combined team title (men's and women's) last month at the USA Diving Winter National Championships.
Bromberg posted a pair of top-six finishes at the USA Diving Winter Nationals, and she took that momentum into the Horns next dual meet against Auburn, where she won the one-meter event and took second on three-meter.
DIVERS SWEEP TEAM TITLES AT USA DIVING WINTER NATIONALS
Texas swept the men's, women's and combined team titles an added an individual high point award winner last month at the USA Diving Winter National Championships.
Texas claimed the women's team title with 92 points, and the UT women joined the Texas men to win the combined team title.
UT diving coach Matt Scoggin was honored with the Mike Peppe Award as the nation's top coach, and Murphy Bromberg was honored with the Wendy Wyland Award for perseverance.
EVANS REWRITES TWO SCHOOL RECORDS AT TEXAS INVITE
Texas junior Joanna Evans lowered her own school record in the 500 freestyle and shattered UT's 32-year-old school mark in the 1,650 freestyle last month at the Texas Invitational.
Evans, an Olympian for The Bahamas, won the 1,650 freestyle in 15:51.74, which eclipsed the school mark of 15:53.85 set by Tiffany Cohen at the 1985 NCAA Championships. It also lowered Evans' own Big 12 record of 15:54.46 from the NCAA Championships last March.
Earlier in the meet, Evans clocked 4:35.05 to break her own school mark in the 500 freestyle. She initially broke the decades-old record last February at the Big 12 Championships.
FIVE FOR FIVE
The Longhorns wrapped up their fall dual-meet schedule in November with a pair of road wins at North Carolina State and North Carolina. UT emerged with a 184-116 win over the Wolfpack and a 172-125 victory over the Tar Heels.
Texas took on Texas A&M (Nov. 3) and emerged with a tight 151.5-148.5 victory at the Aggies' Student Rec Center Natatorium. A&M led by two points heading into the meet's final event, the 400 freestyle relay, with the relay winner assured of winning the meet. Texas delivered the relay win in 3:15.46, over two seconds clear of the Aggies. Junior Joanna Evans led the Horns with victories in the 200, 500 and 1,000 freestyle events.
The Longhorns opened the 2017-18 season with a double-dual meet against No. 10 Indiana and No. 18 Florida at the Gators' home pool in Gainesville (Oct. 20-21). Texas emerged with a pair of wins, as UT defeated the Hoosiers, 226.5-200.5 and Florida, 290.5-136.5.
Texas won seven events on day one of its double dual in Gainesville. Junior diver Meghan O'Brien defeated the likes of U.S. Olympian Jessica Parratto en route to victory in the three-meter competition.
Bahamian Olympian Joanna Evans won both the 500 and 1,000 freestyle events, and All-America senior Rebecca Millard swept the sprint freestyle (50 & 100) events. Junior Remedy Rule claimed the 100 butterfly and sophomore Claire Adams posted the nation's fourth-fastest time while winning the 100 backstroke (52.52).
On day two, freshman Evie Pfeifer notched her first victory as a Longhorn and claimed the 400 IM (4:13.90). Millard added a third win and second in as many days in the 100 freestyle, and Adams was victorious in the 200 backstroke. Texas finished off the meet with a victory in the 200 freestyle relay.
TEXAS BRINGS MOMENTUM INTO 2017-18 SEASON
Texas produced an 11-1 dual-meet record and did anything but rest on their laurels heading into the postseason. The Longhorns finished just one-half of a point outside of fourth place at the NCAA Championships, but with their fifth-place team showing, UT left Indianapolis with its best national finish in eight years and its top showing under head coach Carol Capitani.
All-America junior Joanna Evans returns as the school record holder in the 500-yard freestyle. The Olympian from The Bahamas nearly claimed the school mark in the 1,650 freestyle, but her seventh-place mark of 15:54.46 at the NCAA Championships was the fastest swim by a Longhorn in over 30 years.
All-America senior Rebecca Millard took down the school record in the 50 freestyle at the NCAA Championships, and the Californian is a fraction of a second off of Karlee Bispo's school mark in the 100 freestyle.
Sophomore Alison Gibson showed up to her first NCAA Championships still several months shy of her 18th birthday, but she looked like a seasoned veteran in her first event at the national meet. The Austin native won the NCAA title on one-meter and became UT's first NCAA diving champion on any board since Jessica Livingston in 2007 (platform).
Juniors Meghan O'Brien and Sofia Rauzi are NCAA Championships qualifiers, and All-America redshirt junior Murphy Bromberg adds additional depth in the diving corps. Junior swimmer Mimi Schneider also returns from a redshirt year for the Longhorns. All 11 Texas juniors and redshirt juniors have been on a pool deck for an NCAA Championship meet.
Sophomores Claire Adams and Lauren Case hold the top national individual finishes among returning Longhorns swimmers. Adams placed sixth in the 100 backstroke at the NCAA Championships, where Case took sixth in the 200 butterfly. Sophomore transfer Kennedy Lohman brings NCAA Championships experience after competing for Arizona as a freshman.
UT welcomed nine true freshmen for the 2017-18 season.
EVANS WINS SILVER AND BRONZE AT WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES
Texas junior Joanna Evans won a pair of medals for The Bahamas over the summer at the World University Games in Taipei City, Taiwan. Evans, a multiple All-American in her first two seasons as a Longhorn, won silver in the 400m freestyle in 4:08.52. She added bronze in the 800m freestyle.
Junior diver Meghan O'Brien joined Texas men's diver Grayson Campbell to place fourth for the U.S. in the mixed synchronized three-meter diving final in Taipei City. Texas sophomore Alison Gibson placed fourth in synchro three-meter at the same meet. Gibson also represented Team USA at the FINA World Championships.
Texas head coach Carol Capitani took on her first international head-coaching assignment and led the U.S. women's swimming team at the World University Games.
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