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No. 5 Women's Swimming and Diving completes first undefeated season in 30 years
02.02.2018 | Women's Swimming and Diving
Longhorns go 9-0 for the third time in program history.
AUSTIN, Texas – No. 5 Texas capped its first undefeated dual-meet season in 30 years with a 162-105 victory over TCU Friday afternoon at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center. The Longhorns end the 2017-18 dual-meet season at 9-0, which marks their first unblemished regular season since 1988 and their third such 9-0 mark in program history.
Texas opened the meet with a victory from its 200-yard medley relay, where the quartet of sophomore Claire Adams, juniors Olivia Anderson and Remedy Rule and senior Rebecca Millard took the win at 1 minute, 38.37 seconds.
Junior Joanna Evans, an Olympian for The Bahamas, gave Texas its second win in as many events with her 1:46.44 in the 200 freestyle. Freshman Ashley Pollok followed in second at 1:52.13. Sophomore Kaitlin Harty notched a victory in the 100 backstroke at 55.00 while Rule was close behind at 55.44.
Sophomore Kennedy Lohman put up another win for Texas with her 1:03.41 in the 100 breaststroke. Freshman Victoria Edwards was victorious in the 200 butterfly at 2:02.52 while freshman Grace Ritch followed in second at 2:07.56. Junior Meghan O'Brien paced the Horns with her winning total of 308.40 points in the one-meter diving event with her classmate Sofia Rauzi second at 283.43.
Lohman returned after only a short break and claimed the 50 freestyle at 23.91. Sophomore Jordan Wheeler added a second-place mark of 24.11. Millard returned from her 200 medley relay anchor to claim the 100 freestyle at 48.82. Junior Anelise Diener followed in second at 49.40.
Harty finished off a sweep of the backstroke events with her winning mark of 1:57.13 at 200 yards. Junior Brooke Hansen led a one-two Texas finish in the 200 breaststroke at 2:16.01 while freshman Maxine Wolters took second at 2:20.85. Freshman Logan Shiller and her classmate Peyton Quattlebaum led the way in the 500 freestyle with marks of 4:48.91 and 4:57.80, respectively.
Rauzi completed a Texas sweep of the diving events with her winning total of 352.20 on three-meter. Adams added a victory in the 100 butterfly 52.87 with freshman Emily Reese in second at 54.42.
Junior Quinn Carrozza claimed the 200 IM at 2:02.31, and the Horns finished off the dual-meet win by capturing the 200 freestyle relay at 1:31.21.
POST-MEET COMMENTS
Texas senior swimmer Rebecca Millard
On what it means to finish strong on senior day
It is really fun ending the dual meet season here. I am really grateful for that. I am also very grateful that we get to race TCU. They are a great school, very kind and good competitors. It was fun because you get to swim "off" events, things you are not used to and things that are fun. I got to focus solely on the 100 free and post a time that I could really be proud of. I am very proud of my 100 free. It is the best I have done this season.
On the culture at this meet
It unites the team in reminding us how the sport is fun, why we chose to do this sport, and it brings us all together. There were a lot of really great and really surprising swims. Like Remedy's (Rule) 100 back was really good, Logan (Shiller) suited up and did a really good 500 free, Joanna' (Evans) 200 free was really good too. It was a low-stress environment, centered around having fun…being together and being one team and getting ready for the conference (meet).
On finishing 9-0 for the third time in program history
This team is really cool. They are fighters. They are tough. There were some meets where we were in a lot of pain. That is how Carol (Capitani) sets up our schedule. She makes it hard, because anything that is easy isn't going to be worth it. It was really fun. It was nine really solid wins. Nine times where I feel like we really got together and I think it has been a long time coming. Every year we have gotten stronger and stronger and I think this 9-0 record really shows that.
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