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No. 4 Women's Swimming and Diving wins sixth straight Big 12 title
02.24.2018 | Women's Swimming and Diving
Longhorns win all 21 events through the four-day meet.
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AUSTIN, Texas – No. 4 Texas claimed all seven events and finished off a 21-event sweep of the Big 12 Championships Saturday evening.
The Longhorns claimed their 16th Big 12 team title with 1,021 points. West Virginia took second with 650 points, and Kansas placed third with 613 points. Iowa State took fourth overall with 512 points, and TCU placed fifth with 462 points.
Sophomore Claire Adams was named the Women's Swimmer of the Meet while her classmate Alison Gibson was voted as the Women's Diver of the Meet. League coaches selected freshman Evie Pfeifer as the Women's Newcomer of the Meet. Head coach Carol Capitani was named the Women's Swimming Coach of the Meet, and diving coach Matt Scoggin earned the Women's Diving Coach of the Meet selection.
Junior Quinn Carrozza led from start to finish in the 200 backstroke and won her second individual title in as many nights. The Austin native took the win at 1:53.18 while sophomore Kaitlin Harty placed fourth at 1:56.39. Freshman Maxine Wolters of Germany took fifth at 1:57.28.
Adams nearly took down Karlee Bispo's school mark in the 100 freestyle, but her 47.46 in the final stood up for a meet record. All-America senior Rebecca Millard took runner-up honors in 47.87 while junior Brooke Hansen took third at 49.38. Junior Anelise Diener placed fourth at 49.41 while her classmate Nora McCullagh took fifth at 49.73. Junior Mimi Schneider won the consolation final at 49.83.
Pfeifer won her third event in as many nights and captured the 1,650 freestyle. The St. Louis native was victorious at 16:05.07, over eight seconds lower than her previous lifetime best.
Sophomore Kennedy Lohman finished off a sweep of the breaststroke events with her win Saturday night at 200 yards. The Arizona transfer took the win at 2:09.71 while junior Olivia Anderson finished as the runner-up in 2:11.66.
"I've been training really hard," Lohman said. "It's been some of the best training I've ever done in my life. My training partner (Olivia Anderson) was right there with me throughout the event, and all that hard work really paid off for us."
Sophomore Lauren Case snagged her first league title of the meet with her win in the 200 butterfly. The Georgia native led from wire-to-wire and was victorious in 1:55.18. Junior Remedy Rule, the 100 butterfly champion on Friday, finished was the runner-up in 1:55.54.
Redshirt junior Murphy Bromberg gave Texas a sweep of the three diving events with her victory on platform. The All-American was victorious with 323.95 points while junior Sofia Rauzi took second with 304.95 points.
Texas finished off its sweep of the 21-event meet with its victory in the 400 freestyle relay in 3:11.72, just .03 off of UT's school and Big 12 record from 2009. Diener, Adams, Hansen and Millard finished off the relay for the Longhorns.
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