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No. 4 Women’s Swimming and Diving Preview: NCAA Championships
03.11.2018 | Women's Swimming and Diving
National championship meet opens Wednesday, March 14 at Ohio State.
WHAT: Nine-time national champion and six-time defending Big 12 champion Texas concludes its season at the NCAA Championships. The Longhorns have qualified nine swimmers and four divers for competition. Texas will contest all five relays, as well.
Swimmers
Claire Adams (2nd appearance, 100 back & 100 free)
Quinn Carrozza (2nd appearance, 500 free, 200 free & 200 backstroke)
Lauren Case (2nd appearance, 500 free, 100 & 200 fly)
Joanna Evans (3rd appearance, 500, 200 & 1,650 free)
Brooke Hansen (2nd appearance, 200 IM, 100 breast & 100 free)
Kennedy Lohman (2nd appearance, 100 & 200 breast)
Rebecca Millard (4th appearance, 50 & 100 freestyle)
Evie Pfeifer (1st appearance, 500 free, 400 IM & 1,650 freestyle)
Remedy Rule (3rd appearance, 100 & 200 butterfly)
Relay alternates: Olivia Anderson & Anelise Diener
Divers
Murphy Bromberg (3rd appearance, one-meter, three-meter & platform)
Alison Gibson (2nd appearance, one-meter & three-meter)
Meghan O'Brien (3rd appearance, one-meter & three-meter)
Sofia Rauzi (2nd appearance, one-meter & platform)
WHEN/WHERE
Wednesday, March 14, 6 p.m. ET (800 freestyle relay only)
Thursday, March 15, 10 a.m. prelims/6 p.m. finals
Friday, March 16, 9 a.m. prelims/5 p.m. finals
Saturday, March 17, 10 a.m. prelims/6 p.m. finals
McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion – Columbus, Ohio (hosted by Ohio State University)
Championship information and schedule here.
LIVE RESULTS: here
LIVE DIVING SCORES: DiveMeets.com
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS HISTORY
Texas is tied for second all-time with its seven NCAA women's swimming and diving team championships (1984-88, 1990-91). The Longhorns posted a meet record of 746 points – a record that still stands today - when they captured their last NCAA title in 1991. UT also won AIAW national championships in 1981 and 1982.
Texas placed fifth with 252 points at the 2017 NCAA Championships in Indianapolis. It marked the Longhorns' first top-five national finish since 2009. In addition to its nine national championships, Texas has registered three NCAA runner-up finishes and three third-place showings. Texas has finished in the top-five at 14 of 33 NCAA Championship meets.
The Longhorns have won 71 NCAA individual and relay championships, good for No. 4 all-time. Laura Sogar won UT's most recent NCAA individual swimming crown in 2013 (200 breaststroke). UT sophomore Alison Gibson won the Longhorns' last diving title a year ago on one-meter.
Texas is tied with California for the most NCAA titles in the 200 backstroke (seven). UT leads the NCAA with nine titles in the 200 freestyle relay and three-meter diving (T-1st with four).
MORE ON TEXAS' NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS QUALIFIERS
Rebecca Millard
Millard holds the 12th seed in the 100 freestyle at 47.65, just a fraction of a second off of Karlee Bispo's school mark of 47.41. The school record holder in the 50 freestyle is seeded 10th in that event at 21.91.
Remedy Rule
Rule earned her third NCAA Championships berth by way of her No. 24 seed in the 200 butterfly (1:55.25) and her No. 32 national mark in the 100 butterfly (52.25). Rule may compete in the 50 freestyle, as well, with her NCAA "B" cut of 22.48. She won the 100 butterfly last month at the Big 12 Championships.
Joanna Evans
Evans, UT's school record holder in the 500 and 1,650 freestyle events, holds the No. 3 national seed in the 500 freestyle (4:35.05), the No. 6 seed in the 1,650 freestyle (15:51.74) and the No. 31 seed in the 200 freestyle (1:44.75). The Bahamian Olympian placed seventh in the 1,650 freestyle and earned All-America honors in the event last year at the NCAA Championships.
Brooke Hansen
Hansen earned her second ticket to the NCAA Championships by way of her No. 32 national mark in the 200 individual medley (1:56.29). She will be eligible to compete in the 100 breaststroke and 100 freestyle, as well.
Quinn Carrozza
Carrozza earned NCAA invitations by way of her No. 15 national mark in the 200 freestyle (1:44.11) and her No. 28 national time in the 200 backstroke (1:53.18). She will be eligible to swim the 500 freestyle, as well. The Austin native won Big 12 titles in the 200 freestyle and 200 backstroke last month.
Claire Adams
The Women's Swimmer of the Meet at the Big 12 Championships, Adams holds the No. 9 national seeds in the 100 freestyle (47.46) and 100 backstroke (51.13). The Carmel, Indiana, native earned All-America honors in the 100 backstroke as a freshman. Better known for her proficiency in the backstroke events, Adams is only .05 shy of Karlee Bispo's school mark in the 100 freestyle (47.41).
Lauren Case
Case earned her second straight NCAA Championships bid by way of her No. 23 national seed in the 200 butterfly (1:55.18). She will be eligible to swim the 500 freestyle and 100 butterfly, as well. The Georgia native earned All-America honors in the 200 butterfly last season as a true freshman, and she won the same event last month at the Big 12 Championships.
Kennedy Lohman
Lohman holds the No. 10 national seed in the 100 breaststroke (59.25) and the No. 31 mark in the 200 breaststroke (2:09.71). She swept both breaststroke events last month at the Big 12 Championships. Now finishing her first season at Texas after transferring from Arizona, Lohman earned All-America honors with the Wildcats last season in the medley relays.
Evie Pfeifer
Pfeifer earned NCAA invitations with her No. 16 mark in the 500 freestyle (4:37.81), a No. 22 national time in the 1,650 freestyle (16:05.07) and her No. 27 national mark in the 400 IM (4:08.47).
The St. Louis native won all three aforementioned events at the Big 12 Championships and was voted as the Women's Newcomer of the Meet. Pfeifer is the first Texas freshman swimmer to win three individual Big 12 titles since Kathleen Hersey in 2009.
Murphy Bromberg
The All-American returns to her hometown and former home pool from her club diving days. Competing in her first Zone Diving meet in three years earlier this month, Bromberg qualified to compete on all three boards at the NCAA Championships. Bromberg has represented the U.S. at the FINA World Championships.
Meghan O'Brien
Now a three-time NCAA Championships qualifier, O'Brien qualified to compete on the one-meter and three-meter boards at the NCAA Championships. O'Brien, whose older brother Sean also dove at Texas, represented the U.S. last summer at the World University Games.
Alison Gibson
The Austin native won an NCAA title on one-meter at this meet a year ago while still only 17 years of age. She placed eighth in the preliminary round and held off the field in the final to win UT's first NCAA diving title since 2007. Gibson represented the U.S. last summer at both the FINA World Championships and the World University Games.
Sofia Rauzi
A former Big 12 champion on platform, Rauzi makes her second consecutive appearance at the NCAA Championships. Rauzi will compete on one-meter and platform this week in Columbus.
TEXAS SWEEPS BIG 12 CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR FOURTH STRAIGHT YEAR
Texas finished off a 21-event sweep of the Big 12 Championships for a fourth straight year last month at UT's Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
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.
LONGHORNS FINISH FIRST UNDEFEATED SEASON IN 30 YEARS
No. 5 Texas capped its first undefeated dual-meet season in 30 years with a 162-105 victory over TCU (Feb. 2) in Austin. The Longhorns ended 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.
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 in December 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 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.
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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