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Women's Swimming and Diving adds three top-eight finishes at NCAA Championships
03.16.2018 | Women's Swimming and Diving
Juniors Claire Adams and Murphy Bromberg earn individual All-America honors Friday evening.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Texas posted three top-eight finishes and remained among the top-four in the team standings Friday evening at the NCAA Championships.
Sophomore Claire Adams produced an All-America finish Friday evening in the 100 backstroke. Adams qualified eighth during the preliminary round and moved up one spot in the final to take seventh overall in 51.38.
Freshman Evie Pfeifer, an evening removed from her All-America finish in the 500 freestyle, added an honorable mention All-America finish in the 400-yard individual medley. Pfeifer, the Women's Newcomer of the Meet last month at the Big 12 Championships, qualified 12th for the consolation final (4:06.37) and took third place and six points in the 400 IM consolation final at 4:05.32.
Redshirt junior Murphy Bromberg earned her first All-America honor in three years after missing the last two seasons. Bromberg, from the nearby Columbus suburb of Bexley, took sixth place in the three-meter diving final with 334.80 points.
Junior Quinn Carrozza added three points for Texas with her sixth-place mark of 1:44.70 in the 200 freestyle consolation final.
Texas capped the night with an eighth-place finish in the 200 medley relay. Adams joined sophomore Kennedy Lohman, junior Remedy Rule and Millard to finish in 1:36.49, good for the fourth-fastest relay in school history.
Texas sits in fourth place with 171 points with one day remaining in the meet. Stanford leads with 414 points while California holds second place with 268 points. Texas A&M holds third place with 186 points, and Louisville rounds out the top-five with 168 points.
Day four of the NCAA Championships gets underway Saturday at 10 a.m. ET/9 a.m. CT with the preliminary rounds of the 200 backstroke, 100 freestyle, 200 breaststroke, 200 butterfly, 400 freestyle relay, platform diving and the 1,650 freestyle. The finals are set for 6 p.m. ET/5 p.m. CT.
POST-MEET COMMENTS
Texas head coach Carol Capitani
We really had some huge swims all the way around. I told our team we were supposed to score 18 points on paper today, and we scored over 40 in swimming and 19 more in diving. They're getting it done in the morning, and I couldn't be prouder. This meet is not for the faint of heart. There are a lot of ups and down, but this team has been consistent and steadfast. We're getting ready to fight again tomorrow morning. It was fun watching our divers shine again today. I saw another total team effort today, and that's why they call it swimming and diving.
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