Georgia Women 175, Texas 119

The top-ranked Georgia swimming and diving team remained undefeated with a 175-119 victory over No. 16 Texas on Friday at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.

The Lady Bulldogs (9-0) got a pair of wins each from Aleksandra Putra, Kelsey Ditto (an Austin native) and Colleen Haase in Friday’s win. Texas diver Kathryn Kelly and junior swimmer Hee-Jin Chang posted two wins apiece for the Longhorns.

Putra took the 100-yard backstroke in 55.29, then won the 200-yard back in 1:58.78. Ditto claimed wins in the 1,650- and 500-yard freestyles, posting times of 16:15.50 (lowering her NCAA automatic qualifying standard) and 4:48.68. Haase stopped the clock first in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:02.46) and the 200-yard breaststroke (2:15.37).

The Lady Bulldogs also got wins from Chelsea Nauta in the 200-yard freestyle (1:47.74) and from Annie Broome in the 200-yard butterfly (2:01.42).

Georgia also claimed both relays. The 400-yard medley team of Putra, Haase, Broome and Nauta touched in a season-best 3:43.39, while the 400-yard freestyle team of Anna Miller, Jessica Cole, Anne-Marie Botek and Nauta had a time of 3:25.43. Diver Hannah Moore was second on the 1-meter springboard with 278.85 points, improving her Zone B qualifying total.

“It was a really good meet for our team,” Georgia head coach Jack Bauerle said. “By and large, we did a really good job across the way. We got off to a good start and never really went back. Winning at Texas is no small feat, and we are really proud of this win.”

Chang (Seoul, Korea) posted a decisive win in the 50 freestyle, taking the event in 23.27. Freshman Brie Powers (Kalamazoo, Mich.) added a fourth-place finish in 23.86. Kelly (Longwood, Fla.) notched the first of two wins in the one-meter event, where she won decisively with a score of 318.23. Chang took her second consecutive swim event with a top time of 50.35 in the 100 freestyle after the one-meter diving session.

Junior Alison Soelter (Ulysses, Kan.) added a NCAA provisional-qualifying mark in the 200 breaststroke, as she took second in 2:17.13. Escobar scored another solid swim in the 500 freestyle, taking third in a NCAA "B" cut time of 4:50.44.

Junior Jacqueline Martin-Lacey (Franklin, Tenn.) took the 100 butterfly in 56.66, and Kelly registered her second win in the three-meter event with a total of 339.15.

"Kat nearly had a career day on the three meter, and her one meter was the best performance of her career at Texas," said UT diving coach Matt Scoggin. "She is becoming more and more confident, and it's a good time of the season to have this kind of confidence. Kayla Torske had her best three meter performance as a Longhorn, and she was having one of her better one meter contests until her last round. She continues to get better." Soelter took the 200 IM in 2:04.02, and the Longhorns wrapped up the meet with a second-place showing in the 400 freestyle relay in 3:26.48.

The Longhorns return to action on Saturday, Jan. 19 at Arizona.