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No. 1 Texas won all seven events and stretched its lead on day three of the Big 12 Championships Friday evening at UT’s Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center. 
 
With 741 points through three days, Texas is poised to win its 36th consecutive conference team title under 37th-year head coach Eddie Reese.  TCU holds second place while West Virginia sits in third with 447 points. 
 
An evening after setting a school record while winning the 200 IM, All-America sophomore Will Licon set a meet record notched his second title of the week.  Licon claimed the 400 IM in 3:41.88, about a second lower than the 3:42.87 he produced in the preliminary round.  Junior John Martens produced a breakthrough swim with his second-place mark of 3:42.82, good for a personal best that stood less than a second off the NCAA automatic-qualifying standard. 
 
Sophomore Jack Conger and freshman Joseph Schooling staged an epic race in the 100 butterfly and threatened the 11-year-old school mark held by Olympic gold medalist Ian Crocker.  Conger took the win in 44.78, the top time in the country this season, while Schooling took a close second at 44.81.  The swims mark the second- and third-fastest times in school history behind Crocker’s 44.72 at the 2004 Big 12 Championships.
 
Senior Clay Youngquist captured his third consecutive league crown in the 200 freestyle in 1:34.55 and led a quintet of Longhorns atop the standings.  Sophomore Clark Smith finished as the runner-up in 1:34.87 while freshman Jonathan Roberts placed third at 1:34.95.  Senior Jake Ritter took fourth in 1:35.18, and junior Sam Lewis placed fifth at 1:35.86. 
 
Freshman Austin Temple notched his first league crown in the 100 breaststroke with a mark of 52.71, not far from the NCAA automatic-qualifying mark of 52.29.  Redshirt sophomore Imri Ganiel added a third-place mark of 53.68.  Conger finished off an impressive double and won the 100 backstroke in 45.68, which made him the fifth-fastest Longhorn ever in the event.  All-America senior Kip Darmody took second in 46.14, and freshman Brett Ringgold took fifth in 47.77. 
 
Senior diver Will Chandler produced a strong showing on the three-meter board and pulled away to victory in the event with 490.20 points.  The Waco native logged an impressive 102.60 points on a difficult four-and-a-half somersault that netted scores of 9.0 or better from all seven judges.  Junior Cory Bowersox followed in second with 464.55 points.    
 
The Horns capped the evening with an NCAA automatic-qualifying cut in the 200 freestyle relay (Ringgold 19.58, Murray 19.47, Cooper 19.31, Darmody 19.46) at 1:17.82. 
 
The final day of the Big 12 Championships begins Saturday at 10 a.m. Central. 

 

Texas Women

No. 6 Texas won all seven events contested and continued to build upon its commanding lead Friday on day three of the Big 12 Championships at UT’s Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center. 
 
Texas leads the four-day event with 754.5 points while Iowa State sits in second with 413.5 points.  Kansas holds third place at 366, while West Virginia is in fourth at 315.  TCU rounds out the standings with 294 points. 
 
All-America sophomore Murphy Bromberg opened the meet’s third night by winning her second career Big 12 title and claiming the three-meter diving crown with 368.65 points.  All-America senior Emma Ivory-Ganja finished as the runner-up with 342.70 points while junior Meghan Houston took fourth with 319.00 points.  Junior Kristina Hoffmann added a sixth-place total of 304.55 points. 
 
All-America sophomore Madisyn Cox collected her third career Big 12 title and second in as many nights on her way to a meet record in the 400 individual medley at 4:05.08, an NCAA automatic-qualifying cut.  The Lubbock native knocked off the event’s defending Big 12 champion, Chelsie Miller of Kansas, and won a tight race by 59 one-hundredths of a second.  Senior Kaitlin Pawlowicz followed in third at 4:14.87 while sophomore Smacker Miles took fifth in 4:19.54. 
 
Sophomore Brynne Wong led a one-two Texas finish atop the 100 butterfly and captured her first Big 12 individual title in 53.13.  Senior Kelsey LeNeave took a close second in 53.50 while freshman Mimi Schneider placed fourth at 54.06. 
 
Freshman Sammie Hashbarger scored her first career Big 12 championship and led the 200 freestyle field in 1:48.78.  Junior Erin Yeager added a second-place time of 1:49.41 while sophomore MaKayla Markey placed fifth at 1:49.78. 
 
All-America senior Gretchen Jaques scored her second straight Big 12 title in the 100 breaststroke and won convincingly in 58.71.  Classmate Skylar Smith followed in 1:01.17 while sophomore Jordan Surhoff took fourth in 1:01.35.  Sophomore Tasija Karosas, the defending Big 12 champion in the 200 backstroke, claimed her first league crown in the 100 backstroke Friday evening in 52.49.  Sophomore Rebecca Baxley followed in third at 54.36. 
 
Texas capped the evening by posting an NCAA automatic-qualifying cut and winning the 200 freestyle relay (Wong 22.94, Millard 22.04, Schneider 22.40, Jaques 21.67) in 1:29.05.

 

Texas Christian

Freshman Devin Newton set the school record in the women’s 100 breast as the TCU swimming and diving teams wrapped up day three of the Big 12 Championships in Austin, Texas.
 
The men’s team held strong to the second-place spot and the women’s team sits in fifth after three days of competition.
 
“I’m really pleased with how we’ve competed so far this week,” TCU head coach Richard Sybesma said. “We have one more day and we have to fight hard tomorrow to ensure that we finish where we need to in the team standings.”
 
Newton, a native of Fountain Valley, California, finished with a time of 1:02.05 in the women’s 100 breast, which is also an NCAA “B” cut time. It’s the third school record she’s been apart of in as many days, helping set the standards in the 200 and 400 medley relays earlier this week.

It’s the sixth school record to change hands over the three days of competition at the conference meet.
 
In the men’s 100 breast finals, junior Ford Story placed fourth at 54.24. His time was his fourth “B” status mark this season and is a seasonal-best.
 
Sophomore Garrett Hills and senior August Van Allen finished sixth and seventh at 56.68 and 57.60, respectively.
 
The men’s team placed five in the finals of the 400 IM. Freshman Carlos Hunnicutt finished fourth and recorded an NCAA “B” cut time at 3:53.29. It’s the fourth-best time in program history.
 
Senior Mitch Adshead (3:55.03), sophomore John Remetta (3:56.43) and junior Cameron Rattray (3:56.81) and freshman Destin Hall (4:04.41) finished together behind Hunnicutt.
 
In the women’s 400 IM finals, junior Carley Stevens posted a fourth-place time at 4:19.52. It’s the fastest time this season in the event by a Horned Frog.
 
Freshman Emily Gibson finished seventh in the women’s 100 fly prelims at 55.08. Her time is the fourth fastest in school history. In the finals, she posted an eighth-place time of 55.68.
 
On the men’s side, sophomore Garrett Hills also had a “B” status time in the prelims, clocking in at 48.02. It’s the third-best time in program history. He finished eighth at 48.19 in the finals.
 
Junior Mikayla Winkler finished third in the finals of the women’s 200 free at 1:49.59. It’s the fastest mark by a Horned Frog in the event this season.
 
Junior Adam Szilagyi placed fourth in the men’s 100 back, clocking in at 47.52. It’s the fastest time in the event this season by a Horned Frog and is also a “B” status time.
 
Finishing sixth, seventh and eighth in the event were seniors Cooper Robinson (48.31) and Josh Mangus (49.46) and sophomore Chris Hearl (49.48).
 
In the men’s 200 free relay, the team of senior Josh Mangus, sophomore Chris Hearl, freshman Connor Dobbs and senior Thor Stenfjord recorded a third-place finish at 1:21.94.
 
On the women’s side, the team of sophomore Julia Grace Sanders, senior Ali Bleasdell, freshman Emily Gibson and senior Ashley Alspaugh finished fourth at 1:32.99. The time ranks as the fourth-best in program history.
 
Seniors Ricky Bradley and Joseph Stegeman finished sixth and seventh in the men’s 3-meter dive finals, posting scores of 308.30 and 271.85, respectively.
 
In the women’s 3-meter dive prelims, junior Kristen Connolly put up the team’s top marks at 236.10.

 

West Virginia

Lindsay Schmidt paced the West Virginia University men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams on day three of competition at the 2015 Big 12 Swimming & Diving Championships earlier tonight at the Lee & Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center in Austin, Texas.

After three nights of competition, the men sit in third place while the women sit in fourth place. Seven Mountaineers earned All-Big 12 First Team accolades on Friday in individual events.

Schmidt set a school record on the women’s 3-meter board on her way to First Team All-Big 12 honors and a third-place finish. Schmidt’s score of 322.60 broke Haily VandePoel’s mark of 316.20 set in the event in 2013.

VandePoel placed fifth on Friday night with a score of 306.60, while Jennifer Rey finished seventh with a 292.05 mark.

The Mountaineer men were well represented in the men’s 3-meter diving finals as three WVU student-athletes garnered All-Big 12 honors. Alex Obendorf led the way with a third-place finish with a score of 334.50. Michael Proietto placed fourth with a 323.80 and Logan McHenry finished fifth with a score of 309.85.

“It was a really solid night. Our ladies made great adjustments on their 400 IMs with all recording lifetime-best times,” said coach Vic Riggs. “Nate Carr followed it up with a great 400 IM himself with a very fast 3:45.90.”

The women’s 400-yard IM B Final saw Sammie Guay (4:24.62), Taylor Gill (4:25.92) and Loren Williams (4:28.56) place third, fourth and sixth, respectively.

In the men’s 400-yard IM A Final, Nate Carr continued his impressive championship weekend with another All-Big 12 honor. Carr placed third in the event, hitting the wall in a season-best 3:45.90.

Julie Ogden earned First Team All-Big 12 honors of her own in the women’s 100-yard butterfly A Final. Ogden raced to a third-place finish in a season-best 53.96. The B Final of the 100 fly saw Jaimee Gillmore finish first (54.85), Celia Martinez (55.93) finish fourth, Natalie Johnsen (56.32) place sixth and Amelie Currat (56.37) finish seventh.

Andrew Marsh finished sixth in the men’s 100-yard butterfly A Final in 46.99, earning Second Team All-Big 12 recognition. In the B Final, Frank Csonka (49.13) placed second, Chase Williams (49.15) finished third and Austin Green (49.48) placed fifth.

“Julie and Andrew led our fliers with a third- and sixth-place finish,” Riggs said. “Jaimee had a great swim in the consolation heat, as well.”

In the women’s 200-yard freestyle A Final, Emma Skelley raced to a seventh-place result in 1:51.46. Mackenzie Braden placed seventh in 1:53.41 and Danya Contreras finished eighth in 1:54.11 in the B Final of the event.

Three Mountaineer men earned spots in the A Final of the men’s 200-yard freestyle. Ross Glegg earned All-Big 12 recognition, finishing sixth in 1:36.35. Nathan Cobbe and Daeton Davenport followed close behind with seventh and eighth place finishes, respectively.  

The men’s 200 free B Final was led by Chris McMahon in third place (1:40.36), Triston Mosby in fifth place (1:41.59), Miles Molinaro in sixth place (1:43.27) and Joe Miller in eighth (1:52.31).

“Emma had a solid 200 and Ross, Daeton and Nathan all had great 200s of their own,” Riggs said.

Jenelle Zee raced to First-Team All-Big 12 accolades in the women’s 100-yard breaststroke A Final in 1:01.28, finishing third overall. Morgan Emter finished fifth and Sammie Guay placed eighth in the B Final of the event.

In the men’s 100-yard breaststroke, three West Virginia swimmers earned a spot in the A Final and two received All-Big 12 honors. Max Spencer posted a second-place finish in 53.94 to earn All-Big 12 First Team accolades. Aidan Fumagalli earned All-Big 12 Second Team honors, finishing fifth in 55.49.

“Max broke the string of third-place finishes with a great 100 breast,” Riggs said.

In the A Final of the women’s 100-yard backstroke, Courtney Miller placed sixth overall to earn All-Big 12 recognition, hitting the pad in 55.52. Amelie Currat raced to second place in the B Final in 56.08.

Andrew Marsh finished third in the A Final of the men’s 100-yard backstroke in 46.34, earning All-Big 12 First Team accolades.

“Our backstrokes were very solid, led by Courtney and Andrew,” Riggs said.

In the women’s 200-yard freestyle relay, the WVU team of Jaimee Gillmore, Julie Ogden, Amelie Currat and Courtney Parenti posted a fifth-place finish in 1:33.09.

The men’s 200-yard freestyle relay team of Tim Squires, Ross Glegg, Frank Csonka and Andrew Marsh garnered All-Big 12 First Team honors with a second-place finish, hitting the wall in 1:18.50.

“Our relays did a fine job,” Riggs said. “Tomorrow’s meet for the ladies is going to be a great finish.”

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