The Texas women claimed three school records, while the Stanford men also had a strong night at the Texas Invite.
Texas Press Release
AUSTIN, Texas – Fresh off of a school record from the night before, Texas added three more school records to its haul Thursday evening on day two of the Texas Invitational at UT’s Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
Senior Madisyn Cox posted the nation’s fastest time in the 200 IM in the preliminary round at 1:53.86 and lowered that mark by over a second on her way to her first individual school record at 1:52.83. The 10-time All-American toppled the seven-year-old school mark of 1:53.33 set by two-time U.S. Olympian Kathleen Hersey at the 2009 NCAA Championships.
Cox led off on butterfly at 24.95 seconds before splitting 28.44 on the backstroke. She split 32.49 seconds on her dominant stroke, breaststroke, before coming home in 26.95 seconds to produce the record-setting 1:52.83. Texas sophomore Nora McCullagh added a seventh-place mark of 1:58.80.
The Longhorns wrapped the night with a school mark in the 100 backstroke that sparked another school record in the 400 medley relay. All-America senior Tasija Karosas led off the relay in 51.08 and lowered her own school mark of 51.40 from the 2016 Big 12 Championships.
She gave way to Cox who split 59.20 on the breaststroke leg. Sophomore Remedy Rule picked up the butterfly in 51.95, and junior Rebecca Millard anchored in 47.54 to finish off the record swim at 3:29.77, well under the school mark of 3:30.43 from the 2016 Big 12 Championships.
Texas kicked off the night with a second-place showing in the 200-yard freestyle relay, where the quartet of Millard, Rule, sophomore Brooke Hansen and freshman Claire Adams finished in 1 minute, 28.19 seconds, good for the sixth-fastest relay in school history.
Texas sophomore Joanna Evans, a Rio Olympian for The Bahamas, posted the sixth-fastest time in school history in the 500 freestyle, as she placed fourth in 4:39.51. UT freshman Lauren Case added an eighth-place mark of 4:46.15.
Millard led the Horns’ contingent in the 50 freestyle with her third-place mark of 21.98, the same time she posted in the preliminary round and her third sub-22 second swim of the day. Rule took sixth at 22.41 while Adams placed eighth at 22.77.
Texas awaits day three of the Texas Invite on Friday. The preliminary round opens at 10 a.m. CT with finals set for 6 p.m. CT. Longhorn Network will air tape-delayed coverage of the “A” finals races beginning at 8:30 p.m. CT.
AUSTIN, Texas – Two-time defending NCAA champion Texas swept the two relays and added a top national time and victory in the 500-yard freestyle Thursday evening on night two of the Texas Invitational at UT’s Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
Texas opened the night by posting the nation’s top time in the 200-yard freestyle relay, as sophomore Tate Jackson, junior Brett Ringgold, sophomore John Shebat and senior Jack Conger took the win in 1 minute, 16.73 seconds, good for an NCAA automatic-qualifying cut. Jackson led off in 19.69 before Ringgold split 18.91 on the second leg. Shebat picked up the third leg in 19.28 before Conger anchored in 18.85.
The 500 freestyle “A” final featured a tight race that included the likes of UT senior Clark Smith, the 2015 NCAA champion in the event, plus Texas sophomore Townley Haas, the event’s 2016 NCAA champion. In the end it was Smith who held off a late charge from Stanford’s Grant Shoults and took the win in 4:11.20, the fastest time in the country this season. Haas placed fifth at 4:14.36.
The Horns held off a formidable threat from USC and claimed a win in the 400 medley relay at 3:05.63, good for an NCAA automatic-qualifying cut. Shebat led off with a 46.62 backstroke split before All-America senior Will Licon split 51.40 on the breaststroke leg. Conger picked up the butterfly in 45.51 before Ringgold anchored the relay to victory in 42.10.
Conger led the Texas contingent in the 50 freestyle with his third-place mark of 19.45. All-America junior Brett Ringgold took sixth at 19.54 while sophomore Tate Jackson placed eighth at 19.81.
Texas sophomore Sam Stewart added an eighth-place mark of 1:46.75 in the 200 IM “A” final.
Stanford Press Release
AUSTIN, Texas – A win by Abrahm DeVine in the 200-yard individual medley punctuated a strong showing by Stanford on Thursday night at the Texas Invitational.
“We were very happy with this morning’s preliminary session which will be significant, come March,” said Goldman Family Director of Men’s Swimming Ted Knapp. “Most of our guys came back at night and swam even faster, so we’re extremely pleased with how today went.”
Stanford finished fifth in the first event of the night, the 200-yard freestyle relay. Sam Perry, Cole Cogswell, Patrick Conaton and Spencer DeShon (1:18.95) represented the Cardinal, while a “B” team of Andrew Liang, Brad Zdroik, Matt Anderson and Benjamin Ho (1:18.95) were not far behind in sixth place.
Four Cardinal swimmers -- Liam Egan, True Sweetser, Grant Shoults and James Murphy -- earned a spot in the 500-yard freestyle final with strong performances in prelims. In the finals session, each man dropped time from the morning, with Shoults (4:12.03) leading the way in second place. Sweetser (4:12.97) and Egan (4:12.99) rounded out the top four, while Murphy (4:18.54) swam a personal best to take seventh. Shoults, Sweetser and Egan were all under the NCAA “A” standard.
DeVine (1:43.02) shaved nearly two seconds off his preliminary time to win the 200 IM. Tom Kremer (1:44.58) finished third, Curtis Ogren (1:44.62) took fourth, Maxwell Williamson (1:44.85) was fifth and Justin Buck (1:46.50) improved his qualifying time to finish seventh. In the B-final, Jack Walsh (1:46.60) finished third with William Macmillan (1:49.33) in eighth.
Sam Perry (19.53) finished fourth in the 50-yard freestyle final, with Cole Cogswell (19.90) dropping time from the morning to finish third in the B-final.
Ryan Dudzinski, Matt Anderson, Andrew Liang and Perry (3:07.48) swam an A-cut in the 400-yard medley relay to finish third in the final swim of the day. Stanford’s “B” team of Conaton, Ogren, Yoder and
Kremer (3:11.19) finished seventh, while the all-freshman “C” squad of Ho, Hank Poppe, William Macmillan and Grant Shoults (3:15.73) were 13th.
The Cardinal returns to action Friday morning in preliminaries, beginning at 8 a.m. PT. Events include the 100-yard butterfly, the 400-yard individual medley, the 200-yard freestyle, the 100-yard breaststroke and the 100-yard backstroke. Friday’s evening session will also include the 200-yard medley relay.
The four-day meet, which has an environment similar to that of the Pac-12 and NCAA Championship meets, will feature hosts Texas, USC, Arizona, Brigham Young, Harvard, Denver and Oklahoma Baptist.
USC Press Release
The Trojans put together another strong night in Austin, posting a quartet of NCAA A cuts on relays while freshman Louise Hansson led four finalists in the 200y IM and juniors Dylan Carter and Santo Condorelli were top 4 in the men’s 50y free Thursday (Dec. 1) at the Texas Hall of Fame Swimming Invite in Austin.
USC opened the meet with a pair of NCAA A cuts in the women’s and men’s 200y free relays. The women finished third as freshmen Stanzi Moseley, Tatum Wade and Hansson and senior Anika Apostalon swam a 1:28.73, 0.94 back of first.
The men followed with a second-place swim as sophomore Kyle Grissom, Carter, junior Ralf Tribuntsov and Condorelli clocked a 1:16.88, just 0.15 back of Texas’ winning swim and more than a second better than Troy’s top time from last season. Grissom (20.04) and Mosley (22.80) both turned in season-best NCAA B cut leadoff swims. Carter’s 18.61 second leg was the fastest split of the race.
At the end of the night the men’s 400y medley relay of Tribuntsov, sophomore Carsten Vissering, Carter and Condorelli posted a 3:05.66, just 0.03 off Texas’ first-place swim and just 0.86 off the school record. Tribuntsov’s leadoff 46.45 100y back was USC season-best B cut.
That followed the women’s group of junior Hannah Weiss, sophomore Riley Scott, Hansson and Apostalon’s 3:30.81 400y medley relay swim for third, less than a second out of first.
Hansson posted a USC-best 1:55.00 NCAA A cut for second in the 200y IM, while freshman Tatum Wade was fourth (1:56.29), Scott was fifth (1:57.65) and sophomore Kirsten Vose was eighth (2:00.73). Wade’s time and Scott’s (1:57.53) and Vose’s (1:57.29) prelim efforts were season-best B cuts.
Sophomore Patrick Mulcare (1:45.58) and senior Michael Domagala (1:45.64) took ninth and 10th, respectively, to lead Troy in the men’s 200y IM, both B cuts.
Carter established a new PR in his second-place 50y free swim of 19.32 while Condorelli tied for fourth in 19.53. Apostalon made the A final of the women’s 50, and, like Carter, posted a PR to fifth in a USC season-best 22.36.
Sophomore Elizabeth Stinson led USC in the women’s 500y free, 14th in 4:47.59 for an NCAA B cut. Wade was USC’s top qualifier in the race, ninth in prelims (4:44.32) but she skipped the final to focus on the 200y IM.
Denver Press Release
AUSTIN, Texas – The University of Denver men’s and women’s swimming programs continued to impress, setting four school records on Thursday night in a 10-final session on night two of the four-day Texas Invitational on Thursday at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
Denver’s women’s 200 free relay opened up the night with a seventh place finish, as senior Johanna Roas (Munich, Germany) and juniors Morgan Wice-Roslin (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Heidi Bradley (Victoria, B.C.) and Morgan McCormick (Golden, Colo.) combined for a time of 1:31.20.
The Pioneers’ men finished fourth in the same event, tying a school record with a time of 1:18.42. Junior Anton Loncar (Hillsboro, Ore.), redshirt-senior Kyle Robrock (Savage, Minn.), freshman Sid Farber (Portland, Ore.) and junior Ray Bornman (Mackay, Queensland) swam the NCAA B Standard for the Pioneers on Thursday.
Junior Maddie Myers (Arvada, Colo.) represented Denver in the A-Final of the women’s 500 free, finishing seventh with a NCAA B Standard 4:44.97. Freshman Colin Gilbert (Kamloops, B.C.) won the B-Final on the men’s side, touching at an NCAA B Standard time of 4:17.85, 2.5 seconds better than his qualifying time. Senior Scott Bergstrom (White Slalom, Wash.) won the C-Final, clocking in at an NCAA B Standard of 4:23.72.
Myers set a school record in the 500 free prelims with a time of 4:43.43.
Sophomore Bailey Andison (Smiths Falls, Ontario) finished third in the A-Final of the women’s 200 IM to lead the Pioneers in the event with a school-record and NCAA B Standard time of 1:55.82, a little more than eight-tenths behind the second-place finisher from USC. McCormick finished 10th overall, and second in the B-Final, touching at an NCAA B Standard 1:59.90.
In an 80-swimmer field, Roas finished 14th in the women’s 50 free at 22.87, an NCAA B Standard. Wice-Roslin clocked in at 22.98, another NCAA B Standard in the event for the Pioneers. Robrock finished seventh on the men’s side to lead the Pioneers with an NCAA B Standard 19.66, an A-Final that was separated by just 0.59 seconds from top to bottom. Farber matched Roas’ 14th-place finish, clocking in at an even 20 seconds for another NCAA B Standard. Loncar touched in an NCAA B Standard 20.02 to win the C Final in the event.
The second night of the Texas Invitational finished with the 400 medley relay. DU’s women’s combo of McCormick, senior Amanda Sanders (Superior, Colo.), Bradley and Roas finished seventh at 3:37 flat, while the Pioneers’ men quartet of Loncar, senior Tim Cottam (Sydney, Australia), Robrock and Bornman touched fifth at 3:09.51. Loncar won the leadoff leg of the NCAA B Standard time with a school record 100 back time of 45.90.
Wisconsin Press Release
AUSTIN, Texas – Cierra Runge kept etching her name into the Wisconsin record books Thursday, as she notched her third school record during the second day of competition at the Texas Invitational.
In fact, the sophomore broke the 500-yard freestyle record twice on the day, first recording a time of 4 minutes, 38.84 seconds in her preliminary heat before later shaving off more than three seconds in the final on her way to a win in 4:35.55, a NCAA automatic qualifying time that ranks third in the country.
Badgers teammate Danielle Valley held the previous record of 4:39.22, which was set at the 2015 NCAA Championships.
Valley herself had a quite a swim in the 500 free final, matching that personal-best time of 4:39.22, which is slotted as the No. 7 time in the nation, to take third place.
The men also faired well in their respective 500 free races, with Matt Hutchins taking sixth with an NCAA “B” cut time of 4:17.24 and Victor Goicoechea placing 12th with a provisional cut of 4:21.85.
Badgers racing in the 200 individual medley and 50 free also picked up a slew of NCAA provisional cuts, with Brett Pinfold taking sixth in the men’s 200 IM in 1:45.55 and Jess Unicomb finishing ninth in the women’s race in 1:59.52.
In the women’s 50 free, Chase Kinney led the way for Wisconsin, placing ninth in 22.52, with Marissa Berg and Emmy Sehmann not far behind, taking 10th (22.56) and 12th (22.63), respectively.
Cannon Clifton led the UW men in the 50 free, notching a 16th-place finish with a time of 20.22.
The Badgers also performed well in relay races, with the women’s 200 freestyle relay team of Kinney, Sehmann, Berg and Unicomb taking fourth in 1:29.20 and the men’s squad of Clifton, Ryan Stack, Pinfold and Ryan Barsanti placing eighth in 1:19.48.
Thursday’s competition was rounded out with the 400 medley relay, a race in which both the men’s and women’s teams recorded top-10 finishes.
The women’s team of Unicomb, Maria Carlson, Beata Nelson and Chase Kinney took ninth overall in 3:38.19, while the men’s team of Pinfold, Chris Wills, Harrison Tran and Clifton claimed 10th place in 3:13.70.
Day three of the Texas Invitational kicks off tomorrow at 10 a.m. (CT) with the 100 butterfly preliminaries followed by event finals at 6 p.m.
Arizona Press Release
AUSTIN, Texas – Arizona men’s and women’s swimming wrapped up day two of the Texas Invitational with a pair of first-place finishes and 33 total NCAA cuts. The women earned 18 total cuts, 16 ‘B’ cuts and two ‘A’ cuts in the relays. The men notched 15 total NCAA cuts, 14 ‘B’ cuts and one ‘A’ cut.
The women kicked off the finals with a victory in the 200 free relay for an NCAA ‘A’ cut. Sophomore Katrina Konopka, sophomore Annie Ochitwa, junior Laura Kurki and junior Morgan Ginnis won the event with a time of 1:27.67.
Konopka later tallied her third win of the invitational and first individual victory after taking first in the 50 free for a ‘B’ cut with 21.90. Ochitwa finished fourth in the event (22.28) while Ginnis took seventh (22.75), both notching a provisional cut. Kurki, freshman Taylor Nations and junior Paige Kremer also earned ‘B’ cuts in the event.
The Arizona women continued their success in relays, placing second in the 400 medley relay. The team of sophomore Taylor Garcia, freshman Kennedy Lohman, Ochitwa and Konopka touched with a time of 3:30.26 for a second relay ‘A’ cut.
In her first Texas Invitational, freshman Hannah Cox was runner-up in the 500 free with 4:38.38 earning a ‘B’ cut. Sophomore Emma McCarthy placed fifth in the event (4:42.72) followed by freshman Kirsten Jacobsen (4:43.82), both for ‘B’ cuts. Sophomore Daniela Georges and junior Tjasa Oder also notched provisional cuts.
Despite not having swimmers in the top eight of the 200 IM, the Cats had five women earn ‘B’ cuts (sophomore Mackenzie Rumrill, Lohman, junior Alexandra Martelle, junior Cameron McHugh, sophomore Mik Ranslem).
Leading off the night for the men was the team of sophomore Chatham Dobbs, junior Chad Idensohn, senior Renny Richmond and junior J.P. Beach. The men took third in the 200 free relay for an NCAA ‘A’ cut with a time of 1:17.13.
Junior Nick Thorne then gave a strong performance in the 200 IM, finishing second with a time 1:44.57 and a ‘B’ cut. Also earning provisional cuts were junior Riccardo Maestri, junior Thane Maudslien, freshman Steven Medvedev and sophomore Mathias Oh.
The Cats added another relay ‘B’ cut after taking fourth in the 400 medley relay with 3:08.02 (Dobbs, sophomore Blair Bish, Idensohn and Beach).
Junior Chris Wieser placed eighth in the 500 free for an NCAA ‘B’ cut with 4:20.42. Freshman Brendan Meyer, senior Tyler Fowler and freshman Jerad Kaskawal also tallied ‘B’ cuts in the event.
While the Cats didn’t land swimmers in the A final (top eight) of the 50 free, Idensohn, Beach, Richmond and freshman Jorge Iga each tallied a provisional cut in the event.
BYU Press Release
AUSTIN, Texas and GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado – Payton Sorenson broke his personal and school record in the 50 freestyle and earned a fourth-place national ranking Thursday evening in Austin.
“It was so exciting to see Payton match his prelim and final time in the 50 freestyle today,” said head BYU swim coach John Brooks. “We also had some strong lead swimmers in the relays with Natalie Bennion, Ashlee Spindler and Ethan Kramer. It was an exciting meet today and we look forward to our next day of competition.”
Sorenson held the BYU all-time record in the 50 freestyle with a time of 19.23, a mark that he achieved earlier this year. He broke that record on Thursday morning in his preliminary swim with 19:22 and was ranked the top seed of that event going into the finals. He matched his preliminary time in his final swim of the 50 free and is ranked with the fourth best time in the country.
Preston Jenkins performed well in the 200 individual medley, taking 23rd overall in 1:49.55. He also competed in the 400 medley relay, assisting teammates Darrin Lam, Rainer Ng and Sorenson to take 15th place with a total registered time of 3:15.60.
The women’s 400 medley relay also took 15th place, with Lauren Taylor, Anna Dahl, Ellie Thornbrue and Tiare Coker completing the event in 3:43.02.
Taylor competed additionally in two events that differed from her usual routine, including the 500 free (4:56.73) and the 50 free (23.76).
At the Mesa Invite, Lillian Moore, Mackenzie Heffernan and Kerra Bispo took the top three places in the 200 individual medley. Moore took first with 2:07.30, followed by Heffernan in 2:07.52 and Bispo in third with 2:08.17.
The women’s 200 freestyle relay team took second place, with teammates Olivia Capocci, Emily To’o, Allison McCormick and Alora Foliaki registering a time of 1:36.40.
Regie Tophan, a freshman from South Jordan, Utah, achieved first in the preliminaries during the 50 freestyle in 20.76 and took third in the finals with a registered time of 21.07.
