Alabama knocked off Tulane on Friday.
Alabama Press Release
NEW ORLEANS – The Alabama women’s swimming and diving team started the New Year off with a 177-107 win over Tulane Friday afternoon in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Coming off a pair of extended training camps following fall exams, Crimson Tide head coach Dennis Pursley was looking for how the UA women raced as much as the times they put up.
“I wanted to see some good, tough racing,” Pursley said. “I’ll have to go back and look at the results but I think we won most of the close races, which is always one of our goals when we go into competition. I wanted to see the women come together and assert themselves without the men’s team here. I think they did a good job of that.”
Senior Dakota Toner won both diving events, taking first off the 1-meter springboard with a score 319.13 and the 3-meter board with 320.70 points.
The Tide swimmers also swept their events, getting to the wall first in all 12 individual races and both relays.
Sophomore Katie Coughlin, senior Bridget Blood and juniors Hannah Musser and Bailey Scott combined to get the women off to a strong start, winning the 200 medley relay with a 1:44.17.
Freshman Cameron Brown seized the Tide’s first individual victory, clocking a 10:15.87 in the 1,000 freestyle. Musser swam a 1:51.92 to win the 200 freestyle and a 51.56 to finish first in the 100 freestyle.
Junior Temarie Tomley touched first in the 50 freestyle with a 23.66 while junior Paige Matherson took top honors in the 500 freestyle, swimming a 5:05.50. Sophomore Caroline Beene posted the top time in the 100 butterfly with a 57.46. Scott got to the wall first in the 100 backstroke with a 56.83 while sophomore Katie Kelsoe took top honors in the 200 backstroke with a 2:04.21.
Blood won the 100 breaststroke with a 1:05.13 and sophomore Sarah Helm finished first in the 200 breaststroke, touching the wall at 2:21.71. Junior Mia Nonnenberg earned a win the 200 butterfly with a 2:03.32 and closed the individual events by getting her hand on the wall first in the 200 individual medley with a 2:05.88.
Junior Temarie Tomley, sophomore Morgan Fleming, junior Lindsay Morrow and Scott closed out the meet with a meet-best 1:34.17 in the 200 freestyle relay.
Up next, the Crimson Tide women will join the men to take on Southeastern Conference rival LSU in Baton Rouge Saturday at 11 a.m. CT.
