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Texas Wipes Out Arizona

Texas Press Release

AUSTIN, Texas – No. 1 Texas (10-1) won all 16 events en route to a 164-128 win over No. 18 Arizona Friday evening at UT’s Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center. 
 
Texas opened the meet with a victory in the 200-yard medley relay, where seniors Tasija Karosas and Madisyn Cox joined sophomore Remedy Rule and junior Rebecca Millard to finish in 1 minute, 38.79 seconds. 
 
Sophomore Joanna Evans, a Rio Olympian for The Bahamas, won the 1,000 freestyle by two seconds in 9:54.07.  Cox followed up her split on the 200 medley relay with a winning mark of 1:45.93 in the 200 freestyle. Karosas kept the Horns unbeaten through four events with her 53.62 in the 100 backstroke.  The Vermont native lowered her school mark in the 100 backstroke twice last month at the Texas Invitational. 
 
Senior Jordan Surhoff, an honorable mention All-America a year ago in the 100 breaststroke, won the same event Friday afternoon in 1:00.76.  Freshman Lauren Case added a win in the 200 butterfly at 1:58.16 while senior Maggie D’Innocenzo took second at 2:02.55. 
 
Millard returned to claim the 50 freestyle at 22.61, and after a 15-minute break, she completed a sweep of the freestyle events by winning the 100 at 48.78.  Karosas finished off a sweep of the backstroke events and won the 200 backstroke at 1:56.23.  Karosas is the UT and Big 12 record holder in both the 100 and 200 backstroke events. 
 
Sophomore Meghan O’Brien claimed the one-meter diving event with 316.80 points while her classmate Sofia Rauzi notched a third-place total of 269.40 points.  O’Brien completed the diving sweep for Texas with her 360.90 points on three-meter. 
 
Sophomore Olivia Anderson delivered a Longhorns sweep of the breaststroke events, as he claimed the 200 breaststroke in 2:15.95.  Cox led a one-two Texas finish atop the 500 freestyle with her win at 4:44.78 while Evans took second at 4:49.56.  With the team win in hand, Texas elected to complete the remaining swimming events as exhibitions, though the Longhorns won all of those events.  Case edged out Arizona’s Annie Ochitwa to win the 100 butterfly at 54.37. 
 
Cox finished off her third win of the day in the 200 IM at 1:56.64, and the Horns wrapped up their sweep of Arizona with a victory in the 400 freestyle relay at 3:19.90. 

AUSTIN, Texas – No. 2 Texas (5-3) won 13 of 16 events and finished off a 162-121 victory over No. 17 Arizona Friday evening at UT’s Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center. 
 
Texas opened the meet with a win in the 200-yard medley relay where sophomore John Shebat joined senior Will Licon and Olympic gold medalists Joseph Schooling and Jack Conger to finish in 1 minute, 27.17 seconds. 
 
Olympic gold medalist Townley Haas delivered the Longhorns their second consecutive victory with a mark of 9:21.22 in the 1,000 freestyle, and his Olympics teammate, Clark Smith claimed the 200 freestyle at 1:37.09.  Haas and Smith helped the U.S. to gold in the 4x200m freestyle relay at the Rio Olympics. 
 
Licon returned for the 100 breaststroke and made it look easy on his way to victory in 53.31.  The El Paso native broke Brendan Hansen’s school record at 100 yards while setting NCAA and American records in the 200-yard event at the 2016 NCAA Championships. 
 
Conger added another win for the Horns in the 50 freestyle at 19.91 seconds and Schooling swept the sprint freestyle events for Texas by winning at 100 yards in 43.49.  Junior Brett Ringgold took second at 44.23.  Junior Jonathan Roberts completed a rare swim in the 200 breaststroke but won the event anyway in 2:01.60. 
 
Freshman Grayson Campbell claimed the three-meter diving event with 436.88 points while senior Mark Anderson took second with 342.38 points.  Anderson won the one-meter event with 393.90 points. 
 
Schooling returned to post his second win of the day in the 100 butterfly at 46.64 before Shebat claimed the 200 IM at 1:48.36.  Texas finished off the meet with a victory in the 400 freestyle relay where senior P.J. Dunne joined Roberts, Licon and Schooling to finish in 2:57.77.

Arizona Press Release

AUSTIN, Texas – Arizona swimming and diving fell to Texas on Friday at Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swim Center. The women were outscored, 128-164 while the men dropped, 121-162.
 
The men tallied three victories in the meet coming from three different swimmers.
 
Sophomore Justin Wright continued his success in the 200 fly, winning the first event of the days for the Cats. He finished with a time of 1:47.11, three-tenths of a second ahead of Texas.
 
Also adding a win for Arizona was freshman Brendan Meyer. Meyer finished first in the 500 free with 4:33.06. The freshman also placed third in the 200 fly earlier in the meet (1:48.61).
 
Another Wildcat freshman, Thomas Anderson, contributed a victory for the men. Anderson won the 200 back, touching in 1:47.84. The freshman also helped the Cats to a second-place finish in the 200 medley relay along with sophomore Blair Bish, junior Chad Idensohn and junior J.P. Beach (1:28.36).  
 
For the women, sophomore Katrina Konopka topped the swimmers with two second-place finishes in the meet. Konopka finished second in the 50 free (22.76) and 100 free (49.92). The sophomore was also a part of both the 200 medley relay (1:39.31) and 400 free relay (3:21.05) A teams that placed second.
 
Senior Sally Hackett led the divers with two runner-up finishes. Hackett placed second in the 1-meter with 270.08 and 3-meter with 323.48, just under her season-best scores.
 
Freshman Hannah Cox was the only swimmer to have three top-three finishes in the meet. Cox took second in the 200 free with 1:48.63 early on. She later placed third in the 500 free (4:51.44) and 200 IM (2:05.44).
 
Overall, the Cats had a swimmer in the top three in 16 events for the women and 13 for the men. The women had multiple swimmers in 3 of those events and the men had at least two swimmers in six of them.

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