Tulane vs West Florida vs Hendrix (W)
- January 10, 2020
- Pensacola, Florida
- Results
Courtesy: Tulane Athletics
PENSACOLA, Fla. – The Tulane University swimming and diving team wrapped up its 11-day training trip on a high note as it posted a pair of victories over West Florida (181-119) and Hendrix College (245-30) on Friday at the UWF Aquatic Center.
The Green Wave finished the tri-meet with nine first-place performances.
“I’m really proud of where our team is at right now and we are moving in the right direction,” head coach Leah Stancil said. “Now we are at the point in the season where we are going to start to fine tune what our team is doing and I’m excited to see how we do in our next meet against SMU.”
Seniors Olivia Johnson and Jordan Morling led the way for the Green Wave, as both won a pair of races.
Johnson opened the individual events by winning the 1,650-yard free style, finishing in a time of 16:53.30. Johnson would later go on to claim the 200-yard breaststroke, clocking a time of 2:20.62.
Morling’s winning performances would come in the 200-yard backstroke (2:03.80) and 200-yard IM (2:07.35), respectively.
Freshman Lilly Byrne, junior Courtney Barker, freshman Mya Drost-Parra, freshman Kate Amar and junior Kate McDonald also posted winning performances in the 200 free (1:54.44), 100 back (57.52), 200 fly (2:06.38), 500 free (5:07.18) and 100 fly (58.33), respectively.
The Green Wave would go on to close out the meet on a high note by winning the 200-yard freestyle relay (1:37.18).
In the diving events, Anne Marie Kenny posted a personal best in the one meter event, posting a performance of 240.90 to place third. In the three meter event, Kenny took second posting a score of 234.20.
“We are coming off an 11-day stretch of practice, meets and travel, so it was good to see our team hang tough despite being tired,” Tulane diving coach John Sirmon said. “This is the stretch of the season where we are done doing new dives, so now we are really focusing on meet-ready dives where there is no longer this push to pick up newer, harder or faster dives, it’s about mastering our current dives and getting into the water clean. Our meet against SMU is really going to test us on how ready we are for the conference meet.”
UP NEXT
The Green Wave return to action on Saturday, Jan. 25 where it will take on SMU, beginning at 2 p.m. Tulane’s matchup with SMU will be its final meet before the American Athletic Championship.
LAGNIAPPE
Tulane captured spots 1-2-3 in the 200-yard back … The Green Wave captured spots 1-2-3-4-5 in the 100-yard butterfly.
“I think our 200-yard back stroke individual did a great job with not only their placing but also in their splits, which is something I watch very closely,” Stancil said. “To me this was the race of the event just based on their splits.”
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Courtesy: West Florida Athletics
PENSACOLA, Fla. – The University of West Florida swimming and diving team had a strong performance at Senior Day on Friday afternoon defeating Hendrix College 254-36 and falling to Division I opponent Tulane University 181-119.
The Argos had two swimmers place first in individual events today: junior Morgan Ayers and sophomore Ester Rizzetto. Ayers won the 100 Breast with a finals time of 1:05.48. Rizzetto won both the 50 Free (23.22) and the 100 Free (50.93).
West Florida looked sharp on the boards as well. Kelsey DeJesus won both diving events at the meet on Friday, with a 258.50 on the 3-meter and a 281.50 on the 1-meter.
“I really enjoyed today. Our ladies were consistent on their dives and really showed what they could do. Looking forward towards Conference, we just need to keep on working on the small details to maximize the scores for ourselves and the team.” UWF diving coach Barbara Parker said.
West Florida won the 400 Medley Relay to begin the meet by finishing a finals time of 3:53.61. The relay team that finished in first place consisted of Aubrey Miller, Stefanie Markwardt, Ayers and Rizzetto.
“Overall I thought both the swimmers and divers did a great job. We have two more meets remaining, so the objective going forward is to continue to improve and to try and get some people in different events that they may not have been able to swim in the last couple of meets.” UWF head coach Phil Kraus said.
Next on the schedule the Argos will travel to Birmingham, Alabama to take on Birmingham-Southern and Montevallo on Friday, January 17th at 3pm CT.