Tulane Swimming and Diving Downs West Florida and Hendrix

Friday, January 10

Pensacola, FL

1 PM

Tulane University

181

119

University of West Florida

Photo by: Parker Waters

Tulane Swimming and Diving Downs West Florida and Hendrix

Jan 10, 2020 | Women's Swimming and Diving

Complete Results

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 Hendix 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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