Tulane Swimming and Diving Visits West Florida on Friday

PENSACOLA, Fla. – The Tulane University swimming and diving team returns to action on Friday, as it heads to West Florida to take on the Argonauts. The meet is set to begin at 1 p.m. and will be held at the UWF Aquatic Center.

Tulane's trip to Pensacola marks the third straight season in which the Green Wave have traveled to West Florida. Tulane has claimed victory in each of the past two meetings in convincing fashion, winning 227-72 a year ago and 153-88 during 2017-18 campaign.

"I'm really looking forward to seeing how our team competes after all the hard work that they have put in over the past week," head coach Leah Stancil said. "We really want to use this meet to get even better on the different technical things that we have been working on as a team."

Tulane's meeting with West Florida wraps up the Green Wave's training trip to Florida. West Florida enters Friday afternoon's meet as one of the top Division II teams in the country, ranking 14th in the latest poll.

"My goal for our team each week is to improve on our racing no matter what team we compete against," Stancil said. "Competing against West Florida gives us the opportunity to race and to be successful."

Tulane enters the meet following a strong showing in a quad meet against Illinois State, FGCU and Liberty where it went 1-1-1 last Saturday (Jan. 4). Tulane ended the session with a handful of strong performances, including four first-place finishes.

The Green Wave had a strong showing in the 400 IM, as four Tulane individuals finished in the top six. Senior Olivia Johnson led the way, claiming first in a time of 4:20.39. Teammates Jordan Morling, Mya Drost-Parra and Kate Amar followed by finishing third (4:31.88), fourth (4:33.14) and sixth (4:39.06), respectively.

Johnson also would go on to claim the 500-yard freestyle, as she posted a time of 4:58.31.

Juniors Courtney Barker and Kate McDonald also had winning swims last week, as both posted victories in the 100 free (52.43) and 100 breast (1:03.62), respectively.

"The upperclassmen have done a really nice job in helping mold our freshmen and help them understand our team culture," Stancil said. "I've really been pleased with our freshmen's ability to adjust and learn, which has been great to see. The team does a really good job of taking criticism, taking correction and learning from it and I think that comes from the upperclassmen teaching the freshmen and the freshmen being receptive to learn."

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Tulane Swimming and Diving Visits West Florida on Friday

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