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Swimming & Diving Records Four First-Place Finishes at LSU
Dec 14, 2020 | Women's Swimming and Diving
Full Meet Results
BATON ROUGE — The Tulane swimming & diving team (1-2) recorded four first-place finishes on Monday before falling to LSU (111-189) at the LSU Natatorium.
"It's always disappointing to lose a competition but I think we made a lot of individual gains," head coach Leah Stancil said. "We had quite a few career wins in terms of best times and we improved in technical skills from our previous meets. We still have room to grow but I am very proud of how resilient the team has been during this fall. We are continuing to take steps in the right direction."
Senior Kate McDonald shined in the weekday meet in Baton Rouge, winning both the 100-yard breaststroke (1:01.59) and 200-yard breaststroke (2:14.92) events. Both of those times were season-bests for the fourth-year swimmer.
Freshman Danielle Titus continued with her impressive performance in her first season Uptown as she brought home a win in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 55.21, a new career-best. The first-year Green Wave also went on to finish second in the 200-yard backstroke with a career-best time of 2:00.80.
Also taking gold for Tulane was sophomore Lilly Byrne in the 500-yard freestyle, finishing first with a time of 4:53.82. Byrne also recorded a third-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle (1:51.41).
Freshman Gianna Spremullo scored in three events on Monday, finishing second in the 400-yard IM (4:23.18) and third in both the 200-yard butterfly (2:03.47) and 200-yard backstroke events (2:01.49).
Junior Noa Heron also scored some points for the Green Wave with a second-place finish in the 1000-yard freestyle (10:16.00). Freshman Christiana Williams also earned silver status in the 100-yard breaststroke and 200-yard breaststroke events, with career-best times of 1:03.65 and 2:16.33, respectively.
Also finishing second was senior Courtney Barker in the 50-yard freestyle, checking in with a time of 23.90. Barker then went on to take the third-place spot in the 100-yard freestyle with a season-best time of 51.89.
Finishing in third place in the 100-yard butterfly was sophomore Hailey Roberti with a career-best time of 57.60. Sophomore Mya Drost-Parra also recorded a third-place mark in the team's third meet of the season, notching a season-best time of 4:23.87 in the 400-yard IM.
Tulane's 200-yard medley relay team, consisting of Titus, McDonald, Roberti and Barker, finished second in the first event of the day with a time of 1:43.37.
Freshman Paige McKenzie and sophomore Gabby Hebert both recorded career-best marks in the three-meter diving event, earning respective scores of 265.88 and 230.93 to finish in fourth- and sixth-place.
The Green Wave will be back in action on Monday, Jan. 11 as the team heads to Houston, Texas to take on the Cougars.
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