Swimming Heads To Florida for the FIU Sprint Invite This Week

Saturday, January 4

Miami, FL

9 a.m.

Tulane University

Florida International University

Swimming Heads To Florida for the FIU Sprint Invite This Week

Jan 3, 2025 | Women's Swimming and Diving

NEW ORLEANS – The Tulane swimming team will be in competition again this week as the program sends 14 to Miami, to participate in the FIU Sprint Invite on the campus of Florida International at the Biscayne Bay Aquatics Center starting at 9 a.m. CT. on Saturday, Jan. 4.

The live stats for the meet can be followed on Meet Mobile, which is a subscription phone-only live stat app.

Tulane is sending Layla Allen, Lise Coetzee, Charley Floyd, Paula Gaya Bisquerra, Olcaytu Hatipoglu, Sydney Mullin, Varvara Gkiouzepa Petropoulou, Catherine Russo, Gwen Shahboz, Eva Shawver, Rafaela Sumida, Ece Tanriverdi, Maya Wilson and Andrea Zeebe.

The FIU Sprint Invite will be a non-traditional format to allow coaches to fit their training. The meet incorporates a tournament style of competition of the 50s of all strokes.

The maximum number of swimming events per swimmer will be five.

Seeding: Entries will be seeding based on best season times.

Scoring: 16 place invitational scoring; top 4 individuals score per team event.

The meet will consist of 18 events.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

1) 200 Free
2) 100 IM
3) 50 Backstroke (Heats – Round 1)
4) 50 Breaststroke (Heats – Round 1)
5) 50 Butterfly (Heats – Round 1)
6) 50 Free (Heats – Round 1)
10 Minute Break
7) 100 Free
8) 100 Back
9) 50 Backstroke (Top 4- Round 3)
10) 50 Breaststroke (Top 4 – Round 3)
11) 50 Butterfly (Top 4 – Round 3)
12) 50 Free (Top 4 – Round 3)
10 Minute Break
13) 100 Butterfly
14) 100 Breaststroke
15) 50 Backstroke (Top 2 – Final)
16) 50 Breaststroke (Top 2 – Final)
17) 50 Butterfly (Top 2 – Final)
18) 50 Free (Top 2 – Final)

In the team's last meet, the Eagle Holiday Splash in Ft. Myers, Fla. at the FGCU Aquatics Complex, the team The Tulane swimming and diving team won seven events and had 18 top three individual finishes to earn second overall with 213.5 points. Maya Wilson won a pair of individual events in the 75 free (37.18) and the 25 free (11.01). She also ranked second in the 50 fly (25.15). Gwen Shahboz earned the 200 IM victory (2:05.39) and was second in both the 25 back (13.11) and the 200 breast (2:20.05). Anna Behrman took the title in the 3-meter dive with 222.55 points. Andrea Zeebe won the 200 back (2:02.91) and was second in the 50 back (26.94) and the 200 IM (2:06.54). Varvara Gkiouzepa Petropoulou won the 200 butterfly (2:03.21). Catherine Russo was the victor in the 25 fly (11.40), placed second in the 50 free (23.86) and took third in the 75 free (37.85). The 200 medley relay team is Zeebe, Emma Brady, Wilson and Russo were the runner up in their event with a 1:44.04. Lise Coetzee placed second in the 500 free (5:01.68). Paige McKenzie earned third in the 1-meter dive with 217.20 points. The 100 free relay team of Russo, Coetzee, Wilson and Olcaytu Hatipoglu took third in their event with a 45.79.

Head Coach Amanda Caldwell is in her third year leading the program. The team is coming off an outstanding 2023-24 season that resulted in 64 lifetime bests, 31 all-time top-10 school marks, four school records, an AAC individual title, an AAC Freshman of the Year Award, 11 National Invite Championship Qualifiers, a Zone Diver Qualifier and an NCAA qualifier.

The program returns 12 swimmers & divers from last season in Anna Behrman, Emma Brady, Rachel Casebolt, Taylor Cekay, Reese Dunkenberger, Paula Gaya Bisquerra, Olcaytu Hatipoglu, Paige McKenzie Sydney Mullin, Gwen Shahboz, Ece Tanriverdi and Andrea Zeebe. The squad also is welcoming in 11 newcomers in Layla Allen, Lise Coetzee, Charley Floyd, Phoebe Johnson, Varvara Gkiouzepa Petropoulou, Catherine Russo, Eva Shawver, Rafaela Sumida, Lily Von Herbulis, Kelsey Weddington and Maya Wilson.

Following this week's competition in Miami, Florida, Tulane will next return home on Jan. 25 for a dual meet against Little Rock at 11 a.m. The team wraps up the home schedule and regular season by hosting West Florida on Feb. 1 at 1:30 p.m. The 2025 AAC Swimming Championship will be held from Feb. 19-22 in Dallas, Texas at SMU.

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