Swimming & Diving Finishes Up Regular Season With Saturday Senior Day Competition Against West Florida

Saturday, February 1

New Orleans, LA

1:30 p.m.

Tulane University

University of West Florida

Swim - Meet Preview - West Florida - 1/31/25

Swimming & Diving Finishes Up Regular Season With Saturday Senior Day Competition Against West Florida

Jan 31, 2025 | Women's Swimming and Diving

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NEW ORLEANS – The Tulane swimming & diving team completes the 2024-25 regular season and hosts West Florida for Senior Day on Saturday, Feb. 1, at 1:30 p.m. at the Reily Center Natatorium. All fans that wish to attend are encouraged to park for free in Diboll Garage.

A ceremony will be held before the meet at 1:20 p.m. to honor the team's six seniors/graduate students in Anna Behrman, Rachel Casebolt, Reese Dunkenberger, Paige McKenzie, Catherine Russo and Maya Wilson.

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

The meet will be live streamed at the link on the top of the page or by clicking here

The meet will consist of 13 events.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

The selected order of events goes as follows:

Senior Recognition (1:20 p.m.)

Meet Starts (1:30 p.m.)
3M Diving
200 Medley Relay
1000 Free
200 Free
50 Free
200 IM
BREAK 15 min
100 Fly
100 Free
100 Back
500 Free
1M Diving
100 Breast
200 Free Relay

In the team's last meet at Little Rock on Jan. 25, the Tulane swimming and diving team won all 16 events, totaled 23 top three individual finishes, 12 personal bests, set two school records and saw a pair qualify for the Zone D Diving Championships in earning a 178-112 victory over Little Rock on Saturday at the Reily Center Natatorium.
Maya Wilson set a pair of school records and personal bests in capturing victories in the 200 free (1:45.46) and the 100 free (48.50).

Anna Behrman was also a multiple event winner as she won the 3-meter dive (265.58) and the 1-meter dive (270.08). Both point totals were personal bests. Her 1-meter points was also a Zone qualifying mark. Teammate Kelsey Weddington also had a Zone qualifying mark (267.60) in earning second in the 1-meter dive.

Andrea Zeebe had victories in the 100 back (54.63), the 200 back (1:59.65) and the 200 IM (2:04.31).

Catherine Russo won the 50 fly (22.78) and the 100 fly (53.56).

Sydney Mullin won the 1000 free (10:13.04).

Paula Gaya Bisquerra won the 100 breast (1:03.48).

Varvara Gkiouzepa Petropoulou won the 200 fly (2:03.07).

Gwen Shahboz won the 200 breast (2:15.37).

Lise Coetzee won the 500 free (4:53.78).

The 200 medley relay team of Zeebe, Emma Brady, Russo and Wilson won their event (1:40.16).

The 400 free relay team of Russo, Olcaytu Hatipoglu, Rafaela Sumida and Wilson won their event (3:19.33).

The Tulane swimming & diving program had three student-athletes in Maya Wilson (Swimmer of the Week), Varvara Gkiouzepa Petropoulou (Freshman Swimmer of the Week) and Kelsey Weddington (Freshman Diver of the Week) honored with weekly awards by the American Athletic Conference (AAC) on Jan. 28.

This is the second time this season that Wilson has been named the AAC's Swimmer of the Week (Jan. 7 & Jan. 28). It is the fifth time on the campaign that a Tulane swimmer has been named the AAC's Swimmer of the Week. Overall, Wilson being named this week is the eighth different time that a Tulane swimmer has been named the AAC's Swimmer of the Week (Maya Wilson – Jan. 7 and Jan. 28, 2024; Gwen Shahboz – Nov. 5, 2024; Andrea Zeebe – Oct. 22, 2024; Catherine Russo – Oct. 1, 2024; Victoria Raymond – Oct. 10, 2023; Kate McDonald – Dec. 15, 2020 and Feb. 12, 2019 and Paris Zhang – Jan. 20, 2018). Her being named for the second time makes her the 14th different individual that has been named a conference swimmer of the week in the program's history along Gwen Shahboz (2024 – AAC), Andrea Zeebe (2024 – AAC), Catherine Russo (2024 – AAC), Victoria Raymond (2023 - AAC), Kate McDonald (2020 & 2019 - AAC), Paris Zhang (2018 - AAC), Elizabeth Cook (2015 – CUSA), Mia Schachter (2014 – CUSA), Kayla Alf-Huynh (2011 x 2 – CUSA), Samantha Berdine (2005 – CUSA), Linda McEachrane (2004 – CUSA), Sarah Dicharry (2004 – CUSA) and Leslie Christian (2004 – CUSA).

This is the second time this season that Petropoulou has been named the Freshman Swimmer of the Week (Oct. 22).

Weddington being named is the first time ever that a Tulane Diver has been named Freshman Diver of the Week.

The three earning weekly honors this week makes it nine times that a Tulane swimmer or diver has honored with an AAC Weekly Award this season following Catherine Russo (Swimmer – Oct. 1), Rachel Casebolt (Diver – Oct. 1), Andrea Zeebe (Swimmer – Oct. 22), Varvara Gkiouzepa Petropoulou (Freshman Swimmer – Oct. 22), Gwen Shahboz (Swimmer – Nov. 5), Maya Wilson (Swimmer – Jan. 7), Wilson (Swimmer – Jan. 28), Petropoulou (Freshman Swimmer – Jan. 28) and Kelsey Weddington (Freshman Diver – Jan. 28).

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 against West Florida, Tulane heads to the 2025 AAC Swimming Championship from Feb. 19-22 in Dallas, Texas at SMU.

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