Swimming & Diving Off to Phill Hansel Invitational This Week

Wednesday, November 19

Houston, TX

Tulane University

University of Houston

Swimming & Diving Off to Phill Hansel Invitational This Week

Nov 18, 2025 | Women's Swimming and Diving

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NEW ORLEANS – The Tulane swimming and diving team gets back in the pool this week and travels to Houston, Texas to participate in the Phill Hansel Invitational from Nov. 19-21 at the CRWC Natatorium. Each day there will be a morning session of preliminaries starting at 10 a.m. and an evening session of finals beginning at 5 p.m. The live stats for each day of the meet can be followed on Meet Mobile, which is subscription phone-only live stat app. The meet will also be shown on YouTube

Last time out, the Tulane swimming and diving team had 28 top 10 event marks, plus 11 personal bests, and 23 season bests in the LSU Quad Meet on Saturday, Nov. 8, at the LSU Natatorium. The program ended up falling head-to-head to the three others schools at the meet in losing 211-89 to Rice, 227-73 to Houston and 225-74 to LSU. Eliza Lennox led the team on the day for the second straight meet. She finished third in the 50 free (22.99). Her time was a season best, ranks fifth all-time at Tulane in the event and was an NIC B cut. She also took sixth in the 100 fly (54.97). Her time in the event was a personal best and ranks her seventh all-time at Tulane plus was an NIC B cut. .

Weekly Award Winners
Tulane's swimming and diving team earned a pair of weekly freshman awards from the American as Eliza Lennox was named the Freshman Swimmer of the Week and Libby Brewer took home the Freshman Diver of the Week award on Nov. 18. The selection of Lennox and Brewer makes it three times this season and 13 times the last two years that Tulane has taken home a weekly award from the conference.

Phill Hansel Order of Events

Wednesday - Nov. 19
200 Free
500 Free
200 IM
50 Freestyle
400 Medley Relay
1-Meter Diving

Thursday - Nov. 20
200 Medley Relay
100 Butterfly
400 IM
200 Free
100 Breaststroke
100 Backstroke
800 Free Relay
3-Meter Diving

Friday - Nov. 21
1650 Freestyle
200 Backstroke
100 Freestyle
200 Breaststroke
200 Butterfly
400 Freestyle Relay
Platform Diving

Tulane's program, under the direction of Head Coach Amanda Caldwell, was picked for fourth in the 2025-26 American Preseason Poll with 35 points.

The 2025-26 roster for Tulane includes 15 returners and 11 newcomers. The team's returners are Layla Allen, Taylor Cekay, Lise Coetzee, Charley Floyd, Paula Gaya Bisquerra, Varvara Gkiouzepa Petropoulou, Olcaytu Hatipoglu, Phoebe Johnson, Sydney Mullin, Gwen Shahboz, Eva Shawver, Rafaela Sumida, Ece Tanriverdi, Kelsey Weddington and Andrea Zeebe. The program's newcomers are Danielle Barberie, Libby Brewer, Nicole Fant, Casey Freeman, Ebba Holgersson, Mary Kate Kupsky, Eliza Lennox, Tannah Proudfoot, Samantha Schoenborn, Marin Shimkus and Maya Superfon,

Next, the team's qualifiers head to Sarasota, Florida for the US Open Water Championships on Dec. 13.

The program finished the 2024-25 season with 54 top 10 school marks including 10 school records. The team also won six events, had 28 overall All-Conference marks, a placing of third overall at the league championship meet plus saw Head Coach Amanda Caldwell along with her staff being named the American's Coaching Staff of the Year. The program also had 10 qualify to participate in the National Championship Invitational this season, three divers that earned bids to the Zone D Diving Championship, had four swimmers named to the Academic All-District by the College Sports Communicators and six that were CSCAA Scholar All-Americans. Additionally the program had nine NCAA 'B' cuts, placed fifth at the CSCAA Open Water Championships and rack up 10 American Conference Weekly honors (five swimmers of the week, two freshman swimmers of the week, two freshman divers of the week and one conference diver of the week).

Remaining 2025-26 Tulane Swimming Schedule
Dec. 13 – at Open Water Championships (Qualifiers) – TBA
Dec. 15-17 – at UNLV Invitational – TBA
Dec. 30-Jan. 5 – at San Diego – TBA
Jan. 16-17 – Mardi Gras Invitational – All Day
Jan. 24 – at West Florida – 11 a.m.
Feb. 18-21 - at American Conference Championships (Greensboro, NC) – All Day
March 8-11 – at Zone D Diving (Qualifiers) – All Day
March 12-14 – at NIC (Qualifiers at Ocala, FL) – All Day
March 18-21 – at NCAA (Qualifiers at Atlanta, GA) – All Day

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