Swimming & Diving Totals Six Top 10 Event Marks on First Day of Phill Hansel

Wednesday, November 19

Houston, TX

10 a.m. (preliminaries) / 5 p.m. (finals)

Tulane University

University of Houston

Eliza Lennox - Day 1 - Phill Hansel - 2025

Swimming & Diving Totals Six Top 10 Event Marks on First Day of Phill Hansel

Nov 19, 2025 | Women's Swimming and Diving

HOUSTON, TX – The Tulane swimming and diving team had six top 10 event marks on the first day of the Phill Hansel Invitational on Wednesday at the CRWC Natatorium. The squad ended the first day in fifth place out of 11 teams with 217 points.

The program was led on the day by freshman Eliza Lennox. Lennox finished as the runner-up in the 50 free with a 22.42 in the finals. Her time ranks third all-time at Tulane in the event and an improvement over the 22.63 from the preliminaries that at that point was third in school history. Her finals time is also an NIC B cut.

Lise Coetzee took fifth in the 500 free with a 4:50.45. Her preliminaries time of 4:48.32 was her best performance of the day.

Andrea Zeebe took seventh in the 200 IM with 2:00.84.

The 200 free relay team of Lennox, Olcaytu Hatipoglu, Nicole Fant and Marin Shimkus finished ninth with 1:33.58.

The team of Shimkus, Paula Gaya Bisquerra, Lennox and Zeebe placed ninth in the 400 free relay (3:343.11).

Libby Brewer earned ninth in the 1-meter diving with 239.70 points

Next, Tulane competes on the second day of the Phill Hansel Invitational starting at 10 a.m. with the swim preliminaries, diving follows at 12 p.m. and then the evening finals begin at 5 p.m. The expected events on Thursday are the 200 Medley Relay, 100 Butterfly, 400 IM, 200 Freestyle, 100 Breaststroke, 100 Backstroke, 800 Freestyle Relay, and the 3-Meter Dive.

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).

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