Swimming & Diving Hosts Mardi Gras Invite This Week

Friday, January 16

New Orleans, LA

3 p.m. (Friday - Swim), 6:45 pm (Friday - Dive), 9:50 a.m. (Saturday - Swim), 12 p.m. (Saturday - Dive), 1:30 (Saturday - Dive), 5 p.m. (Saturday - Swim)

Tulane University

Mardi Gras Invite

Swimming & Diving Hosts Mardi Gras Invite This Week

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NEW ORLEANS – The Tulane swimming & diving team returns to home and gets back in the pool at the Reily Center Natatorium this week for the Mardi Gras Invite from Jan. 16-17. The event is open to the public with all fans encouraged to park in Diboll Garage. Prior to Friday's first dual meet of the day, the Tulane program will also host Senior Day for the team's six seniors.

Live stats for the Mardi Gras Invite can be followed on Meet Mobile, which is a subscription phone-only live stat app as well as online at this link. The meet will also be streamed on the Tulane Athletics YouTube channel.

The other teams in competition at the multiple individual dual meets over the two days are North Texas, New Mexico and Little Rock. The meet is structured in a round-robin format where each team will face off against each once over the course of the two days.

Tulane begins competing against North Texas at 3 p.m. on Friday in Meet A. New Mexico and Little Rock then swim against each other at 4:40 p.m. in Meet B. Three-meter diving finishes off the opening day at 6:45 p.m. The second day of competition will see Little Rock and North Texas start the morning and square off at 8:10 a.m. Tulane and New Mexico lock up against each other next at 9:50 a.m. in Meet D. One-meter diving on the second day's early session is set for 12 p.m. The afternoon sessions begin at 1:30 p.m. with team diving. Meet E starts at 3:10 p.m. with North Texas and New Mexico competing. Little Rock and Tulane finish off the competition at 5 p.m. on Saturday night. Points from each of the individual duals for all the teams will be totaled following the final event to determine a Mardi Gras Invite winner. The point system being used is 5-3-2-1 for each of the swimming duals and the diving competitions

The team's six seniors that will be recognized on Friday are Emma Brady, Taylor Cekay, Olcaytu Hatipoglu, Sydney Mullin, Ece Tanriverdi, and Andrea Zeebe.

Zeebe along with freshman Eliza Lennox were recognized by the American Conference on Jan. 13 as the Swimmer of the Week and the Freshman Swimmer of the Week, respectfully. Zeebe was the program's top point contributor the past month at the UNLV Invite in the middle of last month and at the quad meet against Wisconsin, UC San Diego, and UCLA in California over the holiday break. At UNLV, Zeebe captured a win in both the 200 backstroke and the 400 IM, second place finishes in the 100 backstroke and the 800 free relay, plus a third-place ranking in the 200 IM, 400 free relay, 200 medley relay, and the 400 medley relay. Lennox was the team's top freshman point contributor at UNLV and the quad meet against Wisconsin, UC San Diego, and UCLA. At the UNLV Invite, Lennox captured the victory in the 50 free, third place finishes in the 100 free, the 100 fly, the 400 free, the 200 medley, and the 400 medley relay.

Last time out, the Tulane swimming team were able to compete against three other opponents on the squad's final day of training in San Diego on Jan. 3. The quad meet was held at Canyonview Aquatic Center in La Jolla, California on the campus of UC San Diego. In addition to UC San Diego and Tulane, the meet also featured Wisconsin and UCLA. The Green Wave ended up with 11 top 10 finishes on the afternoon

Next, Tulane swim finishes the regular season and heads to Pensacola, Florida to participate in a dual meet against the University of West Florida on Saturday, Jan. 24, starting at 10 a.m. CT.

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