Swimming Has Tune-Up Saturday Meet at UC San Diego

Saturday, January 3

San Diego, CA

Tulane University

UC San Diego

Swimming Has Tune-Up Saturday Meet at UC San Diego

Jan 3, 2026 | Women's Swimming and Diving

Results

LA JOLLA, CA – The Tulane swimming team were able to compete against three other opponents on the squad's final day of training in San Diego. 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 including a top-five finish by freshman Eliza Lennox in the 50 free.

Lennox had the team's highest individual finish in the 50 free and the 100 free.

The 400 medley relay A team of Andrea Zeebe, Ebba Holgersson, Olcaytu Hatipoglu, and Rafaela Sumida took ninth in their event. The team's B team of Marin Shimkus, Paula Gaya Bisquerra, Phoebe Johnson, and Lise Coetzee earned 10th.

Varvara Gkiouzepa Petropoulou was the squad's top finisher in 10th in the 1000 free. Petropoulou also took ninth in the 200 fly.

Zeebe earned 10th in the 200 back.

Gwen Shahboz picked up 10th in the 200 breast.

The 200 free relay A team of Sumida, Shimkus, Hatipoglu, and Lennox were seventh. The 200 free relay B team of Petropoulou, Bisquerra, Nicole Fant and Charley Floyd were eighth. The 200 free relay C team of Layla Allen, Mary Kate Kupsky, Sydney Mullin and Ece Tanriverdi picked up ninth.

The next team competition for the program is the home-hosted Mardi Gras Invitational from Jan. 16-17 at the Reily Center Natatorium.

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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