AUSTIN, Texas – Arizona swimming and diving fell to Texas on Friday at Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swim Center. The women were outscored, 128-164 while the men dropped the meet, 121-162.
The men tallied three victories in the meet coming from three different swimmers.
Sophomore
Justin Wright continued his success in the 200 fly, winning the first event of the day for the Cats. He finished with a time of 1:47.11, three-tenths of a second ahead of Texas.
Also adding a win for Arizona was freshman
Brendan Meyer, finishing first in the 500 free with 4:33.06. The freshman also placed third in the 200 fly earlier in the meet (1:48.61).
Another Wildcat freshman,
Thomas Anderson, contributed a victory for the men. Anderson won the 200 back, touching in 1:47.84. The freshman also helped the Cats to a second-place finish in the 200 medley relay along with sophomore
Blair Bish, junior
Chad Idensohn and junior
J.P. Beach (1:28.36).
For the women, sophomore
Katrina Konopka topped the swimmers with two second-place finishes in the meet. Konopka took second in the 50 free (22.76) and 100 free (49.92). The sophomore was also a part of both the 200 medley relay (1:39.31) and 400 free relay (3:21.05) A teams that placed second.
Senior
Sally Hackett led the divers with two runner-up finishes. Hackett placed second in the 1-meter with 270.08 and 3-meter with 323.48, just under her season-best scores.
Freshman
Hannah Cox was the only swimmer to have three top-three finishes in the meet. Cox took second in the 200 free with 1:48.63 early on. She later placed third in the 500 free (4:51.44) and 200 IM (2:05.44).
Overall, the Cats had a swimmer in the top three in 16 events for the women and 13 for the men. The women had multiple swimmers in 3 of those events and the men had at least two swimmers in six of them.
Up Next: Arizona swimming and diving hosts Arizona State for senior day on Sat. Feb. 4 with the celebrations starting at 10:30 a.m. at Hillenbrand Aquatic Center. The meet will be televised on Pac-12 Networks from 11:30 a.m. on.
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