Big 12 Championships Day 5: Will Modglin Wins Third Event as Texas Races To Title

Will Modglin. Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick

Big 12 Championships Day 5: Will Modglin Wins Third Event as Texas Races To Title

The Texas men and women both led by 500 points heading into their final night at a Big 12 Championships meet in Morgantown, West Virginia.

The Longhorns, who are moving to the SEC next year as college conferences will have a radical year of change, closed in on Big 12 titles.

The Texas men scored 1,979 points to claim victory. TCU was second with 1,430, followed by BYU (1,402), Cincinnati (1,285.5) and West Virginia (1,138.5).

The Texas women scored 2,092 points to finish ahead of Houston (1,266.5), TCU (1,215.5), Cincinnati (918.5), BYU (771.5) and West Virginia (669).

Big 12 Men’s 200 Backstroke

Will Modglin put the exclamation point on his stellar freshman conference meet with a win in the 200 backstroke. He got to the wall in 1:39.73, an NCAA B cut.

Earlier in the meet, Modglin won the 200 IM and 100 backstroke, giving him three individual titles in his first college conference meet.

Cincinnati’s Hunter Gubeno finished second in 1:39.95, while Texas senior Chris O’Connor took third in 1:43.12.

Event 36  Men 200 Yard Backstroke
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      NCAA D1: ! 1:35.73  3/26/2016 Ryan Murphy
     American: $ 1:35.73  3/26/2016 Ryan Murphy
      US Open: & 1:35.73  3/26/2016 Ryan Murphy
       Big 12: * 1:36.42  3/27/2019 John Shebat, Texas
         Meet: # 1:38.61  3/2/2019  Ryan Harty, Texas
     NCAA "A": A 1:39.13
     NCAA "B": B 1:44.60
 NCCA Invit23:   1:40.62
    Name                 Year School            Prelims     Finals Points 
=========================================================================
                       === Championship Final ===                        
 
  1 Modglin, Will          FR TEX               1:41.85    1:39.73B  32  
             22.95        47.67 (24.72)
        1:13.34 (25.67)     1:39.73 (26.39)
  2 Gubeno, Hunter         SR CINC              1:41.69    1:39.95B  28  
             23.71        48.72 (25.01)
        1:14.25 (25.53)     1:39.95 (25.70)
  3 O'Connor, Chris        SR TEX               1:42.89    1:43.12B  27  
             23.11        48.45 (25.34)
        1:14.96 (26.51)     1:43.12 (28.16)
  4 Heimes, Justin         SR WVU               1:44.78    1:44.64   26  
             24.44        50.64 (26.20)
        1:17.33 (26.69)     1:44.64 (27.31)
  5 Walker, Logan          FR TEX               1:45.91    1:45.04   25  
             23.83        49.97 (26.14)
        1:17.52 (27.55)     1:45.04 (27.52)
  6 Forbes, Nigel          FR TCU               1:45.67    1:45.07   24  
             24.35        51.20 (26.85)
        1:18.34 (27.14)     1:45.07 (26.73)
  7 Cicanci, Edgar         SO TCU               1:44.44    1:45.27   23  
             23.88        50.35 (26.47)
        1:18.17 (27.82)     1:45.27 (27.10)
  8 Swain, Joe             FR CINC              1:46.01    1:46.64   22  
             24.31        50.59 (26.28)
        1:18.22 (27.63)     1:46.64 (28.42)

Big 12 Women’s 200 Backstroke

Texas swimmer Olivia Bray won the 200 backstroke conference championship. It was her third consecutive title in the event.

Bray finished in 1:53.01.

Texas freshman Berit Berglund finished second in 1:55.43.

TCU’s Tania Quaglieri finished third in 1:56.04.

Big 12 Women’s 100 Freestyle

Texas freshman Erin Gemmell cruised to the conference title in the 100 freestyle, winning in 48.08.

Cincinnati senior Jessica Davis finished second in 48.72, while Texas took the next four spots,led by senior Grace Cooper, who finished third in 48.74.

Big 12 Men’s 100 Freestyle

Texas took three of the top four spots in the men’s 100 free, led by freshman Nate Germonprez, who won the event in 42.24, dropping a half second from prelims.

BYU’s Jordan Tiffany finished second in 42.49.

Texas freshman Camden Tyler took third in 42.53, while senior Coby Corrozza was fourth in 42.83.

Big 12 Women’s 200 Breaststroke

Lydia Jacoby led a 1-2 Texas finish with a 2:05.58 in the 200 breaststroke, dropping more than four and a half seconds from the morning.

Anna Elendt was second in 2:06.46, dropping three seconds.

West Virginia’s Mia Cheatwood finished third in 2:09.13.

Big 12 Men’s 200 Breast

Texas swimmer Brayden Taivassalo claimed the first conference championship of his career to close out the individual swimming events on Saturday.

He won the 200 breaststroke in 1:53.28.

Taivassalo went 1-2 with teammate Will Scholtz (1:53.70).

Big 12 Women’s 1650 Freestyle

Erica Sullivan broke the Big 12 meet record to win the mile in 15:52.90. It it is the fourth fastest time in the NCAA this season.

Sullivan is a three-time conference champion in the event.

Teammate Abby Pfeifer was third in 16:18.83.

Big 12 Men’s 1650 Freestyle

Texas sophomore Alec Enyeart won the men’s mile with a swim of 14:58.71, the only one to break 15 minutes in the event.

West Virginia’s Ian Puskovitch took second in 15:15.34.

Cincinnati’s Alex Gonzalez finished third in 15:19.33.

Big 12 Men’s Platform Diving

Texas freshman Tanner Braunton won platform diving with a score of 452.20.

TCU junior Alec Hubbard finished second with a total of 409.25.

Texas senior Noah Duperre took third with 390.45.

Big 12 Women’s 400 Free Relay

Texas capped its title run with a win in the 400 free relay.

Emma Davidson (49.24), Erin Gemmell (47.88), Ava Longi (47.99) and Kelly Pash (46.90) teamed up to win the event in 3:12.01.

TCU’s Tania Quadglieri, Serena Gould, Olivia Rhodes and Mikayla Popham took second in 3:16.33.

Cincinnati’s Julie Rose, Jessica Davis, Kaylee Nagel and Sophie Curtis finished third in 3:18.42.

Big 12 Men’s 400 Free Relay

Texas claimed the final event with a 2:48.89 win in the men’s 400 free relay.

Nate Germonprez (42.48), Coby Carrozza (42.36), Cole Crane (42.36) and Camden Taylor (41.69) combined for the win.

BYU’s Jordan Tiffany, Diego Camacho Salgado, Joshua Reed and Luigi Riva took second in 2:51.35.

Cincinnati’s Drew Hawthorne, Hunter Gubeno, Jet Fuhrmann and Jon Osa finished third in 2:52.45.

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