As day three of the 2018 men’s and women’s Big 12 Conference championships gets underway the conference’s fastest swimmers go head-to-head in order to earn their university a spot in a scoring final tonight.<\/p>\n
In the very first event this morning, the women’s 100 fly, Texas posted the fastest two times with Remedy Rule<\/strong> (52.43) and Lauren<\/strong> Case<\/strong> (52.82) while WVU’s Morgan Bullock<\/strong> took the third slot going into tonight’s finals by virtue of her 53.35 from this morning. Rounding out the A final will be WVU’s Amelie Currat<\/strong> who swam a 54.65.<\/p>\n In the men’s 100 fly Joseph Schooling<\/strong> cruised a 45.13 to earn the middle lane in the A final tonight where he will be flanked by teammates Tate<\/strong> Jackson<\/strong> (47.02) and Brett Ringgold<\/strong> (47.14). Taking ownership of lane eight in the A final tonight will be WVU freshman Angelo Russo<\/strong> who dropped a 48.31.<\/p>\n Texas freshman Evie Pfeifer<\/strong> turned in the quickest time of the morning with her\u00a0mark of 4:13.50 while her teammate Maxine Wolters<\/strong> posted a 4:18.25. Iowa State Cyclone Haley Ruegemer<\/strong> touched in 4:19.48 for third while KU’s Ellie Flanagan <\/strong>swam a\u00a04:23.26 to round out tonight’s A final.<\/p>\n The Texas men took control of the 400 IM prelims with senior Jonathan Roberts<\/strong> leading the way in 3:46.70 while sophomore Sam<\/strong> Stewart<\/strong> took second in 3:49.46. UT’s\u00a0John Larson<\/strong> posted the third fastest time in 3:50.89 with TCU’s Dayne Odendaal\u00a0<\/strong>(3:56.44) taking the eighth spot.<\/p>\n Texas duo of Quinn Carrozza<\/strong> (1:45.07) and Nora McCullagh<\/strong> (1:47.40) posted the fastest two times of the morning while Kansas Jayhawk Jenny Nusbaum<\/strong> took third with her 1:47.93. Taking the eighth place\u00a0position\u00a0tonight will be TCU’s Katelyn Kenchel<\/strong> by virtue of her 1:49.42 from this morning.<\/p>\n In the men’s 200 free the Texas gentlemen took the first six spots heading into tonight’s final with senior Jeff Newkirk<\/strong> leading the crew with a 1:34.73. Sam Kline<\/strong> and Townley Haas<\/strong> followed with times of 1:35.22 and 1:35.60, respectively. Rounding out the A final will be WVU’s Drew Damich<\/strong> (1:38.66).<\/p>\n In the women’s 100 breast Longhorn Kennedy Lohman<\/strong> touched first in a 59.33 while KU’s Haley Downey<\/strong> (1:01.48) and Texas’ Olivia<\/strong> Anderson<\/strong> (1:01.64) followed. Iowa State’s Martha Haas<\/strong> took eighth in 1:03.25.<\/p>\n WVU’s Jake Armstrong<\/strong> broke up a Longhorn dominated prelims session by taking the middle lane in tonight’s 100 breast A final with his 52.11. Teammate Tristen Disibio<\/strong> took second in 52.75 while UT’s Austin Temple<\/strong> nabbed the third spot in 53.42. Rounding out the A final tonight is Safa Anya<\/strong> (54.55) from Texas.<\/p>\n Longhorns Claire Adams<\/strong> (51.38) and John Shebat<\/strong> (45.92) earned top seeds in the women’s and men’s 100 backstroke as we await the start of the women’s 3-meter diving prelims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As day three of the 2018 men’s and women’s Big 12 Conference championships gets underway the conference’s fastest swimmers go head-to-head in order to earn their university a spot in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4285,"featured_media":248351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[65633,65998],"class_list":["post-297560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-college","tag-big-12-conference-coverage","tag-big-12-swimming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n