{"id":464949,"date":"2021-03-14T14:53:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T21:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=464949"},"modified":"2021-03-14T18:08:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T01:08:28","slug":"weathering-the-storm-at-big-12s-texass-evie-pfeifer-out-for-more-at-ncaas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/weathering-the-storm-at-big-12s-texass-evie-pfeifer-out-for-more-at-ncaas\/","title":{"rendered":"Weathering the Storm at Big 12s, Texas’s Evie Pfeifer Out for More at NCAAs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weathering the Storm at Big 12s, Texas’s Evie Pfeifer Out for More at NCAAs<\/strong><\/p>\n

For all the things that Evie Pfeifer<\/strong> and her University of Texas teammates endured in 2020, a snow-pocalypse ahead of the 2021 Big 12 Championships seemed excessive.<\/p>\n

Four days without running water in her swimmers\u2019 house, others who didn\u2019t have power and spotty access to the Texas Swimming Center as unprecedented winter storms blanketed the Lonestar State \u2026 that didn\u2019t factor in to the normal taper plan. Instead, Pfeifer and her teammates got a mini-rest out of the climate chaos, something that yielded 16 meet records<\/a> between the Longhorns men and women, in addition to the obligatory team crowns (25th straight for the men; 19 for the women).<\/p>\n

Like everything else Pfeifer and her teammates have dealt with this year, they took the unplanned development in stride, hoping it sets them up for NCAAs this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was kind of weird leading up to it,\u201d Pfeifer told Swimming World<\/em> this week. \u201cBut I think it kind of gave everybody a little more rest, so heading into that meet, I was actually feeling pretty good. I definitely wasn\u2019t expecting to do some of the times I did because Big 12s, at least for me, isn\u2019t usually that fast. But I think as a team, we really knocked it out of the park and it sets us up really good moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n