TEXAS A&M VS HOUSTON (WOMEN)
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Bryan-School Station, Texas
SCY (25 yards)
Last Rating: Texas A&M 200, Houston 100
Outcomes
Chloe Stepanek and Hayden Miller led the best way for the Texas A&M ladies in a Thursday showdown with Houston in School Station, because the Aggies cruised to a 200-100 victory over the Cougars.
Stepanek and Miller received two occasions apiece as TAMU mixed to say 13 of 16 occasions on the schedule, together with each relays.
Stepanek, a fifth-year senior, swept the 200 free (1:44.90) and 200 again (1:55.86), the previous marking her third sub-1:45 swim of the 2024-25 season.
The 22-year-old went 1:44.22 two weeks in the past on the SMU Basic, which ranks 1st within the nation, and she or he additionally went 1:44.67 main off Texas A&M’s 800 free relay.
Her swim within the 200 again was the third quickest of her profession, having gone 1:54 as soon as every of the previous two seasons on the Texas A&M Final Probability Meet.
TAMU senior Aviv Barzelay was the runner-up within the 200 again in 1:56.91, her first time racing this season after she was absent on the SMU Basic.
Miller, a junior, dominated the gap occasions with wins within the 500 free (4:46.31) and 1000 free (9:40.57), the latter giving her a 24-second margin to the remainder of the sphere.
Miller owns private bests of 4:36.60 within the 500 and 9:33.45 within the 1000. Her season-best within the 500 free sits at 4:43.39, set on the SMU Basic, which ranks her eighth within the nation. Her time from Thursday within the 1000 free additionally ranks eighth this season.
Miller was additionally third within the 200 free in what was a 1-2-3 sweep for the Aggies, with Jordan Buechler (1:49.42) the runner-up to Stepanek and Miller subsequent up in 1:49.84.
The highest efficiency for Houston got here from Irish freshman Lottie Cullen, who first tied after which broke the Cougars’ program document within the 100 backstroke.
Cullen clocked 52.47 at first of the meet main off Houston’s 400 medley relay, matching the varsity document set by Laura Laderoute in 2020. Cullen then took sole possession of the document within the particular person race, touching in 52.29 to prime Texas A&M’s Kaitlyn Owen (53.00).
Cullen, 20, kicked off her school profession by clocking a time of 54.50 on the Rice Fall Splash two weeks in the past.
The 400 medley relay noticed Texas A&M’s quartet of Owens, Bobbi Kennett, Olivia Theall and Stepanek mix for a time of three:32.96, with Houston 2nd in 3:35.29 (full splits not obtainable).
Within the 400 free relay, Theall (50.56), Owens (49.50), Buechler (51.19) and Stepanek (48.84) mixed for a time of three:20.09, placing the Aggies almost 5 seconds away from the Cougars (3:25.06).
OTHER WINNERS
Houston’s Henrietta Fangli (1:00.33) and Evelyn Entrekin (1:00.86) went 1-2 within the 100 breast, with Fangli’s swim rating her eighth within the nation. Within the 200 breast, Houston junior Flo Peter was the victor in 2:11.60, simply over a second shy of her lifetime greatest set final season (2:10.52).
Texas A&M’s Katie Walker dominated the 200 fly, ending as the one swimmer sub-2:00 in a time of 1:57.51, enhancing on her season-best of 1:58.61 from the SMU Basic.
Owens (22.83) and Theall (22.91) led a 1-2-3-4 sweep for the Aggies within the 50 free, with Owens displaying marked enchancment from the place she was at the moment final season (23.93) and coming inside three-tenths of her PB from the 2024 NCAAs (22.54).
Theall was dominant within the 100 fly, clocking 52.56 to inch below her season-best of 52.65 from the SMU Basic.
Texas A&M’s Else Praasterink and Mayson Richards traded 1-2 finishes within the diving occasions, with Praasterink topping the 3-meter (328.20) and Richards main the 1-meter (289.28).
Aggie freshman Ella McQuinn shone within the 100 free, breaking 50 seconds for the primary time to take a definitive victory in 49.78. She additionally cut up 48.87 on TAMU’s ‘B’ medley relay.
Texas A&M’s Giulia Goerigk was .01 slower than the SMU Basic within the 200 IM, nonetheless rolling to an enormous win in 2:00.74.
FINAL SCORES
Texas A&M, 200
Houston, 100
