Swimming & Diving Hosts Mardi Gras Invite This Week

NEW ORLEANS – The Tulane swimming & diving workforce returns to residence and will get again within the pool on the Reily Center Natatorium this week for the Mardi Gras Invite from Jan. 16-17. The occasion is open to the general public with all followers inspired to park in Diboll Garage. Prior to Friday’s first twin meet of the day, the Tulane program can even host Senior Day for the workforce’s six seniors.

Live stats for the Mardi Gras Invite may be adopted on Meet Mobile, which is a subscription phone-only stay stat app in addition to on-line at this link. The meet can even be streamed on the Tulane Athletics YouTube channel.

The different groups in competitors on the a number of particular person twin meets over the 2 days are North Texas, New Mexico and Little Rock. The meet is structured in a round-robin format the place every workforce will face off in opposition to every as soon as over the course of the 2 days.

Tulane begins competing in opposition to North Texas at 3 p.m. on Friday in Meet A. New Mexico and Little Rock then swim in opposition to one another at 4:40 p.m. in Meet B. Three-meter diving finishes off the opening day at 6:45 p.m. The second day of competitors will see Little Rock and North Texas begin the morning and sq. off at 8:10 a.m. Tulane and New Mexico lock up in opposition to one another subsequent at 9:50 a.m. in Meet D.  One-meter diving on the second day’s early session is ready for 12 p.m. The afternoon periods start at 1:30 p.m. with workforce diving. Meet E begins at 3:10 p.m. with North Texas and New Mexico competing. Little Rock and Tulane end off the competitors at 5 p.m. on Saturday evening. Points from every of the person duals for all of the groups might be totaled following the ultimate occasion to find out a Mardi Gras Invite winner. The level system getting used is 5-3-2-1 for every of the swimming duals and the diving competitions

The workforce’s six seniors that might be acknowledged on Friday are Emma Brady, Taylor Cekay, Olcaytu Hatipoglu, Sydney Mullin, Ece Tanriverdi, and Andrea Zeebe.

Zeebe together with freshman Eliza Lennox have been acknowledged by the American Conference on Jan. 13 because the Swimmer of the Week and the Freshman Swimmer of the Week, respectfully. Zeebe was this system’s prime level contributor the previous month on the UNLV Invite in the course of final month and on the quad meet in opposition to Wisconsin, UC San Diego, and UCLA in California over the vacation break. At UNLV, Zeebe captured a win in each the 200 backstroke and the 400 IM, second place finishes within the 100 backstroke and the 800 free relay, plus a third-place rating within the 200 IM, 400 free relay, 200 medley relay, and the 400 medley relay. Lennox was the workforce’s prime freshman level contributor at UNLV and the quad meet in opposition to Wisconsin, UC San Diego, and UCLA. At the UNLV Invite, Lennox captured the victory within the 50 free, third place finishes within the 100 free, the 100 fly, the 400 free, the 200 medley, and the 400 medley relay.

Last trip, the Tulane swimming workforce have been in a position to compete in opposition to three different opponents on the squad’s closing day of coaching in San Diego on Jan. 3. The quad meet was held at Canyonview Aquatic Center in La Jolla, California on the campus of UC San Diego. In addition to UC San Diego and Tulane, the meet additionally featured Wisconsin and UCLA. The Green Wave ended up with 11 prime 10 finishes on the afternoon

Next, Tulane swim finishes the common season and heads to Pensacola, Florida to take part in a twin meet in opposition to the University of West Florida on Saturday, Jan. 24, beginning at 10 a.m. CT.

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