Tulane Swimming & Diving Ranked Second Following First Two Days at UNLV
This Week's Coverage of Tulane's First CFP Appearance
Monday: Two Words for Those Who Think TU & JMU Should Not Be in the CFP
Tuesday: Tulane offense vs Ole Miss
Wednesday: Wave defensive angle against the Rebels
Thursday: Hear from Some Fans making their way to Oxford.
Friday: What are Fans Doing Who are Not Going to the Game
The Tulane swimming and diving team remains second overall after the first two days of competition on Tuesday, Dec. 16, at the UNLV Winter Invitational held at the Buchanan Natatorium. The team has 521.50 points following all the action on second day.
Zeebe Earns Events Victories
Andrea Zeebe had a strong overall performance on the day in earning an individual event victory in the 400 IM, finishing as the runner-up in the 100 back and being part of a pair of relay teams that placed in the top three.
Zeebe earned 20 team points by winning the 400 IM in a time of 4:20.66. She was one of four Tulane swimmers that earned points in the event along with Danielle Barberie (third place – 4:27.00) with 16 team points, Mary Kate Kupsky (eighth place – 4:36.21) and 11 team points along with Varvara Gkiouzepa Petropoulou who earned ninth place with a 4:28.36 along with nine team points.
Zeebe also placed second in the 100 back with a 54.06. She also earned 17 team points. Nicole Fant earned fifth place with a 55.68. Her swim earned the team 14 points. Marin Shimkus took ninth with a 56.50 along with nine team points.
Additionally, Zeebe was part of the 200 medley relay team along with Paula Gaya Bisquerra, Eliza Lennox and Rafaela Sumida that placed third with a 1:42.40. The group earned 32 team points. The ‘B’ team of Nicole Fant, Ebba Holgersson, Petropoulou and Olcaytu Hatipoglu were seventh overall (1:44.48). The finish earned Tulane 24 team points.
Free Relay Places Well
The 800 free relay team of Zeebe, Coetzee, Sumida and Phoebe Johnson finished as the runner-up in the event with a 7:25.29. The placing earned the Green Wave 34 team points. The ‘D’ team grouping of Barberie, Bisquerra, Holgersson and Gwen Shahboz finished eighth with a 7:42.21and earned 24 team points.
Lennox took third in the 100 fly (54.77) to gather 16 team points.
Coetzee earned fourth in the 200 free with 1:49.57 to pick up 16 points. Johnson took 15th in the event (1:53.65) for a pair of team points.
Bisquerra led three scorers in the 100 breast by placing third overall in the event with a 1:02.48. The placing was good for 16 team points. Holgersson earned fourth (1:03.54) for a total of 15 points. Barberie finished ninth with a 1:04.27 for nine points.
Next, Tulane wraps up competition at the UNLV Winter Invitational on Wednesday, Dec. 17, starting at 11:30 am CT. The events of the final day are the 200 back, 100 free, 200 breast, 200 fly, 1650 free, and the 400 free relay.
Doug has covered a gamut of sporting events in his fifty-plus years in the field. He started doing sideline reporting for Louisiana Tech football games for the student radio station. Doug was Sports Director for KNOE-AM/FM in Monroe in the mid-80s, winning numerous awards from the Louisiana Sports Writers Association for Best Sportscast and Best Play-by-Play. High school play-by-play for teams in Monroe, Natchitoches, New Orleans, and Thibodaux, LA dot his resume. He did college play-by-play for Northwestern State University in Natchitoches for nine years. Then, moving to the Crescent City, Doug did television PBP of Tulane games and even filled in for legendary Tulane broadcaster, Ken Berthelot in the only game Kenny ever missed while doing the Green Wave games. His father was an alumnus of Tulane in the 1940s, so Doug has attended Tulane football games in old Tulane Stadium, the Superdome, and Yulman. He was one of the 86,000 plus on December 1, 1973, sitting in the North End Zone to seeTulane shutout the LSU Tigers, 14-0. He was there when the Posse ruled Fogelman and in Turchin when the Wave made it to the World Series. He currently is the public address voice of the Tulane baseball team.