Tulane Swimming & Diving Fall to Liberty
The Tulane swimming and diving team lost to Liberty by a 190-163 score to finish off the second day of the dual meet against the Flames on Saturday at the Reily Center Natatorium. The team totaled 17 more top three finishes on the day including five event victories. Over the course of two days of competition, the program put up 30 top three finishes and six event wins.
The second day of competition began with the 400 free relay team of Eliza Lennox, Olcaytu Hatipoglu, Rafaela Sumida and Varvara Gkiouzepa Petropoulou winning the event (3:26.74). The squad’s team of Marin Shimkus, Phoebe Johnson, Nicole Fant and Lise Coetzee took third in the event (3:38.48).
Andrea Zeebe won the 200 freestyle (1:52.05) with Phoebe Johnson taking third (1:53.42). Zeebe also earned third in the 100 back (55.66).
Gwen Shahboz won the 200 IM (2:07.16) while Holgersson earned third (2:09.41). The same duo also both placed in the 200 breast as Shahboz was second (2:19.92) and Holgersson was third (2:23.11). Lennox won the 50 free (23.21).
The diving team dominated their event as Libby Brewer won the 1-meter with 256.95 points. Her teammates Taylor Cekay (2nd – 252 pts.) and Kelsey Weddington (3rd – 234.00 pts) also finished in the top three. Coetzee took second in the 1000 free (10:26.11) with Sydney Mullin taking third (10:45.00).
The Green Wave won two of the top three spots in the 200 medley as Zeebe, Paula Gaya Bisquerra, Lennox and Hatipoglu placed second (1:44.31) while Shimkus, Holgersson, Petropoulou and Sumida earned third (1:47.45). Petropoulou was the team’s top finisher in the 100 butterfly as she took fourth (57.71).
Next Tulane heads to Denton, Texas to take on North Texas on Saturday, Oct. 25, starting at 10 a.m. with the diving portion of the meet.
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.