SMU Swim And Dive: Cole, Egenolf, Svendsen Receive Honors

HOUSTON (SMU) – The SMU men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams received several individual accolades following the Conference USA Swimming and Diving Championships this weekend. The awards were handed out as voted upon by the league’s head coaches.

Senior Audra Egenolf earned the Diver of the Year award with a first place finish and two second place finishes. She won the one-meter diving event with a score of 312.80. Egenolf earned runner-up honors in the three-meter dive with a score of 342.60, just short of winner Lacey Truelove’s 344.25. She also took second in the platform dive with a score of 291.60. Egenolf will compete in the NCAA Zone Diving Championships next month.

Therese Svendsen was named the Women’s Swimmer of the Meet for the second-straight year, winning six gold medals. She set Conference USA meet records in the 100- and 200-yard backstrokes (52.64 and 1:53.82, respectively), breaking her own records from last year and earning NCAA B qualifying times. The junior won the 200-yard IM in an NCAA B consideration time of 2:00.10. Svendsen was also a member of three first-place relay squads – the 200-yard medley relay, the 400-yard medley relay and the 800-yard medley relay – all of which had NCAA B times.

Senior captain Tom Cole was named the Men’s Invitational Co-Swimmer of the Meet along with Luca Mazzurana of Hawai’i. Cole set a meet record in the 200-yard breaststroke, touching the wall in 1:54.54, breaking his 2010 time by almost two seconds and earning an NCAA B qualifying time. He also earned top honors in the 100-yard breaststroke with an NCAA B time of 53.44. The breaststroke specialist was a part of the 400-yard medley relay team that set a new meet record clocking in with an NCAA B time of 3:12.16. Cole also helped the 200-yard medley relay squad to a second place finish and NCAA B consideration time (1:28.71).

The women’s NCAA Championship is March 17-19 in Austin, Texas, while the men compete March 24-26 in Minneapolis.