After starting the weekend with two losses, UH defeated Tulane to give seniors a win in their final regular season game. | Caitlin Hilton/The Daily Cougar
The UH swimming and diving program finished the 2013-14 regular season with a dual meet victory over Tulane while dropping a pair of duals to LSU and Rice at the CRWC Natatorium on Friday and Saturday.
With the 1-2 mark over the quad-meet weekend, UH finished with a .500 dual-meet record (5-5) for the season. That marks the program’s best regular-season record since the 2008-09 Cougars went 10-6. Head coach Rich Murphy joins the program’s founder, Phill Hansel, as the only coaches to post at least a .500 record during their first season on the job. Hansel’s 1975-76 team recorded a 2-2 dual-meet mark. LSU posted a 4-0 record over the weekend’s meet to come out on top of all four teams that participated.
“I’m really happy with our seniors to finish the meet with a win against Tulane,” Murphy said. “To end the regular season with a 5-5 dual meet record says a lot about the direction of our program. That’s something we can really build on moving forward.
“We had better energy today than yesterday, and we want to keep on building that energy as we move towards conference.”
Freshman Taylor Olanski (290.45) and sophomore Danielle Shedd (253.60) represented the UH diving program well on the 3M boards, taking third and fifth-place finishes against the divers from LSU and Tulane. Olanski has finished in the top three spots in 11 of the 12 events she has competed in this year.
For the second day in a row, senior Heather Winn was the Cougars’ top racer in the pool as she recorded a third-place finish in the 500 free (5:00.56) to make the most of her Senior Day.
