Women's swim and dive comes up short in matchups with No. 16 Texas A&M, TCU

BYU women’s swim and dive fell in matchups to No. 16 Texas A&M and TCU as competition concluded at the Rec Center Natatorium on Saturday.

BYU swimmer Tatum Cooley swims freestyle.BYU swimmer Tatum Cooley swims freestyle.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — BYU women’s swim and dive fell in matchups to No. 16 Texas A&M and TCU as competition concluded at the Rec Center Natatorium on Saturday.

The Cougars came up just shy of another win over TCU with a narrow 85.5-81.5 defeat. Texas A&M outscored BYU 103.5-61.5.

Emma Marusakova, Mackenzie Miller Lung, Sarah Eliason and Tatum Cooley combined to start the day off strong for BYU with a 1:42.65 win in the 200 medley relay. The Cougars beat TCU by 0.53 seconds with the BYU “B” squad of Annie Reichner, Jasmine Anderson, Lily Flint and Halli Williams in third at 1:44.53.

Miller Lung tacked on a second win in as many days with a time of 1:03.26 in the 100 breast. The junior from Clovis, California left Aggie swimmers in positions two through four on her way to her fourth event win of the young season.

Sophomore Tatum Cooley won the 100 free race in 51.30 as she found the wall just one-hundredth of a second ahead of Texas A&M’s Ella McQuinn.

Halli Williams, Lily Flint, Emma Marusakova and Haylee Tiffany combined to finish the day with a 3:28.66 and third-place finish in the 400 free relay.

After a week off, the Cougars return home for a dual meet with UNLV at the Richards Building Pool on Nov. 2 at 1 p.m. MDT.