Tulane swim wins senior day meet
February 1, 2023
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Swimmers flying from the starting blocks.
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Tulane’s four seniors (from L to R): Gabby Hebert, Olivia Davison, Kate Amar and Mya Drost-Parra.
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Swimmers in their starting blocks.
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A swimmer doing the butterfly stroke. In the 100 meter butterfly, Stefanie Markwardt won the event for the Argonauts with Tulanian Mya Drost-Parra coming in second.
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A swimmer competing in the 100-meter breast stroke. Olivia Davison won the event for Tulane with teammate Autumn Keats-O’Connor coming in second.
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A swimmer competing in the 100-meter breast stroke. Olivia Davison won the event for Tulane with teammate Autumn Keats-O’Connor coming in second.
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The swim team has not had their home pool since March of 2020. The lack of facilities has been a controversial topic for the team.
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The Tulane swimming and diving team.
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The Tulane swim team defeated West Florida 124.5-80.5.
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The swim team is coached by Amanda Caldwell with Greyson Heckman as her assistant.
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Tulane swimming and diving held their only home swim meet on Jan. 28 against the West Florida Argonauts. Held at the Ochsner Fitness Center in Elmwood, Louisiana, about a 15 minute drive from Tulane’s Uptown campus, the team honored their seniors in a noontime ceremony before competing at 2 p.m.
The team’s former on campus home in the Reily Center is still under construction and will not be completed until fall 2023. The pool has been closed since March of 2020.
At the noon ceremony, seniors Mya Drost-Parra, Olivia Davison, Kate Amar and Gabby Hebert were all honored for their contributions to the program.
At the meet itself, the hosts came away 124.5-80.5 victors after competing in 11 events with Tulane topping the podium seven times.
Long distance specialist Elena Gingras was the Green Wave’s best swimmer of the day with two race victories. In the 1000-yard freestyle, Gingras swam a brilliant race finishing close to 11 seconds ahead of the runner-up. It was much closer in the 500-yard freestyle, but Gingras out-touched Argonauts swimmer Shannah Dillman by 0.22 seconds.
Another notable event was the 200-yard individual medley, where Tulane swept the podium. Gianna Spremullo touched first for the Wave, followed by Drost-Parra and Autumn Keats-O’Connor.
Along with the 200-yard IM, Drost-Parra managed a second-place finish on two other occasions — the 200-yard team medley and 100-yard butterfly.
Tulane’s Olympian Danielle Titus also had three second-place finishes — the 200-yard IM, 200-yard freestyle and 200-yard freestyle relay.
Tulane will next compete in Dallas at the American Athletic Conference Championship, taking place between Feb. 15-18.
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