2020-21 Record Book
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1 @RAZORBACKSD TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Page 3 | 2019-20 Schedule and Roster Page 4 | Head Coach Neil Harper All-Time Results Page 6-9 | Year-By-Year Results Page 10-12 | Series History Awards and Honors Swimming Venue: University of Arkansas Natatorium located within the Page 14-15 | Southeastern Conference History Health, Physical Education and Recreation (HPER) Building Page 16 | Razorbacks at the NCAA Championships Page 17-18 | All-Americans Location: Stadium Drive and Meadow Street Page 19 | Olympians Address: 155 Stadium Drive, Fayetteville, AR Doors to the HPER building will be open 45 minutes prior to the start of each Records and Times meet. Doors to the HPER Building can be accessed from Parking Lots 67, 59 or Stadium Drive. Guests are strongly discouraged from entering the HPER Page 21 | Top Event Times and Dives of 2020-21 Natatorium from Meadow Street. Guests will be denied entry and re-routed Page 22 | All-Time Arkansas Records to the 1st or 3rd level entry. Guests will access the Natatorium from the 3rd level balcony entrance. Elevators are located in the center of the Page 23-24 | All-Time Roster building at all levels of the building. Page 25 | School, Pool and NCAA Records 2020-21 Arkansas Razorback Swimming and Diving Team Front Row: Josephine Matalone, Brooke Schultz, Maha Amer, Anna Ervin, Vanessa Herrmann, Allie Rogers, Peyton Palsha, Mayson Richards, Emma Garfield, Estilla Mosena Second Row: Marna Heymans, Rachel Rodriguez, Reilly Shaner, Hannah Cech, Adela Vavrinova, Kobie Melton, Janelle Hummingbird, Macy Lawerence, Emily Barclay, Grayson Payne, Isabella Cothern Third Row: Abby Pfeifer, Katherine Bush, Maddie Pearl, Andrea Sansores, Molly Moore, Maddie London, Brittney Pike, Bradi Jones, Lizzy Linartas, Kenedy Thaman, Alyssa Lemon, Serena Gould 2019-20 SWIMMING AND DIVING 2 2020-21 SCHEDULE AND ROSTER SCHEDULE DATE OPPONENT LOCATION TIME Fri. Oct. 23 Red vs White Inter-squad Fayetteville, Ark. 3 p.m. Sat. Nov. 7 at Missouri Columbia, Mo. 12 p.m. Thu. Nov. 12-14 US Open Des Moines, Iowa All Day Thu. Nov. 19-21 Mizzou Invite Columbia, Mo. All Day Thu. Nov. 19-21 Texas Diving Invite Austin, Texas All Day Fri. Jan. 15 Drury Fayetteville, Ark. 2 p.m. Fri. Jan. 22 Kansas Fayetteville, Ark. 2 p.m. Tue. Feb. 16-20 SEC Championships Athens, Ga./Columbia, Mo. Prelim/Final Thu. March. 11-13 NCAA Zone Diving Championships Lexington, Ky. Prelim/Final Wed. March 17-20 NCAA Championships Greensboro, N.C. Prelim/Final ROSTER Name Yr Ht Event Hometown (High School/Club) Maha Amer Jr 5-2 Diving Cairo, Egypt (Nefertari International Schools) Emily Barclay Jr 5-7 Free/Fly Bolton, England (Parklands High School / Bolton Metro Swim Club) Katherine Bush Fr 5-9 Free Shreveport, La. (Loyola College Prep ) Hannah Cech Fr 5-8 IM/Free West Chester, Ohio. (Lakota East HS / Lakota Family YMCA) Isabella Cothern Fr 5-6 Free/Breast Jonesboro, Ark. (Jonesboro HS / Parkway Swim Club) Anna Ervin Fr 5-6 Fly/Free Cypress, Texas (Cy Far HS Cypress Fairbanks Swim Club) Emma Garfield Jr 5-4 Breast/IM The Colony, Texas (The Colony HS / Lakeside Swim Team) Serena Gould Fr 5-8 Free Humble, Texas (Kingwood HS / Bluetide Aquatics) Vannessa Herrmann Jr 5-6 Breast/IM Bismarck, N.D. (Century HS / Aquastorm) Janelle Hummingbird Fr 5-9 Back/IM Rockwall, Texas (Rockwall High School) Bradi Jones Fr 5-11 Breast Opelika, Ala. (Opelika HS / Opelika Swim Team) Macy Lawerence Fr 5-9 Free/Back Billericay, England (Mount Kelly HS / Mount Kelly Swim Team) Alyssa Lemon Jr 5-9 Free Ellisville, Mo. (Marquette HS / Rockwood Swim Club) Lizzy Linartas Fr 5-11 Fly Lake Mary, Fla. (Lake Brantley HS / WPHS Blue Dolfins) Maddie London So 5-10 Free/Breast Collierville, Tenn. (Collierville High School) Josephine Matalone So 5-1 Diving Fayetteville, Ark. (Haas Hall Academy) Kobie Melton Jr 5-9 Free/Back Athens, Ala. (Athens HS / Huntsville Swim Assoc) Molly Moore Jr 5-11 Free/Back Brookeline, Mo. (New Convenant Academy Estilla Mosena Jr 5-5 Diving Trieste, Italy (I.S.I.S. Giosue Carducci- Dante Alighieri) Peyton Palsha Sr 5-5 Free/IM St. Petersburg, Fla. (St. Petersburg HS / St. Petersburg Aquatics) Maddie Pearl Jr 5-9 Back Kirkwood, Mo. (Kirkwood HS / Flyers Aquatic Swim Team) Brittney Pike Jr 6-0 Free Boerne, Texas (Boerne Samuel V. Champion HS / San Antonio Wave) Mayson Richards Fr 5-6 Diving Keller, Texas (Keller HS / GC Divers) Rachel Rodriguez Jr 5-7 Free/Back San Antonio, Texas (Ronald Reagan HS / Alamo Area Aquatics Assoc) Allie Rogers Fr 5-7 Back/Breast/IM Conway, Ark (Conway High School) Andrea Sansores Jr 5-8 Free/Back/Fly Cancun, Mexico (Int. American School Cancun / Casablanca Cancun) Brooke Schultz Jr 5-1 Diving Fayetteville, Ark. (Fayetteville HS / Razorback Dive Club) Reilly Shaner So 5-8 Free/Fly/Breast West Des Moines, Iowa (West Des Moines Valley High School) Kenedy Thaman Sr 5-9 Free/Fly/Back Missouri City, Texas. (Ridge Point HS / Houston Swim Club) Adela Vavrinova So 5-8 Free/Fly/IM Para Dubice Czech Republic (Dasicka HS / Paradubice Swim Club / East Carolina) HEAD COACH ASSISTANT COACH DIVING COACH GRADUATE ASSISTANT NEIL HARPER PETRA MARTIN DALE SCHULTZ ALEX HENDERSON 3 @RAZORBACKSD HEAD COACH NEIL HARPER Championship as both came away with a 14th place showing. As a student-athlete at LSU, Harper was a seven-time All-American, four-time SEC Champion and team captain in 1988. He also competed in the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games on the British National Team where he was a member of the 400-meter Medley Relay team that finished sixth at the 1984 games and fourth in the 1988 games. Harper and his wife, Paige, who was also an All-American and SEC champion swimmer at LSU, have two daughters, Katherine and Kelly. Head Coaching Resume Years Position School 2016-Present Head Coach University of Arkansas 2015-16 Head Coach University of Nevada 2013-15 Head Coach Aiken-Augusta Swim League (Club) 1999-13 Head Coach Florida State University 1997-99 Head Women’s Coach Ohio State University 1994-97 Assistant Coach Florida State University 1988-94 Assistant Coach Louisiana State University INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE 2004 Swaziland Olympic Team Athens, Greece 2004 Stephen Parry Bronze (200 Fly) 2003 Swaziland World Championship Team Barcelona, Spain 2002 Commonwealth Games Swaziland 2001 Swaziland World Championships Team Fukuoka, Japan 2000 South African Olympic Team Sydney, Australia HONORS Neil Harper was named the eighth head coach in Arkansas Swimming and Diving program history on May 2004, 2006, 2007 ACC Coach of the Year 4, 2016. 1986, 1987, 1988 Seven-Time All-American at LSU A native of London, Harper enters his third year in Fayetteville, 26th year as a collegiate coach, after 1988 Senior and Team Captain on LSU’s only SEC Team Title taking the Razorbacks to a 9-3 record a season ago. He holds a combined 186-53 (.777) record in his 19 1984, 1988 Two-Time Olympian with Great Britian years as a women’s head coach. During his coaching career, Harper has worked with nearly 200 student-athletes, both individual and relay All-Time Razorback Coaches swimmers, who have produced NCAA All-America honors. Year Coach Dual Rec. Conf. NCAA Finish 2020-21 Neil Harper 2-1 0-1 27th During the 2015-16 season, Harper led Nevada to the highest finish of a non-Power Five team at the NCAA 2019-20 Neil Harper 3-8 0-3 -- Championships. He guided the Wolf Pack to a 7-0 overall record in the regular season and won the first 2018-19 Neil Harper 6-3 8th (SEC) 19th Mountain West title in program history during his first season. 2017-18 Neil Harper 9-3 10th (SEC) 27th 2016-17 Neil Harper 5-3 11th (SEC) -- His coaching accomplishments at Nevada include sophomore Sharae Zheng earning College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Diver of the Year and Jian Li You being selected as CSCAA Diving 2015-16 Sean Schimmel 7-1 9th (SEC) -- Coach of the Year. In addition, the Wolf Pack swimming and diving teams exceeded the benchmark for 2014-15 Sean Schimmel 4-3 10th (SEC) T-44th Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores during the last two years. 2013-14 Sean Schimmel 9-1 6th (SEC) -- 2012-13 Sean Schimmel 10-1 6th (SEC) 26th Prior to Nevada, Harper served as the program director and head coach of the Aiken Augusta Swim 2011-12 Jeff Poppell 3-3 6th (SEC) 41st League in Augusta, Georgia (2013-15), head coach at Florida State (1999-2013), head women’s coach at 2010-11 Jeff Poppell 9-2 8th (SEC) T-32nd Ohio State (1997-99), assistant coach at Florida State (1994-97) and assistant coach at his alma mater LSU 2009-10 Jeff Poppell 6-2 6th (SEC) 34th (1988-94). 2008-09 Jeff Poppell 10-1 5th (SEC) 27th 2007-08 Jeff Poppell 7-5 7th (SEC) -- Harper’s coaching experience extends internationally. He coached five of his swimmers at the 2004 Olym- 2006-07 Jeff Poppell 4-4 9th (SEC) -- pics in Greece, as well as the World Championships in Spain and Japan, and the Commonwealth Games. He also coached the South African Olympic team in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia. 2005-06 Anne Goodman James 1-7 9th (SEC) -- 2004-05 Anne Goodman James 3-9 9th (SEC) -- At Aiken Augusta Swim League, Harper directed and coached the entire program, which consisted of 270 2003-04 Anne Goodman James 2-9 7th (SEC) 27th swimmers, 16 coaches and three sites. Ten of his swimmers qualified for USA Swimming Junior Nationals.