Texas women’s swim and dive had a successful return to the deck after coming up short in the Eddie Reese Showdown on Jan. 23-24, dropping to Louisville, 488-487.

The Longhorns were able to flip the script, blowing out Texas A&M 207-92 on Friday at the Student Recreation Center Natatorium in College Station, Texas.

“It is always good to beat (Texas) A&M,” head coach Carol Capitani said. “We wanted to have fun and give people the last opportunity to race and feel good.”

Sophomore swimmer Jillian Cox broke her own 1,000-yard freestyle program record at the showdown. She set a new program record of 9:23.84.

Behind Cox was her training partner, sophomore swimmer Kate Hurst, taking second and hitting a new personal record.

“Everyone was getting behind me for all my races … I feel like just racing in such a positive and lively environment definitely helped me be successful,” Hurst said. “(That) was awesome as well, and to do it alongside Jillian, who I swim with and train with every day.”

Key scorer junior diver Bayleigh Cranford claimed first in the 3-meter, helping the Longhorns take the victory over the Aggies.

“We switched our mentality — we don’t want to lose, let’s do what we can to win,” Cranford said. “And I think we did pretty well.”

The Longhorns returned to the Lee and Joe Jamail Swimming Center for the Sterkel Classic the following day. The meet served as an opportunity for swimmers and divers to improve their scores and times for NCAA qualification, and did not name a winner. Texas, Incarnate Word and Texas Christian University were in attendance.

The Longhorns are at the final stretch of their season, with their next meet being the Southeastern Conference Championships Feb. 16-21.

“We still have some refining to do, I think — it’s not good or bad,” Capitani said. “So now these next couple weeks are like, how do we get sharper? How do we get better? How do we kind of focus in on the little details?”

After the SEC Championships, qualified Longhorns will represent at the NCAA Championships. The NCAA Championships will take place in Atlanta. Last year, the Longhorns took third place.

“NCAA is the main goal, SEC is the secondary — but we still want to be really good at SEC,” Capitani said.