The No. 13 Texas A&M men’s swimming & diving team picked up a pair of wins, defeating No. 6 Texas and No. 23 Georgia Tech Friday evening. A&M upset Texas 143-119 and topped Georgia Tech 189-111.
The Aggies started the meet off hot winning the 400 medley relay using the squad of Baylor Nelson, Logan Brown, Connor Foote and Collin Fuchs with a time of 3:08.45.
Nelson continued to chip off time, placing first the 200 free (1:33.97), 200 back (1:42.34) and 400 IM (3:46.13). Foote registered season bests in both the 50 free with the time of 19.92 and the 100 fly 46.01 for two first-place finishes.
Texas A&M dominated in the breaststroke as Alex Sanchez touched the wall first in both the 100 breast (52.86) and the 200 breast (1:54.76), while Brown was right behind him, placing third in in both events.
The Longhorns were led by freshman Will Modglin who swam away with two event wins in 100 free (43.69) and the 100 back (45.77).
Sam Artmann paced the 200 fly with his time of 1:45.15. Coby Carrozza won the 500 free with a time of 4:18.81
Women’s meet
Texas defeated the Aggies, 148-114, and the Yellow Jackets, 186.5 – 74.5 at Texas A&M for its third and fourth dual meet win of the season.
The Longhorns were led by Anna Elendt, who swept both breast events with a winning time of 58.20 in the 100 breast and 2:08.38 in the 200 breast, and Erica Sullivan who swept the distance free events with a time of 9:31.77 in the 1000 free – The No. 2 performance in Texas history – and the 500 free at 4:42.91.
Kelly Pash later went on to claim the 200 fly with her time of 1:53.60 and Campbell Stoll finished third at 1:56.61.
Back in the freestyle events, Grace Cooper sped through the 50 free in 21.83, improving to the No. 3 performer in Texas history with her time.
Freshman Erin Gemmell continued her epic start to her freshman campaign with a win in the 100 free at 48.21 – tied for No. 8 on the Texas all-time performer list.
Emma Sticklen added her lone win of the night in the 100 fly with a time of 50.84.
The Aggie quad of Miranda Grana, Bobbi Kennett, Olivia Theall and Chloe Stepanek began the competition in a dominating fashion, picking up an NCAA automatic qualifying time and the win in the 400 medley relay with a time of 3:30.31.
Grana shined once again for the Aggies, claiming her best times of the season in the 100 (52.01) and 200 back (1:53.30). Stepanek earned a win of her own in the 200 free, clocking in her best time of the year at 1:44.15.
Hayden Miller made her mark in Texas A&M history by breaking the school record in the 1000 free, touching the wall at 9:33.45. The previous record was 9:33.76 set by Sarah Henry in 2013.
Theall (1:55.82), Sarah Holt (1:57.62) and Katie Walker (1:56.75) all notched NCAA B cuts in the 200 butterfly. Additionally, Theall and Holt hit cuts in the 100 fly, clocking in at 52.19 and 53.13, respectively.
The Aggies added four more B cuts by way of breaststroke and backstroke. Kennett’s second-place finish in the 100 breast qualified her with a time of 1:00.01. Charlotte Longbottom qualified in the same event, registering a final time of 1:00.50. Abigail Ahrens and Aviv Barzelay hit cuts with qualifying times of 1:55.41 and 1:56.77 in the 200 back.
Joslyn Oakley swept the springboards, turning in a score of 306.15 on the 1-meter and a season-best 349.58 on the 3-meter. Freshman Chloe McKnight’s career-high score of 286.73 on the 3-meter was enough to qualify for the NCAA Zones Championships.
Aggies were not swept. Longhorns had to change their line up mid meet bc the Aggies were winning.😐
I thought “swept” meant that one team had to win every event?
Mom — First, the format of men’s and woman’s college dual meet does not generally allow for the sexes to be scored together.
“Swept” in this context refers to the “meets” rather than to “events.” The men and women of TAMU were in 4 separately scored dual meet contests in this meet ( v. Texas and v. Georgia Tech, in both men and women).TAMU Men won both of their meets, a SWEEP of their male contests; On the other hand, the Longhorn Women won both of their meets on the Women’s side — a SWEEP of the Women’s meets.
With three teams swimming at a site, the meet(s) can be scored either as double duals or as a single tri-meet.The article does not reference them, but since winning TAMU men’s scores against each of the other two teams are listed (and likewise the winning UT women’s scores), I presume this was a double dual format where normally there are also scored meets between the two other teams who lost to the “sweep” winners, here Georgia Tech v Texas on the men’s side and Georgia Tech v TAMU on the women’s side. I did not catch the scores of those meets in the article but normally they will be a part of those teams’ win-loss records for the season.
That is three dual wins to open the year against top 10 teams – #9 Virginia Tech, #7 Tennessee, and now #6 Texas. While I am not sure Texas is as good as their ranking, I think Texas A&M is legit, on the backs of some young talent.