Texas A&M Sweeps Two-Day Tri-Meet Against TCU and BYU
The Texas A&M Aggies hosted intercollegiate competition for the first time this season over the weekend and proved dominant against a pair of teams from the Big 12, Texas Christian University and Brigham Young University.
Friday Women’s Scores:
- Texas A&M 157.5, TCU 47.5
- Texas A&M 137, BYU 68
- BYU 111, TCU 94
Saturday Women’s Scores:
- Texas A&M 112, TCU 53
- Texas A&M 103.5, BYU 61.5
- TCU 85.5, BYU 81.5
Friday Men’s Scores:
- Texas A&M 123.5, TCU 81.5
- Texas A&M 111, BYU 94
- BYU 103, TCU 102
Saturday Men’s Scores:
- Texas A&M 101, TCU 66
- Texas A&M 96, BYU 71
- BYU 92, TCU 75
Kaitlyn Owens, Giulia Goerigk, Liv Theall and Jordan Buechler opened up the meet with a win for the Aggies in the women’s 400 medley relay, clocking 3:42.11. Up next, Hayden Miller won the 500 freestyle in 4:49.58, and Aviv Barzelay claimed first in the 200 backstroke (2:00.18). Theall and TCU’s Olivia Rhodes tied atop the 50 free at 23.43, and Goerigk topped the 200 IM (2:02.35). Chloe Stepanek, Owens, Theall and Buechler then won the 200 free relay by two seconds in 1:32.52.
Day two got off to a rocky start for the A&M women, with their top squad in the 200 medley relay disqualified, but Miller righted the ship with a comfortable win in the 1000 free (10:02.98), and Stepanek won the 100 backstroke (55.35) and 100 IM (57.70). Theall later claimed first place in the 200 butterfly (1:59.78).
Diving wins went to Else Praasternik on 3-meter (313.30) and platform (245.05), and the team of Stepanek, Theall, Owens and Buechler ended the meet with a dominant performance in the 400 free relay (3:25.59).
BYU got its first win from Mackenzie Miller in the 200 breaststroke (2:15.73), and Haylee Tiffany touched in 1:51.57 in the 200 free to lead a 1-2-3 sweep. Sarah Eliason got the win in the 100 fly (55.22) to conclude day one. The next day, BYU’s Emma Marusakova, Miller, Eliason and Tatum Cooley topped the 200 medley relay in 1:42.65, and Miller won again in the 100 breast (1:03.26). Colley added a first-place result by one hundredth in the 100 free (51.30).
In addition to Rhodes’ tie atop the 50 free, TCU’s only win on the women’s side came from Anna Kwong in 1-meter diving (301.10).
Texas A&M’s men began their winning performance as Baylor Nelson, Travis Gulledge, Chase Swearinger and Connor Foote used a come-from-behind performance to beat TCU by a half-second in the 400 medley relay. The first individual win came from Tommy Shomper in the 200 back (1:46.64), followed by Foote winning the 50 free (20.26). Foote, Nelson, Collin Fuchs and Ben Scholl won the 200 free relay in 1:19.20.
Fuchs grabbed the first win of day two for A&M, touching in 44.52 to lead a 1-2 finish with Scholl in the 100 free. Nelson concluded the individual racing slate with a winning time of 49.56 in the 100 IM. Leonardo Garcia won 3-meter diving for the Aggies (392.10), but teammate Rhett Hensley was victorious on both platform (378.60) and 1-meter (378.75). Foote, Fuchs, Scholl and Nelson clocked 2:56.78 for the win in the 400 free relay.
BYU’s Tanner Nelson recorded an impressive triple on the first day of the meet, winning the 500 free (4:26.81), 200 free (1:38.68) and 200 IM (1:48.33), and Jordan Tiffany went 47.55 to win the 100 fly. Day two opened with Darwin Anderson winning the 1000 free (9:17.86), and Tiffany got his second first-place result in the 100 back (48.16). Nelson would earn victory No. 4 as he clocked 1:48.79 to crush the field in the 200 fly.
TCU’s Geremia Freri touched first in the 200 breast (2:01.91), and his teammates opened day two with a win in the 200 medley relay, with Edgar Cicanci, Jadon Wuilliez, Nigel Forbes and Luke Dimiceli clocking 1:28.55. Wuilliez later came in first in the 100 breast (54.81).