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Men’s Swimming Preview: Texas Invitational
12.02.2013 | Men's Swimming and Diving
Longhorns close the fall with the annual Texas Invitational at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
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WHAT: No. 4 Texas (5-1) closes out the fall season with the annual three-day Texas Invitational. The meet resumes as the Texas Invitational this season after being contested as the USA Swimming Winter National Championships last season.
The meet features all 18 swimming events contested at the Big 12 and NCAA Championships. Diving events will not be contested at this meet.
WHEN:
Thursday, Dec. 5 through Saturday, Dec. 7 (full schedule below)
10 a.m. CT prelims/6 p.m. CT finals each day
WHERE: Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center – Austin, Texas
PARTICIPATING TEAMS: Texas, UCLA (women only), USC, Arizona, BYU, Wisconsin, Penn State, Harvard, UC Santa Barbara and Oklahoma Baptist.
LIVE RESULTS: HERE | Frequent meet updates also will be available at Twitter.com/TexasMSD.
ORDER OF EVENTS
Thursday, Dec. 5
10:00 a.m. (prelims) Heat Sheet
100 butterfly
500 freestyle
200 IM
50 freestyle
15 minute break
200 freestyle relay
6:00 p.m. (finals)
200 freestyle relay
500 freestyle (women)
100 butterfly
500 freestyle (men)
200 IM
50 freestyle
15 minute break
400 medley relay (timed final)
Friday, Dec. 6
10:00 a.m. (prelims)
400 IM
200 freestyle
100 breaststroke
100 backstroke
15 minute break
200 medley relay
6:00 p.m. (finals)
200 medley relay
400 IM
200 freestyle
100 breaststroke
100 backstroke
15 minute break
800 freestyle relay
Saturday, Dec. 7
10:00 a.m. (prelims)
200 backstroke
100 freestyle
200 breaststroke
200 butterfly
1,650 freestyle (heats swum fastest to slowest; fastest heat will contested at finals)
6:00 p.m. (finals)
1,650 freestyle (fastest heat, men's & women's)
200 backstroke
100 freestyle
200 breaststroke
200 butterfly
15 minute break
400 freestyle relay (timed final)
LAST TIME OUT: Texas swept No. 19 Penn State, Virginia and West Virginia in a quad meet last month (Nov. 8-9) in Charlottesville, Va. UT defeated host Virginia by a 225-128 margin and knocked off No. 19 Penn State, 185-168. The Longhorns defeated Big 12 foe West Virginia, 259-93.
MORE ON THE LONGHORNS: Texas returns 29 letterwinners from the 2012-13 squad that won the Big 12 Championship and placed fifth at the NCAA Championships.
Juniors Clay Youngquist and Kip Darmody have helped the Horns to NCAA titles in relay events. Darmody and Youngquist teamed up with former Longhorns Dax Hill and Neil Caskey to win the 800 freestyle relay at the 2012 NCAA Championships. Youngquist joined Hill and former Longhorns Austin Surhoff and Jimmy Feigen to claim the 2012 NCAA title in the 400 freestyle relay. Seniors Charlie Moore and Caleb Weir, junior Tripp Cooper and sophomore John Murray posted All-America finishes on relays at the 2013 NCAA Championships.
Redshirt junior diver Will Chandler made a triumphant return to the sport last season after sitting out the 2011-12 campaign due to the effects of Crohn's Disease, a digestive disorder. The Waco native earned All-America honors in the platform diving event at the 2013 NCAA Championships. Chandler was a finalist in the platform event at the AT&T National Diving Championships in August.
Chandler heads a strong diving corps that includes the likes of sophomore Cory Bowersox and freshman Michael Hixon. As a true freshman, Bowersox earned All-America honors in the one-meter event at the 2013 NCAA Championships. Hixon competed alongside Texas-Ex Troy Dumais in the three-meter synchronized diving event at the FINA World Championships last summer in Barcelona, Spain.
Head coach Eddie Reese begins his 36th season with the Longhorns. Under his guidance, Texas has secured top-three finishes in 27 of 35 NCAA Championship meets. Assistant coach Kris Kubik returns for his 31st season, and diving coach Matt Scoggin, a former Longhorn diver, returns for his 20th season on Reese's coaching staff.
