The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
University of Texas
Minnesota Invitational
No. 1 Men's Swim Sweep Opening Day of Minnesota Invitational
12.01.2021 | Men's Swimming and Diving
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – The No. 1 Texas men's swim program swept the opening round of events on the first day of the Minnesota Invitational.
The Longhorns finished with the top two times in the 200-yard medley relay with two NCAA A-qualifying times. The Texas B squad edged out Texas A by .02 seconds on Wednesday night. Cameron Auchinachie, Charles Scheinfeld, Zach Van Zandt and Drew Kibler won the relay with an NCAA-leading time of 1:23.33.
Anthony Grimm, Caspar Corbeau, Alvin Jiang and Daniel Krueger finished with the NCAA's second-fastest time at 1:23.35 to finish second.
Texas claimed two top-three finishes in the 800-yard freestyle relay. Kibler, Coby Carrozza, Peter Larson and Carson Foster recorded the top time of the day and the Longhorns second NCAA-leading time at 6:10.14.
Auchinachie, Luke Hobson, Corbeau and David Johnston came in third-place with their time of 6:11.72.
Day two's prelims are scheduled to begin at 10 a.m., in the 500 freestyle, 200 IM, 50 freestyle and the 400 medley relay.
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