December 02, 2006
The Texas A&M men?â„¢s swimming and diving team will close out the fall portion of its 2006-07 schedule with an 11 a.m. road dual meet against Kentucky on Saturday at the Lancaster Aquatic Center on the UK campus.
A victory over the Wildcats might be enough to push the Aggies into the College Swim Coaches Association Top 25. The Aggies are currently the top vote-getters in the ?receiving votes? category and a win would likely move A&M into the CSCAA?â„¢s dual meet rankings.
The Aggie swimmers and divers are coming off a second-place finish at the inaugural Art Adamson Invitational on Nov. 17-19, which featured swimmers from A&M, LSU, SMU and Pacific. A&M finished a close second to LSU in the three-day meet.
Leading the way for the Aggies against the Wildcats will be junior diver Eric Sehn, who received his second Big 12 Diver of the Week honor of the season earlier this week. Sehn, who swept all three dives at the Adamson Invitational, will be seeking to improve on his 7-0 fall record against the Wildcats.
In the pool at the Adamson, the Aggies had 12 swimmers qualify for ?A? finals, including freshman Israel Duran who advanced to four ?- the 100- and 200-yard butterflies and the 100- and 200-yard backstrokes.
Senior Francisco Picasso qualified for three ?A? finals (50 free, 100 free and 100 breast), and sophomore transfer Shawn Clarke also advanced to three (50 free, 100 free and 100 fly).
Advancing to two ?A? finals were junior transfer Ryan Latone (200 and 500 free), freshman Casey Strange (50 and 100 free), freshman Gregory Widmer (100 and 200 free) and junior Alejandro Jacobo (100 and 200 breast).
Others advancing to ?A? finals were sophomore James Hard (500 free), junior Ryan Loney (400 IM), freshman Jason Bergstrom (100 back), junior Luke Chambless (200 breast) and redshirt freshman Tyler Welch (200 fly).