Nov. 21, 2008
The Texas A&M men's swimming and diving team will host a strong field at the annual Art Adamson Invitational Friday through Sunday at the TAMU Student Recreation Natatorium. Admission to the event is free.
The morning swimming preliminary sessions start at 10 a.m. on Friday and Saturday, and 9:30 a.m. on Sunday. The afternoon diving prelims start at 12:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and 1 p.m. on Sunday. The evening finals start at 6 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and 4:30 p.m. on Sunday. Live results for all sessions are available at AggieAthletics.com, and the evening finals will be live video-streamed on Aggies All-Access on the website.
Along with the host Aggies, swimmers and divers from No. 2 Stanford, No. 11 Ohio State, No. 15 Purdue, No. 16 LSU, No. 17 SMU and Washington will face off at the Adamson Invitational, which is named for longtime Aggie head coach Art Adamson. The legendary Adamson coached the Aggies for an amazing 35 seasons from 1934-69.
With Texas A&M hosting the 2009 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships next spring, the Adamson attracted perhaps the strongest field in the history of the Aggies' fall invitational.
It is a very, very strong field this year, and that's what we look for when we're putting together our schedule, Aggie head coach Jay Holmes said. ³We want to challenge our guys, and there's no question that we will be seeing many of the same faces this week that we will at the NCAA Championships next March. It's a great opportunity to step up on the blocks and race against some of the nation's best swimmers.
It will be the Aggies' second home competition of the 2008-09 season and A&M's final meet of the fall schedule. The last time the A&M swimmers and divers were in the water was Oct. 31 when the Aggies and Penn State faced off in a dual meet. Against the Nittany Lions, A&M posted six first-place finishes with four wins in the pool and sweeping both diving competitions.
Sophomore Eric Sehn in the three-meter springboard, freshman Cam McLean in the one-meter, junior Casey Strange in the 50 free and sophomore Bryan Snowden in the 200 breaststroke.