Texas A&M men close fall with win over UIW

Saturday, December 16

College Station

3 p.m.

Texas A&M

169

113

Incarnate Word

Dec 16, 2017 | Men's Swimming and Diving

Results: A&M 169, IW 113 Highlights

By: Brad Marquardt

COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The Texas A&M men's swimming and diving closed out the fall portion of its 2017-18 schedule with 169-113 win over Incarnate Word on Saturday at the Student Recreation Natatorium.

Aggie head coach Jay Holmes said: "We just needed somebody to race. It's a long time to go if you don't race from mid-November until January. We needed this and we're appreciative of Incarnate Word to come up here and give us the competition. We needed because it's hard to just keep beating up on each other in practice. Rather than swimming another six, seven or eight-thousand (yards) today, we just raced instead which is better for everyone. Every team right now is tired. It's December and it's the training cycle that every team is in. A lot of our guys were really tired, just like Incarnate Word was, but being able to step up on that block and race is what we wanted and what we got."

(On what Jay Holmes wants for Christmas) "Fast swimming every day – no bad days, I just want good days!"

Notables

The Aggies won 15 of the 16 events against the Cardinals, including sweeps of the relays and diving. Texas A&M grabbed at least the top two places in 10 events.
Four Aggies won multiple individual races: sophomore Ben Walker in the 400 IM (3:53.28) and 200 breaststroke (1:59.31); sophomore Anthony Kim in the 100 backstroke (48.97) and 200 backstroke (1:47.02); sophomore Mike Thibert in the 50 free (20.84) and 100 free (45.95); and senior Brock Bonetti in the 100 fly (49.25) and 200 fly (1:47.77).
Junior diver Sam Thornton swept the diving events with a score of 382.20 in the one-meter dive and a 417.60 point total in the three-meter dive.
Other Aggies winning individual races were senior Jonathan Tybur in the 100 breast (56.12); freshman Felipe Rizzo in the 500 free (4:31.69) and junior Austin Van Overdam in the 200 IM (1:50.78).
Texas A&M opened and closed the meet with victories in the relay events. The Aggie foursome of Kim, Tybur, Bonetti and sophomore Adam Koster won the 200 medley relay in 1:29.14, and the quartet of Koster, Tybur, junior Connor Long and Rizzo touched first in the 400 free relay in 3:06.39.

Next Up

The Aggies return to action at the 2018 Orange Bowl Classic in Key Largo, Fla., on Jan. 3. Texas A&M's next home event is Jan. 6 vs. Southeastern Conference foe Missouri (12 noon start at the Rec).