Friday, October 27
Bryan-College Station
11:00 AM
Texas A&M
171.5
vs
111.5
Tennessee
No. 13 Texas A&M Tops No. 6 Tennessee
Oct 27, 2023 | Men's Swimming and Diving
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BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The No. 13 Texas A&M men's swimming & diving team upset No. 6 Tennessee, 171.5-111.5, at the Rec Center Natatorium Friday afternoon.
The 200 medley relay team of Baylor Nelson, Logan Brown, Connor Foote and Carter Nelson started the meet hot, finishing first with a time of 1:27.80. This is the best 200 medley time put together this season by the Maroon & White.
The trio of Baylor Nelson, Brown and Foote continued to capitalize off their early success. Nelson touched the wall first in the 200 free (1:36.41), 200 back (1:45.48) and the 400 IM (3:49.99). Brown finished on top with his best times of the year in both the 100 breast (55.16) and the 200 breast (1:59.61), while Foote placed first with his season best of 47.95 in the 100 fly.
Trey Dickey competed in both distance events placing first in the 500 free with his season best of 4:25.99 and came in second in the 1000 free, shaving a second off his best time this year, clocking in at 9:11.59.
The diving team did not let up on the springboards, sweeping the top-three spots on both the 1-meter and 3-meter. Victor Povzner took first on the 1-meter crushing his season best with a score of 421.58 and Allen Bottego registered the best score on the 3-meter (369.45).
POST MEET QUOTES
Head coach Jay Holmes on the team's performance …
"We've been looking forward to this meet. Tennessee has a great program and we've had some good battles with them since we have joined the SEC. We always enjoy competing against them, it brings out a lot of good in us. We opened things up with the 200 medley relay, we were nervous about that relay, but that was one of our better swims we have had this year in that relay. That was the first time we have put Baylor [Nelson] on it, but those four guys put it together and that really set everything up for us.
I kept adding up the points as we were going because we were ahead pretty much the whole day. Whenever we were winning events, Baylor did what he does, we won the breaststrokes, we ended up winning the 100 fly which we didn't expect, so there were a lot of places that we won that really helped us. We never got into a place where they were 1-2-3, but that did end up happening a couple times for us. Diving was really huge today, it was awesome to go 1-2-3 on both boards. This was a really good win for us and we are really happy to be 4-0 right now. Tennessee will be a much different team the next time we see them, but today we were able to get the win and I'm really happy with how we stood up and competed."
UP NEXT
The men's swimming & diving team will continue their home stretch where they will take on No. 23 Georgia Tech and No. 7 Texas in a double-dual at the Rec Center Natatorium Friday, November 3rd, at 3 p.m.
Visit 12thman.com for more information on Texas A&M men's swimming & diving. Fans can keep up to date with the Aggies Facebook, Instagram, and on Twitter/X by following @AggieSwimDive
BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The No. 13 Texas A&M men's swimming & diving team upset No. 6 Tennessee, 171.5-111.5, at the Rec Center Natatorium Friday afternoon.
The 200 medley relay team of Baylor Nelson, Logan Brown, Connor Foote and Carter Nelson started the meet hot, finishing first with a time of 1:27.80. This is the best 200 medley time put together this season by the Maroon & White.
The trio of Baylor Nelson, Brown and Foote continued to capitalize off their early success. Nelson touched the wall first in the 200 free (1:36.41), 200 back (1:45.48) and the 400 IM (3:49.99). Brown finished on top with his best times of the year in both the 100 breast (55.16) and the 200 breast (1:59.61), while Foote placed first with his season best of 47.95 in the 100 fly.
Trey Dickey competed in both distance events placing first in the 500 free with his season best of 4:25.99 and came in second in the 1000 free, shaving a second off his best time this year, clocking in at 9:11.59.
The diving team did not let up on the springboards, sweeping the top-three spots on both the 1-meter and 3-meter. Victor Povzner took first on the 1-meter crushing his season best with a score of 421.58 and Allen Bottego registered the best score on the 3-meter (369.45).
POST MEET QUOTES
Head coach Jay Holmes on the team's performance …
"We've been looking forward to this meet. Tennessee has a great program and we've had some good battles with them since we have joined the SEC. We always enjoy competing against them, it brings out a lot of good in us. We opened things up with the 200 medley relay, we were nervous about that relay, but that was one of our better swims we have had this year in that relay. That was the first time we have put Baylor [Nelson] on it, but those four guys put it together and that really set everything up for us.
I kept adding up the points as we were going because we were ahead pretty much the whole day. Whenever we were winning events, Baylor did what he does, we won the breaststrokes, we ended up winning the 100 fly which we didn't expect, so there were a lot of places that we won that really helped us. We never got into a place where they were 1-2-3, but that did end up happening a couple times for us. Diving was really huge today, it was awesome to go 1-2-3 on both boards. This was a really good win for us and we are really happy to be 4-0 right now. Tennessee will be a much different team the next time we see them, but today we were able to get the win and I'm really happy with how we stood up and competed."
UP NEXT
The men's swimming & diving team will continue their home stretch where they will take on No. 23 Georgia Tech and No. 7 Texas in a double-dual at the Rec Center Natatorium Friday, November 3rd, at 3 p.m.
Visit 12thman.com for more information on Texas A&M men's swimming & diving. Fans can keep up to date with the Aggies Facebook, Instagram, and on Twitter/X by following @AggieSwimDive
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