Dickey Lowers Two School Records, Aggies Win Art Adamson Invite

Wednesday, November 15

Bryan-College Station

Texas A&M

Art Adamson Invitational

Nov 17, 2023 | Men's Swimming and Diving

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By: Rachel Perreault, Texas A&M Athletics Communications

BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The No. 5 Texas A&M men's swimming & diving team tallied 1,469 points to win the Art Adamson Invitational as the three-day meet concluded Friday night at the Rec Center Natatorium. LSU finished second with 991.5 points and Utah took third with 755.5 points.

Trey Dickey set the tone for the evening session taking down two distance school records. He lowered his own program record in the 1650 free clocking in at 14:51.46 and set a new school mark in the 1000 free with a split of 8:58.43.

Baylor Nelson touched the wall first in the 200 back, clocking a season-best time of 1:41.82. Thomas Shomper and Tyler Hulet were close behind, rounding out the top four with times of 1:43.00 and 1:43.04, respectively. Shawn Mohseni finished atop the B-final, going 1:45.31 to register the sixth-fastest time of the night and lower his personal best in the event.

A&M put together a 1-2 finish in the 200 breast as Alex Sanchez was just off his personal best at 1:51.13 and Logan Brown clocked in at 1:53.15 to lower his career best time. Vincent Ribeiro and Lane White added top-five points for the Aggies as Ribeiro posted a time of 1:54.16 and White went 1:55.36.

Clayton Conklin, Roberto Bonilla Flores and Maximiliano Vega Cuevas closed out the individual events with career-best times in the 200 fly. Conklin claimed the top spot from Lane 8 with a time of 1:43.30, while Bonilla Flores went 1:46.03 to place fourth. Vega Cuevas was the top finisher in the B final with a time of 1:45.36, the fourth-fastest time of the night.

Takuto Endo led way for A&M on the platform as he and Rhett Hensley picked up NCAA Zones scores in the event. Endo posted a score of 361.25 to place second and Hensley was just behind him in third with a score of 337.15. Matthew Aigner added a fifth-place finish for the Aggies, scoring 298.65.

POST MEET QUOTES
Head coach Jay Holmes on the meet ...
"We really enjoy doing the Art Adamson Invite, historically it has been a great meet for us. We get to see our student-athletes, our swimmers and our divers, in our home pool with a lot of good teams competing against us. Winning the meet is great, but what we are really looking for is how our guys are doing, because we really need to get a look at where they are in the season. We consider this our midterm exam, we see where we are at and what we need to be working on.

"We are pretty pleased with our medley relays. We know they can be a little bit better and we are counting on them being better at SECs, but we have qualified them for NCAAs and that's the important part. The freestyle relays we didn't get any one of those done, which is disappointing because we we able to get all five relays done at this meet last year. That's something we are going to need to be working on. We have the people to do it, but our freestylers are a little banged up right now.

"The divers did awesome this week. They score a lot of points for us and it's great to watch them compete. It seems like a different one wins every time, they are just trading wins back-and-forth, which just shows how competitive that group is. Stroke-wise, our breaststroke, fly, back and IM are the strengths of our team and we saw that at this meet. We have a few people qualified for NCAAs but we know we can have more. This was a good test for us, but we still have a lot to do."

UP NEXT
The Aggies return to action Saturday, Jan. 13, when they travel to Fort Worth, Texas, to take on TCU in a dual meet.

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