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12/2/2014 12:00 AM | Men's Swimming & Diving
Dec. 2, 2014
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UP NEXT
The University of Utah swimming team will head to Austin, Texas to compete in the Texas Invitational. The meet is set to take place this Thursday through Saturday, Dec. 4-6. at the Texas Swimming Center.
The meet will span over the weekend with preliminary sessions beginning at 10 a.m. daily and final sessions beginning at 6 p.m. daily.
COMPETING TEAMS
There will be a total of 12 teams competing this weekend. The Utes will be competing against host Texas, USC, Arizona, rival BYU, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Harvard, Incarnate Word, Hawai'I (men), UC Davis (women) and Notre Dame (women).
LAST TIME OUT
The Utah men are currently 6-0 for the season. The men have non-conference wins over U.S Air Force Academy (259-67), Colorado Mesa (297-67), BYU (236-136) which all took place during the Intermountain Shootout. They have Pac-12 wins against Arizona (187-113) and UNLV (192-102). The men took on Colorado Mesa for a second time where they hosted the Mavericks and ultimately came out on top, 179-101.
During the Colorado Mesa meet, the men finished with 15 first-place finishes out of 16 events. Junior Bence Kiraly, freshman Ben Scott, and junior diver Jacob Crayne each won two events during the meet.
Kiraly touched in first in the in the 200 fly with a time of 1:48.60 as well as in the 400 IM (4:00.02). Scott picked up his first two top place finishes during this meet in the 100 back (51.73) and the 100 fly (51.92).
Crayne took first in the one-meter (300.22) and tallied a career high in the three-meter with a score of 390.75, which ranks as the second-highest score in the program history behind Sterling Richards' school record of 412.65.
The Ute women are 3-4 overall on the season with non-conference wins over Colorado Mesa (314-60), BYU (291-83) and UNLV (208-91). Utah dropped a non-conference meet to Boise State (143.5-156.5) and have Pac-12 meet losses to Stanford (124-174), Arizona (90-210) and No. 4 Cal (187.5-109.5).
During their last meet against No. 4 Cal, the Ute women came away with 5 first place finishes. Petra Soininen touched in first in the 200 fly with a time of 2:03.67 with Giuliana Gigliotti tying for first with Cal's Camille Cheng in the 100 free with a time of 52.00. Also taking wins in that meet was Stina Colleou in both breast events with a time of 1:03.71 in the 100 and 2:17.97 in the 200 event. Diver Amanda Casillas took top honors in the one-meter with a score of 276.15.
UTAH HEAD COACH Joe Dykstra "We are very excited to have been invited to compete at a mid-season meet with the prestige of the Texas Swimming Invitational. For decades, it has been one of the premier mid-season meets in our sport and it will give us the opportunity to measure ourselves against some of the top programs in the nation. It is a highly competitive event and we will have to be on our game in order to qualify as many swimmers as we want for the finals each night. This will give us great racing to try and make NCAA cuts and help us evaluate the team as we go into the second half of the year."
LIVE COVERAGE
The Longhorn Network will air the final sessions live on Friday and Saturday night. Thursday's finals will be air-tape delayed. Time is still to be determined. Live results can be found here (http://sidearmstats.com/texas/swim/index.htm ).
UP NEXT
The Utes will take a break from competition for a couple weeks before returning to action on Jan. 9 where they will take on Arizona State. The meet will take place at the Mona Plummer Aquatic Center in Tempe, Ariz.
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