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Aggie swimmers fifth after first
day of SWC meet competition
by Donn Friedman
Battalion Staff
AUSTIN — The Texas A&M
men’s swimming squad swam to
NCAA national qualifying times
in two events — the 400-yard
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medley relay and the 100-yard
backstroke -— during the first
night of the Southwest Confer
ence swimming and diving
championships in Austin
Thursday.
Texas A&M is currently fifth
in the team standings, but trails
fourth place Houston by only
five points going into the second
day of competition.
Houston’s lead is based on
high finishes in the one-meter
diving — a strong event for the
Cougars. The Aggies, however,
will compete in their strong
events today, Texas A&M head
coach Mel Nash said.
“The f act that we’re still with
in five points of them while they
have their diving events pleases
me.”
The medley relay team con
sisting of Kevin Londrigan,
junior, Mark Viminitz, sopho
more, Chris O’Neil, freshman
and John Heldenfels, freshman
placed third behind SMU and
the University of Texas with a
school-record time of 3:19.87.
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Londrigan qualified in the
100-yard backstroke with his
ef f ort during the first leg of that
relay with a time of 50.92. Only
the first leg of a relay may be
used as a qualifying time for
NCAA nationals since it begins
from a cold start.
O’Neil and Heldenfels swam
to second and third place
finishes in the 50-yard butterfly
with times of 22.23 and 22.33.
Before the conference meet,
Heldenfels was seeded 15th in
the conference while O’Neil was
seeded eighth.
Londrigan, who wms seeded
13th in the 50-yard backstroke,
placed second in that event with
a personal best of 23.71.
In the 500-yard freestyle,
Rick Walker swam a time of
4:26.85, setting a new mark for
Texas A&M while placing
fourth. Walker missed the
NCAA qualifying time by 1.5
seconds.
The Aggies’ faster times were
in part due to the design of the -
Texas swimming center. ‘'The
center is one of the finest swim
ming facilities in the country,
Tracy Johnston, a four-time
AIAW national qualifier and
assistant coach for Texas A&M,
said.
Johnston said: “The lanes are
wide. They are eight-foot across
— almost double a normal lane.
And the pool is real deep, a level
14-feet across the bottom rather
than a five to 14-foot sloping
floor.
“Waves, which slow down
swimmer’s times, are cut to a
minimum because overflow
does not bounce off the side of
the pool, but rather is suctioned
off by drains along the sides of
the pool. T he water re-enters
the pool through the floor.”
Another factor in the fast
times was the absence of body
hair on many of the swimmers.
“A lot of it helps them men
tally,” Johnston said, “hut it’s
also the feeling — it’s a tremen
dous feeling not to have any hair
on your body. The water slips
right off your body. It feels like a
knife just slicing through the w'a-
ter. The water jus*t heads off.”
Currently in national stand
ings Texas is first, SMU is
fourth, Arkansas is 13th and
Houstbn is 20th.
Jennings
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Texas, there'll be a three-way tie
for third place between Texas
A&M, TCU and SMU.
If Texas A&M loses and SMU
loses, the Aggies and TCU will
be tied for third with 9-7 re
cords. That would result in a
coin flip, with the winner going
to Dallas and the loser hosting a
first-round tournament game
Monday night.
The Baylor Bears, one of the
stepping-stones of the league
this season, surprised the Red
Raiders by defeating them 63-61
Wednesday night in Lubbock.
Jennings said the loss shouldn't
affect the players’ morale in pre
paration for Saturday’s game
with the Aggies.
When the Aggies defeated
the Red Raiders 78-63 Jan. 31 in
G. Rollie White Coliseum, Jen
nings led his team with 20
points. To defeat the Aggies in
Lubbock, Jennings said, the
Raiders will have to change the
tempo of the game to fit their
slower pace.
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Aggies, we have to slow the ball
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leads the team in scoring*
points a game, with
Naulls averaging 12.1
ggie Roberts at 11.1.
A&M is scoring an
71.5 points a gameont
and its opponents
aged 68.4. T he Aggies <
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