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Aggie swim team dives
into meet with No. 20 LSU
By Kevin Roark
Senior day means the-
closing of one door
and the opening of anoth
er as T exas A&M will host
LSU at 11 a.m. Saturday
at the Student Recreation
Center Natatorium.
“Last weekend was a
club meet, [and] it was
long course which is not
what we normally swim,”
said Steve Bultman, head
coach of women’s swim
ming and diving. “We’ve
got people trying to qualify
for their country’s national
team and that’s the kind
of pool they swim, so we
[went] over there to race
to try and get them ready.”
The No. 4 Texas A&M
(8-0, 3-0 SEC) women’s
swimming and diving team
doled out a strong perfor
mance in the Arena Pro
Swim Series at Jamail Tex
as Swimming Center in
Austin, led by a foursome
of junior Claire Brandt,
freshman Beryl Gastaldello
and sophomores Franko
Jonker and Sarah Gibson.
The quartet took top hon
ors in the final race with a
time of 4:09.13.
No. 20 LSU (4-3, 1-3
SEC) is coming off a tough
home loss to Tennessee
two weeks ago. Kara Kop-
sco is making waves after
she led the Tigers with
three wins in their last
competition.
Texas A&M men’s
swimming and diving (5-
3, 0-2 SEC) also plays host
to LSU (2-4, 0-4 SEC).
This developing rivalry
will be an exciting com
petition with both crews
hunting their first confer
ence win.
Freshman Brock Bonet-
ti was named the SEC
Freshman of the Week on
Tuesday. Bonetti led the
Aggies to a 132-104 vic
tory over rival SMU with
his backstroke and relay
first-place finishes.
His 200-yard backstroke
led a Texas A&M sweep of
the top three places with a
time of 1:45.21. His back-
stroke split started the
Aggies off to a solid start
which ultimately led to a
season-best time of 3:13.3.
Bonetti also secured third
place in the 200 IM, post
ing a time of 1:51.84.
Senior night brings
bittersweet feelings to
the players as well as the
coaches.
“It means time flew,”
Bultman said. “That’s all
they talk about and I feel
the same way. Just a year
or two ago I was recruit
ing them and now they’re
finishing up their eligibil
ity. It’s a happy thing but
it’s a sad thing at the same
time.”
The swimmers and
coaches both know how it
helps to have a solid base to
honor the seniors.
“We usually get pretty
good crowds,” Bultman
said. “Our meets two
weeks ago were earlier in
the day and they were on
a week day. So that’s kind
of tough to get people out.
This is a weekend, a Satur
day meet at 11, and hope
fully we . can get a good
crowd.”
Aggie tennis team gears up
for ITA Kick-Off Invitational
By Milkyas Gashaw
The No. 10 Aggie
men’s and No. 11
women’s tennis teams kick
off their respective dual
match play seasons by host
ing the ITA Kick-Off Invi
tational this weekend at the
Mitchell Tennis Center.
The tournament kicks off
at noon Saturday.
The women are com
ing off a dual tournament
last weekend in which the
Aggies sent a split squad
to both the National
Collegiate T ennis Clas
sic (NCTC) in California
and the Freeman Memo
rial hosted by UNLV.
Sophomore Rutuja Bho-
sale earned the highest
ranked win of her career at
the NCTC against No. 12
Taylor Davidson of Stan
ford.
The men’s previous
competition happened
two weekends ago in the
Morgan Run Tournament
in California. Both se
nior Jeremy Efferding and
freshman AJ Catanzariti
finished the weekend with
an unbeaten 3-0 record.
Women’s head coach
Howard Joffe said he’s ex
cited to see his players step
out on the court and com
pete this season.
“I’m confident that
our girls will contest the
matches well and play
well,” Joffe said. “I’m also
confident that as we grow,
we will be a formidable
team.”
Bhos^le said she was ex
cited to see the hard work
that her teammates put in.
“Everyone’s really ex
cited for the kickoff tour
nament this weekend,”
Bhosale said. “We’ve all
worked really hard this fall
season and we were very
successful this past week
end. We’re ready to start
the season.”
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College Station the site of
weekend indoor track meet
By Seth Stroupe
The Aggie track and field
team will host the Texas
A&M Quadrangular dual track
meet Saturday in the Gilliam
Indoor Track Stadium.
The Aggies are coming off
a strong showing last weekend
at the Texas A&M Team Invi
tational, where the men took
first place by a command
ing 71-point margin and the
women finished 16.5 points
behind Baylor in second place.
“We had a good start, I
was very pleased with our first
time on the track,” said head
coach Pat Henry. “We held
some people out. We didn’t
double some people like we
usually do, we did some things
differently. We don’t like get
ting beat like we did on the
women’s side, but we felt like
we did the right thing with
our personnel. With the men,
we won really handily and we
did some good things.”
One of those “good things”
mentioned by Henry was the
performance by senior sprinter
Shavez Hart. Hart took first
place in the 200 meters with
a time of 20.76. That mark
is the fastest time recorded
in the 2015 season and is just
one tenth away from Hart’s
personal best. In recognition
of this feat. Hart was named
the SEC Sprinter of the week.
“Shavez Hart is starting the
season where he ended last
year,” Henry said. “That’s
kind of your goal, that’s what
you shoot for. If you’re doing
things at a certain level and
you worked all year to get to
that point, you don’t want to
start all over and then try to hit
that three quarters of the way
through the next season. ”
The Aggie squad’s ability to
carry past momentum into the
current season was enough for
Track & Field News to rank
the women No. 1 and the men
No. 2 in their inaugural dual
meet indoor rankings. How
ever, improvements need to
continue in order to sweep
this weekend’s meet. Henry
listed three teams particularly
that he was on the lookout for.
“Texas Tech is nationally
ranked on both sides,” Henry
said. “Tech has always had a
good program and they’ll be
ready to go. Arizona State has
been competitive in our sport
for years and years. And it’ll be
good to have Coach VanHoo-
tegem and his Oklahoma team
back in here.”
Texas A&M fans will want
to look out for senior sprinter
Deon Lendore’s match debut.
Lendore won last year’s Bow-
erman Award — the highest
honor in track and field. He is
only the second Aggie to ever
win the award, and he will be
looking to make an impression
in his first action this season.
This weekend will also serve
as a sort of homecoming for
VanHootegem, who served as
an assistant under Henry for
two years in College Station
before accepting his current
position with the Sooners.
“Every time you line up in
track, it’s you against some
one else. You can’t hide,” said
Henry. “Our track season is
kind of like a ladder. We took
the first step last week; we take
the second step this week.”
The Texas A&M Quadran
gular meet will take place Sat
urday from 12-3 p.m. in Gil
liam Indoor Track Stadium.
The meet will be broadcast on
SEC Network Plus.
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