Texas A&M vs LSU
- School Station, TX
- January 18, 2025
- SCY (25 yards)
- Full Meet Outcomes
- Staff Scores
- Girls’s Scores: #21 Texas A&M 163 — #16 LSU 137
- Males’s Scores: #23 Texas A&M 172 — #20 LSU 128
Texas A&M pulled out a tough fought victory vs LSU on Saturday, successful each the lads’s and girls’s twin meets for senior day.
Girls’s Recap:
The ladies’s occasion wins had been break up virtually evenly, with Texas A&M popping out simply forward with 9 wins to LSU’s seven.
The Aggies began the meet with a victory within the 400 medley relay, with the ‘A’ crew of Kaitlyn Owens (53.55), Bobbi Kennett (59.73), Olivia Theall (51.09), and Chloe Stepanek (47.41) swimming 3:31.58 within the occasion to come back out on high. This time strikes them as much as fifteenth within the Division I rankings this season.
A&M junior Hayden Miller continued their sturdy begin, successful the 1000 in 9:38.02, a brand new season greatest time for her. Miller went on to additionally win the five hundred freestyle, ending in 4:43.11 to be simply over her season greatest 4:40.78.
Olivia Theall additionally gained two occasions for the Aggies, sweeping the butterfly occasions. She swam 52.82 within the 100 and 1:56.18 within the 200 to win by virtually two seconds in each. Each instances had been off her season bests within the occasions.
Chloe Stepanek and Giulia Goerigk each gained one occasion for A&M. Stepanek took 1st within the 200, stopping the clock in 1:44.22, and Goerigk went 1:57.24 to win the 200 IM.
A&M ladies additionally swept the diving occasions. Else Praasterink gained the 3-Meter together with her rating of 348.08, and Helle Tuxen took the 1-Meter in 271.35.
LSU didn’t surrender the win simply, successful seven occasions together with the ultimate relay. After DQing their ‘A’ 400 medley relay for a false begin, the ream of Michaela De Villiers (22.13), Zoe Carlos-Broc (21.92), Anastasia Bako (22.62), and Megan Barnes (22.59) went 1:29.26 to outtouch the Aggie relay’s time of 1:29.56 by three tenths.
The Tigers additionally had two dual-event winners. Sophomore Grace Palmer swept the breaststroke occasions, ending her 100 in 1:00.02 and her 200 in 2:09.52. Her 100 was a brand new private greatest time, dropping from the 1:00.17 she went on the UGA Fall Invite in November.
Michaela de Villiers, a junior, gained each of the dash freestyle occasions, swimming 22.47 within the 50 and 48.43 within the 100. Her earlier greatest time within the 100 was 48.62 from final yr’s SEC Championships.
LSU additionally swept the backstroke occasions, however with totally different athletes. Zoe Carlos-Broc gained the 100 in 52.15 and Valériya Egorova gained the 200 in 1:55.48.
Males’s Recap:
The lads’s meet was additionally a decent battle, nevertheless it was a bit of extra separated than the ladies’s with A&M successful 10 occasions to LSU’s six, together with victories in each relays.
Their 400 medley relay went 3:07.19 with Tyler Hulet (47.46), Travis Gulledge (52.78), Connor Foote (44.75), and Ben Scholl (42.20) to win over the LSU ‘A’ crew by a bit of over two seconds.
Connor Foote (19.43), Ben Scholl (19.05), Collin Fuchs (19.39), and Baylor Nelson (19.60) went 1:17.47 within the 200 free relay to safe each relay wins, beating LSU by barely greater than a second.
Two Aggie males gained a number of occasions. Alex Sanchez swept the breaststroke swims, successful the 100 in 53.53 and the 200 in 1:56.11. Munzy Kabbara additionally gained each of his particular person occasions, swimming 1:45.38 within the 200 fly and 1:45.65 within the 200 IM. His 200 fly was a brand new private greatest, dropping virtually a second and a half from the 1:46.64 he went in March of final yr.
Connor Foote (50 free- 19.23), Baylor Nelson (500 free- 4:21.93), and Jacob Wimberly (100 fly- 48.17) had been the opposite IM occasion winners.
The 2 groups break up the diving occasions, with A&M’s Allen Bottego successful the 3-Meter in 425.40, and Carson Paul from LSU taking the 1-Meter along with his rating of 367.55.
LSU gained 5 extra particular person occasions with 5 totally different athletes, three of which had been freestyle occasions.
Freshman Nikola Simic gained the 1000 in 8:52.67, which was a brand new private greatest dropping from the 8:57.60 he went initially of November.
Jovan Lekic gained the 200 freestyle in 1:35.75, and Jere Hribar took the 100 freestyle in 42.52.
Their non-freestyle occasion wins got here of their sweep of the backstrokes. Stepan Goncharov went 46.87 within the 100 again, and Griffin Curtis went 1:43.99 within the 200 again.
A&M’s subsequent meet is a rivalry meet in opposition to Texas on January 31 in Austin.
LSU will swim once more of their first of two back-to-back meets on January twenty fourth once they host Delta State. They can even swim on the twenty fifth in a tri-meet in opposition to Delta State and Cincinnati.
