University of North Texas Athletics
Mean Green Swimming & Diving Set For Texas Invitational
12/2/2009 12:00:00 AM | Swimming and Diving
Teams competing in the invitational will include No. 3 Arizona, No. 7 Auburn, No. 16 Wisconsin, Wyoming, UC Davis, Incarnate Word and the host, No. 4 Texas.
"This week is an exciting opportunity for our program," head coach Joe Dykstra said. "The Texas Invite marks the toughest competition that our program has ever faced to date, with 4 of the top 16 teams in the nation competing. I am looking forward to seeing our girls step up their level of competitiveness and execution. We have backed down our training intensity this week, and I expect us to post our fastest times of the season so far."
The meet will be set up to where there will be two sessions each day, a 10 a.m. session of preliminaries and then a 6 p.m. session of finals.
Diving, which will be contested all three days, will have more teams in attendance. UCLA, California, Hawaii, SMU, New Mexico and TCU will all be competing in the diving portion, but will not have their swim teams in action.
"This is a good rehearsal for the Sun Belt Championship format, and a fantastic opportunity to measure ourselves against the absolute best of the best in collegiate swimming and diving," said Dykstra.
The Mean Green is coming off a strong showing against Austin College, 216-58, and Southwestern, 218-50, and is looking to prove they belong among the nation's top tier programs.
Check www.MeanGreenSports.com for updates after each session, or www.tsc.utexas.edu/results/index.htm for live results.
| Thursday, December 3 | 10:00 AM | 6:00 PM |
| 100 yard Fly | 200 yard Free Relay Finals | |
| 500 yard Free | 500 yard Free women | |
| 200 yard IM | 100 yard Fly women/men | |
| 50 yard Free | 500 yard Free men | |
| 15 minute break | 200 yard IM | |
| 200 yard Free Relay Prelim | 50 yard Free | |
| 15 minute break | ||
| 400 yard M.R. (timed final) |
| Friday, December 4 | 10:00 AM | 6:00 PM |
| 400 yard IM | 200 yard M.R. Relay Finals | |
| 200 yard Free | 400 yard IM | |
| 100 yard Breast | 200 yard Free | |
| 100 yard Back | 100 yard Breast | |
| 15 minute break | 100 yard Back | |
| 200 yard M.R. Prelim | 15 minute break | |
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| 800 yard Free Relay (timed final) |
| Saturday, December 5 | 10:00 AM 200 yard Back | 6:00 PM 1650 yard Free (fastest heat) |
| 100 yard Free | 200 yard Back | |
| 200 yard Breast | 100 yard Free | |
| 200 yard Fly | 200 yard Breast | |
| 1650 yard Free* | 200 yard Fly | |
| *Heats swum fastest to slowest | 15 minute break | |
| *The fastest heat will be swum at finals. | 400 yard Free Relay (timed final) |
