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Swimming and Diving Heads to Texas A&M for SEC Dual Meet

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Swimming and Diving Heads to Texas A&M for SEC Dual Meet

BATON ROUGE, La. – The LSU swimming and diving team prepares to head to Bryan College-Station to take on Texas A&M Saturday morning for a conference dual meet inside the Rec Center Natatorium.

The meet is scheduled to begin at 11:00 a.m. CT, and will be available to stream on SEC Network +. The contest’s live stats can be found on the Meet Mobile app. Diving live stats can be found on divemeets.com.

LSU is coming off a resounding victory over the men’s team of Loyola (N.O.), taking down the Wolfpack, 170-14. The Tigers won all 10 events including the two relays in the 200-yard medley relay and the 200-yard freestyle relay.

The matchup between LSU and Texas A&M will be the second SEC dual meet of the season for the Tigers. LSU’s previously scheduled away meet at Georgia was canceled due to severe weather in the Athens area.

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To get the competition started, the LSU men’s 200-yard medley relay team of Griffin Curtis, Mitch Mason, Pawel Uryniuk, and Stepan Goncharov finished first with a time of 1:28.82.

Following that, LSU’s individual wins came in the 200-yard freestyle (Jacob Pishko – 1:41.46), 50-yard freestyle (Mason – 21.39), 100-yard IM (Levi Thome – 50.41), 100-yard butterfly (Pishko – 50.76), 100-yard freestyle (Uryniuk – 46.49), 100-yard backstroke (Collin Quickstad – 52.20), 500-yard freestyle (Truman Breithaupt – 4:31.37), and the 100-yard breaststroke (Thome – 56.33).

LSU finished the meet by taking first place in the 200-yard freestyle relay. The team of Curtis, Jovan Lekic, Karlo Percinic, and Pishko clocked a time of 1:23.78.