2nd for Becca! She definitely picked up more points than expected.
Dalton is doing great as always. Can always count on him to perform!

Both men and women are having a good night!

St. Germain comes through for 2nd on the 1M. Beaten on the last dive by Figueroa. Tennessee gaining ground after diving.

The boys swam well in the 200FR to get 3rd.

Hopefully Dalton can break 19 at NCAAs on the 200FR. Very impressed with the freshman Bolleter.

200 free should be a big event for the TAMU men.

Great meet for Lindau so far. Troskot sneaks in to the C final.

Women's 100 fly was superfast in prelims. Took 52.99 to make the A final. Two Aggies in it, and they swim so differently. Paige goes out fast and hangs on. McElhaney finishes strong.

Luke Shaw with a very good 200. 4 men in the B final is good points.

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Ford on the edge of the finals. 9th place.

Frank is the IM king.

Frank is an excellent swimmer and Aggie. We need a few more like him.

The girls swam well. McElhaney was damned close to the win in 100 fly. Just a slight improvement in her walls (7 opportunities in 200 fly) would make a difference. They scored lots of points in 100 fly to keep UGA close.

Nice to see Dalton swim well. Just off Balazs' record.

Too bad we don't have freestylers like the Georgia team has. We would be on top of the world!

The Aggie men in the 200 looked awesome today!

'are ALL the Florida medal winners foreigners?'

100 flys were the swims of the day for men and women. Lindau has broken through as a legit national threat and McElhany not only put herself in the national title hunt but cranked up the 400 medley relay possibilities to uncharted territories.

Two huge swims by SEC freshmen again - Chase Kalisz in the 400 IM and Natalie Hinds in the 100 fly. It's incredible these two have three more years.

Today should be another exciting day.
The foursome Ariens, Fonua, Loncracic, and Dalton is def missed this year on the 400MR. Lindau def stepped up in the fly last night and hopefully he will do the same in the relay!
Will breeja break a record?
On the women's diving side, only one diver today on platform. Tennessee has 3 Georgia 2 and Florida 3. This could hurt us today.

For a guy that only goes 22.46 in his 50 back, Teddy Symbols has a very good 100 back. Good to see senior Max Lewis go 1:47, almost beating OE.

Jessie makes finals on the platform! She is so much more a platform diver over springboard.

Did anything good happen tonight?

Dalton setting a new SR after being very close a few times. Makany still has the 200 though

Dalton is a seriously good swimmer. To be faster than the great Makany is a heroic accomplishment. The guy gets on the blocks, and RACES.

Where is the broadcast for Saturday night Finals?

ESPN3 if you can get it online.

I'm on ESPN3...and see the AsEC Track Meet, but no Simming..

Wow, UGA Women can win the meet just from the 4X100. They are stacked!

SEC Championships were awesome. A&M women are very close. A&M men were good but (understatement coming) must recruit breaststrokers. Absolutley hate looking up at LSU and Missouri.

That meet was just PLAIN fast. Not like what the SWC was !

I am reading now that Boyd is leaving A&M? That is going to hurt the Aggie men. Great coach.

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Auburn women didn't win a single event. Must be a long time since that has happened, if ever.

The A&M women belong in any discussion of the top 5 programs in the country. Our girls are every bit the same caliber as Georgia, Cal, and Stanford, and Arizona. We were two freestyle sprinters and a springboard diver short of beating Georgia. At NCAAs I wonder if Georgia's freestyle power will be diluted a bit with 16 place scoring and a full field of really fast freestylers.

The men have some work to do in spite of some amazing swims. We lose Dalton and Wagner and we need more guys in the pipeline. We need more than one breaststroker. Our distance swimming was good enough for the Big12 but not the SEC. We scored just 44 pts in distance events at SECs (16 pts. in mens 500 free, 22 pts. in 400IM, and 6 in the 1650). Zero in two breaststroke events.

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Maybe Steve is trying to qualify more girls by using different relay lineups? Either way, UT looks very good.

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I know I'm a bit late in responding to this comment, but that wouldn't be a strategy one would use this season. As I understand the new qualifying rules (and who really understands them?), no bonus swims for those who qualify on relays only.

How many girls will make the trip to NCAA's? Several girls seem to have made a deep cut this weekend.

My analysis indicates that 17 girls are in a position to qualify, a couple of which are on the bubble and a few of which would be brought as relay alternates regardless.

Adams, Henry, Larson, McElhany, McLaine, and Miller are in with A cuts.

Dittmer, Ibanez, McClure, Simpson and Benjamin should be safe with very solid B cuts.

Everyone else is waiting it out.

McGregor with an A cut as well

We have a minimum of 12 girls with individual cuts and another 4 or 5 on relays perhaps? It seems like the girls have all the events covered with swimmers that have a good chance to score in both the A and B finals. We should be able to match up with any team out there based on our times.