Sports Notebook
Swimming falls at Texas A&M meet
Despite falling to fifth-ranked Texas A&M University in a dual-meet in College Station Saturday, the swim team displayed its roster depth with a number of impressive individual performances. However, the team’s overall improvement was questionable.
The highest marks of the meet for the Owls were the first place finishes for freshman Erin Mattson in the 200-yard butterfly and the 200-yard freestyle relay team of Mattson and sophomores Carlyann Miller, Skylar Craig and Diane Gu. Mattson’s butterfly time of 2 minutes, 5.21 seconds is her best time of the season and puts her fourth in the Conference USA rankings for this season, 3.7 seconds behind the leader Justine Clark from Southern Methodist University. While winning first at the meet, the Miller-Craig-Mattson-Gu relay team’s time of 1:38.10 seconds was not an improvement over their fastest showing of the season, a time of 1:35.31 seconds at the Phill Hansel Duals Weekend in early November.
Although the Owls only won 2 of the meet’s 14 events, they claimed 8 seconds and 11 thirds.
The meet against the Aggies was the swim team’s final competition of the fall semester, with their next match-up set for Jan. 5 in the Florida Atlantic University Invitational in Boca Raton, Fla.
—Taylor Johnson
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