College Station, Texas and Texas A&M University will play host to the 2017 Mountain West Swimming & Diving Championships.
The conference website lists the conference championship meet as taking place in College Station from February 15-18 of next year. That’s a pretty typical Wednesday-through-Saturday schedule for a college conference meet.
The Texas A&M Aggies are not part of the Mountain West, but the venue will be open with Texas A&M heading to the SEC Championships in Knoxville, Tennessee on the same weekend.
This will be the second year in College Station for the Mountain West, which had hosted its conference championship meet at the Palo Alto College Aquatic Center every year since 2013. Prior to that, the meet had been swum at the Oklahoma City Community College for more than a decade, from 2000 to the 2011-2012 season.
The Mountain West Swimming & Diving Championships are for women’s programs only, featuring 10 teams: Nevada, Boise State, San Diego State, Wyoming, UNLV, San Jose State, New Mexico, Colorado State, Air Force and Fresno State.
Last season, Nevada won its first-ever conference title in women’s swimming, besting Boise State by 13 points in a thrilling finish.
Attempt to swim championships at sea level facilities that have platform available in the diving well.
Seems weird going to a state that none of them compete in for their conference championship meet.
The Mountain West meet was in College Station last year as well.