The Texas A&M men have released a 2020-2021 swimming & diving season schedule that includes at least 3 competition dates against their historical rivals the Texas Longhorns among a Texas-heavy list of opponents.
With emphasis that all meet dates are tentative at this point, the Aggies will kick off their intercollegiate schedule on October 16th and 17th in Austin at the University of Texas with a two-day tri meet against Texas and SMU. While the Aggies don’t currently share a conference with either the Longhorns or the Mustangs, historically those programs have been the Aggie men’s primary swimming rivals. That includes a huge upset by A&M over Texas by 4 points in 2017 before the Longhorns went on to win the NCAA National Championship.
A&M and Texas will square off again on October 30th in another dual meet.
The recent rise of the A&M men’s team, who were seeded to finish 6th at last year’s NCAA Championships in men’s swimming points, should give this matchup some added intensity.
The SMU men’s program has some new life as well under new head coach Greg Rhodenbaugh, who is also very familiar with the A&M and Texas programs from his time leading the Missouri Tigers.
For the Longhorns, who have won 4 of the last 5 NCAA Championship meets on the men’s side, this will retain some level of normalcy to them – they usually have an early-season two-day tri meet in recent years. Last season, that meet was against Indiana and Louisville.
The Aggies will continue their season on November 6th with a dual meet against TCU at home in College Station before hosting the Art Adamson Invitational from November 18-20. That’s an unusual Wednesday-Friday timeline, the week before Thanksgiving. What that meet will look like and what teams will participate remains to be seen.
The Aggies’ last scheduled meet of the fall semester at present is another home event against Incarnate Word on December 12.
The SEC has set up a swimming & diving regular season timeline that runs from October 1, 2020 to January 25, 2021, with regionalized competition permitted.
The A&M women have not yet announced any 2020-2021 competition dates.
The A&M men swam an intrasquad pentathlon meet on Friday. While full meet results were not available, assistant coach Jason Calanog did Tweet the event winners, a list that was dominated by junior Shaine Casas. Casas, a member of the USA Swimming National Team, is a contender for national swimmer of the year this season.
- 50 Fly: Casas 21.65 (Meet Record)
- 50 Bk: Casas 21.93 (Meet Record)
- 50 Br: Olson 25.19 (Meet Record)
- 50 Fr: Casas 19.93 (Meet Record)
- 100 IM: Casas 48.88 (Meet Record)
Any word on the women’s schedules? I see that the Texas women’s schedule (posted on their website) only includes the US Open in San Antonio, no college dual meets??? Nothing has been posted for the Aggie women yet?
No, nothing for the women yet. We checked with Texas – they had more meets listed earlier, but coach Capitani confirmed that it was an out-dated schedule. Looks like they’ve leared that out for now.
Casas vs. Katz will be a nice race (for Casas).
Yeah, you’re right! Katz will be swimming to keep 2nd place👍👍😄
Excuse me, I was totally wrong🙃. Katz will be “racing hard” to hold onto 2nd place👍
Glad they are able to compete!
Does anybody know where find an Eddie Reese Halloween costume to sneak into the Texas Swim Center for the first meet? Asking for a friend.
Cmon psychodad.
Surprised it’s not in the new Aggy nat
Assuming you mean SMU’s new facility. Texas A&M’s pool opened in 1995.
A&M just got an upgrade.
Locker rooms etc
And a new 25-yard training pool to relieve congestion on the main facility.
That new pool is more for campus Rec use than for the Aggie swim teams. A&M’s existing competition pool is in the older wing of the Campus Rec center. Since that pool would be shut to CR during Aggie practices and meets, as well as Sectionals and other meets, the CRC was expanded to make a pool available to the university community. The new pool is explicitly not a competition pool, so it can’t be used as such for any meet purposes. It’s also too far away from the competition pool to be used as a warmup facility. It’s a Rec pool, and I doubt that the varsity teams have any access unless there’s a USA meet and they can’t… Read more »
How do you watch these meets? I want to see Georgia vs Florida and this tri meet. Does anyone stream it?