The Art Adamson Invite is this week, Wed-Fri at the Student Rec Center Natatorium. Prelims at 10am, Finals at 6pm. Big chance to get some NCAA cuts and qualifications out of the way in the fall.

Divers will be competing at the Texas Diving Invitational in Austin the same days.

Adamson has been moved up a day from its normal Thur-Sat schedule due to the home football game. Finals schedule follows the old NCAA meet format:

Wed - 200 Free relay 500 Free 200 IM 50 Free 400 Medley relay
Thur - 200 Medley relay 400 IM 100 Fly 200 Free 100 Breast 100 Back 800 Free Relay
Fri - Mile 200 Back 100 Free 200 Breast 200 Fly 400 Free relay

Diving Invite Schedule TBD.

Morning updates on Aggies to Finals. Not sure if the unattached group can swim in finals and what scratches will be. The new crew on the men's side looks super strong.

500 Free
Women (no times posted that will make NCAAs yet)
A Final) Rasmus, Portz, Yelle, McMurry, Hemstreet
B Final) Kopenski, Wright, Futscher, Pike
C Final) Metzsch, Field

Men (no times posted that will make NCAAs yet)
A Final) Schnippenkoetter (#2 all-time, .04 off School record) Stuart (#3 all-time), Theall (t#5 all-time), Rizzo, Gibbons, Gogulski
B Final) Karau, Schababerle. Smith
C Final) Morey

200 IM
Women
A Final) Pickrem (Well under NCAA qualifying time from last year), Bratton (Unattach) Gonzalez-Hermosillo, Theil, DeBever, Belousova, Toney
B Final) Galat (Unattach), Quah, Carlton, Eldridge
C Final) Siebenaller, Armstrong, Wright, McMurry
D Final) Kopenski, Smith, Roubique, Raheem

Men
A Final) Casas (#2 all-time, Under NCAA qualifying time from last year), Walker, Bonetti (Unattach), Van Overdam (Unattach), Bratanov, Gomez, Martinez
B Final) Bobo, Olson, Kim
C Final) Schababerle, Simmons
D Final) Schnippenkoetter, Long

50 Free
Women (no times posted that will make NCAAS yet)
A Final) Gibson (Unattach), Eldridge, Portz
B Final) Rasmus, Sapianchai, Armstrong
C Final) Carlton, Miller, Siebenaller
D Final) Yelle, Hemstreet, Quah

Men (no times posted that will make NCAAS yet)
A Final) Casas, Koster, Thibert, Bobo (all sub 20) Richardson, Martinez, Bratanov
B Final) Theall, Tjon-A-Joe
C Final) Long

Finals start at 6pm and will include the 200 Free and 400 Medley relays to start and end the session.

Quick finals recap:

Women - Pickrem A cut in 2IM, Rasmus probable qualifying time in 500 free, provisional qualifying time for 400 medley relay

Men - School record and A cut in 200 free relay, Rizzo school record in 500 free, Casas highly probable qualifying time in 200 IM, A cut in 400 medley relay.

Sam Thornton finished 3rd on 1m and Haley Allen 8th on 3m in Austin.

Solid morning. Pickrem cruised to a 4:07 in the IM, Clayton Bobo was just .2 off the school record in the 200 free, Katie Portz and Claire Rasmus probably put up fast enough 2 free times to make it, Pickrem broke 1 minute in the 100 breast for the first time and 3 other (Belousova, Powers, and Roubique) were right around the 1 minute mark, Casas was really good (sub 47 fly and back) again.

Guys flat start add up 200 free relay from prelims this morning is 6:22.90, less than 2 seconds off the school record. That's always a rough one at the end of a long session but might be another couple of relay records in jeopardy tonight.

I am really impressed with the men this year than the women. It seems like the men could have all 5 relays swim at NCAA. Great job coaching staff

The ladies still have some work to do. No relay automatic qualification yet. Outside Sydney Pickrem no great performances yet. We definitely have a weakness this year on the backstroke leg of the relays and the 50 freestylers have not really clicked.
I expect the team though to ready for SECs as they normally do with Steve Bultman

Postgraduate/Pro training group for men and women also had some good swims, but none better than this.

https://swimswam.com/am-post-grad-lisa-bratton-moves-to-7th-on-all-time-200y-back-rankings/

Great Swim by Lisa Bratton. What is even more scary was the 1.49.17 time was done without being tested or pushed by another swimmer.

Following the Invite 8 individual women swimmers fall under the 2018 NCAA invite time

Sydney Pickrem 200IM, 400IM, 200 breast, 100 breast, 200 back
Claire Rasmus 500 free, 200 free 100 free
Anna Belousova 100 breast 200 breast
Monika Gonzalez 400IM
Katie Portz 200 free
Halley Yelle 1650 free
Taylor Pike 200 fly
Jing Quah 200 fly

Three swimmers on the bubble
Camryn Toney 400IM 4.10.22 Invite time was 4.09.75
Victoria Roubique 100 breast 1.00.25 Invite time was 1.00.11
Kylie Powers 100 breast 1.00.37 Invite time was 1.00.11

No women relays qualifiers yet

On the men side

All 5 relays should make NCAA with two automatic

Men swimmers under the 2018 invite time

Shane Casas 200IM, 100 back, 200 back
Clayton Bobo 200 free
Benjamin Walker 200 breast
Angel Martinez 200 fly

The women can swim 3 relays at NCAA. As long as you have the B cut and at least 1 swimmer qualified for the meet you can bring people to swim those relay cuts. Obviously they have more than 1 person qualified. They don't have the 200 free or medley cuts. Plus you can use add up flat start times for the 800 free relay for Rasmu/Portz/Pickrem/Yelle (1:44.22/1:44.77/1:46.34/1:46.49) which equals 7:01.82 and is under the A cut for that relay.