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February 13, 2009 | Men's Swimming & Diving
Feb. 13, 2009
AMHERST, Mass. - Everything the UMass swimming and diving teams do the entire year leads up to this, the Atlantic 10 Championships in Buffalo, N.Y. on Feb. 18-21. Men's swimming head coach Russ Yarworth will be blogging each day from the championships and he starts things off with an update on how the final week of preparation is going.
A-10 Preparation Almost Complete
We're getting ready to go here in Amherst. Five days until the meet, and we depart on Tuesday. The team (and coaches) are getting a bit antsy as the final practices come up. The boys all get three days without classes this long weekend with some light swimming, stretching and prep work as the final days of taper kick in.
I'm very pleased with some of the performances in the quality work we do during this period and I'm looking for great swims as we try to defend our title yet again. The divers have been fine-tuning their stuff and look to continue their domination of the events.
I'll be publishing a daily blog from Buffalo to give you my impressions of the meet. We're going to be suited up in TYR Tracer Lights .....its funny how this year the talk is sometimes more about what suit people are wearing rather than who is swimming...tale of the times as the swimming community wrestles with the suit controversy issue!
We start on Wednesday night with the 200 Medley and 800 Freestyle Relays. Preliminary lineups for those are:
200 MR: Back: Max Butler, Breast: Brian Schmidt, Fly: Mike Berthaume, Free: Juan Moliere.
800 FR: Nate Bromage, Tristan Partridge, Julian McKean, Joey Sbordon.
Stay tuned as we get ready to roll!
