October 19th marked the 2nd inaugural Texas A&M home meet held in Colleyville, Texas. That’s right a home meet just shy of 4 hours from College Station. Before I discuss the results I’d like to give thanks to all the officers especially Ryan McManus for their logistics efforts that made the McManus Invitational possible. Thanks for Ryan’s parents for housing and feeding 25 college kids while they pretended to murder each other in the dark. I’d also like to give an inverse thanks to whichever university bureaucrat who believes the club swim team doesn’t deserve the pool for a few hours of a single Saturday morning. (Thanks & Gig Em!)-1. Regardless of the location TAMCS men, women, and combined managed to BTHO Baylor and every team for that matter. That’s pretty much the theme of this recap. For the number of events swam this meet expired rather quickly. In the same fashion I will get through all of our top place finishes as quickly as I can:
Women 200 medley relay – 1st A relay
Men 200 medley relay – 1st A relay, 2nd B relay
Men 200 Back – 1st Matt Munden
Women 50 Fly – 3rd Cori Eckert
Men 50 Fly – 1st Ryan McManus, 2nd Nick Tann
Men 400 IM – 1st Matt Munden
Women 100 free – 3rd Alex Remy
Men 100 free – 2nd Tristan Bauer
Men 500 free – 1st Mason Greenblatt
Women 400 medley relay – 1st A relay
Men 400 medley relay – 1st A relay, 2nd B relay
Men 400 free relay – 1st A relay, 2nd B relay
Women 50 free – 1st Alex Remy
Men 50 free – 2nd Ryan McManus, 3rd Tristian Bauer
Men 200 IM – 1st Jacob Thomas, 3rd Ryan Blanchard
Women 100 breast – 1st Anita Sumali
Men 100 breast – 1st Jacob Thomas, 2nd Jeppeson Feliciano
Men 100 back – 1st Matt Munden
Men 50 breast – 3rd Jeppesen Feliciano
Women 800 free relay – 1st A relay
Men 800 free relay – 1st A relay
Women 50 back – 1st Alex Remy, 2nd Anita Sumali, 3rd CJ Pfeil
Men 50 back – 1st Nick Tann
Men 200 breast – 1st Jacob Thomas, 2nd Jeppeson Feliciano
Men 100 fly – 1st Nick Tann, 3rd Mason Greenblatt
Men 200 free – 1st Matt Munden
Men 100 IM – 1st Ryan McManus, 3rd Ryan Blanchard
Women 200 free relay – 1st A relay
Men 200 free relay – 1st A relay
*Strikethroughs indicate what could have been. For reasons that pervade me, the team (Matt specifically) successfully attempted an average of 1 DQ per event.
Great job to everyone that represented the maroon and white in Dallas. If you’d like to hear about our post meet celebration ask the Brit (Matt Munden) about his State Fair experience.