The Texas Longhorns men’s swimming & diving teams are the defending NCAA Division I Champions, and they’ve put together a schedule for the 2016-2017 season that’s worthy of upholding that honor.
The Longhorns will swim duals or tris against 5 of the country’s top 10 teams from last season, plus perennial powers the Arizona Wildcats, who had a down year last year.
Texas’ dual meet schedule, with last year’s NCAA rank:
- #9 Indiana/#3 Florida – October 21st-22nd, INDIANA HOST
- #4 NC State – November 4th, HOME
- #10 Auburn – January 12th, AUBURN HOST
- #5 Georgia – January 14th, GEORGIA HOST
- #16 Arizona – January 27th-28th, HOME
- NR TCU – February 3rd, TCU HOST
It’s a relatively light schedule compared to what we’ve seen from most of the top teams in the country this season, with none of the smaller-scale invites that have begun to clog up the college regular-season schedule, but those meets on the list will count.
Texas will also play host to two invites that historically drawn in big competition.
- The Texas Invite, which extends to four days to match the NCAA Championship schedule, is from November 30th-December 3rd;
- and the Arena Pro Swim Series at Austin – a USA Swimming hosted meet that this year will kick off the series as a result of no more Minneapolis meet in the fall.
All of this is in preparation for attempting to repeat as NCAA Champions (they’ll be the favorites) from March 22nd-25th in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Longhorns return Olympic medalists Townley Haas, Jack Conger, and Joseph Schooling, who combined for 128 individual points and 4 NCAA titles last season; plus 2016 U.S. Olympic medalist Clark Smith, who’ll be looking to springboard from a successful off-season to improve upon his 5-point NCAA performance last year, and defending NCAA Champion Will Licon.
The full men’s team schedule:
| DATE | OPPONENT | LOCATION | TIME/RESULT | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/30/2016 | Orange-White | Austin, Texas | 3 p.m. | ||
| 10/21/2016 | Indiana & Florida | Bloomington, Ind. | 4 p.m. ET | ||
| 10/22/2016 | Indiana & Florida | Bloomington, Ind. | 10 a.m. ET | ||
| 11/4/2016 | N.C. State | Austin, Texas | TBA | ||
| 11/17-19/2016 | Texas Diving Invitational | Austin, Texas | All Day | ||
| 11/30-12/3/2016 | Texas Invitational | Austin, Texas | 10 a.m./6 p.m. (evening only on Wednesday) | ||
| 12/15-22/2016 | USA Diving Winter Nationals | Columbus, Ohio | All Day | ||
| 1/12/2017 | Auburn | Auburn, Ala. | 2 p.m. | ||
| 1/13-15/2017 | USA Swimming Arena Pro Swim Series at Austin | Austin, Texas | All Day | ||
| 1/14/2017 | Georgia | Athens, Ga. | 11 a.m. ET | ||
| 1/27-28/2017 | Arizona | Austin, Texas | 4 p.m./10 a.m. | ||
| 2/3/2017 | TCU | Fort Worth, Texas | 4 p.m. | ||
| 2/22-25/2017 | Big 12 Championships | Austin, Texas | All Day | ||
| 3/2-4/2017 | American Short Course Championships | Austin, Texas | All Day | ||
| 3/6-8/2017 | NCAA Zone “D” Diving Meet | Columbia, Mo. | All Day | ||
| 3/22-25/2017 | NCAA Championships | Indianapolis, Ind. | All Day |
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Art Winters
1 quick fix to the article Braden:
Texas will actually be facing 6 of the top 10 teams from last year.
At the Orange-White meet they face a title contending team called “the Texas B guys”
When does Braden sleep??
“The machine” never sleeps
Trick question, Braden has never slept a day in his life
i heard the same rumor for Braden Holloway…. Must be the name…
The article says the Texas Invite is in mid-November, but the schedule says that’s when the dive meet is, and the Texas Invite for swimming is 11/30-12/3. Which is correct?
It looks to me like Braden just may have misread the 2 separate Texas Invite entries on the calendar. Presumably the swim meet is in its usual timeframe (11/30-12/3) for a barrage of NCAA cuts.
Yep, I missed it. I need to get more sleep. Fixing now.
Horns return:
4 NCAA individual champs- Licon, Smith, Haas, Schooling
7 US Olympic Trials Finalists- Conger, Haas, Smith, Roberts, Licon, Shebat, Glass
4 Gold Medals- Schooling, Haas, Conger and Smith
17 Swimmers who’ve previously qualified for NCAA’s
It’s pretty special collection of talent.