Men's swimming heads to Dallas

January 12, 2009

The Arizona State men's swimming and diving team will head to Dallas for a weekend filled of competition. The team will start the weekend off by competing in a tri-meet against Northwestern and SMU on Friday at 7:00 p.m. CT. The following day, the team will take part in the Dallas Morning News Classic. The classic concludes on Sunday.<separator></separator>Top 10  This season's Texas Invitational produced multiple top ASU times. <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/c-swim/mtt/boyle_sean01.html">Sean Boyle</a> had a breakthrough weekend and is now second all-time in the 200 fly (1:44.98) and sixth (1:35.91) in the 200 free. <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/c-swim/mtt/madwa_mohammed00.html">M… Madwa</a> entered his name at No. 9 after clocking in a time of 20.05 in the 50 free. <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/c-swim/mtt/laney_max00.html">Max Laney</a> earned his place at sixth in the 200 back on ASU's all-time list with a time 1:46.22. <separator></separator>Senioritis Senior Boyle has already began to make a statement his senior year. The Lake Elsinore, Calif., native has already earned three NCAA consideration times. At the Texas Invitational, Boyle moved himself to second on ASU's all-time list with an NCAA consideration time of 1:44.98. He placed fourth in the event. Boyle also shattered his personal record in the 200 free to put him at sixth on ASU's all-time list at 1:35.91. Boyle also earned an NCAA consideration time in the 500 free with a time of 4:23.03. <separator></separator>Pac-10 Tri-Champ Returns  After winning all three Pac-10 diving events last season, <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/c-swim/mtt/benedetti_micky01.html">… Benedetti</a> aims to repeat and to earn All-American honors in all three diving events. Although the divers have not seen much action in the fall season, Benedetti made the most of his competition by winning both the 1 and 3 meters at USC.<separator></separator>Up Next:  The men and women will host Stanford and California in their final home meets of the season. The men will take on Stanford at 1 p.m. while the women's meet will begin at 3 p.m. On Saturday, the meet against Cal will be combined and will start at noon.