COLLEGE STATION, Texas - The University of Arizona men's swimming and diving team jumped one spot to be in seventh place (143) after the second day of competition at the 2001 NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships. Leading the pack is defending champion Texas with 446.5 points. Rounding out the top-five teams are Stanford (337.5), Tennessee (247.5), Southern California (234) and Auburn (231).

The Wildcats had their highest finish of the meet thus far when junior Omar Ojeda placed second on the three meter in tonight's finals. Ojeda's point total was 635.95 and broke the Arizona school record set by Jimmy Sjodin in 1997. Junior Ruben Vaca placed 11th on the three meter board today with 513.55 points.

"Both of the Arizona divers had a great day today. Omar's performance was brilliant, he shattered the old school record by 65 points. He's capable of being first or second in the country, he's that good, as he showed us all today," said Arizona head diving coach Michele Mitchell-Rocha.

In the championships finals of the 100 butterfly junior Roland Schoeman touched the wall at 46.53 to place third. Senior Jay Schryver swam his career top-time in the championship final of the 200 free at 1:35.39. Schryver placed fifth in the event.

Freshman Eric la Fleur, junior Roland Schoeman, senior Ben Anderson and freshman Tyler Johnson placed second, 10th overall,