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Texas Men & Women Dominate the Texas Invitational

Dec 3, 2000

AUSTIN, TX - The No.1 University of Texas men's swimming and diving team extended its lead to 543 points in the second day of the Texas Invitational, held on Saturday, Dec. 2 at the Jamail Swim Center. Trailing the Longhorns are No. 7 California (201), No. 5 Arizona (365), No. 25 Wisconsin (309), No. 22 Harvard (301), No. 9 Michigan (221), No. 19 SMU (190), No. 12 Arizona State (143), Nebraska (109), TCU (99), No. 3 Stnanford (74) and Kansas (21).

On the women's side, the Longhorns (354.50) moved into second behind Stanford, who holds a slim lead of 370.50 points, followed by No. 2 UCLA (149.50), No. 3 Arizona (344.50), No. 12 Wisconsin (280.50), No. 5 California (279), No. 13 Michigan (217), No. 15 SMU (211), Rice (102), No. 16 Arizona State (99.50), No. 18 Minnesota (87), TCU (57), Nebraska (34) and Harvard (2).

Senior Nate Dusing (Villa Hills, Ky.) led the Longhorns capturing the backstroke event (47.87), followed by teammate junior Tommy Hannan (Baltimore, Md.), who placed second with a time of 47.91. Dusing would also help the team of Hannan, freshman Brendan Hansen (Havertown, Pa,) and junior Leffie Crawford (Pacifica, Calif.) to a first-place showing in the 200 medley relay and capture the 800 freestyle relay title with sophomore Chris Kemp (Southlake, Texas) and seniors Jamie Rauch (Houston,Texas) and Scott Goldblatt (Scotch Plains, N.J.) ( 6:30.55).

"We are keeping the momentum going and working hard," said men's head coach Eddie Reese. "I have watched these swimmers make significant breakthroughs in their times during practice. Now they are making these times in competition and have allowed us to post great performances."

Senior Colleen Lann