TCU Men, Women Lead After Day 1 of UIW Christmas Invitational

By Robert H Kelly
Copyright 2011 TexSportPublications

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS (December17, 2011) The TCU men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams lead the fieldafter the first day of competition at the University of the Incarnate WordChristmas Invitational at the Palo Alto College natatorium.

The TCU men and women combined for six wins to highlight the first day’scompetition.

The Horned Flogs men’s 400-yard medley relay consisting of LaszloGyurko, Edgar Crespo, Luiz Azarias and Devin Price won the final event of theevening with a time of 3:19.98.

Gyurko also took top honors in the 100-yard butterfly with the time of48.59.

Azarias and Friedrich Grott also scored in the event placing sixth andeighth, respectively.

Sebastian Arispe also won the gold for the Horned Frogs with his 4:26.61in the 500-yard freestyle. It was his first win in his career for TCU.

Michael Franz, Cooper Robinson and Ross Van Allen also finished in thetop 8 and scored points in the event.

The final win for the TCU men was Ricky Bradley’s victory in the 3-meterdiving with a personal best score of 305.90.

Freshman Victoria Thicke-Rattray won the 200-yard individual medley forthe women followed closely by teammate Ali Bleasdell for the one-two finish.

Katie Lybbert also scored on the boards, winning the 1-meter divingevent with the score of 252.85.

The Horned Frogs finished the day leading both divisions, with the mentallying 668 points while the women scored 591 points.

In the men’s division, TCU was followed by Missouri State (627.5),University of the Incarnate Word (517.5), and Utah (333).

The TCU women were followed by Rice (511), Missouri State (398.5), Utah(335.5), University of the Incarnate Word (284) and North Texas (76).