2010 NCAAs

2010 NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships Final Team Standings - Top 4 1 TEXAS 500 2 California 469.5 3 Arizona 387 4 Stanford 369 POST-MEET COMMENTS Texas head coach Eddie Reese On winning his 10th NCAA championship: I never really count numbers. It’s always a 15 to 18 to 19-man effort that does it. To get everybody headed in the right direction in early September, that takes trust on their side and takes trust on the coaching staff’s side. Swimmers and divers are such good kids that it’s hard to not enjoy it and not have success, win or lose. Cal can be upset about not winning, but they had the meet of their lives. I’m not sure I want to see them have this kind of meet ever again (laughs). We never set a goal to win (before the season). We set a goal to get better and try to figure out what it takes to get better. But, I’m a bit of a purist and I would love to see them work real hard and go real fast, and then whatever the team score comes out , that’s great. It really helps to win because it doesn’t happen very often. On the key factor in winning the meet: The key to the meet was the morning of the second day because Cal had the best second-day morning (at an NCAA Championship) I have ever seen in this sport. We stayed fairly close to them, and if we hadn’t stayed close to them, then it would have been totally over. We would have had no chance. They could have given Cal the trophy that night. There was no way to make up a whole lot on Cal tonight. The third day is always a tough day. On the divers’ success: The divers pay the same price we do and they work hard. Everybody wants to come here and perform. That’s the name of the game. It’s a moderately simple equation. They did a great job. On rallying to win on the meet’s final day: This was one of our best final days, ever. The only thing special about it was the people that were doing the swims. The last day is a fatigue day. If you looked at the 400 freestyle relays in the prelims, California went with their best four guys just to not take a chance. We went with our best four guys. On whether this NCAA title is more special than others: It’s always about people and effort for me. If you’re going to win an NCAA championship, you’ve got to have real good people who make great efforts on days they don’t want to, when they’re not feeling well. All that kind of stuff goes into it. I don’t remember the others (national championships), but I can tell you what their times were when they came to school and what they were when they graduated. Those are the important things. It’s what they give. Senior Ricky Berens On winning the national championship: It’s what every college athlete dreams of, to win the NCAA championship. That’s what you train for every single day. We worked so hard every single day for the last four years, and we knew were not going to come up short. To go out like this is amazing. All of the seniors…we’re all such a close-knit group, a bunch of brothers. It’s just something very special we talked about…winning the NCAA championship. We often watched past NCAA Championships and saw all the Texas guys from 2001 and 2002, when they won NCAA titles. We wanted to feel what they felt when they jumped in the pool together after winning the national championship. We wanted it. On Texas swinging the momentum back in its favor during prelims: The whole NCAA meet is a roller coaster. Every single team goes up and down the whole meet. Cal won those relays early on, and they gained momentum the whole second day. Then, we won the 800 freestyle relay and took away the momentum. We went into the last day really pumped. We had a meeting today before prelims. We discussed how we were tired of getting second place and that we were going to get it done right now in the prelims. 2010 NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships - Day 3 Finals Results 1,650 Freestyle - Timed Final 3. Jackson Wilcox - 14:49.47 200 Backstroke - Championship Final 6. Austin Surhoff - 1:41.13 200 Backstroke - Consolation Final 6. Hill Taylor - 1:42.58 7. Cole Cragin - 1:42.74 8. Bryan Collins - 1:43.10 100 Freestyle - Championship Final 2. Jimmy Feigen - 41.91 8. Dave Walters - 42.96 100 Freestyle - Consolation Final T1 Scott Jostes - 42.82 6. Ben Van Roekel - 43.25 200 Breaststroke - Championship Final 2. Scott Spann - 1:53.21 7. Eric Friedland - 1:54.80 200 Butterfly - Consolation Final 4. Ricky Berens - 1:43.89 Platform Diving - Championship Final 3. Matt Cooper - 462.30 7. Drew Livingston - 382.80 400 Freestyle Relay 2 Walters, Feigen, Jostes, Berens - 2:49.90 From: Longhorns claim 10th NCAA men's swimming and diving championship behind nine top-eight finishes on the final day. www.texassports.com/.../tex-m-swim-spec-rel.html

2010 NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships Final Team Standings - Top 4 1 TEXAS 500 2 California 469.5 3 Arizona 387 4 Stanford 369 POST-MEET COMMENTS Texas head coach Eddie Reese On winning his 10th NCAA championship: I never really count numbers. It’s always a 15 to 18 to 19-man effort that does it. To get everybody headed in the right direction in early September, that takes trust on their side and takes trust on the coaching staff’s side. Swimmers and divers are such good kids that it’s hard to not enjoy it and not have success, win or lose. Cal can be upset about not winning, but they had the meet of their lives. I’m not sure I want to see them have this kind of meet ever again (laughs). We never set a goal to win (before the season). We set a goal to get better and try to figure out what it takes to get better. But, I’m a bit of a purist and I would love to see them work real hard and go real fast, and then whatever the team score comes out , that’s great. It really helps to win because it doesn’t happen very often. On the key factor in winning the meet: The key to the meet was the morning of the second day because Cal had the best second-day morning (at an NCAA Championship) I have ever seen in this sport. We stayed fairly close to them, and if we hadn’t stayed close to them, then it would have been totally over. We would have had no chance. They could have given Cal the trophy that night. There was no way to make up a whole lot on Cal tonight. The third day is always a tough day. On the divers’ success: The divers pay the same price we do and they work hard. Everybody wants to come here and perform. That’s the name of the game. It’s a moderately simple equation. They did a great job. On rallying to win on the meet’s final day: This was one of our best final days, ever. The only thing special about it was the people that were doing the swims. The last day is a fatigue day. If you looked at the 400 freestyle relays in the prelims, California went with their best four guys just to not take a chance. We went with our best four guys. On whether this NCAA title is more special than others: It’s always about people and effort for me. If you’re going to win an NCAA championship, you’ve got to have real good people who make great efforts on days they don’t want to, when they’re not feeling well. All that kind of stuff goes into it. I don’t remember the others (national championships), but I can tell you what their times were when they came to school and what they were when they graduated. Those are the important things. It’s what they give. Senior Ricky Berens On winning the national championship: It’s what every college athlete dreams of, to win the NCAA championship. That’s what you train for every single day. We worked so hard every single day for the last four years, and we knew were not going to come up short. To go out like this is amazing. All of the seniors…we’re all such a close-knit group, a bunch of brothers. It’s just something very special we talked about…winning the NCAA championship. We often watched past NCAA Championships and saw all the Texas guys from 2001 and 2002, when they won NCAA titles. We wanted to feel what they felt when they jumped in the pool together after winning the national championship. We wanted it. On Texas swinging the momentum back in its favor during prelims: The whole NCAA meet is a roller coaster. Every single team goes up and down the whole meet. Cal won those relays early on, and they gained momentum the whole second day. Then, we won the 800 freestyle relay and took away the momentum. We went into the last day really pumped. We had a meeting today before prelims. We discussed how we were tired of getting second place and that we were going to get it done right now in the prelims. 2010 NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships - Day 3 Finals Results 1,650 Freestyle - Timed Final 3. Jackson Wilcox - 14:49.47 200 Backstroke - Championship Final 6. Austin Surhoff - 1:41.13 200 Backstroke - Consolation Final 6. Hill Taylor - 1:42.58 7. Cole Cragin - 1:42.74 8. Bryan Collins - 1:43.10 100 Freestyle - Championship Final 2. Jimmy Feigen - 41.91 8. Dave Walters - 42.96 100 Freestyle - Consolation Final T1 Scott Jostes - 42.82 6. Ben Van Roekel - 43.25 200 Breaststroke - Championship Final 2. Scott Spann - 1:53.21 7. Eric Friedland - 1:54.80 200 Butterfly - Consolation Final 4. Ricky Berens - 1:43.89 Platform Diving - Championship Final 3. Matt Cooper - 462.30 7. Drew Livingston - 382.80 400 Freestyle Relay 2 Walters, Feigen, Jostes, Berens - 2:49.90 From: Longhorns claim 10th NCAA men's swimming and diving championship behind nine top-eight finishes on the final day. www.texassports.com/.../tex-m-swim-spec-rel.html