Shaine Casas Breaks Aaron Peirsol’s Pool Record in Texas A&M’s Day 1 vs Ohio State

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Shaine Casas swims the 100 backstroke at nationals. Photo Courtesy: Connor Trimble

The Texas A&M Aggies swimming & diving started the weekend off strong with diving occupying the leaderboard after the first day of the event against the Ohio State Buckeyes, led by Shaine Casas.

Both the men’s and women’s diving squads held their own today with freshman Victor Povzner and junior Charlye Campbell in first place.

Povzner clinched first in the 3-meter dive with a score of 428.33. Junior Kurtis Mathews placed third with a score of 377.93. Senior Mike Thibert notched his Olympic Trial cut time in the 50 free at 23.09. Shaine Casas broke the pool record at the Rec Center Natatorium for the 100 LC Meter Backstroke, coming in at 54.43, beating the previous record of 54.89 held by Olympian Aaron Peirsol back in 2007.

Campbell earned first in the 1-meter dive for the women, finishing with 301.88. Freshman Alyssa Clairmont entered her first meet as an Aggie finishing third on the 1-meter, scoring 281.18.

The Maroon & White take the pool again tomorrow at 10 a.m. with races in short course yards that will be scored.

Check out more Shaine Casas and SEC coverage here.

Quotes

Head Diving Coach Jay Lerew

On the Teams’ performance today…

“Victor [Povzner], this is his first big meet to hit his first college dive right out of the gate for 80-something points. It kept him going,and it was really awesome.”

On junior Charlye Campbell’s performance…

“Charlye has been coming out of a neck injury lately, but she fought it out. She did really well today, and I was real proud of her today.”

Freshman Diver Victor Povzner

On his college debut…

“I just really enjoyed it. It was a really enjoyable meet. The atmosphere was amazing, the other team was awesome, their sportsmanship was great. I just focused on my own dives and I am really happy about the outcome of what I did.”

Men’s Head Coach Jay Holmes

On the men’s performance today…

“Any time that you open up your season with a competition you have lots of questions. Some of our guys looked good, like ShaineCasas, MikeThibert. It was good to see where we’re at.”

Women’s Head Coach Steve Bultman

On the women’s performance today…

“I thought we had some really good swims today. We had a couple of best times, we had a couple of really close Olympic Trial cut times and we’re just getting into training.”

On how he thinks the meet tomorrow will go…

“I think it’s going to be a heck of a meet. We’re looking forward to it.”

Ohio State top performances

Top Finishes – Women

800 Free – Molly Kowal – 8:53.00
200 Free – Lucija Jurkovic-Perisa – 2:04.26
100 Back – Amy Fulmer – 1:04.68
100 Breast – Laura Banks – 1:12.95
200 Fly – Kathrin Demler – 2:14.66
50 Free – Freya Rayner – 26.24
100 Free – Freya Rayner – 58.23
200 Back – Kristen Romano – 2:20.46
200 Breast – Molly Kowal – 2:35.41
400 Free – Nicole Fye – 4:26.13
100 Fly – Katie Trace – 1:03.02
200 IM – Hanna Gresser – 2:21.24

Top Finishes – Men

800 Free – Carson Burt – 8:33.07
200 Free – Paul DeLakis – 1:55.34
100 Back – Thomas Watkins – 56.64
100 Breast – Jason Mathews – 1:03.48
200 Fly – Alex Dillmann – 2:04.65
50 Free – Cameron Craig – 22.75
100 Free – Andrew Loy – 51.85
200 Back – Thomas Watkins – 2:03.78
200 Breast – Jason Mathews – 2:20.52
400 Free – Matthew Magness – 4:09.93
100 Fly – Cameron Craig – 53.43
200 IM – Daniel Gloude – 2:07.12

— The above press release was posted by Swimming World in conjunction with Texas A&M and Ohio State. For press releases and advertising inquiries please contact Advertising@SwimmingWorld.com.

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Robert Essien

4 years ago

Very good but put the time as to know how
the record was break

Thomas A. Small

4 years ago

Congratulations great job