{"id":603409,"date":"2025-01-17T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T00:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=603409"},"modified":"2025-01-17T17:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T00:16:08","slug":"josh-liendo-michaela-mattes-impress-as-florida-dominates-texas-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/josh-liendo-michaela-mattes-impress-as-florida-dominates-texas-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Liendo, Michaela Mattes Impress as Florida Dominates Texas A&M"},"content":{"rendered":"

Josh Liendo, Michaela Mattes Impress as Florida Dominates Texas A&M<\/strong><\/p>\n

The University of Florida swim and dive teams traveled to College Station, Texas, to take on the SEC rival Texas A&M Aggies, and both Gator teams came out comfortably ahead, with\u00a0Josh Liendo<\/strong> and\u00a0Michaela Mattes<\/strong> each winning a pair of individual events. The Florida men dominated by a 193-107 margin while the women won 179-120.<\/p>\n

The Florida men opened their strong performance with a time of 1:25.53 in the 200 medley relay, with\u00a0Jonny Marshall<\/strong>,\u00a0Julian Smith<\/strong>, Liendo and\u00a0Alex Painter<\/strong> combining for a time of 1:25.53. Liendo topped the 50 free in 19.29, and he returned to post a time of 45.95 in the 100 butterfly.<\/p>\n

Smith, fresh off becoming the fourth man ever under 50 seconds in the 100-yard breaststroke at midseason, placed first in the event against the Aggies in 53.04. He later won the 200 IM in 1:46.00, and Marshall took first in the 100 backstroke (47.10).<\/p>\n

Jake Mitchell<\/strong>, a Tokyo Olympic finalist in the 400-meter free, pulled away to win the 1000 free in 9:05.92.\u00a0Mason Laur<\/strong> won the 200 butterfly (1:45.67), and freshman\u00a0Aiden Norman<\/strong> won the 200 back (1:44.14).\u00a0Aleksas Savickas<\/strong> finished almost four seconds ahead of the field in the 200 breast (1:57.49), followed by\u00a0Eric Brown<\/strong> winning the 500 free (4:28.03).<\/p>\n

Peyton Donald<\/strong> won 1-meter diving (373.35), and the team of Painter, Liendo,\u00a0Devin Dilger<\/strong> and\u00a0Oskar Lindholm<\/strong> placed first in the 400 free relay (2:53.98).<\/p>\n

Baylor Nelson<\/strong> claimed the first win for Texas A&M as he won the 200 free by a second in 1:36.51.\u00a0Connor Foote<\/strong> took first in the 100 free (44.20), and in diving, Allen Bottego<\/strong> finished first on the 3-meter board (411.30).<\/p>\n