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Bulldogs Return to Gabrielsen Against Harvard
January 06, 2019 | Swimming & Diving
ATHENS, Ga.– Following a successful Georgia Diving Invitational, the 12th-ranked University of Georgia men's swimming and diving team resumes its 2018-19 slate in Gabrielsen Natatorium against Harvard University on Monday at noon ET.
Ranked 12thin the country after a third-place finish at the Georgia Fall Invitational, the Georgia men face off with a Harvard squad that is receiving votes and expecting to build on a four-meet winning streak.
The last competition for the Georgia swimmers was at the Georgia Fall Invitational, where the men placed third. Sophomore Camden Murphy set a school record in the 100-yard butterfly during preliminaries, a 45.47 time that preceded a first-place finish in the final.
Murphy was joined by junior Javier Acevedo, who paced the Bulldog backstrokers with a second-place finish of 1:39.88 in the 200-yard backstroke, the second-best time in school history just .82 behind his own school record set at the 2018 SEC Championships in February.
The first 2019 action came on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Georgia Diving Invitational, headed by first-year diving head coach Chris Colwill. The Bulldog divers face off with a Harvard contingent on Monday who also travelled to Athens for the Georgia Fall Invitational in December.
With zone-qualifying scores from sophomore diver Zach Allen and various B-cut qualifying times, the Georgia men begin 2019 with four dual meets before SEC Championships in Athens from February 19-23.
Next, the swimming and diving program returns in full on Saturday, January 12 in Athens against Texas, a second-ranked men's team and a top-ranked women's squad.
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