Rice University Athletics
Swimming Announces 2010-2011 Schedule
9/16/2010 12:00:00 AM | Swimming & Diving
Sept. 16, 2010
View the full 2010-2011 Rice Swim Schedule
Fifteen regular season meets, including five on campus against some elite programs at the fantastic Rice Aquatics Center, highlight the Owl swim team's new 2010-2011 schedule announced head coach Seth Huston.
The 2010-11 season starts on Oct. 2 with an open-water collegiate meet in Austin, followed by a two-day dual meet on Oct. 8-9 against former Western Athletic Conference rival Boise State on the road in Idaho.
The Owls are back on campus the following weekend to host crosstown rival Houston at the Aquatics Center on Oct. 15, the first five eventual meets slated for Rice's state-of-the-art competition pool. The Cougars are in fact one of four teams on the new schedule that finished in the Top 30 at last year's NCAA Championship meet, and UH (which finished 17th nationally) is one of three of those team Rice will be hosting. The Blue & Gray welcomes No. 6 Texas A&M on Dec. 4 and defending Conference USA champion SMU (27th in the NCAA Championship meet) on Jan. 15.
Competing against national-finishers Texas A&M, SMU and Houston is a pretty solid home slate, but there's more. Rice will have its work cut out for it hosting Big East Conference power Miami-Fla. (Nov. 5) and longtime state rival North Texas (Jan. 14) in home action.
The team is on the road for multi-day meets at the annual SMU Classic in Dallas (Oct. 29-30), the University of Houston Invitational (Nov. 19-21) and NCAA Top 30 finisher LSU at the Tigers' annual Triple Dual Meet in Baton Rouge, La. (Jan. 28-29). The Owls also compete in different meets on back-to-back days in Florida as part of the program's winter training. Rice swims Florida International and Air Force in Miami on Dec. 17, followed by The Florida Atlantic Invitational in Boca Raton against Denver and host FAU.
The Owls and all the C-USA schools go-head-to-head at the UH Rec Center Natatorium for the annual conference championships February 23-26. After the Texas All-America Grand Prix in Austin (March 3-5), the college swim season concludes with the NCAA Championships Mar. 17-19 in College Station.
View the swim team's full 2010-2011 schedule at the above link.
