Owls Set for Weekend Action in Dallas

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vs MPSF Open Water Championships

Oct 18

Swimming & Diving

vs Rice Fall Splash

Oct 24

Swimming & Diving

vs North Texas

Nov 1

11 AM

Swimming & Diving

at Tulane

Nov 7

4 PM

Swimming & Diving

at LSU

Nov 8

12 PM

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at Phill Hansel Invitational

Nov 19

Swimming & Diving

vs CSCAA Open Water Championship

Dec 13

In Brief: Seth Huston's Rice Owls return to action this weekend by traveling to Dallas to meet North Texas, Tulane and host SMU in a two-day triple dual meet at the Mustangs' Robson & Lindley Aquatics Center and Barr-McMillion Natatorium. The competition begins at 5 p.m. on Friday and wraps on Saturday at 10 a.m.

Follow the Action: Both days of the competition will be carried on PonyUp TV . Meet results will be available on the Meet Mobile App.

The Schedule:
Friday: 400 Medley Relay, 1000 Freestyle, 100 Butterfly, 100 Backstroke, 100 Breaststroke, 3 M Diving, 200 Freestyle, 50 Freestyle. 400 IM. 400 Freestyle Relay.
Saturday: 200 Medley Relay, 500 Freestyle, 200 Breaststroke, 200 Backstroke, 1 M Diving, 100 Freestyle, 200 Butterfly, 200 IM, 200 Freestyle Relay

Notable:

Rice and North Texas are competing in The American Athletic Conference as affiliate members in 2022-23 in advance of both schools joining the conference in July of 2023.
SMU will host the AAC Championships (February 15-18) and two of the Owls' final three regular-season dual competitions will be in the Mustangs home pool. Rice will also compete in the SMU Pre-Conference Time Trial on February 4.
Rice's last competition at the Robson & Lindley Aquatics Center and Barr-McMillion Natatorium was on 1/9/21 when the Owls topped the Mustangs 155-106 in a dual meet.
Rice and SMU swimmers currently own the top times in The American in 13 of the 17 events on this weekend's program. Lauren McDougall (200 & 500 free) and Zoe Spitz (100 & 200 back) each have the top time in a pair of events while Arielle Hayon (200 fly) and Ella Dyson (1,000 free) lead the conference in one event. Rice has also posted the top conference marks in the 200 & 400 medley relays.
Spitz set school records with her conference-leading times in the 100 (53.34) and 200 back (1:55.77) as did Hayon in the 200 fly (1:56.64) and the two joined with McDougall and Lily Cramer to post the third-fastest 400 medley relay at Rice to lead the league (3:38.78).
Spitz (10/25) and Hayon (11/22) earned weekly honors from The American in the fall.
Rice captured the 2022 CSCAA College National Open Water Championship in December and Dyson captured the individual title followed by Amelia Kane (8^th), Shannon Campbell (9^th) and Elizabeth Myers (19^th).

Seth Huston: "At least half of our team has never competed in this pool, so it's a really good opportunity to get the lay of the land and stay in the same hotel as we will for conference. This is an ideal situation in that that you get a little more familiarity with the layout and being in the venue. We had a great training trip and then a great week of training camp last week before the students came back to campus. We've stayed a little bit more in our traditional training capacity zone. This weekend is one where we'll throw some people into different situations. It gives us a chance to get a look at them in some different spots that we might be considering for them. When we come back to practice next week, we move into championship season."

Up Next: The Owls will be back in competition in two weeks when they face Houston at 10 a.m. on January 28 as the Cougars celebrate their Senior Day.

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