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Men's Swimming and Diving Defeats TCU, 128-100
Sunday, January 21, 2001 | Men's Swimming & Diving
The 10th-ranked Florida men's swimming and diving team defeated the TCU Horned Frogs by a score of 128-100 at the Rickel Center Saturday afternoon.
Florida won nine of the 13 events the teams competed in, and the Gators had first place finishers in nine of the meet's events. Sophomore Matt Yacco (Fairfield, Conn./Fairfield) won two events for the Gators. He took first in the 1,000-yard freestyle with a time of 9:36.67 and in the 500-yard free, touching the wall in 4:42.81. Senior Ricardo Monasterio (Caracas, Venezuela/Insitutos Edu. Asociados) won the 200-yard free with his time of 1:43.34, junior Jim Kostowicz (Longwood, Fla./Lake Mary) came in first in the 50-yard free, touching the wall in 21.00, sophomore Phillip Norris (Longwood, Fla./Lake Brantley) won the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 1:53.85 and junior Eric Donnelly (Sarasota, Fla./Cardinal Mooney) finished first in the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 1:53.85.
Both of the team's divers had good meets as well. Junior Hank Richardson (Houston, Tex./Memorial) won the one-meter springboard, scoring 323.55 points, while fellow junior Reggie Coote (Fort Lauderdale, Fla./Western) won the platform with 300 points and came in second in the one-meter springboard with his score of 279.90.
With the win, Florida improves to 6-4 on the season. The Gators will swim again tonight as they compete in the final night of the Dallas Morning News Classic beginning at 8:30 p.m. eastern.
FLORIDA RESULTS
200-yard medley relay: 1. Florida A (Summers, Norris, Reeves, Jayme), 1:32.46; 3. Florida B (Kellam, Tjin-A-Tam, Sherrard, Lusk), 1:35.06; Exh. Florida C (Ulrich, Chadsey, Kostowicz, Kim)
1,000-yard freestyle: 1. Matt Yacco, 9:36.67; 2. Greg Reeves, 9:43.17; 4. Bryan Foster, 10:02.49
200-yard freestyle: 1. Ricardo Monasterio, 1:43.34; 2. Jose Hernando, 1:44.56; 3. Hendrik Odendaal, 1:45.25
50-yard freestyle: 1. Jim Kostowicz, 21.00; 3. Matt Flowers, 21.76; 5. Chris Kellam, 22.93
200-yard individual medley: 1. Phillip Norris, 1:53.85; 3. Ansel Tjin-A-Tam, 1:56.41; 5. Claudio Ulrich, 2:01.95
200-yard butterfly: 1. Eric Donnelly, 1:52.42; 5. Ricardo Monasterio, 2:00.13
100-yard freestyle: 2. Matt Flowers, 48.00; Exh. Hendrik Odendaal, 46.62; Exh. Jose Hernando, 48.00
200-yard backstroke: 3. Matt Tomlinson, 1:55.21; 4. Jonathan Strauss, 1:58.29; Exh. Eric Donnelly, 1:55.51
500-yard freestyle: 1. Matt Yacco, 4:42.81
200-yard breaststroke: 2. Bernie Guenther, 2:11.66; Exh. Ian Chadsey, 2:05.19; Exh. Ansel Tjin-A-Tam, 2:05.54
200-yard freestyle relay: 2. Florida B (Foster, Ulrich, Strauss, Tomlinson), 1:31.10; Exh. Florida A (Kostowicz, Hernando, Odendaal, Flowers), 1:23.84
1-meter diving: 1. Hank Richardson, 323.55; 2. Reggie Coote, 279.90
Platform: 1. Reggie Coote, 300.00
