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| Posted: 5 Dec 2014 | Updated: 8 Nov 2020
BYU competes at Texas Invite
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AUSTIN, Texas -- A select group BYU men's and women's swimmers competed on the first day of the Texas Invite in Austin, Texas, Thursday.
Texas Invite Day 1
Jake Taylor, Hayden Palmer and Rafael Alfaro paced BYU on the first day of the Texas Invite. The trio recorded the team's only top-10 finishes on Thursday, and it was all in the men’s 200-yard individual medley. Taylor finished third with a time of 1:45.76. Alfaro came in just behind his teammate, finishing sixth while Palmer finished seventh with times of 1:47.20 and 1:47.25, respectively.
The team of Taylor, Rainer Ng, McKay King and Evan Berger finished 14th in the men’s 200-yard freestyle relay, touching the wall in 1:22.51. Their teammates Levi Jensen, Michael King, Alfaro and Palmer finished 15th in 1:22.88.
The women’s 400-yard medley relay team made up of Ciera Marsh Keller, Riley Buer, Haley Bertoldo and Alora Foliaki finished 18th in a time of 3:46.89.
Ng, Chad Sorensen, McKay King and Taylor combined to finish 12th in the men’s 400 medley relay with a time of 3:18.82.
The meet continues Friday and Saturday with preliminaries each morning at 9 a.m. MST and finals at 6 p.m. MST. You can watch the finals on the Longhorn Network or on WatchESPN and the WatchESPN app.
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