COLLEGE STATION, Texas — BYU men’s swim and dive split its matchups with No. 12 Texas A&M and TCU on Friday at the Rec Center Natatorium.
The Cougars edged Big 12 counterpart TCU 103-102 with four event wins but fell to host Texas A&M 111-93.
Sophomore Tanner Nelson led BYU with wins in the 200 free and 200 individual medley. Nelson won the 200 free at 1:38.68, beating the Horned Frogs’ Geremia Freri by over a second while still two seconds shy of his own collegiate best. Darwin Anderson added more points to the Cougars’ 200 free tally with a third-place finish at 1:39.75.
Both Nelson and Anderson overcame the SEC’s reigning 200 and 400 IM champion Baylor Nelson in the 200 free race.
Tanner Nelson won his second event of the night in the 200 IM at 1:48.33, again overtaking TCU’s Freri at the finish. In his first season back from full-time missionary service for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Nelson now has four event wins in through just two meets. Fellow returned missionary Tyler Edlefsen came in third in the 200 IM at 1:52.06.
BYU sprint veterans Jordan Tiffany and Tanner Edwards delivered two more victories for the Cougars on Friday.
Tiffany, the defending Big 12 100 fly champion, clocked 47.55 to win the event in College Station. BYU freshman Max Kleinman went 49.10 to finish fourth.
After setting BYU’s 50 fly record two weeks ago, Edwards continued to show strong early season form with a win in the 50 free at 19.93. The sophomore from Columbia, South Carolina came just two-hundredths of a second short of improving his collegiate-best 19.92 set at the 2024 Big 12 Championships.
Chase Hindmarsh led BYU men’s diving with a fifth-place finish on the 3-meter (six dives) at 307.45 and runner-up on platform at 318.25.
“This was a great start to our platform season,” said BYU head diving coach Tyce Routson. “I’m proud of all our divers competing through two tough events today and improving as the day went on.”
The Cougars, Aggies and Horned Frogs resume competition on Saturday at 9 a.m. CDT.