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2004-05 Season Review Youth Movement Powered Vols for 2004-05 Campaign Tarantino highlighted the meet for the Vols with wins on both the The Season 1- and 3-meter springboards while also posting season highs on both boards. The Tennessee men’s swimming and diving team finished the The next two weeks were tough for the Vol contingent with season with a 4-4 record and a 17th-place finish at the NCAA meets against Georgia and Florida, both SEC powers. At home championships. The 17th-place finish runs the Vols’record of con- against Georgia, the Vols held strong but couldn’t withstand the secutive top-25 finishes to 23, dating to 1983. The team finished Bulldogs’s depth, losing 130-100. Dauw highlighted the meet in the year with six individuals earning 14 All-America honors. Gainesville against the Gators with a first-place finish in the 200- The Vols opened the season with a road trip to regional foe yard individual medley and a third-place finish in the 200-yard Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Tennessee defeated the Yellow Jackets butterfly. Tarantino added a win on the 1-meter board. 129-112. Junior Jason Thomas brought home wins in the 1,650- The Vols closed out the season at home on senior day with a yard freestyle and the 500-yard freestyle. Junior Casey Dauw win over North Carolina State 116-97. The Vols went 1-2-3 in the broke the pool record en route to a win in the 400-yard individual 200-yard freestyle with Gustafson leading the way. Gustafson fin- medley in 3:57.24. Tennessee returned home for the second and ished first followed by Thomas in second and sophomore Brad final dual-meet of the fall against SEC rival Kentucky. It was a Boswell in third. Tennessee took the top-two spots in the 100-yard battle to the end, with the Wildcats bringing one of their strongest butterfly with Alesi coming from behind to push Engle to second- teams in recent memory to Knoxville. With the Vols trailing place. In the diving well, Tarantino took wins on both the 1- and Kentucky 116-110 with one event to go, it was up to the 400-yard 3-meter springboards with teammate John Venditti taking second freestyle relay team to regain the lead. Bryan Goldberg, Brad in each event. Duryea, Dauw and Tyler Gustafson pulled through in the clutch to win the event in 2:59.66, and gave UT a 123-120 victory. SEC Championships With the fall semester coming to a conclusion, the swim Vols traveled to the Nike Cup Invitational while the divers went to the Tennessee battled to a sixth-place finish at the 2005 SEC Georgia Tech Diving Invitational. In Chapel Hill, N.C., the Vols Swimming and Diving Championships in Gainesville, Fla. were led by Dauw, who won the 200-yard individual medley in Tennessee was without one of its leading point scorers as Dauw 1:47.07. Dauw's time also broke the pool and meet record that was was out with a shoulder injury. Tarantino finished the highest for held by former Vol great Andrew Bree. The Vols were led again on the Vols with a third-place finish on the 3-meter springboard. the second day by Dauw, who won the 400-yard individual med- Freshman Octavio Alesi made a name for himself at the SEC ley event in 3:47.17. Gustafson followed Dauw’s winning ways championships. Alesi finished fifth in the 100-yard butterfly with with a first-place finish in the 100-yard freestyle. Meanwhile in a career-best mark of 47.38. He was the only underclassman in the Atlanta, sophomore Jevon Tarantino brought home two top-10 fin- top five. The Vols had two of the three underclassmen in the eight- ishes on the 1-meter and 3-meter springboards. Freshman Ryan man championship final. Sophomore Andrew Engle finished Rincon finished 12th on both boards. eighth with a career-best 47.84. Tennessee returned to its dual-meet portion of the schedule with a road trip to Indiana. The Hoosiers hung the first loss of the NCAA Championships season on Tennessee with a 149.9-85.5 win over the Vols. A double-dual home meet with Virginia and LSU followed Tennessee finished a challenging season at the NCAA the next week. Tennessee defeated SEC foe LSU 127-105 but Swimming and Diving Championships in Minneapolis, Minn., couldn’t hold on against Virginia, losing 135-103. with a 17th-place finish. The Vols finished with 50 points, while Auburn won the title for the third year in a row with 491 points. Tarantino was the top individual performer for the Vols with two All-America honors. He finished sixth on the 1-meter and fourth on the 3-meter springboards. Tyler Gustafson 26 2005-06 Tennessee Swimming and Diving Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center Construction for the AJIAC Also included in the new facility will be a weight room, train- ing room, and the University of Tennessee Swimming and Diving Began Oct. 15 Hall of Fame. The complex will clearly be one of the finest colle- giate swimming and diving facilities in the country. Construction of the Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center began Oct. 15. The $24.3 million complex bears the name of Cleveland, Tenn., businessman Allan Jones, who provided a $4 million challenge gift towards the construction of the new state- of-the-art facility. Over 50 former swimmers, divers and their fam- ilies also made significant contributions in excess of $450,000 to make the AJIAC a reality along with a total of 872 donors. Private support for the swimming and diving program is a great need in underwriting the swim program. The STEP UP campaign for UT Athletic Facilities was a $48.61 million facility campaign that began in April 2001 and has continued to be a driving force in upgrading current facilities and powering the need for new facili- ties. The AJIAC, which will be located adjacent to the existing Student Aquatic Center, will be a first-class complex capable of hosting the Southeastern Conference and NCAA Championships, as well as national and international events. The location of the new aquatic center will give the Tennessee swimmers and divers the luxury of training at one of the few universities in the country Contributors to the AJIAC include these that has three full-size 50-meter pools within 200 feet of each former swimmers, parents and other other. "To have one complex that includes one outdoor 50-meter extended aquatic family members. pool, an indoor 50-meter pool and the new 50-meter competition Melissa Allen Timothy Jones pool will, in our opinion, gives Tennessee the leading aquatic Edward Anderson James Kennedy facility in America," said Tennessee men's head coach John Kim Armistead Don & Lynn Kleinfelter Trembley. This in itself is spectacular. But the real measure is the Elizabeth Austin Rick Kleinfelter amount of support the athletic department and the community are Jennifer Banner Kenneth Knudson giving to Tennessee's swimming and diving programs." Todd Bassett Janice Krauser A separate competition diving well is slated to feature five Limited Bomat Bonnie Lerner platforms with heights varying from one to ten meters. Also, there Don Bosch H.W. Lucas are plans for three one-and three-meter springboards. Other Mark & Tamara Brandt Thomas Lutz amenities include permanent seating for 1,800 spectators with a Frank Bryant Robert Martin spacious deck area to accommodate up to 2,000 additional indi- Brian Bushon William McCalley viduals, teams and other personnel comfortably during meets. Harold & Sylvia Clavier Jr. Craig McConnell Judy Constantine Mike McDermott Joseph Crump O.D. Karla McQuain Shannon Dunworth David Morrison John Ebuna Devin Pietrzak Mike Ebuna Donald Preston Lee Engstand Yvonne Rish Brent Fichter Eric Schwotzer Herman & Grace Forest Robert Sells Steve Gilliam Thomas Smith John Goddard Stowers Services Inc. Bart Graham Anthony Tarantino Henry Green Jr. Barry Totten Amy Baxter Halligan John & Joanne Trembley Joe Hendee Tony & Janet Venditti Jeff & Leigh-Angela Holbrook Robert Webb Maurice Horner Bob Weldon Allan Jones and his family contributed $4 million to the Lee Hudson Don & Lesie Wells University of Tennessee to build a new aquatic center Carol Calloway Hunt Jimmie Wheeler bearing his name. Howard & Elizabeth Jarvis James Wuest Jr. Allan Jones Phillip Jones 2005-06 Tennessee Swimming and Diving 27 2004-05 Season Review 2005 Southeastern Conference Championships 50 Freestyle 200 Butterfly 200 Individual Medley 400 Medley Relay 1. Fred Bousquet AU 19.57 1. Daniel Cruz UK 1:42.86 1. Ryan Lochte UF 1:41.76 1. Florida 3:07.87 2. Tim Patrick UK 19.68 2. Gil Stovall UGA 1:43.24 2. Eric Shanteau AU 1:44.84 2. Auburn 3:09.66 3. George Bovell AU 19.72 3. Jerram Chudleigh UK 1:43.82 3. Kurt Cady AU 1:46.44 3. Kentucky 3:12.22 12. Travis Wright UT 1:47.88 12. Bryan Goldberg UT 1:49.23 6. Tennessee 3:14.69 100 Freestyle 14. Michael Wolfe UT 1:51.34 1. Fred Bousquet AU 42.81 100 Backstroke 1-Meter Diving 2. George Bovell AU 43.05 1. Doug Van Wie AU 46.71 400 Individual Medley 1. Chris Colwill UGA 378.80 3. Darian Townsend UF 43.30 2. Chad Barlow AU 46.82 1. Ryan Lochte UF 3:39.08 2. Steven Segerlin AU 350.75 12. Tyler Gustafson UT 44.33 3. Gabriel Mangabeira UF 48.16 2.