The LSU swimming and diving teams returned home without a win from a trip to Florida over the weekend, but came out better from the experience, according to LSU swimming coach David Geyer.
The Lady Tigers (1-2) lost, 179-116, to Florida State and 171-122 to Florida and the Tigers (0-2) fell to the Seminoles, 161-139, and to the Gators, 185-115.
Geyer said he had higher hopes for his squads against Florida State, but felt pleased with his team’s responses after the losses Friday.
“We went into Florida State with some better expectations for the end result and obviously fell short on that,” Geyer said. “Across the board I think we raced better as a team against Florida. That experience will help us in our progress to the NCAA weekend.”
Shaffer said he told his divers he wasn’t disappointed, but “they definitely have a lot more talent that really wasn’t displayed in our performances this her.”
Geyer reflected the same sentiment about the men’s 400-yard freestyle relay squad’s performance Friday against Florida State.
Senior Martin Jungfleisch, juniors Andrew Muller and Brock Davis and freshman Dillon Love made up the relay team.
“The meet was over — Florida State had enough points to win the meet — so that last race was really about Tiger pride for us,” Geyer said, “For those four men yesterday to step up and push through that and put up a really good performance with nothing on the line, it was just a matter of them having pride in themselves and for LSU and giving their all for the
Swimming: Tigers, Lady Tigers both fall to Florida State, Florida
October 15, 2011