LSU swimming coach Adam Schmitt knew he would have to make a tough decision when the LSU swimming and diving teams wrapped up the regular season with the LSU Invitational on Friday and Saturday at the LSU Natatorium.But he said that is a good thing.”Now I’ve got to sit down and see what events these people can go in — if they can score in events because … our first priority is who can score,” Schmitt said.While the Lady Tigers (7-3-1) picked up victories against Rice, Houston and UNO, and the No. 17 Tigers (7-1) crushed a young UNO men’s program, Schmitt was evaluating his team to see who should make the trip to the Southeastern Conference Championships in February.”There are some people on the team that are going for some swims to try and get on the SEC squad,” Schmitt said. “This is kind of like their tryout.”Behind that motivation, many Tigers and Lady Tigers swam season-best times.”We had to show him something special so we can try and make it on the team,” said sophomore Eric Zeller.The New Mexico native swam a career and team-best time Friday in the 50 freestyle, hitting the wall at 20.28 seconds.”I was a lot more focused and a lot more ready to swim fast,” Zeller said.Senior Lauren Simons swam a personal best 10:09.58 in the 1000-yard freestyle. “The people that needed to have a good meet did what they had to do,” Schmitt said.The Lady Tigers also broke two pool records in the 400 freestyle relay and the 200 freestyle relay.”We shattered some pool records this weekend on the women’s side, and that’s certainly a good building block going into the SEC Championships,” Schmitt said.Schmitt said the 400 free relay didn’t include the teams fastest freestylers. The 400 free relay was comprised of seniors Sabrina Messmer, Katie Gilmore, Katherine Noland and freshman Morgan McGee swam a 3:24.24 to earn a new LSU Natorium record.The 200 free relay featuring seniors Katherine Noland, Katie Gilmore, Monica McJunkin and sophomore Jane Trepp was a more normal lineup.”We tweaked the lineup a little bit, and they performed like I knew they would,” Schmitt said.Houston Anastasia Pozdniakova, who was a silver medalist at the 2008 Bejing Olympic games, captured a two pool records in the one meter and the three meter diving events. —Contact Amos Morale at [email protected]