The Arizona men's and women's swimming and diving teams look to shake off last weekend's losses and go out strong against Texas in their last home meet of the season.
The action starts at 2 p.m. and continues tomorrow morning at 11 at Hillenbrand Aquatic Center.
Both the Arizona teams enter the meet ranked No. 5, while the Texas men hold the No. 6 ranking and the women No. 10.
The Texas men seem to be used to playing second fiddle to the Arizona men's teams this season; the Wildcats took first in the Texas Invitational earlier in the year and the Texas men took second. The Arizona women's team also took first place at the Invitational.
"I think the team will do fine," senior swimmer Jenna Gresdal said. "Last week was a great opportunity to get up and race. The goal is to do the same."
Despite the two losses against No. 3 Stanford and No. 6 California, the diving team continues to prosper.
"As much as we are part of the team, we are in our own show," Arizona diving head coach Michele Mitchell Rocha said.
Mitchell Rocha said that the divers always want to help the swim team as much as they can, especially this week against what she called a formidable Texas squad.
"The level of competition will be kicked up between our top seniors and theirs," Mitchell Rocha said.
While she said that she had not seen the Texas divers, she said that she can predict that the seniors will go out with a bang in their last home meet.
Mitchell Rocha said that sophomore diver Jeff Hagedon has been diagnosed with a sprain from an injury suffered last weekend and that rigorous exercise is not what he needs right now.
She said she is looking to senior divers John Collier and Tiffany Manning to have a good outing.
"Every senior wants to go out with a bang," Rocha said.
Head coach Frank Busch said that team morale is not low despite last week's outing.
"They are realistic," Busch said. "Things like that happen, but they don't like to go anywhere and be given a swimming lesson."
Busch said he thinks that the gravity of the fact that this is the seniors' last meet will not sink in until after the season is long over.
"I don't think they will know what it means until they reflect later," Busch said.
Busch said the strategy overall for the Wildcats beating Texas is simple.
"We just have to win more events than Texas," he said.