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Fynn Minuth (center) and Akram Mahmoud (right) receive their first and second place medals for the men’s 500m freestyle race. Credit: Jack Smith.<\/p>\n
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Tomas Peribonio, senior captain of the team, placed seventh in the 200m IM, fourth in the 400m IM and 10th in the mile freestyle. Credit: Jack Smith.<\/p>\n
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Fynn Minuth prepares for a race at the SEC Championships. Credit: Jack Smith.<\/p>\n
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Akram Mahmoud, Cody Bekemeyer, Tomas Peribonio and Fynn Minuth pose with their first place medals from the 800m freestyle relay. Picture from Jack Smith.<\/p>\n
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Fynn Minuth (center) poses with two Texas A&M swimmers after winning a race. Picture from Jack Smith.<\/p>\n
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The University of South Carolina men\u2019s swimming and diving team competed at the Southeastern Conference Championships in College Station, TX from Feb. 14-18. The team placed seventh out of 10, with several swimmers having good meets individually as well. Akram Mahmoud, a senior on the team, won the 1650m freestyle race with a time of 14:37.01, the fastest in the nation. This was his third time in a row winning the race.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was my last SECs, so I wanted it to be special and score as many points as possible,\u201d Mahmoud said Tuesday. \u201cThe team contributed to help get seventh. We scored a lot of points.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mahmoud also placed second in the 500 freestyle race, 14th<\/sup> in the 200m butterfly and third in the 800m free relay with Fynn Minuth and Tomas Peribonio.<\/p>\n \u201cI was totally satisfied with how I swam,\u201d Mahmoud said. \u201cThe SEC is the fastest and strongest conference in the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n Mahmoud also has Olympic experience; he swam in the 400 and 1500m freestyle in the Rio 2016 Olympic Qualifier.<\/p>\n Peribonio, the senior captain of the team, placed fourth in the 400m individual medley, seventh in the 200m individual medley, and 10th<\/sup> in the 1650m (one mile) freestyle race.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m pretty happy with my performance,\u201d Peribonio said. \u201cThe easiest race was the 4x200m freestyle relay because it was the shortest. The hardest was the mile because it was on the last of five days and I was tired and fatigued.\u201d<\/p>\n Peribonio also thinks the team is improving.<\/p>\n \u201cOur team keeps getting better individually and overall,\u201d Peribonio said. \u201cEach year keeps getting better. We\u2019re bringing in good recruits.\u201d<\/p>\n Minuth, a junior, won the 200m butterfly and 500m freestyle races and placed sixth in the 200m freestyle race.<\/p>\n \u201cSeeing hard work pay off was nice,\u201d said Minuth. \u201cWe\u2019ve been training since the middle of August.\u201d<\/p>\n That\u2019s a lot of training, considering the season runs from mid-September to mid-March.<\/p>\n \u201cThe atmosphere was incredible because it was such a tight field,\u201d Minuth said.<\/p>\n The preparation for this meet was a little bit different than preparation for other regular season meets.<\/p>\n \u201cThe SECs is different. We rest for a week and a half to two weeks,\u201d Minuth said. We also focus a lot more on speed work.\u201d<\/p>\n The swimmers also had to do something else important in order to improve performance.<\/p>\n \u201cWe also shaved our bodies the night before. You usually swim a lot faster with a shave,\u201d Minuth said. The swimmers also wear Speedo Fastskin Suits which help improve speed.<\/p>\n This definitely helped the cause, as the Gamecocks finished seventh in a conference that has seven of the top 20 teams in the nation.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re on the rise,\u201d said Minuth. \u201cWe\u2019re definitely improving on a national level.\u201d<\/p>\n The Gamecocks will prepare for the NCAA qualifiers which occur in March 21-24 in Minneapolis. They will have between two and half and three weeks of hard training before resting once the qualifiers inch closer.<\/p>\n \u201cThe SECs prepare you well for the NCAAs,\u201d Peribonio said.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”off” specialty=”off” prev_background_color=”#000000″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_video _builder_version=”3.0.92″ \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The USC men’s swim team won a plethora of awards at the Southeastern Conference Championships in College Station, Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":4159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3557,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions\/3557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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