(Mar. 21, 2001) — The 21st-ranked University of Kentucky men’s swimming and diving team will send seven athletes to Texas A&M’s Student Rec Center in College Station, Texas, to compete at the NCAA Championship meet. The meet, which runs from Thursday, March 22, through Saturday, March 24, will be run in a prelims-finals format.

The largest UK men’s team ever to compete includes Macon White, Shaun Zitani, Roger Watkins, David Tweedie, Aaron Workman, Clayton Moss, and Aaron Kirkpatrick.

White automatically qualified at the SEC Championship meet in the 200 freestyle, allowing him to swim that event plus 500 freestyle. In addition, he will compete as part of the 400 and 800 freestyle relays.

Zitani was invited to swim the 100 fly and the 200 and 400 freestyle relays. He will also get to swim the 50 freestyle, 100 freestyle and 800 freestyle relay. Workman was invited in the 200 and 400 freestyle relays, and will also swim the 50 and 100 freestyles and 800 freestyle relay. Watkins was invited in the 200 free relay and will compete in the 100 and 200 breaststrokes as well. To finish out the swimmers, Tweedie was invited in the 200 and 400 freestyle relay. He will also swim the 500 and 200 freestyle along with the 800 freestyle relay.

For the divers, Clayton Moss and Aaron Kirkpatrick will represent Kentucky at the NCAA meet. Moss, the 2001 SEC one-meter champion, qualified for the NCAA meet in the three-meter, allowing him to compete in that event and on the one-meter and platform as well. Kirkpatrick qualified on the one-meter, which will allow him, too, to compete on the three-meter and platform in Texas.