EQUESTRIAN
Earle to compete at Collegiate Equitation Challenge: Texas A&M sophomore Maggie Earle has been selected to represent the Aggies in the first Winter Equestrian Festival Collegiate Equitation Challenge.
Earle will join 15 other riders in a single-elimination, bracket format competition Feb. 26 at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center in Wellington, Fla. The event will be run in the Varsity Equestrian head-to-head format over an equitation course and will be formatted similar to postseason team tournaments in sports such as college basketball, volleyball and soccer.
Last year, Earle posted a 5-1-1 record, leading the Aggies in winning percentage in the discipline and earning her the squad's hunter seat Rookie of the Year award.
Earle and the third-ranked Aggie equestrian team (5-2) will begin the spring schedule at 11 a.m. Saturday against Delaware State at the Brazos County Expo Complex. Admission is free.
SWIMMING & DIVING
A&M's McLean named Big 12 diver of week: IRVING -- Texas A&M sophomore Cameron McLean earned his first Big 12 diver of the week honor after posting a pair of NCAA Zone qualifying scores against LSU last weekend.
McLean, from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, helped the No. 19 Aggies upset No. 17 Tigers in Baton Rouge, La., with a first-place finish on the 1-meter springboard (359.17) and a runner-up finish in the 3-meter (392.25) event.
Missouri's Jan Konarzewski earned the men's Big 12 swimmer of the week award, while Missouri swimmer Colleen Gordan and Kansas diver Meg Proehl also were honored.
The A&M men's team will face SMU in Dallas at 7 p.m. Friday.
TRACK & FIELD
Aggies earn Big 12 honors: IRVING -- The Texas A&M men's 1,600-meter relay team and Jessica Beard were selected the Big 12 Indoor track and field male and female athletes of the week.
A&M's Demetrius Pinder, Bryan Miller, Kyle Dykhuizen and Tabarie Henry sprinted to a NCAA automatic qualifying time of 3 minutes, 5.92 seconds at the Texas A&M-Texas dual meet Saturday. The time was the best indoor mark in the world this season.
Beard won the 400 in an NCAA automatic qualifying time of 52.27 -- also the fastest American and collegiate mark so far this season.
-- Eagle staff reports
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