College Station, TX The 10th-ranked University of Florida men's swimming and diving team is currently in sixth place after Day Two of the NCAA Championships at Texas A&M's Student Recreation Center on Friday. The Gators currently have 159 points after two days of competition. Texas leads the meet with 447.5 points, while Stanford is second with 337.5.

"We had an outstanding performance tonight," Florida head coach Gregg Troy said. "We had some unexpected finalists. It was just a good day overall. Hopefully, we can build on it, our best day is tomorrow. Even though we're not winning events, we're making people pay the price to beat us. We're in every race."

The Gators placed two individual swimmers, one relay team and one diver in the championship finals of their events and four individuals and one relay team in the consolation finals of their respective events.

Senior Greg Reeves (Tallahassee, Fla./Leon) and junior Eric Donnelly (Sarasota, Fla./Cardinal Mooney) each qualified for the championship finals in the 400-yard individual medley, placing fifth and sixth respetively. In the finals, Reeves placed fourth with a time of 3:44.43 and Donnelly touched the wall in 3:45.53 to place seventh. Also in the 400-yard IM, senior Bryan Kim (Songpa, South Korea/Yanjae) finished fourth in the consolation finals, swimming the event in 3:48.53 after placing 12th in the preliminaries with a time of 3:48.83.

The 800-yard freestyle relay team of senior Nathan Summers (Pensacola, Fla./Brooke Point), freshman Carlos Jayme (Goias, Brazil/Annapolis), Donnelly and junior Duncan Sherrard (Lakeland, Fla./Bartow) finished sixth in the finals, swimming the event in 6:28.28.

The 200-yard medley relay team of junior Mike Jansen (Wellington, Fla./Wellington), sophomore Ansel Tjin-A-Tam (Paramaribo, Suriname/Bolles), junior Hendrik Odendaal (Stellenbosh, South Africa/Paul Roos Gymnasium) and Jayme reached the consolation finals by finishing 10th in the preliminaries with a time of 1:28.12, the fifth-best time in UF history. In the consolation finals Friday night, the team finished third, touching the wall in 1:28.50.

In the 100-yard butterfly consolation finals, Sherrard placed eighth with his time of 48.28. Sherrard qualified for the consolation finals by finishing 16th in the preliminaries, touching the wall in 47.63.

Tjin-A-Tam placed sixth in the consolation finals of the 100-yard breaststroke, swimming the event in 54.72. He finished 16th in the preliminaries of the event with a time of 54.87.

Summers qualified for the consolation finals in the 100-yard backstroke by finishing tied for 12th with a time of 47.99. In the consolation finals, he placed third, touching the wall in 48.16.

Junior diver Hank Richardson (Houston, Tex./Memorial) placed eighth in the finals of the three-meter springboard, scoring 543.80 points in the evening's finals competition. In the afternoon's preliminaries, Richardson placed eighth, scoring 525.80 points.