21) in Liberty, Missouri, for the second time in three years and closes that trio of meets with its annual championship-style Big 12 tune-up with Iowa State in Lawrence on Feb. Kansas will also swim at William Jewell College (Jan. The Razorbacks bested Kansas in Robinson Natatorium, 194-105, two seasons ago in the teams’ last meeting. Arkansas tallied the program’s third-highest point total at the 2016 SEC Championships before sending two individual swimmers, one diver and two relay teams to the NCAA Championships. That flurry of meets features a short 300-mile trip to Fayetteville, Arkansas, and a showdown with the Razorbacks on Jan.

One of KU’s biggest challenges will be in the spring, when the Jayhawks make two trips during a three-weekend-straight-load-up prior to resting for the Big 12 Championships in Austin. They’ll be fired up, Nebraska always swims well at home.” It’s always a good time to go up there and get in really good competition. We have some Nebraska kids on the team like Nadia Khechfe and (incoming freshman) Elizabeth Amato-Hanner and we’re always recruiting up there. It’s kind of a hostile environment which is good for us to go and be strong with. “It still goes back to the Big Eight days. “We started it last year and it was a real exciting meet here and now we’ll return the trip there,” Campbell said of the series with the Cornhuskers. The brief 200-mile jaunt that sets up a rematch from last year’s 180.5-119.5 Kansas win at Robinson Natatorium. 5, the team’s first swims in the Devaney Natatorium since Jan. The Jayhawks visit former Big 12 foe Nebraska in Lincoln on Nov. Kansas swimmers will leave a 300-mile radius just twice during the regular season – a team training trip to California and the Big 12 Championships in Austin, Texas – while dueling several regional rivals on the road.Īlthough short in distance, Kansas’ road trips won’t be without stiff challenge. During a recent practice, the Jayhawks’ leader used a protractor to demonstrate the optimal arm angle for a particular stroke and he may well have used a compass from his geometry toolbox while drawing up the team’s 2016-17 schedule.

– Kansas swimming and diving head coach Clark Campbell will use any tool necessary to help drive home a point or try to make his swimmers better.

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