To win. That is the goal of the TCU men’s swimming & diving team and its coaches, head coach Richard Sybesma said.

“When we get everybody peaking at the same time, we are a dangerous team,” Sybesma said.

He said peaking for the swimming & diving team means fine-tuning the details and not training as hard because the members are ready to compete.

The Conference USA Invitational will be four days of intense competition, he said.

Senior backstroke and freestyle swimmer Laszlo Gyurko said the teammates will swim the same events as they do in dual meets.

The Frogs will swim preliminaries in the morning for time-trials. The swimmers, depending on their times, may or may not be called back to swim in the afternoon, Gyurko said.

Visualizing the race, thinking about the start and determining what technique to use is how Gyurko mentally prepared for this meet, he said.

To prepare physically for the meet, the Frogs lifted weights and had dry land practices five days a week while they swam six days a week, he said.

Three universities, TCU, SMU and East Carolina University, will compete at the invitational.

The Mountain West Conference was not sponsoring a men’s swimming & diving championship so the invitational will replace the MWC Championship.

Besides winning, another goal Sybesma said he has for this meet is to have some of the men qualify for the NCAA Men’s Swimming & Diving Division I Championship.

“[The swimmers and divers] are on a mission,” Sybesma said. “They show we are a really good team and their end of the year times are very good.”

Gyurko said the team has a talented freshman class, which impacted the team the most during the regular season.

The major differences between a home meet and an away meet is getting used to the pool, the area, the blocks and the overall environment, Gyruko said.

As for the senior swimmers and divers, Sybesma said he knows they will do their best for TCU.