SWIMMING & DIVING

Seven Aggies at World Championships: ROME -- Texas A&M is represented by seven athletes at the FINA World Championships, which began Friday at the Foro Italico.

Four of the Aggies -- Triin Aljand (Estonia), Shawn Clarke (Barbados), Alejandro Jacobo (Mexico) and Eric Sehn (Canada) -- have completed their eligibility at A&M. Rita Medrano (Mexico), Grant Nel (Australia) and Julia Wilkinson (Canada) will be back in action for the Aggies in 2009-10.

Nel and Sehn participated in the men’s diving competition Friday. Sehn finished seventh in the finals with 391.80 points after coming in eighth in the preliminaries with 369.80. Nel was 19th in the prelims with 327.65 and didn’t qualify for the finals.

Qin Kai of China won the competition with 449.00 points.

Aljand, Medrano and Wilkinson will compete in women's swimming, and Clarke and Jacobo will see action in the men's swimming competition.

-- Eagle Staff Report