The William & Mary men's swimming team continues its season this weekend, heading to Christiansburg, Va., to take part in a quad-meet against three Power-5 conference opponents.  The Tribe will take on host Virginia Tech, as well as Duke and West Virginia in the two-day meet that begins Friday evening at 5 p.m., before continuing Saturday at 11 a.m.  Live results are available on the Meet Mobile app.

Meet Format
The four teams will swim 17 events across the two days, including four relays.  On Friday, the schedule includes the 200 free relay, 200 IM, 500 free, 100 breast, 200 back, 100 free, 200 fly, and the 400 medley relay.  Saturday, the line-up includes the 200 medley relay, 1650 free, 50 free, 100 back, 200 breast, 200 free, 100 fly, 400 IM, and the 400 free relay.

Scouting the Tribe
W&M is 2-0 on the season, after downing Georgetown and Johns Hopkins two weeks ago on the road.  The win over Georgetown saw the Tribe score the maximum possible points, going 1-3 in every individual event and 1-2 in both relays, to set program records for most points (222), fewest points allowed (40), and largest margin of victory (182 points).  Senior Joe Eiden (White Plains, N.Y.) was named the CAA Swimmer of the Week after breaking Georgetown pool records in all four of swims, and winning all four events (two individual, two rela) as well.  Freshman Ben Skopic (Marriottsville, Md.) also won both of his individual events, sweeping the 200 breast and the 200 IM.

The Tribe had a number of other strong performances on the opening weekend, including setting a pair of dual-meet records.  Sophomore transfer Carter Kale (Williamsburg, Va.) swam 9:31.28 to break the three-year-old record in the 1000 free by more than two seconds, a time that was the ninth-fastest race ever at W&M and enough to rank him seventh in school history among Tribe athletes.  Freshman Chris Balbo (Short Hills, N.J.) swam 4:36.12 in the 500 free to break the dual-meet record of all-time great Chris Robinson '00 by .01, removing what was the oldest record still on any Tribe swimming book (Dec. 1997).

Scouting the Opponents
- Virginia Tech is 1-0 on the year after downing Penn State last weekend, and ranked No. 24 in the latest CSCAA coaches poll.
- This is Duke's first action of the year, after they had a meet cancelled due to Hurricane Matthew.  The Blue Devils are No. 19 in the latest poll, and finished last year with a top-40 finish at the NCAA Championships.
- West Virginia is 2-0 in dual meets this year with wins over Seton Hall and Xavier, and also won the state championship to begin the year two weeks ago.

The Series
- Since 1965, the Tribe is 6-17 all-time against Virginia Tech, with its last road win coming in the 1970 season.
- The Tribe is 4-8 all-time against Duke, with its last win coming in 2002 during head coach Matt Crispino's '02 senior season. 
- This will be the first time since 1971 that W&M has swum against West Virginia.  The Mountaineers have a 4-0 edge in the series thus far.