Utah vs Colorado Mesa
- January 6-7, 2023
- Salt Lake City, Utah
- SCY (25 yards)
- Day 1 Results
- Day 2 Results
DAY 1 RECAPS
Courtesy: Utah Athletics
SALT LAKE CITY – Summer Stanfield and Evan VanBrocklin both snagged a pair of victories and helped lead the University of Utah swimming and diving team past the Colorado Mesa Mavericks, as the Utah women triumphed, 128-38, and the men won, 112-52, on Friday afternoon inside the Ute Natatorium.
“I think we competed really well,” said head coach Jonas Persson. “It was one of those meets where we thought we could walk in and swim a few events and race well. Some people had to step up and they stepped up in every way. No one was complaining, everyone was competing hard, lots of attitudes and smiles and we ended up doing really well. I’m not surprised because I know we can do it, I’m just happy that we actually stepped up and did what we needed to do.”
Persson watched his team take the top spot in 16 of 18 events on Friday, including first place finishes by Stanfield in the 200 freestyle, clocking in at 1:52.18, and 400 individual medley, which she finished in 4:23.05. VanBrocklin bested the field in the men’s 200 free, posting a time of 1:41.02, and the 200 butterfly, with a mark of 1:51.46, and for both swimmers, this marked the second straight dual meet in which they tallied multiple wins. For Stanfield, this was the third time she’s accomplished that feat in 2022-23, as she also did it against UCLA on Oct. 28.
The Utes had a perfect day in the relay races, starting with Norah Hay, Madison Story, Stanfield and Reagan Cathcart capturing the women’s 400 medley in 3:48.51 and Parker McOmber, Baylor Lewis, VanBrocklin and Finn O’Haimhirgin pulled out the men’s 400 medley for Utah with a time of 3:20.40. In the women’s 200 free relay, Cathcart was joined by Erin Palmer, Katie Hale and Maddie Woznick to top the field in 1:33.66 and Lucas Calderon, O’Haimhirgin, JP Hynes and VanBrocklin were the four who landed atop the men’s 200 free relay in 1:24.02.
In between those relays, the list of victors for the home side included Marlene Sandberg in 1000 free, with a mark of 10:35.52, Dylan Becker in the men’s 1000 free, touching in 9:38.83, Lily Milner in the women’s 100 backstroke, finishing in 57.65 and Charity Pittard in the women’s 100 breaststroke, checking in at 1:04.55. Matt Wilcox and his time of 57.84 set the pace in the men’s 100 breaststroke, Sadie Edwards was the fastest swimmer in the women’s 200 butterfly at 2:09.59, Cathcart swam into first in the women’s 50 free in 23.59 and Lucas Calderon won the men’s 50 free in 20.85.
Next Up
The Utes and Mavericks are set to clash again on Saturday in a meet that will begin at 11 a.m. and include swimming and diving.
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Courtesy: Colorado Mesa Athletics
SALT LAKE CITY— Ben Sampson won two events to lead the Colorado Mesa University Maverick swimming team’s efforts in a Friday afternoon dual against NCAA Division I and Pac-12 Conference foe Utah in the Ute Natatorium.
The Ute men claimed a 112-52 win over the Mavericks while Utah took the women’s dual, 128-38.
Sampson was victorious in both the 100-yard backstroke and the 400-yard individual medley. He posted times of 49.45 seconds and 4:16.49, respectively.
A total of nine swimming events were contested in each dual, the first of two this weekend. The teams will compete again on Saturday morning at 11 a.m., in a dual that will include diving competitions.
In addition to Sampson’s two wins, the Mavs recorded six other second place finishes and five third place tallies.
In the women’s 200 free, freshman Ada Qunell took second in 1:56.33 before Kuba Kiszczak finished second in the men’s 200 free with a time of 1:43.46.
Dejan Urbanek finished third in the 200 fly (1:55.30).
In the women’s 400 IM, Sophia Bains took second in 4:43.26 while Amelia Kinnard was third in 4:50.91.
Jeremy Koch was second in the men’s 400 IM at 4:16.49 while Mahmoud Elgayar recorded a third-place time of 4:17.87.
The Mavs also finished second in both 200 free relays at the end of each dual. Women’s quartet Ruby Bottai, Lauren White, Izzy Powers and Logan Anderson turned in a time of 1:39.73 while Felipe D’Orsi, Kiszczak, Andrew Scoggin and Lane Austin combined for a time of 1:25.41 in the men’s race. Both Maverick “B” teams were also credited with third place finishes.
DAY 2 RECAPS
Courtesy: Utah Athletics
SALT LAKE CITY – For the second straight day, Evan VanBrocklin and Summer Stanfield collected a pair of first-place finishes and Elias Peterson won the 1m and 3m in his first event as a Ute, helping the University of Utah swimming and diving team top the Colorado Mesa Mavericks by scores of 143-42 and 128-57 on Saturday afternoon at the Ute Natatorium.
“I thought our effort was good and we raced hard,” said head coach Jonas Persson. “Great attitudes again. Maybe not the fastest times of the year, but that’s expected, but no one is complaining and everyone is buying in and pushing themselves mentally physically and emotionally. I was really happy with our efforts today and it was a great way to finish off winter break training.”
In The Pool
Stanfield finished first in both the 100 butterfly and the 200 individual medley, clocking in at 56.29 and 2:04.79, respectively. On the men’s side, VanBrocklin claimed victories in those same events, completing the 100 fly in 49.90 and the 200 IM at 1:51.38.
Norah Hay, Erin Palmer, Katie Hale, and Reagan Cathcart teamed up in the women’s 200 medley relay to clinch the top spot with a time of 1:44.34. Palmer, Hale, and Cathcart along with Maddie Woznick were able to take another relay victory in the women’s 400 freestyle relay, finishing in 3:29.92.
The men’s relays started with Baylor Lewis, JP Hynes, VanBrocklin and Finn O’Haimhirgin snatching first in the 200 medley relay, touching in 1:31.20. In the last event of the day, O’Haimhirgin, Hynes, VanBrocklin and Lucas Calderon were able to take home a victory in the 400 freestyle relay, logging a time of 3:05:47.
Utah’s day included seven more triumphs, including Cameron Daniell in the 500 freestyle (5:10.84), Palmer in the 100 freestyle (52.36), and Hay in the 200 backstroke (2:00.99). In the men’s 500 freestyle, Brandon Miller swam into first with his time of 4:40.88 while O’Haimhirgin won the 100 freestyle at 46.04. Krystal Lieu beat out her opponents in the 200 breaststroke in 2:20.04 and Baylor Lewis clinched the 200 breaststroke, checking in at 2:06.83.
On The Boards
In both men’s diving events, Peterson topped the field by a wide margin and posted NCAA Championship qualifying scores. In the men’s 1m, he piled up 372.60 points, the most by a Ute in the 1m this season and the program’s fourth-highest mark all-time. That came after he started the day with a 3m performance that graded out at 349.35 and also put him atop the leaderboard. Right behind Peterson in both competitions was Jake Suchowski, who recorded 297.90 points in the 3m and 302.40 in the 1m, which also meet the NCAA qualifying standard.
On the women’s side, Lexi Mills had the best day on the 3m, recording her own NCAA Championship qualifying score with 315.40 points, followed by Lizzy DeCecco with 270.60 to take second. In the 1m, the Utes occupied all the spots on the podium and this time it was DeCecco who landed in first with a score of 264.40, then Mills at 262.45 and Sydney Kowalski rounded out the top three with 235.50 points.
“The divers did really well,” said coach Richard Marschner. “I was really happy to see Jake put together a good meet. He dove really well. Elias was good and its his first collegiate meet in a pretty strange environment when you’re coming from Sweden to this being in your first meet and he responded pretty well. The ladies did awesome, too. We’re making good corrections off things and we’ve got a good two months ahead of us.”
Next Up
The UCLA Diving Invite is the next event on Utah’s schedule and it will be held Jan. 13-15 in Los Angeles.
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Courtesy: Colorado Mesa Athletics
SALT LAKE CITY— Colorado Mesa University redshirt sophomore Ben Sampson claimed his third victory in two days while the Maverick men’s and women’s swimming combined to claim four other runner-up and 14 third-place finishes in a Saturday dual at NCAA Division I Utah and the Ute Natatorium.
Sampson, who won both the 100-yard backstroke and 400-yard individual medley on Friday against the Utes, claimed the 200 back on Saturday, touching the wall in 1:48.22. He was also second in the 200 IM at 1:51.64 and in the 400 free relay at the end of the day as the Maverick men fell 128-57 in the team scoring battle, contested over ten events.
Utah’s women won the dual, 143-42.
In the women’s contest, Lily Borgenheimer took second in the 200 IM with a time of 2:08.03 while the 400 free relay quartet of Ada Qunell, Olivia Hansson, Ruby Bottai and Logan Anderson did the same with a time of 3:35.96.
The Mavs “B” teams also both took third in the 400 free relay while their “A” squads did the same in the 200 medley relay at the start of the dual.
After not competing in Friday’s dual, the Maverick divers got a chance to take to both the 1 and 3-meter boards on Saturday. Isaiah Cheeks finished third in both events, scoring 287.70 points on the 3-meter before tallying 269.85 over six dives off the 1-meter.
Kyra Apodaca also finished third on the 3-meter with 248.75 points and was fourth on the 3-meter with 234.45.
Elsewhere, Kyle Benjamin finished third in the men’s 500 free with a time of 4:45.50 while John Walgast took third in the 100 fly with a time of 51.81 seconds.
Mahmoud Elgayar also claimed a pair of third place finishes in the 200 breast (2:09.58) and 200 IM (1:56.97).
Katerina Matoskova, Maddi Moran and Qunell were also third place finisher for the women. Matoskova completed the 200 back in 2:07.10 while Moran completed the 200 breast in 2:24.59. Qunell finished the 200 IM in 2:11.15.
The Mavericks will continue their season in duals at the United States Air Force Academy on Jan. 20 and 21.