Air Force Women, BYU Men Claim Wins In Tri Meet With Colorado Mesa
The Air Force women ended the two-day event with a score of 753, while BYU finished second with a score of 612, and Colorado Mesa trailed with 593. Current photo via Air Force Athletics
U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo., – The Falcons battled for a top finish over BYU and DII Colorado Mesa, this weekend at the Cadet Natatorium. Air Force ended the two-day event with a score of 753, while BYU finished second with a score of 612, and Colorado Mesa trailed in last at 593.
Air Force saw 24 top five individual finishes and claimed four top placements.
“It was a great weekend for our team, our depth was evident all weekend,” said head coach Colleen Murphy. “We had great competition and the team rose to the challenge.”
Friday, Jan. 24
Two Falcons, Amber Martin and Katie Andrist, tallied first place finishes, while 12 individuals placed in the top five.
In the 100 butterfly, Martin clocked a time of 56.28 to take the top spot, while teammate Ryan Mills finished in a close second at 56.67.
Representing Air Force in the 1650 free, Andrist finished at 17:30.43 to win the race. Lauren Arnold took second with a 17:49.9 finish. In fourth place, Jordan Evans completed the distance swim at 17:54.39.
Lily Larson (1:52.47) and Kirsten Lee (1:53.04) finished back-to-back in the 200 free, in third and fourth, respectively.
With a time of 1:03.29, Naomi Furman notched a third-place finish in the 100 breast and Mandy Fleetwood (1:04.17) followed close behind in fourth.
Kai-Min Tsuei marked a time of 56.11 to complete the 100 backstroke in second, with Hanani Dona (56.84) claiming the fourth spot.
In the 400 freestyle relay, the team of Mills, Lee, Larson, and Abby Turner held second place, clocking a finish at 3:24.75.
Diver, Kacey Hu placed first on the 1-meter springboard, tallying a score of 258.30 and 16 points. Chloe Perkins followed in second (248.25) and Annaliese Cundiff (246.45) earned a third-place finish.
Saturday, Jan. 25
On the second day of the competition, the Falcons totaled 12 top five finishes. The pair of Jena Nowoswiat and Abby Turner marked top placements, and the 200 freestyle relay (1:33.47) team comprised of Ryan Mills, Lily Bachl, Kai-Min Tsuei, and Turner placed first, as well.
Nowoswiat was the sole Falcon to place top five in the 200 fly, and took first with a time of 2:07.10.
Air Force battled for the top three spots of the 100 freestyle, and were led by Turner, who clocked a time of 51.04. Mills (51.56) and Bachl (51.76) narrowly trailed in second and third.
Turner (23.56) battled for second in the 50 free, while Bachl (23.93) tailed in third.
Maeve Rosko tallied a 2:04.78 to represent the Falcons in the 200 backstroke, earning her a third place finish.
On the diving side, Chloe Perkins earned a first-place finish on the 3-meter springboard, totaling a final score of 279.70 and 16 points for Air Force. Kacey Hu made her mark with a score of 244.45 on the 3-meter to take fourth place.
Murphy explained, “This time of the year is all about perfecting race plans and doing the little things right. Our team has seen consistent improvement over the last three weeks, and we are getting excited for championship season.”
Up next, the women’s diving team will host the Air Force Diving Invitational from Jan. 30- Feb. 1st. On Thursday January 30th, competition will begin at 10:30 a.m. in the Cadet Natatorium. On Friday February 1st, the women’s swimming team will host the Colorado Sprint Championships, beginning at 12 p.m.
U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo., – The men’s swimming and diving team placed second with a score of 633, behind BYU (743.50). Air Force saw 20 top five individual finishes and four top placements, with three by James Winterfield.
Friday, Jan. 24
The Falcons finished with 10 claiming top five individual placements, including a pair of wins from Camden Swigart and James Winterfield.
With a time of 3:58.64, Swigart completed the 400 IM in the top spot, with teammate Evan Witte (4:05.70) in fifth.
Winterfield clocked a 47.36 finish in the 100 butterfly to take first place and was the only Falcon to complete the race in the top five. Additionally, he claimed second in the 100 backstroke with a time of 48.65.
In the 200 free, Joe Christ (1:39.49) finished in second, while Tyler Surratt (1:40.52) took fifth place.
Bridon Rosales (54.48) and Tommy Nagle (55.20) represented Air Force in the 100 breast, finishing second and fourth, respectively.
For second place in the 1650 free, Tucker Rice notched a time of 16:12.20, while fellow Falcon, Surratt, finished in fourth at 16:27.78.
Air Force took a pair of third place finishes in both the 200 medley relay, at 1:29.61, and the 400 freestyle relay (3:00.44).
On the diving side, Brady Nichol notched a first-place finish with a score of 303.35 in the 3-meter springboard. Evan Farr followed in third, scoring 286.95.
Saturday, Jan. 25
The second day of competition brought two top finishes for James Winterfield and 10 top five individual placements for the Falcons.
Winterfield led Air Force in the 200 fly, taking first with a final time of 1:48.82. He was tailed by Daniel Detjen (1:49.93) in second and Evan Witte (1:53.91) in fourth.
The junior also placed first in the 200 IM, clocking a time of 1:47.69, while Camden Swigart touched the wall at 1:51.35 for fourth place.
In the 500 freestyle, Tyler Surratt finished in the second spot, at 4:32.40 and was followed by teammate Tucker Rice (4:39.21) in fourth.
Louis Body was the lone Falcon representative in the 200 backstroke, notching a time of 1:49.89 for a fourth place finish.
Closing out the day for Air Force, Bridon Rosales collected a third-place finish at 2:03.93 in the 200 breast. Anthony Sebastian trailed in fifth place at 2:04.05.
On the 1-meter springboard, Brady Nichols tallied a score of 276.65 to place second in the competition, while Jack Roby took fourth with a score of 266.10.
Up next, the men’s diving team will host the Air Force Diving Invitational from Jan. 30- Feb. 1st. On Thursday January 30th, competition will begin at 10:30 a.m. in the Cadet Natatorium. On Friday February 1st, the men’s swimming team will host the Colorado Sprint Championships, beginning at 12 p.m.
Courtesy: BYU Athletics
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — BYU men’s and women’s swim and dive concluded its tri-meet with Air Force and Colorado Mesa on Saturday at Cadet Natatorium.
“I’m incredibly proud of how our teams competed and persevered through challenging circumstances,” said BYU head swim and dive coach Tamber McAllister. “We had some standout individual swims, and we’re excited about the progress our athletes are making as we approach our final dual meet of the season.”
BYU head diving coach Tyce Routson also saw progress in his athletes.
“Our divers had some of their best individual dives and we showed that we’re getting stronger,” Routson said.
Men’s Recap The BYU men won six more events on the way to amassing 743.5 points and finishing first in team scoring. Air Force finished second with 633 points while Colorado Mesa came in third at 566.5.
The Cougars were at their most dominant on Saturday with four swimmers finishing in the top five of the 100 free. Nathaniel Eliason won his second event of the meet with a time of 44.08 and was followed in short order by Max Kleinman (44.38), Joshua Reed (45.19) and Connor Seminavage (45.54) in second, third and fifth places, respectively.
Luigi Riva was the only swimmer on any of the three teams to clock under 20 seconds in the 50 free at the meet. Riva won the sprint with a time of 19.96 to give the Cougars 16 more points while Fletcher Madsen fought for a fourth-place tie and 10.5 more to the team tally.
Kleinman, Riva and Eliason joined Peter Etzold in clocking 3:12.66 to win the 400 medley relay. Diego Camacho Salgado then combined with Eliason, Kleinman and Riva to win the 200 free relay at 1:19.14, giving the BYU men a sweep of all four relay events in Colorado Springs this weekend.
Darwin Anderson continued his recent momentum in long distance swims with a 4:28.69 to win the 500 free. Anderson now has nine race wins under his belt this season.
BYU’s young talent not only impressed in the pool but on the diving board as well.
Marti Llop notched his second career first-place finish with a 293.25 on 1-meter. Llop’s first-place performance came over 16 points ahead of the Falcons’ runner-up Brady Nichol. Fellow freshman Bryce Roper finished sixth with a 1-meter personal-best 256.70.
Women’s Recap The BYU women scored 612 points to finish second behind host Air Force’s 753 but in front of Colorado Mesa’s 593. The Cougars’ score of 612 came behind five more races won, including meet sweeps of the breaststroke and individual medley events by Mackenzie Miller Lung and Lucy Warnick, respectively.
Miller Lung took first in a race for the 12th time this season with a 2:13.59 in the 200 breast. Teammates Jasmine Anderson and Addison Richards followed Miller Lung to give BYU a one-two-three finish in the 200 breast.
Warnick registered another 200 IM win with a time of 2:05.02, 1.41 seconds in front of runner-up Sophia Bains of Colorado Mesa.
Victoria Schreiber and Halli Williams added two more first-place finishes for the Cougars on Saturday. Schreiber won the 500 free at 4:59.60 with teammates Richards in third and Regan Geldmacher in fourth. Williams edged Air Force’s Abby Turner by a tenth-of-a-second to take the 50 free in 23.46.
The Cougars secured three of the four relay races at Cadet Natatorium with Emma Marusakova, Miller Lung, Sarah Eliason and Williams beginning Saturday’s events with a 3:41.47 victory in the 400 medley relay.
Sophia DeBergh achieved BYU’s top women’s diving finish for the second time in as many days with a third-place score of 247.95.
Up next, BYU swim has a week off while the dive teams will return to Colorado Springs Jan. 31-Feb. 1 for the Air Force Diving Invitational.
Courtesy: Colorado Mesa Athletics
USAFA, Colo.—Agata Naskret completed a weekend backstroke sweep while Marcos Otero and Richard Schmiedefeld joined her in the winner’s circle for the Colorado Mesa University men as both Maverick swimming & diving teams concluded a solid weekend on Saturday competing against NCAA Division I opposition here at the Air Force Falcons’ Cadet Natatorium.
The Mavericks also picked up eight other second place finishes and seven third place tallies throughout the second day of the 3-team invitational with the Falcons and BYU Cougars, who used their Division I depth to defeat the Mavericks.
The host Falcons took the women’s crown with 753 points while BYU finished second with 612, edging the Mavs, who slipped back to third with 593 points. BYU won the men’s team scoring chase with 743 ½ points, ahead of Air Force (633) and the Mavs (566 ½).
The Mavs had plenty of highlights as Naskret dominated the women’s 200-yard backstroke, winning by more than two seconds in 2:02.29. The 5-event national champion from last season, had also won the 100 on Friday evening.
Schmiedefeld then followed that effort with an impressive and victorious time of 1:47.97 in the men’s heats, surging up five spots to fifth in CMU history with an improved NCAA Division II Championship provisional qualifying altitude-adjusted time of 1:46.37.
Andrew Scoggin, who sits second in CMU history behind only all-time Division II record holder Ben Sampson, finished third on Saturday in another solid mark of 1:49.31 while Luka Samsonov, who ranks third in CMU history, touched fifth in in 1:50.92.
Two events later, Otero claimed victory in the 200 breaststroke, finishing in 2:00.90 to win by nearly 2 ½ seconds.
Those wins came after a string of solid second and third place finishes throughout the first half of the day.
Kenya Meyer then finished second in the women’s 3-meter diving event with a 6-dive score of 262.50 points, just shy of the D-II Pre-Championship meet qualification score of 265. Mimi Licht also fared well, placing fifth with 242.40 points.
Meanwhile, Wyatt Hermanson finished third in the men’s 1-meter competition with 273.90 points while Jax Juarros was fifth with 257.95.
After the intermission, action returned to the swimming lanes as Olivia Hansson posted an impressive time of 4:59.63, but was out-touched by BYU’s Victoria Schreiber by just 0.03 seconds for the win.
Katerina Matoskova also posted a fifth place finish in 5:07.58 before taking fourth behind Naskret in the 200 Back with a time of 2:05.02.
In the men’s 500 Free, Jacob Troescher led the Mavs with a solid third place time of 4:37.04.
The Mavs then claimed second and third place marks in the women’s 200 individual medley as Sophia Bains and Tori Bartusiak managed the solid finishes. Bains touched in 2:06.43 while Bartusiak finished in 2:08.34, just off her season-best.
Otero then led CMU in the men’s 200 IM, placing fifth in 1:53.15, just ahead of Ben Vester’s sixth place time of 1:53.34.
The Maverick men then had three of the top five finishes in the 50 free as Stacey took second in 20.24 seconds while Kuba Kiszczak was third in 20.58. Schemiedefeld tied for fourth in 20.73 seconds.
Later, Kendyll Wilkinson led the CMU women in the 100 free with a time of 52.16 seconds while freshman teammate Reagan Horn was fifth in 52.19.
Stacey led the CMU men in the 100 free, placing fourth in 45.21 seconds.
Bartusiak also had a second place finish in the women’s 200 butterfly, touching in 2:07.36 while Sydnee O’Neil was fourth in 2:08.64.
In the men’s 200 fly, Urbanek took third in 1:51.81.
The Mavs then wrapped up the meet with second and third place finishes in the 200 free relays. The men’s quartet of Stacey, Kiszczak, Otero and Schmiedefeld finished second in 1:20.28 while Naskret, Elli Williams, Qunell and Horn finished third in 1:33.91 after Williams had earlier led the CMU women with a fifth place finish in the 50 free.
The meet was the final pre-championship tune-up for the Maverick swimmers although the CMU divers will return here next week (Thursday-Saturday) for the Air Force Diving Invitational.
The Mavs will then host the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Championships in Grand Junction from Feb. 11-15.
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