BYU vs Dixie State (W) / BYU Intrasquad (M)
- Saturday, October 23, 2021
- Provo, Utah
- Results
Courtesy: BYU Athletics
PROVO, Utah — BYU women’s swim and dive teams faced Dixie State for the Cougars’ first home meet of the 2021-22 season on Saturday.
While the women competed against Dixie State, BYU men’s team held an intrasquad competition, as the Trailblazers do not have a men’s swim team.
The Cougars came out strong, securing multiple first-place finishes throughout the meet.
“It was a fun meet,” said interim head coach Shari Skabelund. “We had some incredible swims.”
BYU opened the meet with a win in the 400-yard medley relay, with a team of Brynn Sproul, Chloe Freeman, Abi Furqueron and Halli Williams recording a time of 3:56.63.
Sproul continued to have a successful meet, taking first place in the 200-yard freestyle (1:54.21) and the 100-yard freestyle (52.37).
Freeman earned another first-place finish in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 58.27, while Williams secured a win in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 24.68.
Regan Geldmacher took first in the 1650-yard freestyle with a time of 17:28.82, and Summer Murphy won the 200-yard IM with a time of 2:11.11. Rivers Johnson added another win for the Cougars, earning first in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 58:49.
The meet featured exhibition performances from Cougars in several different events, including diving.
Brooklyn Larson recorded a 265.20 for her 1-meter dive, giving her the top score in that event. Kennedy Cribbs earned the top score in the 3-meter dive with a 331.85.
Geldmacher recorded the top time in the 500-yard freestyle with her exhibition time of 5:09.53, and Furqueron’s exhibition time of 1:06.14 gave her the top time in the 100-yard breaststroke. A team of Sproul, Murphy, Williams, and Emma Colvin swam an exhibition in the 200-yard freestyle relay, recording the event’s top time of 1:38.53.
BYU’s next meet will be against UNLV on Friday, Nov. 5. The meet will take place in Las Vegas at the Buchanan Natatorium. Swim events will begin at 5 p.m. PDT, and diving will begin at 8 p.m. PDT.
Courtesy: Dixie State Athletics
Dixie State swimming collected three event wins and broke one school record in a dual meet at in-state foe BYU on Saturday in Provo.
The Blazers’ school record performance came in the first individual event of the meet, the 1,650-yard freestyle, where freshman Paulina Sansores touched the wall in second place with an altitude-adjusted time of 17:32.85. Meanwhile, sophomore Jessica Schab posted the ninth-fastest time in program history in the same race with a fourth-place 17:56.92 (altitude adjusted).
All three of Dixie State’s event wins came in the final three races, starting with the 500 free, where freshman Emily Schexnayder claimed victory with a time of 5:20.06 (altitude adjusted), while sophomore Gabbie Adams followed in second at 5:24.15 (altitude adjusted).
DSU then swept the top-four spots in the 100 breast as sophomore Skyler Lyon led the way with an event-winning time of 1:06.71 (altitude adjusted), with fellow sophomores Kathryn Carter (1:07.93 – AA) and Madelyne Moulton (1:09.74 – AA) and Sansores (1:10.66 – AA) following close behind.
Then in the final event of the dual, the 200 free relay, the team of freshman Talia Thomas, sophomore Akalia Bostock, Adams and freshman Mandy Farnum touched the wall in 1:39.89 to earn the win.
Dixie State will close out the 2021 portion of its season slate by hosting the DSU Trailblazer Invitational, which will be held Nov. 18-20, at the DSU HPC Pool.