Utah swimming and diving will be competing in a pair of events this weekend. The Utes will take part in the Florida Gulf Coast Invitational in Fort Myers as well as the Intermountain Shootout in Grand Junction, Colo. Both will begin on Friday, Oct. 7 and run through Saturday, Oct. 8.
“This should be a great couple days of racing for all of the swimmers,” said Utah head coach Joe Dykstra. “The unique format of the FGCU Classic only permits 12 men and 12 women to compete there, and we will be challenged by a great field of teams from across the country. The rest of our team will also have their hands full with a lot of regional rivals at the Intermountain Shootout. I’m really looking forward to seeing all of the hard training we’ve been doing start to pay off with racing at both competitions.”
FLORIDA GULF COAST INVITATIONAL
There will be a total of eight teams competing this week with the Utes facing squads host FGCU, South Carolina, LSU, Virginia Tech, Ohio State, Rutgers and Grand Canyon.
Friday’s competition will begin at 5 p.m. ET with Saturday beginning at 10:30 a.m. ET.
This is Utah’s first time competing in this meet
For more information, visit http://fgcuathletics.com/sport
The meet schedule is available here: http://sidearm.sites.s3.amazon
INTERMOUNTAIN SHOOTOUT
After not competing in this event last year, the Utes return to face BYU, Air Force, Liberty and host Colorado Mesa.
Competition begins on Friday at 5 p.m MT with Saturday beginning at 11 am MT.
Live stats will be available here: http://www.cmumavericks.com/cu
LAST TIME OUT
The women’s team is coming off a win against Oregon State, where they came out with a score of 157-96. This was the squad’s first Pac-12 Conference meet of 2016.
The women won 10 events during the meet with Jordan Anderson and Stina Colleou each collecting a pair of victories. Anderson captured the 200 fly (2:05.16) as well as the 500 free (5:07.70), while Colleou took first in the 100 breast (1:04.29) and the 200 breast (2:18.48).
Other wins for the Utes were captured by Kat Wickham (1,000 free, 10:33.79), Sarah Lott (200 free, 1:52.51), Dorien Butter (100 free, 51.39), Kristine Pataray (50 free, 24.01) and Darby Wayner (100 fly, 56.32).
In relay action, the team of Megan Kawaguchi, Mariah Gassaway, Pataray and Gillian St. John took first in the 200 medley relay with a time of 1:43.82.
This will be the first bit of regular-season competition for the men’s team after a non-scoring relay meet vs. BYU on Sept. 22.
UP NEXT
Utah welcomes Arizona State and Arizona to Ute Natatorium, Oct. 21-22. Both matches will be Ute Blackouts
Courtesy of Utah Athletics.