Denver
The University of Denver swimming and diving teams continued their domination at the 2014 Summit League Swimming and Diving Championships on Friday at the IUPUI Natatorium in Indianapolis, Ind., by winning all 12 finals races on the day.
The Pioneer men lead the pack with 686.5 points, while the Pioneer women lead with 708 points. On the men’s side, South Dakota State is in second place with 365 points, while hosts IUPUI are in second place on the women’s side with 392 points.
“I am really humbled by a great night from our team,” said head coach Brian Schrader. “Our 400 IMs got us off to a great start. Bridget and Jeremiah had outstanding efforts and swims to set new marks for The Summit League. Tanner Krall had a great day setting new team and league records with his prelim swim and his finals win. It was a great day for him as a senior.”
Junior Bridgette McNally (Lonetree, Colo.) started things off for the Pioneers in the women’s 400 IM, taking first place with a Summit League record time of 4:13.46, good enough for an NCAA B Standard. Freshman Clara Jenck (Phoenix, Ariz.) grabbed second place with a time of 4:20.59, while freshman Nicole Cassou (Castle Rock, Colo.) finished in fourth with a time of 4:28.48. Senior Jaclyn Best (Boulder, Colo.) finished in seventh place with a time of 4:31.85.
In the men’s 400 IM, the Pioneers swept the top-three podium spots as junior Jeremiah Zgliczynski (Littleton, Colo.) turned in an NCAA B Standard and a Summit League record with a time of 3:49.09. Junior Darian Brunetti (Denver, Colo.) and freshman Lane Bretschneider (Marvin, N.C.) finished in second and third place with times of 3:56.55 and 3:57.52, respectively. Senior Matt Absher (Knoxville, Tenn.) finished in fifth place with a time of 4:03.30.
In the preliminaries of the 100 Butterfly earlier in the day, junior Samantha Corea (Vancouver, British Columbia) set a Summit League record with a time of 52.77 and then won the event in the finals with an NCAA B Standard time of 52.80 to take first. Junior Drew Matthews (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) took second with an NCAA B Standard time of 53.74.
“Sam Corea set new school and league records in the 100 back and fly with her wins and Kyle Milberg continues to race so tough with gutsy wins in the same events,” Schrader said. “Two of the most fun wins was seeing Morgan Mullenix and Amanda Sanders step up and play bigger roles for our team.”
Senior Kyle Milberg (Littleton, Colo.) won the men’s 100 Butterfly with an NCAA B Standard time of 48.02, while sophomore Andrew Torres (Arvada, Colo.) finished second with a time of 48.08, also good for an NCAA B Standard. Freshman Patrick Guillory (Meadows Place, Texas) and senior Ryan Holly (Phoenix, Ariz.) both finished with a time of 50.33, tying for seventh place.
Sophomore Morgan Mullenix (St. Louis, Mo.) won the women’s 200 Freestyle with a time of 1:49.34, while junior Kacie Van Buskirk (South Lyon, Mich.) finished in fifth with a time of 1:52.31). Sophomore Tyra Rooney (Calgary, Alberta) finished in ninth with a time of 1:53.17.
The Pioneers swept the podium in the men’s 200 Freestyle as Dylan Bunch (Boulder City, Nev.) win with an NCAA B Standard time of 1:37.70. Freshman Scott Bergstrom (White Salmon, Wash.) and Luke Williams (Scottsdale, Ariz.) both finished in second place with a time of 1:38.30. Senior Doug Mackenzie (Silver Springs, Md.) finished in 11th place with a time of 1:42.25.
“Dylan bunch really dug down deep to beat two of his best training partners,” Schrader said. “We are looking forward to his mile.”
Freshman Amanda Sanders (Superior, Colo.) won the women’s 100 Breaststroke with a time of 1:02.50, while sophomore Maddie Eyolfson (Boise, Idaho) took third place with a time of 1:03.14. Senior Michelle Duraj (Newhall, Calif.) and Kyra Clarke (Colorado Springs, Colo.) finished sixth and seventh, respectively, as Duraj finished with a time of 1:05.11 and Clarke touched home with a time of 1:05.13.
In the men’s 100 Breaststroke, Denver once again swept the podium as senior Tanner Krall (Pueblo, Colo.) won the title with a time of 54.78, good enough for an NCAA B Standard. Freshman Tim Cottam (Wahroonga, Australia) also secured an NCAA B Standard time, touching home with a time of 55.03 to finish in second place. Freshman Travis Greenwald (Wilton, Iowa) took third place with a time of 56.17.
Corea won the women’s 100 Backstroke with a Summit League record time of 52.75, while freshman Johanna Roas (Munich, Germany) finished second with a time of 54.56. Corea and Roas both finished with NCAA B Standard times. Sophomore Zoe Huddleston (Rothschild, Wis.) finished in fourth place with a time of 55.87 and senior Gretchen Cohen (Centennial, Colo.) finished in fifth with a time of 55.89.
Milberg won the men’s 100 Backstroke with an NCAA B Standard time of 48.02, while sophomore Kyle Robrock (Savage, Minn.) finished in second place with an NCAA B Standard time of 48.34. Junior Willy Van Dehy (Boulder, Clo.) finished in fourth (49.86) while Holly finished in 12th (51.80).
In the men’s 1M diving event, junior Ross Edfort (Somerset, N.J.) finished in fourth with a final score of 303.75, while junior Simon Latimer (Westminster, Colo.) finished in eighth place with a time of 244.30.
The women closed out the day with a win in the 400 Medley Relay with a Summit League record time of 3:38.79, as Roas, Sanders, Corea and Matthews all posted strong times. The men’s team of Milberg, Krall, Torres and Robrock took home the title with a time of 3:14.18.
“It was a satisfying end to the session to see our women crush the conference and school records,” Schrader said. “Our men’s relay was the second fastest ever for their win.”
The Summit League Swimming and Diving Championships conclude Saturday at the Indiana University Natatorium at IUPUI on Wednesday.
IUPUI Men
Thanks in part to a late rally, the IUPUI men's swimming and diving team finished Day 3 of the 2014 Summit League Swimming and Diving Championships in second place.
Following diving, the Jags trailed South Dakota State by one point entering the 400 medley relay, but the Jaguars quartet of Tony Carroll, Adam Ferguson, Daniel Heringer and Lennart Kuester placed third in a new school-record time of 3:21.60 to give IUPUI a three-point lead over the Jackrabbits for second place heading into the final day. Denver leads with 708 points.
"We had a good day out there and some guys really stepped up for us," head coach Matt Bos. "We're now at the end of the meet and everybody is hurt. We're going to have to fight through some soreness and come back with one good day tomorrow to finish this meet off on a positive note."
In the prelims, Alexander Rhoda started the morning off by trimming more than five seconds off his seed time to make his way into the 'A' final of the 400 IM with a time of 4:05.24 - the second-best time in school history. A.J. Bernth also qualified for 'B' final with a PR time of 4:12.27.
Heringer then broke his own school record in the prelims with a time of 50.07 in 100 fly, and three others managed to advance to the 'B' final in Josh Garmon, John Kamphuis and Luke Haskett.
The trio theme continued when Rich Sunkel, Kuester and Jared Allen all made the 'A' final in the 200 free with personal best times of 1:39.58, 1:40.62 and 1:40.91.
Ferguson broke his own school record by more than 1.50 seconds in the 100 breast prelims with a time of 56.35 to earn the fourth seed overall heading into the evening. Ben Weingart and Landan Mintch placed 10th and 11th in the prelims to make the 'B' final.
Luke Haskett closed out the morning by cutting 1.50 seconds off his career-best time and made his way into the 'A' final of the 100 back with a time of 50.85.
Bernth kicked off the evening finals by trimming more than two seconds of his 400 IM prelims time and posted a time of 4:10.23 to place third in the 'B' final and 11th overall. Rhoda cut his personal-best time to 4:04.29 in the 'A' final, narrowly missing out on the school record by .09 seconds.
Heringer then used a late rally in the 100 fly to become the first Jaguar to post a sub 50-second time in the event with a fourth-place mark of 49.84 in the 'A' final.
Kuester, Sunkel and Allen finished in fourth, fifth and eighth, respectively, in the 200 free 'A' final, before Mintch won the 'B' final of the 100 breast with a career-best time of 58.70. Ferguson followed that with a fifth-place time of 57.13 in the 'A' final of the 100 breast.
In the final individual swimming event, Carroll won the 'B' final of the 100 back with a time of 50.95, finishing just ahead of Haskett who finished eighth in the 'A' final.
In diving action, Cody Watts narrowly missed out on another diving title by posting a score of 314.40 to finish second in the one-meter. South Dakota State's Connor Florand won the event with a score of 326.75, and both Florand and Watts bested the previous conference record of 311.40.
The Jags close out the conference championships on Saturday, Feb. 22, with prelims starting at 11 a.m. and finals beginning at 6 p.m.
IUPUI Women
The IUPUI women's swimming and diving team had two swimmers and one relay team earn All-Summit League honors on Friday helping the Jaguars finish Day 3 of the 2014 Summit League Championships in third place.
IUPUI sits in third place with 340 points, trailing Denver and South Dakota. The Pioneers lead with 686.5 points, followed by the Jackrabbits with 365 points.
"We broke some more school records today, which is always great for our kids, but I was really pleased with all the personal bests we had out there today," head coach Matt Bos said. "Maranda and Maddie [Bradford] really stepped up in the 100 fly and Sarah Rozow came through with a lifetime best in the 100 back. Those are the types of swims you need in a meet like this."
In the morning prelims, the Jags had at least one swimmer advance to the 'A' finals in all five individual events.
Natalie Trout led off the morning with a new school record in 400 IM prelims timing in at 4:30.50 to earn the sixth overall seed in the 'A' final.
Maranda Buha followed Trout by shaving more than two seconds off her previous personal-best with a mark of 56.79 in the 100 fly to pick up the No. 4 seed in the 'A' final. Madeline Bradford also registered a time of 58.50 to make her way into the 'B' final.
Margaret Barber had a personal best in the 200 free prelims and nearly beat Trout's school record set in opening leg of 800 free relay on Wednesday when she clocked time of 1:51.82 to claim the third seed in 'A' final. Madison Taylor's time of 1:55.18 in the morning prelims was good enough to get her into 'B' final.
Jennifer Oleksiak continued her stellar meet when she jumped in the pool and set a new school-record during the 100 breast prelims with time of 1:03.21 to earn second seed heading into the evening.
Alexus Laird then closed out the morning with a solid 55.20 to place third in 100 back, which made her the third seed entering the evening 'A' final.
Trout came back in the evening and fluctuated between fourth and sixth place before eventually finishing fifth with an even better school-record time of 4:28.85.
Prior to Buha hitting the blocks in the 100 fly 'A' final, Bradford went a career-best 57.97 in the 100 fly 'B' final to place second in the heat and 10th overall, while Karyn Wade also bested one minute with a 14th-place time of 59.75. Then, Buha bettered her prelims time with a mark of 57.26 to place sixth overall.
Taylor added a 13th-place finish in the 200 free preceding Barber's sixth-place time of 1:52.35 in the 'A' final, but then Oleksiak put together her second all-conference performance of the meet. Oleksiak was neck-and-neck with top seed Amanda Sanders, and Sanders managed to eke out a 0.50 victory over Oleksiak, but her time of 1:03.00 broke her own school record set earlier in the day.
To close out the individual swimming events, Sarah Rozow tied for first in the 'B' final of the 100 back with a PR of 58.32, before Laird hit the podium with an all-conference swim of 55.27 to finish third.
To finish off the evening, the team of Laird, Oleksiak, Buha and Taylor posted a 400 medley relay time of 3:46.06 to place second.
The Jags close out the conference championships on Saturday, Feb. 22, with prelims beginning at 11 a.m. and finals starting at 6 p.m.
