Minnesota Press Release
The Golden Gophers set several pool records as they secured dual meet victories against Denver and Wyoming at El Pomar Natatorium. The Gopher men beat host Denver 193-136, and beat Wyoming 219.5-95.5. Minnesota’s women captured a 179-136 win against the Hilltoppers and a 225-90 win against the Cowgirls.
MEN
Both Minnesota relays set pool records. Bowe Becker, Paul Fair, Noah Busch and Daryl Turner started Day 2 of the meet with a winning time of 1:20.42 in the 200-yard freestyle relay. The same quartet closed competition with a 2:57.69 in the 400 free relay.
Turner set an individual pool record by winning the 100 butterfly in 47.51. (He also had a pool record in the 100 back on Friday.) Tuomas Pokkinen (49.64) placed third in the 100 fly.
Becker won his second sprint free race of the meet, with a 44.46 for victory in the 100. Fair (45.34) finished third and Busch (46.19) fifth.
Conner McHugh placed second in the 200 breaststroke in 2:01.91. John Bushman (2:03.09) and Brian Poon (2:03.33) also scored in fourth and fifth.
Poon (4:02.48) and Bushman (4:02.96) placed second and third in the 400 IM. Nick Plachinski (4:34.54) and Logan Redondo (4:38.22) did the same in the 500 free.
Jeremy Moser finished second in 3-meter diving with a score of 300.20. Alan LeBlang (264.70) and Lucas Cooperman (228.35) placed fifth and seventh.
Jonathon Thielen placed fifth in the 200 back (1:52.31).
WOMEN
The Gophers swept the relays during the two-day meet. On Saturday, Zoe Avestruz, Danielle Nack, Chantal Nack and Tevyn Waddell set a pool record with a 3:23.85 in the 400 free relay. (Friday’s 200 medley relay and 800 free relay also set pool records.) The Gophers also won the 200 free relay, with Avestruz, Chantal Nack, Abigail Raatz and Tevyn Waddell posting a time of 1:33.26.
Kierra Smith set an El Pomar record by winning the 200 breaststroke in 2:13.22, by a 2.62-second margin and under the NCAA "B" standard. She swept the breaststroke events in Denver. Lindsey Horejsi took third in both, with a 2:18.64 in the 200.
Danielle Nack, who set a pool record in the 200 butterfly Friday, completed the butterfly sweep with a 54.88 to win the 100 on Saturday. Kaia Grobe (58.06) was fourth.
Lexi Tenenbaum won the 1-meter diving competition with a score of 292.25. Mariam Khamis (250.15) and Beth Etterman (236.55) placed third and fourth.
Waddell (2:00.25) and Chantal Nack (2:01.10) turned in a 2-3 finish in the 200 backstroke. Avestruz (51.87) was the runner-up in the 100 freestyle. Raatz (53.26) finished fifth.
Erin Emery took second in the 500 free in 5:05.86, and Isabel Whited was fourth in 5:09.21. Emery (4:34.61) and Rina Krupsky (4:35.44) finished third and fourth in the 400 IM.
Denver Press Release
DENVER – The University of Denver men’s and women’s swimming and diving programs combined for five wins en route to defeating Wyoming and falling to Minnesota on both the men’s and women’s sides in the final day of a two-day meet on Saturday afternoon at El Pomar Natatorium. Prior to the meet, Denver honored its 15 seniors.
Team Scores Through 34 of 34 Events
Men
[RV/30] Minnesota defeated [-/50] Wyoming 219.5 – 95.5
[24/21] Denver defeated [-/50] Wyoming 218 - 97
[RV/30] Minnesota defeated [24/21] Denver 193-122
Women
[16/14] Minnesota defeated [-/-] Wyoming 225-90
[RV/22] Denver defeated [-/-] Wyoming 227-88
[16/14] Minnesota defeated [RV/22] Denver 179-136
Denver opened the second day of competition in the three-team meet with a second place finish in the 200 free relay as senior Johanna Roas (Munich, Germany), junior Morgan Wice-Roslin (Colorado Springs, Colo.), junior Morgan McCormick (Golden, Colo.) and junior Heidi Bradley (Victoria, B.C.) combined for a time of 1:34.90.
The Denver men also finished as the runner-up in their relay by just over three-tenths of a second when redshirt-senior Kyle Robrock (Savage, Minn.), junior Anton Loncar (Hillsboro, Ore.), freshman Sid Farber (Portland, Ore.) and senior Tim Cottam (Sydney, Australia) combined for a sprint relay time of 1:20.76. For the second day in a row the men’s opening relay time was good enough for an El Pomar Natatorium record, but Minnesota’s A relay broke a nearly 11-year old record Saturday with a time of 1:20.42 to just edge out the Denver relay.
Sophomore Bailey Andison (Smiths Falls, Ontario) and junior Maddie Myers (Arvada, Colo.) turned in a 1-2 finish in the 400 IM to complete a sweep in the discipline this week for Andison. The Denver sophomore finished in 4:25.17, while Myers finished in 4:29.84, nearly five seconds ahead of the next closest swimmer. Sophomore Kyle Ewoldt (Gilbert, Ariz.) led the Pioneers in the men’s race with a fourth place finish (4:04.35).
Roas made it back-to-back women’s wins for the Pioneers when she touched first in the 100 free with a time of 50.90. Wice-Roslin finished third at 52.56 to give Denver two scorers in the top-3 in the event. After swimming the leadoff leg in the free relay a few events earlier, Robrock led Denver in the men’s race with a second-place time of 44.89.
McCormick made it three in a row for the Denver women with her sixth victory this season in the 200 back, clocking in at 1:58.99. Loncar made it a sweep for the Pioneers’ backstroke corps touching in 1:47.53, a little more than a second ahead of his teammate Jared Smith (Boulder City, Nev.), who finished second in the event at 1:48.76.
Redshirt senior Andrew Torres (Arvada, Colo.) and Bradley led Denver in the 100 fly with second place finishes in the event at 48.78 and 56.33 in their respective events. On the men’s side, senior Patrick Guillory (Meadows Place, Texas) and junior Ben Ussery (Austin, Texas) finished fourth and fifth to score points for the Pioneers.
Freshman Colin Gilbert (Kamloops, B.C.) picked up his second distance victory of the weekend and his first this season in the 500 free with a time of 4:32.11. Junior Grace Sommerville (Ashburton, New Zealand) led the Denver women in the event with a third place finish at 5:08.33.
With four events to go, Sanders led the Pioneers in the 200 breast with a second-place time of 2:15.84, while Cottam led Denver’s men’s squad with a third place finish in 2:02.86.
The two-day meet finished up with the men’s and women’s 400 free relays. Roas, Wice-Roslin, Bradley and Myers finished second with a time of 3:26.89. Denver’s men’s 400 A-relay of Farber, Robrock, junior Ray Bornman (Mackay, Queensland) and Loncar also finished second, touching in 3:02.07.
Freshman Alex Morgan (Dyer, Ind.) finished sixth in both diving events this weekend, while classmate Sammy Walker (Los Gatos, Calif.) finished in eighth and seventh in the three-meter and one-meter, respectively.
