Wyoming vs Colorado Mesa
- Saturday, October 22, 2022
- Grand Junction, Colo.
- SCY (25 yards)
- Results
- Team Scores
- Women: Wyoming 156, Colorado Mesa 144
- Men: Wyoming 154.5, Colorado Mesa 143.5
Courtesy: Wyoming Athletics
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (10/22/22) – The University of Wyoming swimming & diving team scored a couple of wins Saturday at Colorado Mesa. The Cowgirls topped the Mavericks, 156-144, and the Cowboys topped the scoreboard 154.5-143.5 inside El Pomar Natatorium.
“Our men and women were tough today across the board,” head coach Dave Denniston said. “The team’s energy and excitement to race made it one of our most fun meets.”
Wyoming’s women’s team won seven events. Of those seven events, the Cowgirls finished 1-2-3 in one race and took the top-two spots in five events.
Wyoming’s men’s team won eight events on the day. Of those eight victories, the Cowboys went 1-2-3 in a pair of events and finished 1-2 in a trio of races.
The Cowgirls went 1-2-3 in the 200-yard butterfly. Berkeley Christensen led the pack, clocking in at 2:12.51.
The Cowboys went 1-2-3 in the 100-yard breaststroke and the 500-yard freestyle. Grant Sloan spearheaded the effort in the 100 breast, clocking in at 56.87, while Charlie Clark topped the field in the 500 free, swimming a time of 4:40.65.
The Cowgirls went 1-2 in the 50-yard freestyle, as Mikayla Moore won both races. She recorded a time of 23.92 in the 50 and then went 52.85 in the 100.
The women claimed the top-two spots in the 100-yard butterfly, as Emily Burchett won with a time of 58.01. Wyoming also took the top-two spots in the 1,000-yard freestyle, as Maisyn Klimczak won, boasting a time of 10:26.95.
The Cowgirls capped their 1-2 finishes in the 3-meter event. Nettie Knapton led the way, compiling a score of 261.10.
Klimczak put an exclamation point on the victories for the women with her second win of the day. She touched first in the 500-yard freestyle, swimming a time of 5:06.64.
The Cowboys went 1-2 in the 200-yard freestyle, as Quinn Cynor led the way after registering a time of 1:40.62. Wyoming also went 1-2 in the 100-yard freestyle, as Gavin Smith won, logging a time of 45.86.
The Cowboys also had the top-two swimmers in the 200-yard breaststroke. John Wargin won the event, logging a time of 2:05.86.
Sloan won his second event of the day, besting the field in the 50-yard freestyle after swimming a 21.17. Clark claimed his second individual win, topping the field in the 1000-yard freestyle, boasting a time of 9:34.11.
Wyoming capped its day with a victory in the 800-yeard freestyle relay. The collection of Smith, Harry Tjaden, Clark and Cynor won with a time of 6:44.87.
The Cowboys and Cowgirls are back in the pool Oct. 29. They host Air Force at 1 p.m. inside Laramie High School.
Courtesy: Colorado Mesa Athletics
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.— The Colorado Mesa University women’s swimming diving and team won both relays and nine of the 16 total events but fell just short to NCAA Division I Wyoming, 156-144 in an inter-divisional dual on Saturday afternoon at the Mavericks’ El Pomar Natatorium.
The Mavericks, ranked third in NCAA Division II according to the CSCAA Top 25 Dual Meet Rankings Poll, also combined for five NCAA Division II Championship provisional qualifying times in what was by their best-ever effort in four all-time duals against the Cowgirls, who had won 229-70 last year (Nov. 5) in a triangular with Colorado State in Laramie, Wyoming.
Wyoming won seven events and had 13 second-place finishes in Saturday’s contest.
2022 NCAA Division II 200-yard breaststroke National Champion Lily Borgenheimer led the Mavericks, winning all three of her individual events with NCAA “B” cut times after teaming with Lauren White, Kiara Borchardt and Logan Anderson for a 2.3-second win in the 400-yard medley relay as the Mavericks got out to a hot start with a time of 3:50.92.
Borgenheimer also won the 100 breast in 1:03.14 (1:02.94-coverted) and dominated her specialty in 2:16.56 (2:15.36-converted) before closing out her day by winning the 200 individual medley in 2:05.40 (2:04.20-converted). She won the 200 breast by 7.72 seconds.
Freshman Olivia Hansson also had a NCAA “B” cut time, winning the 200 free by six tenths of a second in 1:54.05 (1:52.85-converted). The Swede also turned in a NCAA “B” cut time of 5:06.71 (5:01.71-converted) to palace second in the 500 free.
Minutes after Hansson’s 200 free win, Davy Brown and Lauren White went 1-2 in the 100 back before Borgenheimer led four Mavericks the top five of the 100 breast as the Mavs built a 57-36 lead through five events, winning four of them.
In the 100 back, Brown touched in 57.59 seconds while White was second in 57.76. Sarah Fillerup also finished fourth in 1:00.31. White would come back to take a victory of her own, claiming the 200 back by more than 2 ½ seconds in 2:05.98.
The Mavs trailed by 25 points (135-110) at the second break, before winning each of the final three events as Kyra Apodaca took the 1-meter diving victory with a 6-dive score of 247.05 points after finishing third on the 3-meter with a 6-dive score of 239.60 points, part of her overall 11-dive total of 397.15 points.
Meanwhile, Borgenheimer and Brown went 1-2 in the 200 IM as Brown out-touched Wyoming’s Carly Palmer for second in 2:09.32.
Hansson, White, Amelia Kinnard and Ada Qunell then won the 800 free relay to cap the meet with a time of 7:40.97.
The Maverick men also won eight events but came up 11 points short of the Cowboys, 154 ½-143 ½.
Both Maverick squads will resume their competitive season when they host the TYR CMU Invitational from Nov. 16-19.
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.— Diver Isaiah Cheeks and swimmers Ben Sampson and Dejan Urbanek all won multiple individual events while Sampson and Urbanek helped win the 400-yard medley relay to lead the Colorado Mesa University Maverick men to eight event wins in a hard-fought Saturday afternoon swimming and diving dual against Division I Wyoming on Saturday here at the El Pomar Natatorium.
The Mavericks trailed the Cowboys by just two points after a strong late-meet comeback entering the final 800-yard free relay but came up short in that race and the overall 16-event meet by just 11 points (154 ½-143 ½).
Cheeks won both the 1 and 3-meter diving competitions and set NCAA Division II Championship qualifying scores on both boards. Meanwhile, Sampson swept the backstroke events while setting NCAA “B” cut times in both the 200-yard backstroke and 200 IM. Urbanek won both the 100 and 200 butterfly, setting a “B” cut time of his own in the latter.
They also teamed with Kuba Kiszczak and Mado Elkady for the meet-starting relay win, touching in 3:20.48.
Urbanek also finished second in the 1000 free just after a short 10-minute break in 9:45.55 while Jacob Troescher was third in 9:55.00.
The Cowboys then went 1-2 in the 200 free ahead of Kiszczak (1:41.78) before Sampson, Lane Austin and Andrew Scoggin turned in a 1-2-3 sweep in the 100 back. Sampson was clocked in 49.47 seconds while Austin was timed in 50.78, just ahead of Scoggin (50.95).
Leading by eight at the time, the Mavericks then saw the Cowboys turn in a 1-2-3 sweep of their own in the 100 breast before Urbanek turned in a “B” cut time of 1:51.07 (1:49.87-converted) to win the 200 fly ahead of four Cowboys.
Elkady was second in the 50 free at 21.23 seconds before Matheus Laperriere tied for third in the 100 free at 46.92 on both sides of the first intermission.
Sampson then got the Mavs back to their winning ways, taking the 200 back in 1:50.48 (1:49.28-converted) ahead of teammate Jeremy Koch, who was second in 1:52.65.
The Mavs trailed by six points through ten events but fell further behind as Wyoming went 1-2 in the 200 breast and 1-2-3 in the 500 free.
However, the Mavs won the final three individual events, starting with Urbanek’s 100 fly win in 49.61 seconds. CMU Sophomore John Walgast was second in 50.39.
Sampson then won the 200 IM by 1.90 seconds, turning in a NCAA provisional time of 1:52.02 (1:50.82-converted) to do so. The Mavericks also had the third, fourth and fifth place finishers in that event with Lucas Viana, Kiszczak and Mauricio Posadas.
Meanwhile, Cheeks was faring quite well in the diving well. He edged Wyoming’s Payton Lee with just 1.1 points over six dives on the 1-meter before going on to set an 11-dive NCAA qualifying score of 458.45 points in a time trial event as the Cowboys only attempted six dives.
Cheeks, the reigning 3-meter NCAA Division II national Champion, then dominated that event, scoring 331.30 points on six dives as the Mavericks had four of the top five finishers in both events.
Trailing by 28 points through 12 events, Cheeks, Sampson and Urbanek’s wins helped the Mavs slice the deficit to just two points, meaning the meet came down to the final relay.
Wyoming then hung on to the win, going wire-to-wire in the 800 free relay, taking it in 6:44.87. CMU’s “A” squad of Walgast, Kiszczak, Koch and Laperriere was second in 6:56.83.
The Maverick women also won nine events in Saturday’s dual but came up 12 points shy of the Cowgirls.
Both Maverick squads will resume their competitive season when they host the TYR CMU Invitational from Nov. 16-19.
