Denver vs Colorado Mesa (Men)
- November 2, 2024
- Denver, Colo.
- SCY (25 yards)
- Results
Courtesy: Denver Athletics
DENVER – The University of Denver men’s swimming and diving program earned its second win in as many duals with a victory over Colorado Mesa on Saturday afternoon at El Pomar Natatorium.
Men’s Team Scoring
Denver 157
Colorado Mesa 143
Saturday Event Wins
Men’s 3-Meter Dive – Zyad Morsy – 360.60
Men’s 1000 Free – Joseph Hancock – 9:37.75
Men’s 200 Fly – Brandon Chapman – 1:51.60
Men’s 200 Back – Dylan Wright – 1:48.27
Men’s 200 Breast – Marco Nosack – 2:05.38
Men’s 500 Free – Kieran Watson – 4:39.51
Men’s 100 Fly – Hamish McLellan – 49.04
Men’s 200 Free Relay – Frank Tirone, Luke Milburn, Hamish McLellan, Brandon Chapman – 1:21.80
Saturday NCAA Standards
Men’s 3-Meter Dive – Zyad Morsy – 360.60
Men’s 3-Meter Dive – Colin Breuer – 320.10
Men’s 1-Meter Dive – Zyad Morsy – 342.00
Event-by-Event Recap:
The meet began with diving. Denver swept the podium in the men’s 3-meter, led by Zyad Morsy’s score of 360.60. Colin Breuer earned a 320.10 to finish second and Nathan Cox recorded a score of 301.35 to take third.
In the first individual swim of the day, the Pioneers took the top four spots in the 1000 free. Joseph Hancock led the Denver quartet with a time of 9:37.75, followed by Kieran Watson’s time of 9:42.28.
Brandon Chapman picked up Denver’s next win in the 200 fly, partnering with Ian O’Neil for a Denver 1-2 finish. Chapman clocked in at 1:51.60 and O’Neil recorded a time of 1:54.04.
Dylan Wright was the next Pioneer in the win column with his time of 1:48.27 to take the men’s 200 back.
Marco Nosack made it back-to-back DU wins, taking the 200 breast event title with a time of 2:05.38.
Denver’s distance swimmers earned another helping of points in the men’s 500 free. Watson led a trio of Pioneers in the top four with the event win in a time of 4:39.51. Hancock finished second in 4:39.71 and Finn Holdredge took fourth in 4:44.04.
Hamish McLellan made it four Denver wins in a row with his time of 49.04 in the 100 fly to take the event title.
DU closed out the meet with a win in the 200 free relay. Frank Tirone, Luke Milburn, McLellan and Chapman combined for a time of 1:21.80 to win the relay.
Courtesy: CMU Athletics
DENVER— Seven different Mavericks won individual events while the Colorado Mesa University Maverick men’s swimming & diving team also won a relay during a tight 157-143 NCAA inter-divisional dual loss on Saturday against NCAA Division I Denver on Saturday here in the Pioneers’ El Pomar Natatorium.
The sixth-ranked Division II Mavericks also had three men surpass the NCAA Pre-Championship Diving Qualification meet standards in the diving competitions before action moved into the swimming slate, which saw the Mavs win five of the first six swimming events.
CMU sophomore Jax Juarros claimed the 1-meter diving win with a 6-dive score of 347.18 points, good for one of the three NCAA marks. Meanwhile, Wyatt Hermanson (297.98) and Ryan Campbell (295.95) both went over the 3-meter qualification standard of 295 points, taking fourth and fifth place behind a trio of Pioneers.
The Mavs then got off to a quick start in the swimming events as Andrew Scoggin, Forest Frazier, Xander Zappas and Harry Stacey combined to win the 400-Yard medley relay in a time of 3:18.97.
The Pioneers then took the top four spots in the 1000 Free before the Mavs answered back in the 200 Free through German freshman Richard Schmiedefeld, who claimed his first collegiate win with a time of 1:41.78.
Scoggin then won the 100 Back in 49.34 seconds while Kuba Kiszczak took second in 49.93.
The Mavs also had a strong 1-2-4 finish in the 100 Breast as Max Ayres touched in 56.35 seconds to edge Frazier, who moved into a tie for ninth on the Mavs’ all-time charts in that discipline with a time of 56.50 seconds (56.40-altitude adjusted). Maverick sophomore Mauricio Posadas took fourth in that race with a time of 56.97 seconds.
Two events later, Stacey won the 50 Free for the second straight meet in 20.60 seconds while Schmeidefeld took third in 20.83.
Kiszczak then claimed his individual win, taking the 100 Free in 46.33 seconds while Schmeidefeld claimed another third place finish, touching the wall in 46.67 seconds.
However, the Pioneers were able to win four straight and five of the last six events to pull out the dual.
Scoggin (1:51.80) and Luka Samsonov (1:52.47) did take second and third in the 200 Back at the start of that stretch before Lucas Viana (2:06.21) and Marcos Otero (2:06.86) did the same in the 200 Breast.
The Pioneers then took the 500 Free, 100 Fly and 200 Free Relay, while CMU freshman Ben Vester did win the 400 IM in between, touching in 4:05.30.
In those events, Braden Felio also turned a strong time of 4:40.46 to take third in the 500 Free while Stacey took second in the 100 Fly with a time of 49.92. The Mavs’ 200 Free Relay team of Jameson McEnaney, Frazier, Schmiedefeld and Ayres also took second in 1:21.88, just 0.08 behind the Pioneers’ “A” squad.
The Maverick women also competed on Saturday, falling at Division I Colorado State in Fort Collins.
Both of CMU’s teams will resume the season in 2 ½ weeks, when they host the Nov. 20-23 TYR/CMU Invitational in Grand Junction.
