2025 Golden Grizzly Classic
- December 3-6, 2025
- OU Aquatic Center, Rochester, MI
- SCY (25 yards)
- Participating Teams: Oakland, Wayne State, Dartmouth, Grand Canyon, Eastern Michigan (women)
- Day 1 Results
- Day 2 Results
- Day 3 Results
- “Golden Grizzly Classic” on Meet Mobile
After four days of competition, it was the Dartmouth women and Grand Canyon men that emerged victorious at the first-ever Golden Grizzlies Classic in Rochester.
Women’s Recap
Oakland’s Lydia Soldatke led the way in the women’s 200 backstroke, clocking 1:56.03, leading a 1-2-4 finish for the Golden Grizzlies. Clarissa Bezuidenhout (1:57.03) and Grace Albrecht each added valuable points, finishing 2nd and 4th, respectively. That swim marked Soldatke’s fastest ever performance, lowering her previous best from November of 1:56.09.
Dartmouth earned its first win of day 4 in the women’s 100 free. Carinn Bethea logged the lone sub-50-second performance in the event, touching in a lifetime best time of 49.86, just ahead of Grand Canyon’s Sara Mose in 50.19.
Grand Canyon’s Taylor Stasny (2:14.28) and Beth Young (2:14.53) led the way in the women’s 200 breaststroke. The pair finished 1-2 and were the only two swimmers in the field to crack 2:15.
Paula Martinez was untouchable in the 200 butterfly for Grand Canyon, clocking a second-and-a-half victory over Dartmouth’s Jamie Legh (2:03.18), stopping the clock in 2:00.64. Martinez has been as fast as 1:58.33 at the CSCAA National Invitational Championships in March.
Grand Canyon closed out the met on the women’s side with a very close win over Oakland in the 400 free relay. Mose (49.65), Kailee Patters (50.74), Katelyn Huffman (50.96), and Sara Mendoza (49.07) combined to take down the Golden Grizzlies by 14 hundredths of a second in 3:20.42.
Women’s Final Team Scores:
- Dartmouth – 1940
- Grand Canyon – 1776
- Oakland – 1768
- Eastern Michigan – 1471
- Wayne State – 695
Men’s Recap
Max Haney of Oakland narrowly won the men’s 200 back in 1:43.16. Finishing just under two tenths of a second ahead of Dartmouth’s Andrew Chou in 1:43.35. That time for Haney bestest his former best time from the Horizon League Championships last Spring in 1:43.48.
Grand Canyon’s Guillermo Carrey outpaced a quick 100 free field to win the event. Carrey’s final time of 43.14 was just faster than his teammate Alex Volkov‘s 43.36. The top four finishers were separated by over half a second.
Grand Canyon’s Carter Dooling took the 200 breast win by over a second, turning in a final time of 1:55.92. Jihoon Jung of Dartmouth was 2nd in 1:57.14. Nobody else in the event cracked the 2-minute barrier. Dooling lowered his lifetime best time by nearly two full seconds, having held a previous best of 1:57.70 from the WAC Championships in March.
Dartmouth’s Jacob Turner won the final individual event in the pool for Dartmouth. Turner dropped over two and a half seconds from his best time from this past January of 1:47.98 to win in 1:44.23.
The Grand Canyon men followed suit to their women’s counterparts, topping Oakland in the final relay of the meet. The quartet of Volkov (43.21), Mario Perez (43.13), Greg Wanat (43.86), and Carrey (42.34) ended the winning effort in a combined 2:52.54.
Men’s Final Team Scores:
- Grand Canyon – 2091
- Dartmouth – 2076.5
- Oakland – 1786
- Wayne State – 1209.5
