Amy Van Dyken’s Pool Record Goes Down as Wyoming Tops Boise State at Home

The very good, if not often discussed, Wyoming – Boise State rivalry wrote a new page on Saturday in Laramie, as the two teams battled down to the wire in the team score. Wyoming would end up winning 154-146, as they and the Broncos would each end up breaking two Meet Records at the Corbett Pool.

The teams were close-to-even going into the 500 yard free, but there Wyoming got some separation, going 1-2-4 to give themselves some cushion over the Broncos. The top two spots went to a 5:10.4 from Emma Dow and a 5:10.6 from Keara Chang.

Boise State freshman Brittany Aoyama broke a Pool Record with a 55.59 in the 100 yard fly, but there are no bonus points for records in college swimming, and a Wyoming 2-3-4 kept Boise from pulling too far away.

That record broke the mark held by six-time Olympic champion Amy van Dyken that she swam back in 1994 – the oldest record on the women’s side of the board. Van Dyken swam for Colorado State at the time.

The Broncos gave themselves a shot in 3-meter diving with a 1-2 finish and then generating a split in the 200 IM, the last individual event of the meet, but Wyoming won the meet-closing 400 free relay in 3:28.28, another Pool Record, to seal the victory. The old record belonged to a BYO relay from 2010 with a 3:28.44.

That furious finish accounted for two Pool Records, and each team added one more to that total. Wyoming junior Jordan Denny, who also anchored that record in the relay, was a 2:02.14 to win the 200 backstroke. That broke the record done by Denver’s Sam Corea at the end of last season in 2:03.61.

For Boise State, it was freshman Felicity Cann who swam a 1:51.83 in the 200 free to set a record of her own. That broke the 2010 mark of Natasha Menezez from BYU that was 1:52.56. Denny was 2nd in that race in 1:52.17, also under the old record.

Other good swims included Jessica Bottelberghe’s 51.82 in the 100 free to top her teammate Cann’s 52.31. The Broncos have a good young team this year, and when a great recruiting class of 2014 arrives next fall (including Bottelberghe’s little sister) they could make a run at some NCAA-scoring relays.

Full meet results available here.

In This Story

1
Leave a Reply

Subscribe
Notify of

1 Comment
newest
oldest most voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Joe
10 years ago

Congrats Brittany!!!! Stockton and Linden, CA are super proud of you!!! Shows what hard work, dedication and sacrifice can do.

About Braden Keith

Braden Keith

Braden Keith is the Editor-in-Chief and a co-founder/co-owner of SwimSwam.com. He first got his feet wet by building The Swimmers' Circle beginning in January 2010, and now comes to SwimSwam to use that experience and help build a new leader in the sport of swimming. Aside from his life on the InterWet, …

Read More »