2021 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championships
- Wednesday, February 17 – Saturday, February 20, 2021
- Diving Tuesday, February 16 – Wednesday, February 17, 2021
- Cal Poly Anderson Aquatics Center, San Luis Obispo, CA (Pacific Time Zone)
- Defending Champion: Hawaii men (2x) & Hawaii women (4x) (results)
- Live Video
- Championship Central
- Timeline
- Psych Sheets
- Day 1 Results
- Results on Meet Mobile: “2021 MPSF Swim & Dive Champs”
Women’s Team Standings Through Day 1
- Brigham Young University* – 74 (tie)
- University of Hawaii* – 74 (tie)
- UC Santa Barbara – 64
- UC Davis – 60
- Cal Poly – 56
- University of San Diego – 52
Men’s Team Standings Through Day 1
- Brigham Young University – 74
- Hawaii – 70
- UC Santa Barbara – 66
- Cal Poly – 62
- University of the Pacific – 56
Women’s 200 Medley Relay
- MPSF Championship record: 1:38.18
- NCAA DI qualifying cut: 1:36.40
- NCAA DI provisional cut: 1:37.05
Hawaii’s relay of Karolina Hajkova, Anna Kotonen, Lucia Lassman, and Anna Friedrich was almost able to match their MPSF Championship record-setting 1st place finish from last year, touching the wall 1st again at 1:38.89. Lassman split a lifetime best 23.33 on the butterfly leg.
BYU’s relay snagged 2nd place just .14 after the ‘Bows. Brynn Sproul led-off BYU’s relay, touching the wall .05 ahead of Hawaii’s Hajkova. The two teams were neck-and-neck through the halfway point until Lassman pulled away on the fly leg. It came down to the touch as BYU’s anchor Gwen Gustafson brought home the relay in 22.11 compared to Friedrich’s split of 22.59.
There was one disqualification in the event, from the University of the Pacific.
Men’s 200 Medley Relay
- MPSF Championship record: 1:24.57
- NCAA DI qualifying cut: 1:24.30
- NCAA DI provisional cut: 1:24.97
BYU went on to claim victory in the men’s 200 medley relay, a significant improvement from their 4th place finish at last year’s MPSF Championships. Their relay of Payton Plumb, Josue Dominguez, Javier Nicolas, and Connor Stirling touched the wall about 1.5 seconds ahead of UC Santa Barbara with a time of 1:26.83.
It was a tight race for 2nd place with UC Santa Barbara, Cal Poly, and Hawaii all touching the wall within .20 of each other in that order. Cal Poly surpassed last year’s champion, Hawaii by .09, greatly improving from their 6th place finish last season.
Women’s 800 Free Relay
- MPSF Championship record: 7:07.30
- NCAA DI qualifying cut: 7:00.86
- NCAA DI provisional cut: 7:05.88
BYU’s 800 free relay of Katie McBratney, Gustafson, Chloe Freeman, and Sproul touched the wall 1st with a time of 7:22.29, about 2 seconds ahead of Hawaii. Their fastest leg was surprisingly the lead-off 200 split swam by McBratney in 1:48.63.
In 2nd place, Hawaii’s relay splits were the inverse of BYU’s. Friedreich’s anchor leg was the fastest 200 split of the relay, as she touched the wall with a time of 1:48.25. Defending champions UCSB finished in 3rd place with a time of 7:25.41.
Men’s 800 Free Relay
- MPSF Championship record: 6:21.23
- NCAA DI qualifying cut: 6:17.18
- NCAA DI provisional cut: 6:21.85
Hawaii ended day 1 of the MPSF Championships in the same way they started it, with a win. The ‘Bows relay of John Clark, Ian Venter, Timothy Gallagher, and Talon Lindquist touched the wall at 6:28.98, half a second ahead of BYU.
Interestingly, BYU’s 3rd 200 split, swam by junior Tama Tuitama, was the fastest split in the field (1:36.26). The Gauchos had also won the men’s 800 free relay at last season’s MPSF Championships, and they finished in 3rd place on Wednesday with a time of 6:31.04.
Diving
On Tuesday, the University of Hawaii snagged 2 victories, one from sophomore Daphne Wils on women’s three-meter (338.25 points) and one from Mason Williams on the men’s one-meter (316.50). BYU mirrored them, posting two 2nd place finishes from Morgan Paul on women’s three-meter (290.10 points) and Mickey Strauss on men’s one-meter (309.40 points).
Hawaii’s Max Burman claimed victory on men’s three-meter on Wednesday with 418.10 points, edging out Strauss by less than 1.5 points. On the women’s side, Wils took 1st place on one-meter with 315.90 points and a 45 point lead over second-place finisher Adia London from BYU. The first diver to crack the top three who was not from Hawaii or BYU was UC Davis’ Taylor Hornberger in 3rd place on women’s one-meter with 266.10 points.
