Denver v. BYU
- January 10, 2026
- El Pomar Natatorium, Denver, CO
- SCY (25 yards)
- Results
- Final Scores:
- Women- Denver 153, BYU 146
- Men- BYU 183, Denver 116
Courtesy of Denver Athletics
DENVER – The University of Denver men’s and women’s swimming and diving programs continued their four-meet homestand with duals on Saturday against BYU’s men’s and women’s program inside El Pomar Natatorium.
Denver’s women completed the weekend sweep of New Mexico and BYU with its fourth-straight dual win. Gabe Jones highlighted Denver’s men’s meet with a school record time of 1:47.03 in the men’s 200 fly.
Team Scores:
Men’s:
BYU:183
Denver: 116
Women’s:
Denver: 153
BYU: 146
Event Winners:
Women’s 3-Meter Dive – Savanna Berry – 275.93
Women’s 1-Meter Dive – Savanna Berry – 270.53
Women’s 200 Medley Relay – Ali Beay, Tenaya Winter, Julia Saxman, Isa Cardenas – 1:40.19
Women’s 100 Back – Ali Beay – 55.50
Women’s 200 Fly – Sabrina Rachjaibun – 2:02.12
Men’s 200 Fly – Gabe Jones – 1:47.03 – El Pomar Natatorium Record – 9th Fastest Time in Program History
Men’s 50 Free – Hamish McLellan – 20.20
Women’s 200 Back – Samantha Synsvoll – 1:59.67
Men’s 200 Back – Quinn Collins – 1:49.90
Women’s 500 Free – Sabrina Rachjaibun – 4:57.94
Women’s 100 Fly – Julia Saxman – 53.76
How it Happened:
In diving on Saturday, Denver swept the podium of the women’s 3-meter dive. Savanna Berry took the top spot with a score of 275.93, Kaitlin Calvery finished second with a 274.43 and Tatum Brasfield earned a 264.75. Berry and Calvery earned a 1-2 on the 1-meter board. Berry earned an NCAA Zone Cut score of 270.53 and Calvery also earned an NCAA Zone Cut score with her 268.95.
On the men’s side of the diving boards, Trip Gregory finished second in the 1-meter with an NCAA Zone Cut score of 309.60. Dakotah Parker received a 294.7 to finish third. A couple of meters higher, Parker took second with a score of 297.90 and Gregory finished third with a tally of 294.75.
Denver’s women opened the swimming portion of the meet with a win in the 200 medley relay when the quartet of Ali Beay, Tenaya Winter, Julia Saxman and Isa Cardenas combined for a time of 1:40.19. The Pioneer men finished second in the 200 medley with a time of 1:28.35.
In the first distance race of the afternoon, Genevieve Franklin was out-touched in the 1000 free by just 0.11 seconds, finishing second with a 10:18.66. Nika Spehar finished third in the 1000 with a 10:28.15.
A few events later, Beay got Denver back in the win column with her 55.50 in the 100 back to out-touch teammate Darian Koler who took second in 55.66.
Winter took second in the women’s 100 breast with a 1:03.34, and Denver’s depth proved beneficial again as Peyton Mullowney took third in 1:03.89.
Sabrina Rachjaibun got the Pioneers another event win, this time in the 200 fly, clicking in at 2:02.12 to take the title.
Gabe Jones gave the Denver men its first event win of the afternoon, outswimming the field in the men’s 200 fly with an El Pomar Natatorium record of 1:47.03, dropping 1.66 seconds off his entry time.
Saturday’s meet sprinted to the two sprint freestyle races around the break. Saxman clocked in at 23.11 in the 50 free to take second and Cardenas grabbed fourth with a 23.43. On the men’s side Hamish McLellan made it two wins in a row for the Denver men with his time of 20.20 in the 50 free. Tommy Hancock finished second in 20.90 and Benjamin Stone completed a podium sweep for the Pioneers with his time of 21.03.
On the other side of the break to the 100 free, Matija Pantic finished second with a 44.40.
Synsvoll got the Denver women back in the win column with a 1:59.67 to take the event title. Koler took second with a 2:00.81.
In the men’s 200 back, Quinn Collins reached the wall first with a 1:49.90. Liam Simmons took the final podium spot in 1:50.83.
Mullowney scored points for the Pioner women in the 200 breast with her time of 2:16.29, while Nico Morton got the Pioner men some points with his second-place finish in 1:59.68.
Rachjaibun picked up another Denver win, taking the 500 free with a 4:57.94. Reilly grabbed third in 5:05.46 and Franklin finished fourth in 5:05.49.
Dylan Mes led a Denver 2-5 finish in the men’s 500, reaching the final wall in 4:32.78. Kurt Owens finished third in 4:39.29, Finn Holdredge grabbed fourth in 4:40.56 and Max O’Neil was clocked at 4:41.56.
Saxman got to the wall first in the women’s 100 fly with a time of 53.76. McLellan’s swim in the event was good enough for second, getting to the wall in 47.49. Jones finished fourth in 49.39.
In the final individual events of the afternoon, Synsvoll finished second in the 200 IM with a time of 2:02.87. Zippel finished fourth in 2:05.91 and Rachjaibun took fifth in 2:06.92. On the men’s side, Morton finished third with a 1:49.58.
Denver’s men and women both finished second in the 200 free relay to close out the meet.
Up Next:
Denver will host its Senior Day meet next Saturday when the Pioneers welcome Wyoming and Colorado Mesa for double dual action inside El Pomar Natatorium. Diving is set to begin at 11:30 a.m. MT, the Senior Day recognition will take place at 2:10 p.m. MT and swimming will start at 2:30 p.m. MT. The meet will be streamed live on Denver’s YouTube channel.
Courtesy of BYU Athletics
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – BYU women’s swim and dive fell just short of victory against the Denver Pioneers in Saturday’s meet at the El Pomar Natatorium.
“Our team showed tremendous heart today,” head coach Tamber McAllister said. “… our women battled all the way to the final relay. Lucy Warnick stepped up in a big way, delivering clutch swims that kept us in the fight for every point. We narrowly fell to a strong Denver squad, but the resilience and unity we saw across the roster is exactly what we’re building on as we move forward.”
Despite the loss, the team set three new top-10 BYU finishes, with freshman Taylor Bennett finishing the 50 freestyle at 23.15, earning another 10th fastest finish in program history , and junior Tatum Cooley earning a time of 50.35 in the 100 freestyle, also the 10th-fastest in BYU history. Lucy Warnick remained seventh all time in the 100 breaststroke but improved her time to 1:01.70.
Swimming
BYU opened the meet with second- and third-place finishes from the B and C relay teams in the 200 medley relay event. Directly following, freshman Cher Patrick earned a first-place victory in the 1,000 freestyle at 10:18.55.
In the 200 freestyle, the Cougars claimed first and second, with Haylee Tiffany hitting the wall at 1:48.87 and Victoria Schreiber clocking a 1:49.05.
Warnick earned BYU’s next first-place finish in the 100 breaststroke at 1:01.70. Sophomore Lucy Marek and senior Elle Decker would then place second and third in the 200 butterfly in the next event.
Cooley took first in the 50 freestyle at 22.97, where she was followed by Bennett, who took third and earned the 10th-fastest finish in BYU history in the event at 23.15. Cooley took first in the next event, the 100 freestyle, earning another 10th-fastest finish in program history at 50.35. Tiffany followed her in second at 50.74 in the same race.
Warnick took first again in the 200 breaststroke at 2:13.73. Junior Abril Arias also competed, placing third with a time of 2:20.43. Warnick closed out individual events with a first-place finish in the 200 individual medley at 2:01.62, and freshman Brinley Knoll followed in third at 2:04.41.
The concluding event of the meet was the 200 freestyle relay, where the A team finished at 1:30.97, earning first place. The B and C teams also competed, placing third and fifth.
Diving
Freshman Brooklyn Goeckeritz stood at the helm for the BYU dive team, placing third in the 1-meter event and fourth in the 3-meter. She earned a total score of 263.70 on a 14.40 degree of difficulty in the 1-meter and a 252.23 in the 3-meter, competing at a 14.50 degree of difficulty in the event.
Sophia DeBergh competed in the 3-meter event, taking fifth at 242.40 on a 15.60 degree of difficulty. Aubryn Ordyna and Betty Martin also represented the Cougars with seventh- and eighth-place finishes.
All three competed in the 1-meter event as well, earning sixth, seventh and eighth.
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – BYU men’s swim and dive defeated Denver on Saturday, scoring 183-116.
“Our team showed tremendous heart today,” head coach Tamber McAllister said. “Our men set the tone by breaking multiple pool records … the resilience and unity we saw across the roster is exactly what we’re building on as we move forward.”
The Cougars set two El Pomar Natatorium pool records, including the BYU A team’s performance in the 200 medley relay (1:26.50) and sophomore Max Kleinman’s finish in the 100 butterfly at 47.01.
Swimming
BYU began the meet strong with a first-place finish and pool record from the BYU A team in the 200 medley relay. The Cougars continued strong into the second event of the meet, the 1,000 freestyle, where Tanner Nelson and Easton Mousser took the top two spots, with Nelson finishing at 9:16.40 and Mousser clocking a 9:22.64. Additionally, Mousser would take first in the 500 freestyle at 4:31.88 later in the meet.
Following the 1,000 freestyle, senior Darwin Anderson took first in the 200 freestyle at 1:38.11. He was followed by BYU newcomer Lucca Ferreira, who took second at 1:38.78.
The team saw first- and second-place finishes in both the 100 backstroke and 100 breaststroke. Tanner Edwards and Andrew Eliason represented the Cougars in the 100 backstroke and Peter Etzold and Kleinman in the 100 breaststroke, with Kleinman claiming a finish at 53.67, the eighth-fastest performance in BYU history.
Payton Plumb earned a first-place finish in the 100 freestyle, hitting the wall at 44.20. Nelson and junior Will Bonnett also competed, earning third and fourth, respectively.
Senior Jack Burke took second in the 200 backstroke at 1:50.21, and this week’s Big 12 men’s swimmer of the week, Tyler Edlefsen, claimed first place in the 200 breaststroke.
BYU’s final first-place finish in individual events came from Kleinman, who clocked his El Pomar Natatorium pool record in the 100 butterfly at 47.01.
The Cougars closed out the meet with a first-place finish in the 200 freestyle relay, where the BYU A team claimed a 1:19.88 performance.
Diving
The BYU dive team was led by sophomore Martí Llop, who took first in both the 1-meter and 3-meter events. He posted a total score of 315.53 on a 16.60 degree of difficulty in the 1-meter and a 309.30 on an 18.50 degree of difficulty degree of difficulty in the 3-meter.
Freshman divers Ashton Sparks and Elijah Baker also competed in both events, with Sparks claiming a fourth-place finish in the 3-meter and Baker earning fifth in the same event. Both also competed in the 1-meter events.
