Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) Men and Women
- Dates: Wednesday, February 19th – Saturday, February 22nd (Co-Ed); prelims 10:30AM/Finals 6PM
- Location: East Los Angeles College, Monterey Park, CA (Pacific Time Zone)
- Defending Champion: UNLV men (departed to WAC), UC-Davis women (results)
- Live Results: Should be here once the meet begins
- Live Video college swimming news (If available): Should be here once meet starts
- Championship Central
Davis clinched their win, finishing with 712.5 points, over UCSB. BYU won the boys title after departed UNLV, at 751 points over Hawaii’s 619 points.
1650 Freestyle
Keenan Lineback from San Diego won the event in a final time of 16:38.33.
Hawaii’s Victor Goicoechea put up another great time, this time in the men’s 1650 freestyle. He set a new MPSF record in the process, when he finished at 14:52.10. He was just off the ‘A’ standard of 14:47, but he should easily make the meet in March.
Pacific was second with Brandon Chandler at 15:29.10. BYU’s Dallin Johnson was third, 15:50.36.
200 Backstroke
It was a senior battle between Hailey Campbell of BYU and Allison Knight of UCSB. Campbell had the victory, leading the event the whole way, winning in a time of 1:57.25 over Knight’s 1:57.92. Haley Preston, Pacific, was also under 2:00 at 1:59.21 for third.
Jake Taylor broke the MPSF Record, and likely secured himself an invite to the NCAA Championships with a 1:42.42 in the 200 yard backstroke; the record stood at a 1:43.06 from last year’s meet. The time the BYU sophomore put up is a little over two seconds off the ‘A’ standard, but based on history and his current national rank (20th, with a few conference meets left to go), he’s not assured of an invite to NCAA’s, but as of now is on the right side of the bubble. He was well ahead of the next finisher of Rainer Ng from BYU, whose final time was 1:46.17.
100 Freestyle
Jasmine Alkhaldi from Hawaii broke the MPSF record twice in one day, once in prelims with a time of 49.32 and again in finals when she won with a time of 49.27. She was the only finishers under :50, as Haley Porter from Davis was second with a time of 50.02.
Sophia Yamauchi from Santa Barbara was third, 50.64.
The top three finishers all finished within .3 of each other. Freshman Yuri Samouilich, Hawaii, was out last of the three at the 50 (albeit by mere hundredths), but finished first at 44.68. Rafa Alfaro of BYU was second at 44.76, and Karl-Richard Hennebach of Hawaii rounded out the top three, 44.99
200 Breaststroke
UC-Davis senios Liliana Alvarez was unable to break her Championship record set as a freshman in 2011, but her 2:12.64 overcame the top seed out of prelims Katie Records (2:13.58) and also broke the East LA College Pool Record in finals.
UofP’s Cristina Mardones was 3rd in 2:15.64, as the top three were all under the NCAA consideration cut.
BYU sophomore Chad Sorensen dipped under two minutes for the win at 1:59.22. BYU also had Hayden Palmer and Andrew Rutherfurd in the final, finishing third and fourth, in 2:00.88 and 2:02.44, respectively.
Paulo dePaula of Hawaii was second, 2:00.31.
200 Butterfly
Senior Andrea Ward of UCSB crushed the MPSF meet record with her winning time of 1:55.79. She was just off Mary Meagher’s 1985 pool record of 1:55.11, and this was one of the primary reasons that Ward, even on the runner-up team, was named the Swimmer of the Meet at competition’s hend.
Hilvy Cheung was also way under 2:00 at 1:56.14. Both times have a good shot at making the NCAA meet in March.
BYU freshman Lucas Aquino had the win at 1:46.78. Rainer Ng, also of BYU, was third at 1:48.80. Eduardo Guimaraes had the second spot for Hawaii at 1:48.27.
400 Freestyle Relay
Hawaii wrapped up the meet with a win here. Alkhaldi, Sofia Mustelin, Peggy Piang, Morgan Mark teamed up to finish in a time of 3:22.56.
The men of Hawaii followed suit, with a win as well. Hennebach, Samouilich, Ryan Makuta and Guimaraes finished in 2:57.91, over Pacific, 2:58.26.
Full meet results, in a single PDF, can be found here.
Ward was more likely named swimmer of the year because she won every individual event she swam in and three of the four relays she swam in, scoring 60 points, more than any of the other (very awesome) swimmers. She also set a meet record and pool record for the 100 fly. She broke several school records in all her individual events and one of the relays. She established an A cut time in December at the Texas UT invitational in 100 Fly.
braden:
the women’s mile was won by keenan lineback from usd.
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I was under the impression that Jake Taylor swam a 1:42 in the 200 backstroke
He did. Looks like a few of the prelims results got mixed up with the finals results. Should all be corrected now.
Actual final times for women’s 200 breast, Alvarez 2:12.64, Records 2:13.58
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200 breast summary is incorrect, Alvarez won at 2:12 plus, while Records was 2nd, 2:13 plus,
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