Nevada Wolf Pack Add Four Faces for Spring 2022, All Set to Score at MW Champs

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The University of Nevada Women’s Swimming and Diving Team have added four new faces to the roster for Spring 2022. The new athletes suiting up for the Wolf Pack are Reka Nagy, Bailey Heydra, Grace Wey, and Daniela Piccinini.

All four project to be scorers at the 2022 Mountain West (MW) Swimming and Diving Championships. With converted and best times, the three swimmers could score over 200 points this year (based on last year’s results).

Nagy is a versatile swimmer from Kálló, Hungary. She primarily swims freestyle, butterfly, and IM events and will bring immediate conference scoring potential for the Wolf Pack. Her 200- and 400-meter IM and 200-meter butterfly times would have scored 74 points in last year’s “A” finals at the MW Championships. Her 400-meter IM time would have been an NCAA “B” cut as well.

Her converted 200-meter freestyle and 100-meter butterfly times would have scored in the “C” finals.

Top SCM Times (SCY conversions in parentheses):

• 100m freestyle: 56.98 (52.00)
• 200m freestyle: 2:02.28 (1:50.75)
• 100m butterfly: 1:04.81 (59.15)
• 200m butterfly: 2:15.72 (2:02.24)
• 200 IM: 2:14.37 (2:02.15)
• 400 IM: 4:43.01 (4:16.62)

Heydra is a diver from Johannesburg, South Africa. She represented her country at the 2018 FINA World Junior Diving Championships. There she finished 12th in the women’s 3-meter synchronized diving and also competed in 1-meter and 3-meter diving. We could not find scores or recent competition results for Heydra online.

Wey hails from Sugar Land, Texas, and will be transferring for the second time this year. Earlier this summer, she announced her transfer from Texas A&M to LSU. This upcoming spring, she will travel from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Reno, Nevada.

At the 2020 SEC Championships, Wey earned NCAA “B” cuts in the 100-yard backstroke, 200-yard IM, and 200-yard backstroke. Her three times in those events would have also won last year’s MW Championships and scored 96 points.

Top SCY Times:

• 100 back: 53.19
• 200 back: 1:56.68
• 200 IM: 1:59.48

Piccinini is a backstroke specialist from Italy who also brings scoring potential for Nevada. Her 100- and 200-meter backstroke conversions would have placed in “B” finals. She brings much-needed depth to the Wolf Pack’s roster, as they only had one 100-yard backstroke finalist at last year’s MW Championships. Her converted times in both events would have scored a total of 45 points.

Top SCM Times (SCY conversions in parentheses):

• 100 back: 1:02.15 (56.26)
• 200 back: 2:10.87 (1:58.74)

All four athletes will be in Reno, Nevada, this January 2022. The swimmers will join a talented roster of “A” finalists and medalists from last year’s MW Championships: Donna Depolo and Wiktoria Samula finished first and third, respectively, in the 200-yard breaststroke and achieved “B” cuts. Julia Adamczyk won two gold medals in the 200-yard butterfly and 200-yard IM. Benedict Nagy won gold in the 400-yard IM and placed third in the 200-yard IM.

On the diving side, Heydra will join medalists Jessie Nowotny and Laura Isabel Vazquez Lopez. Nowotny placed third on 1-meter diving and Lopez won gold on 3-meter diving.

At last year’s MW Swimming and Diving Championship, UNLV beat Nevada in the final standings by 9 points, the second-smallest margin of victory in conference history. The Wolf Pack won the MW Championship in 2016, their first and only in school history.

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