2023 Denver Relays
- October 7, 2023
- Denver, Co.
- SCY (25 yards)
- Results
Courtesy: Denver Athletics
DENVER – The University of Denver men’s and women’s swimming and diving programs opened up their 2023-24 seasons on Saturday with a clean sweep of the 2023 Denver Relays inside El Pomar Natatorium.
Team Scores:
Men:
Denver: 246
Colorado Mesa: 210
Women:
Denver: 218
Colorado Mesa: 170
Northern Colorado: 90
Prior to the swimming portion of the event, the divers took to the water for a team event, with 1-meter dives counting towards the overall results of the meet. Kaelyn Hinesley led Denver’s women’s divers with a 269.63 and Zyad Morsy earned a combined score of 320.10.
The DU women’s 200 medley kicked things off for the swimmers with a victory. Ali Beay, Sophia Remington, Ines Marin and Erika Remington swam the event in 1:43.69.
Denver’s second swimming win of the evening came from the men’s 200 medley relay when the quartet of Liam Simmons, Alex Lynch, Brandon Chapman and Frank Tirone combined for a time of 1:30.29.
The Pioneer women got in the win column in the 3×500 free relay. Sabrina Rachjaibun, Daniela Alfaro and Nika Spehar combined to win the distance race with a 15:22.53.
Denver’s men’s distance swimmers went 1-2 in the same event, led by the A-relay of Kieran Watson, Joseph Hancock and Dylan Wright, who turned in a time of 14:04.19.
From the distance swimmers to the sprinters, the Pioneer women won the 4X25 freestyle relay in 43.10. Megan Lucyshyn, Haley Chesno, Mary O’Neil and Erika Remington swam the A-relay for Denver.
On the men’s side, Tirone, Donat Fabian, Luke Milburn and Nikola Tadic sprinted to a 36.66 to take first.
Denver got back in the win column again in the men’s 3×100 breast relay. Lynch, Kelby Modene and Marco Nosack clocked in at 2:49.32.
In the sprint medley relay, the Pioneer men’s quartet of Simmons, Lynch, Chapman and Fabian turned in a time of 40.47.
The Denver Relays’ event annually brings some unique events, including Saturday’s crescendo relay. On the women’s side, Remington, Lucyshyn, Kali Metuzals and Marin swam the 500 free crescendo in 4:31.50. Denver’s men’s group of Fabian, Tirone, Wright and Watson reached the final wall in 4:00.83.
The IM swimmers took to the water next. The Pioneer women were led in the 4X100 IM by Beay, Lilly Zippel, O’Neil and Sarah Turchanik’s time of 3:59.89.
Back to more traditional events to close out the afternoon, Denver’s women won the 200 free relay as Remington, Lucyshyn, Metuzals and Marin turned in a 1:34.48.
Up Next:
Denver’s men’s and women’s programs will split ways next weekend for a pair of two-day away meets.
The Pioneer women will head to Rice to take on the Owls and Houston. Friday’s meet will start at 3 p.m. MT, while the pair of Saturday’s meets begin at 9:30 a.m. MT and 1:30 p.m. MT. The Denver men will head to Cal Baptist for a two-day event with Seattle and Grand Canyon. Friday’s meet begins at 2 p.m. MT, while the Saturday meet is set for a 12 p.m. MT start.
Courtesy: Northern Colorado Athletics
DENVER – Northern Colorado lifted the lid on the 2023-24 campaign, placing seven teams on the podium in ten events at the Denver Relays Saturday at El Pomar Natatorium.
In the opening event, the team of Daniela Piccinini, Emina Pasukan, Cheyanna Cordova and Sloane Antonetz won the 200-yard medley in a time of 1:34.25.
The Bears claimed the top spot in the 3×100-yard butterfly. The trio of Ellyson Lombardi, Katelyn Bergin and Payten Irwin posted a time of 2:50.43.
Pasukan, Maria Erokhina and Bryanna Ungs registered the fastest time in the 3×100-yard breaststroke at 3:15.87.
With a time of 15:27.62, Kyra Rabess, Elizabeth Mayer and Cordova touched the wall second.
UNC finished in the bronze position in the 4×25 freestyle, 4×25 medley and the 4×100 IM. In the freestyle race, Martina Yuki Trionfetti, Sarah Jackson Saana Liikonen and Ali Jackson recorded a time of 43.70.
Trionfetti and Ali Jackson teamed with Maria Erokhina and Payten Irwin in the 4×25 medley and inked a 47.78.
Katelyn Bergin, Ungs, Erokhina and Irwin combined on a time of 4:02.15 in the 4×100 IM.
The Bears return to the pool Saturday, Oct. 14 at New Mexico State.
Courtesy: Colorado Mesa Athletics
DENVER—The Colorado Mesa University Mavericks won a combined six relays as both the men’s and women’s squads took second at Saturday afternoon’s Denver Relays swimming and diving meet here at the University of Denver’s El Pomar Natatorium.
The Maverick women scored 162 points over 11 events to finish second behind the host Pioneers (216) but well ahead of another NCAA Division I in-state foe in Northern Colorado, which scored 100 to place third.
CMU’s men won four relays and scored 210 points but were edged the Pioneers, who won the meet with 246. Northern Colorado does not have a men’s team.
The Maverick men claimed their first win in the 300-yard (3×100) butterfly relay as the “A” squad of Dejan Urbanek, Kuba Kiszczak and Ben Sampson won in 2:28.74 while the “B” squad of John Walgast, Xander Zappas and Jameson McEnaney was second in 2:32.05.
The Mavs then swept the 300 backstroke relays as Agata Naskret, Katerina Matoskova and Lauren White dominated the women’s field in 2:47.68, winning by more than six seconds. Naskret was making her collegiate debut and posted a NCAA Division II championship provisional qualifying lead-off split of 55.46 seconds (55.36-altitude adjusted) to move into the No. 4 spot of CMU history for the 100 back behind White, Matoskova and former Maverick great Mary Saiz.
Sampson, Andrew Scoggin and Jackson Moe then won the men’s event in 2:28.16
Naskret, reigning Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Swimmer of the Week Maddi Moran, Kiara Borchardt and Elli Williams then took the 100 (4×25) medley relay in 46.80 seconds before the Maverick men won each of the final two relays.
In the 400 (4×100) individual medley relay, Sampson, Kiszczak, Max Ayres and Mauricio Posadas claimed a 6.12-second win in 3:24.57 as Sampson broke his own 100 IM school-record with a 50.52 (50.42-adjusted) lead-off split.
Sampson then claimed his fourth win while Kiszczak was victorious for the third time in the 200 free relay as they book-ended a winning time of 1:21.70 to out-touch the Pioneers (1:21.77). McEnaney and Austin Paterson swam the middle two legs of that winning effort.
Sampson and Kiszczak and were also on the Mavs’ second-place 200 medley relay team that finished in 1:30.54 while Naskret, Williams, Izzy Powers and Ada Qunnell took second in the 100 (4×25) free relay with a time of 43.18 seconds. McEnaney, Ayres, Scoggin and Patterson were second in the men’s 100 free relay as well with a time of 36.79 seconds.
Moran, Benedict Nagy and Juliette Benson also finished second in the 300 (3×100) breaststroke relay with a time of 3:19.18 while Posados, Aron Jonsson and Ayres touched in 2:50.12 to lead the CMU men to a second place finish as well.
The Mav men also took second in the 100 medley relay as Kiszczak, Ayres, Patterson and Moe touched in 40.62 seconds before Borchardt, Williams, Olivia Hansson and Sophia Bains finished the 500 crescendo (50-100-150-200) free relay in 4:36.82 to take second place as well.
Patterson, Marcos Otero, McEnaney and Urbanek then finished the men’s event in second as well, combining for a time of 4:04.16.
Matoskova, Ellie Wilke, Tori Bartusiak and Bains then recorded a second place finish in the women’s 4×100 individua medley relay with a time of 4:02.13. Qunnell, Williams, Powers and White also took second in the 200 free relay with a solid time of 1:36.23.
Team diving competitions were also held earlier in the afternoon as the Maverick women took second and fourth with 3-person, 6-dive scores of 233.93 and 221.40 points. CMU’s men had scores of 262.05 and 258.23 points to take second and third, respectively.
The Mavericks will take next week off from competitive action but will return to the Front Range to take on RMAC rival Colorado School of Mines in a Oct. 21 dual meet in Golden.
