Utah Swimming Sweeps BYU in Home Finale

Competing of their ultimate residence meet of the 2022-23 season, the College of Utah swimming and diving crew closed out the house slate in model by dropping the BYU Cougars on Saturday, cruising to a 226-74 ultimate on the ladies’s aspect and pulling out a 163-137 triumph within the males’s competitors, which occurred on the Ute Natatorium.

“It feels actually good [to get this win],” mentioned Utah coach Jonas Persson. “On the ladies’s aspect, we had a variety of sturdy races. The ladies stepped up rather well and had some nice momentum. The boys’s aspect was rather a lot harder. It was one race at a time, one occasion at a time. We had some dangerous luck, we had some good luck and, in the long run, we had extra luck and higher swims than they did.”

Eight totally different Utah swimmers collected a minimum of one victory and Summer time Stanfield and Norah Hay made a number of journeys to the winner’s circle. Stanfield’s first success got here within the 200 free, which she completed in 1:52.03, then she topped the sector within the 100 butterfly with a time of 56.12 earlier than profitable the 200 particular person medley in 2:03.74. Stanfield additionally began the day by teaming up with Hay, Hilja Schimmel and Reagan Cathcart to place up the quickest time within the ladies’s 400 medley relay.

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Hay’s first particular person victory got here within the 100 backstroke, the place she clocked in at 55.99. Quickly after, she was again within the pool to gather first place within the 200 again in 1:59.40. The checklist of Utah victors on the ladies’s aspect additionally included Marlene Sandberg, who bested her competitors within the 1650 free to complete in 17:30.11, Alyssa Sorensen, with a time of 1:03.02 within the 100 breaststroke, Sadie Edwards, who touched in 2:07.41 within the 200 fly, Cathcart, who secured the 50 free in 23.69, Maddie Woznick, who swam into first within the 100 free in 52.43 and Charity Pittard, who received the 200 breast in 2:17.89. Woznick, Cathcart, Katie Hale and Erin Palmer additionally teamed as much as come out on prime within the ladies’s 200 free relay.

Within the males’s occasions, Evan VanBrocklin made his presence felt with a trio of triumphs, the primary one within the 200 fly, which he completed in 1:48.65. The freshman from Salt Lake Metropolis was again atop the rostrum because of a mark of 4:33.65 within the 500 free and his day concluded when he snagged the 200 IM in 1:51.21.

The squad’s first particular person win got here courtesy of Marko Kovacic and his time of 1:38.82 within the 200 free, adopted by Andrei Ungur‘s first place effort of 48.95 within the 100 again. Finn O’Haimhirgin outswam the sector within the 100 free in 45.94 and Jaek Horner paced the sector within the 200 breast, clocking in at 2:03.49. The quartet of Ungur, Horner, Kovacic and O’Haimhirgin captured the 400 medley relay and Ungur, O’Haimhirgin, Horner and JP Hynes put the day’s ultimate factors on the board with a first-place effort within the 200 free relay.

After beginning the meet with first place finishes by Holly Waxman and Elias Petersen on Friday, the Utah divers picked up the place they left off and it began with the ladies’s 1m. As soon as once more, it was Waxman who emerged victorious, piling up 309.45 factors for her second win in as many days. That rating additionally goes down as her highest ever and the second-best in Utah historical past.

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