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Saturday, January 23
Provo, Utah
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at
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Utah Swimming and Diving Splits with BYU
1/23/2016 12:00 AM | Men's Swimming & Diving
Jan. 23, 2016
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PROVO, Utah - Utah Swimming and Diving earned a split with BYU this evening as the Ute women won 198-102, while the men were defeated 155-145 in the annual Deseret First Duel.
"I am really proud of our team for a great meet against BYU," Utah head coach Joe Dykstra said. "We showed great effort and put up a great fight. The women got off to a sluggish start, reeled off a whole string of wins and got the victory. We had a lot of events where we finished one-two-three during the second half of the meet and that was key to doubling up the Cougars."
"On the men's side, I couldn't be more proud of the effort and the fight the guys showed. BYU came ready to race and they have a great team. They were well prepared and we were really short-handed. That being said, the guys that we had in the meet really stepped up and it came down to tenths and hundredths of a second in a lot of the events. I am really proud and this was a great environment for our team today."
WOMEN
The Ute relay team of Megan Kawaguchi, Julienne Tadena, Jenna Marsh and Gillian St. John set the tone with a first-place finish in the 200-medley relay with a time of 1:45.45. The meet was bookended with another relay victory, this time in the 400 free as Marsh, Dorien Butter, St. John and Jordan Anderson clocked in with a time of 3:31.82.
The winning didn't stop as Kawaguchi captured a pair of individual events, getting both the 100 back (57.27) and the 200 back (2:05.85). Marsh would take the 100 fly in 56.57 and Butter won the 200 free in 1:54.97. Butter was also victorious in the 100 free (52.42), just nudging past St. John (52.50).
In diving, Amanda Casillas took first in both the 1-meter (296.55) and 3-meter (311.10) events while Lauren Hall took second (262.85) in the 1-meter
Claiming the top two spots in the 1,000 free were Jordan Anderson (10:35.97) and Kat Wickham (10:41.32). Wickham would later take first in the 500 free with a time of 5:09.48. Another first-place finish for the Utes occurred in the 200 fly as Isabella Kearns touched in with a time of 2:07.13.
In the 200 breast, Genevieve Robertson (2:17.76) and Stina Colleou (2:19.55) finished first and second, respectively. Robertson just missed the top spot in the 100 breast touching in at 1:05.06.
Brianna Francis took first in the 200 IM (2:06.43), just ahead of teammate Darby Wayner (2:08.15). Hailey Pabst earned another second-place finish for the Utes in the 200 back with a time of 2:06.94.
MEN
In diving action, Josiah Purss broke the school record in the 3-meter event. He scored a total of 453.75 points and took first in the event. Sterling Richards previously set the school record in 2005 (412.65). Purss finished second in the 1-meter event with a score of 379.80 while teammate Jacob Crayne took first (379.80).
The men's team started strong as Jay Bolinger took first in the 1,000 free with a time of 9:41.62 and Calvin Rogers (9:51.07) placed second. Bollinger was also second in the 500 free with a time of 4:40.30.
Bence Kiraly turned in another impressive performance capturing both the 200 free (1:39.51) and the 500 free (4:32.11). He also placed second in the 100 free.
Kristian Kron took first in the 200 fly (1:49.69) and notched a pair of second-place finishes in the 200 back (1:47.76) and the 200 IM (1:52.21). Teammate Paul Ungur also earned two runner-up spots in the 100 back (49.15) and 100 fly (49.54). Ganem Tebet was Utah's final second-place finisher, with a time of 2:05.33 in the 200 breast.
The Utes are back in action on Friday when the men and women compete at Denver. The meet against the Pioneers will start at 4 p.m. MT
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