Utah Swim & Dive grabs another win over Mavericks

Saturday, January 7

Salt Lake City, UT

11 a.m.

University of Utah

143

Colorado Mesa, College of Idaho

Photo by: Eli Rehmer/Utah Athletics

Utah Swim & Dive grabs another win over Mavericks

1/7/2023 5:27 PM | Men's Swimming & Diving, Women's Swimming & Diving

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Utes claim a third straight dual meet triumph

SALT LAKE CITY – For the second straight day, Evan VanBrocklin and Summer Stanfield collected a pair of first-place finishes and Elias Peterson won the 1m and 3m in his first event as a Ute, helping the University of Utah swimming and diving team top the Colorado Mesa Mavericks by scores of 143-42 and 128-57 on Saturday afternoon at the Ute Natatorium.

"I thought our effort was good and we raced hard," said head coach Jonas Persson. "Great attitudes again. Maybe not the fastest times of the year, but that's expected, but no one is complaining and everyone is buying in and pushing themselves mentally physically and emotionally. I was really happy with our efforts today and it was a great way to finish off winter break training."

In The Pool
Stanfield finished first in both the 100 butterfly and the 200 individual medley, clocking in at 56.29 and 2:04.79, respectively. On the men's side, VanBrocklin claimed victories in those same events, completing the 100 fly in 49.90 and the 200 IM at 1:51.38.

Norah Hay, Erin Palmer, Katie Hale, and Reagan Cathcart teamed up in the women's 200 medley relay to clinch the top spot with a time of 1:44.34. Palmer, Hale, and Cathcart along with Maddie Woznick were able to take another relay victory in the women's 400 freestyle relay, finishing in 3:29.92.

The men's relays started with Baylor Lewis, JP Hynes, VanBrocklin and Finn O'Haimhirgin snatching first in the 200 medley relay, touching in 1:31.20. In the last event of the day, O'Haimhirgin, Hynes, VanBrocklin and Lucas Calderon were able to take home a victory in the 400 freestyle relay, logging a time of 3:05:47.

Utah's day included seven more triumphs, including Cameron Daniell in the 500 freestyle (5:10.84), Palmer in the 100 freestyle (52.36), and Hay in the 200 backstroke (2:00.99). In the men's 500 freestyle, Brandon Miller swam into first with his time of 4:40.88 while O'Haimhirgin won the 100 freestyle at 46.04. Krystal Lieu beat out her opponents in the 200 breaststroke in 2:20.04 and Baylor Lewis clinched the 200 breaststroke, checking in at 2:06.83.

On The Boards
In both men's diving events, Peterson topped the field by a wide margin and posted NCAA Championship qualifying scores. In the men's 1m, he piled up 372.60 points, the most by a Ute in the 1m this season and the program's fourth-highest mark all-time. That came after he started the day with a 3m performance that graded out at 349.35 and also put him atop the leaderboard. Right behind Peterson in both competitions was Jake Suchowski, who recorded 297.90 points in the 3m and 302.40 in the 1m, which also meet the NCAA qualifying standard.

On the women's side, Lexi Mills had the best day on the 3m, recording her own NCAA Championship qualifying score with 315.40 points, followed by Lizzy DeCecco with 270.60 to take second. In the 1m, the Utes occupied all the spots on the podium and this time it was DeCecco who landed in first with a score of 264.40, then Mills at 262.45 and Sydney Kowalski rounded out the top three with 235.50 points.

"The divers did really well," said coach Richard Marschner. "I was really happy to see Jake put together a good meet. He dove really well. Elias was good and its his first collegiate meet in a pretty strange environment when you're coming from Sweden to this being in your first meet and he responded pretty well. The ladies did awesome, too. We're making good corrections off things and we've got a good two months ahead of us."

Next Up
The UCLA Diving Invite is the next event on Utah's schedule and it will be held Jan. 13-15 in Los Angeles.

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