Wagner Units Pool File, Mountaineers Win Continental Divide Cup

PUEBLO, Colo.  Western Colorado swimming and diving earned the Day 2 victory on the third annual Dan France Continental Divide Cup, incomes the Cup trophy with a mixed two-day rating of 1,404 factors.

The Mountaineers had earned the Day 1 staff victory with 678.5 factors, then added 728.5 factors throughout Saturday’s Day 2 meet to say the Cup for the third time.

Claiming only one first-place end whereas racking up the staff victory on Friday, Western earned 9 first locations Saturday, starting with Alexanda Wallis’ win within the 3-meter (6 optionals) diving occasion.

Just previous the halfway level of Saturday’s meet schedule, the Mountaineers’ Leah Wagner set the Sam Jones Natatorium report in profitable the 200-yard breaststroke, touching the pads in first place with a pool report time of two minutes, 29.27 seconds.

The preliminary first-place end within the particular person swimming occasions Saturday was be Western’s Agnieszka Rudomino, who captured the 1,650 freestyle with a time of 18:44.84.

Adessa Talbot picked up the Mountaineers’ subsequent first, taking the 200 butterfly with a 2:13.89 clocking.

Emma Linscombe led a 1-2-3 end within the 100 particular person medley. She gained the race to the wall over Amaya Warren (1:04.50) and Demi Blaylock (1:04.67) to hit the pad first with a time of 1:04.30.

Cate Coffield adopted with a win within the subsequent occasion, the 200 backstroke (2:14.47), simply forward of Wagner’s record-setting win to provide Western 4 consecutive first-place finishes.

Wallis added a primary within the 3-meter (5 voluntaries) occasion, and within the ultimate particular person occasion of the day, Wagner added one other first within the 400 IM.

The Mountaineers put a cap on the day by profitable the ultimate occasion, taking the 200 free relay in a time of 1:43.22.

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