Denver Opens Season with Night time One of Front Range Invite

DENVER – The University of Denver males’s and girls’s swimming and diving applications opened the 2025-26 marketing campaign within the Front Range Invite on Friday evening at El Pomar Natatorium for swimming and on the Air Force Academy for diving.
 
MEN’S TEAM LEADERBOARD:
Air Force – 669
Denver – 596
Wyoming – 479
 
WOMEN’S TEAM LEADERBOARD:
Air Force – 505
Colorado State – 378
Wyoming – 352
Denver – 314
Northern Colorado – 227
 
FRIDAY EVENT WINNERS:
Men’s 400 Medley Relay – Quinn Collins, Kito Campbell, Hamish McLellan, Matija Pantic – 3:18.99
Women’s 200 IM – Samantha Synsvoll – 2:06.13
Men’s 200 IM – Nico Morton  1:51.82
Men’s 50 Free – Hamish McLellan – 20.64
Men’s 100 Free – Matija Pantic – 45.47
 
EVENT BY EVENT RECAP:
The 2025-26 season acquired underway with the 400 medley relay on Friday evening, an occasion Denver’s males gained with a 3:18.99, edging the sphere by greater than a full second.
 
Junior Sabrina Rachjaibun completed on the rostrum within the five-team meet within the 500 free together with her time of 5:04.38. In the boys’s first particular person occasion of the season, Dylan Mes took third with a 4:40.38 and Joseph Hancock completed fifth with a time of 4:40.84.
 
Denver’s girls’s staff’s first occasion win of the season got here within the 200 IM when Samantha Synsvoll marked her collegiate debut with a victory, ending the race in 2:06.13. Lilly Zippel took fourth in 2:07.73. On the boys’s aspect within the 200 IM, Nico Morton took first for the Pios with a time of 1:51.82, edging the race by a tenth of a second.
 
In the primary dash free race of the season, Hamish McLellan put Denver’s males within the win column in consecutive races along with his time of 20.64 within the 50 free on Friday. Luke Milburn completed fifth for Denver with a time of 21.06.
 
Zippel acquired again within the water within the 200 again, taking fifth for the Pioneers with a time of two:05.87. DU’s males had been led within the 200 again by Mason Bruhn, who completed fourth with a time of 1:53.54.
 
Following a break, Denver’s dash freestyle swimmers acquired again within the water within the 100 this time, and Matija Pantic and McLellan turned in Denver’s first 1-2 end of the season with their instances of 45.47 and 45.64, respectively.  
 
Peyton Mullowney led Denver’s girls within the first breaststroke occasion of the season, reaching the ultimate wall of the 200 in 2:21.39 to take third. Morton led Denver’s males after recording a time of two:03.93 to take fourth, simply forward of freshman Kito Campbell, who completed fifth in 2:06.27.
 
In the ladies’s 200 fly, Rachjaibun continued her junior debut meet with a 2:05.67 to take second. Ian O’Neil took fifth for DU’s males in 1:55.46.
 
Rounding out evening one of many opening meet of the season, Denver’s males’s 200 free relay took second when the quartet of Pantic, Milburn, Quinn Collins and McLellan mixed for a time of 1:22.73.
 
In the ladies’s 3-meter dive down on the Air Force Academy on Friday, Kaitlin Calvery led the Pioneers with a fourth place end, scoring 243. This weekend’s first males’s diving occasion was the 1-meter. Dakotah Parker took second with a 268.45. Trip Gregory completed fifth with a rating of 256.60.  

UP NEXT:
Denver will shut out the opening weekend with the conclusion of the Front Range Invite. Saturday’s diving motion will start at 10 a.m. MT on the Air Force Academy, whereas the swimming portion of the meet will conclude at El Pomar Natatorium at 11 a.m. MT.

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