New-look Lopes showcase balanced potential in Tucson

TUCSON, Ariz. — Grand Canyon swimming and diving opened its season with a robust exhibiting on the Arizona Division I Meet on the Hillenbrand Aquatic Center, gathering a number of high finishes and program-first relay data towards among the nation’s high competitors.

The Lopes went head-to-head with nationally ranked applications, together with the No. 5 males’s and No. 18 girls’s groups from Arizona State University.

Junior Guillermo Carrey had a robust swim on the boys’s facet with an eighth-place end within the 100 freestyle, clocking 44.18 seconds.

Senior Mario Perez added a standout efficiency within the 50 freestyle, ending fourth in 19.77 seconds and defeating Arizona’s high swimmer within the occasion.

Senior Carter Dooling secured seventh place within the 100 breaststroke with a robust time of 55.57 in a homecoming meet for the Tucson native. 

The males’s 100 freestyle relay crew capped the meet by taking third at 35.61, topping Arizona and setting a brand new program customary within the occasion.

On the ladies’s facet, senior Paula Martinez Moreno took fourth within the 100 butterfly with a time of 54.63 seconds.

Sophomore Taylor Stasny posted a formidable 2:02.76 within the 200 IM to assert fourth place, defeating Arizona’s high competitor within the occasion. Senior Elisa Corradi positioned seventh in the identical race at 2:04.65.

Senior Marta Guasp recorded a 55.96 within the 100 backstroke, and Beth Young positioned fourth within the 100 breaststroke at 1:02.17.

The girls’s 100 freestyle relay crew additionally earned third place, touching in 42.46 and defeating Arizona whereas setting a crew file.

The Lopes’ early-season outcomes featured a number of top-four particular person finishes towards high-level competitors, setting the tone for an thrilling marketing campaign.

The GCU girls’s squad picked up the twin meet win towards the 12-time WAC Champions, Northern Arizona. 

GCU will ship swimmers from each the boys’s and ladies’s squads to the MPSF Open Water Championships earlier than going to swim at Hawai’i. 

*Diving scores have but to be uploaded. 

Team scores

Men: Arizona State 193, GCU 50

Arizona 178, GCU 64

Women: Arizona State 199, GCU 44

Arizona 181, GCU 61

GCU 131, Northern Arizona 111