Utah Opens Swimming & Diving Season in Wyoming

SALT LAKE CITY – The University of Utah swimming and diving program is about to open the 2025-26 season when it travels to Green River, Wyo., to tackle the Wyoming Cowboys on Friday, Oct. 24.

Opponent: Wyoming
Location: Green River High School | Green River, Wyo.
Date: Friday, Oct. 24
Time: 2:00 p.m. MT
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Big Test within the Big 12
Utah will look to take one other step ahead as a program because it embarks on its second season within the Big 12 Conference. The Utah males positioned third on the Big 12 Championships a season in the past, whereas the ladies’s squad positioned fifth within the convention. The Utes will look to enhance on these finishes this season, bringing again 22 returners on the lads’s aspect and 17 on the ladies’s.

In the Pool
Utah Swimming will look to proceed the development it has seen below the management of Jonas Persson, who embarks on his fourth season on the helm of this system. After a profitable first season within the Big 12 Conference, each the lads’s and ladies’s groups will intention to compete for a convention title this season.

• Erin Palmer put collectively her quickest season within the pool final season, posting quite a lot of program information. Her 1:00.40 within the 100-yard breaststroke in opposition to Wyoming shattered a program document that had stood since 2014, whereas her 22.55 within the 50-yard freestyle marked the second-fastest time in program historical past. She additionally clocked a 22.57 within the occasion in opposition to BYU, the quickest time recorded contained in the Ute Natatorium.
• Palmer was named the Female Swimmer of the Meet finally season’s CSCAA National Invitational Championships.
• Nick Chirafisi, Jakub Walter, Jones Lambert and Evan VanBrocklin smashed the Utah program document within the 800m freestyle relay – a mark that had stood for 11 seasons – on the 2025 Big 12 Championships.
• Chirafisi set three private bests on the convention meet, recording new quickest occasions within the 200-, 500- and 1650-yard freestyle occasions.
• Chirafisi, Lambert and Durgan McKean return to the pool after incomes all-Big 12 first workforce honors a season in the past, whereas Lambert, VanBrocklin, Walter, Strahinja Maslo and Brandon Miller had been named to the all-Big 12 second workforce.
• On the ladies’s aspect, Palmer earned a primary workforce all-Big 12 nod final season.

 
On the Boards
In the sixteenth season below head diving coach Richard Marschner, the Utes have excessive expectations and are receiving some preseason nationwide recognition. The ladies’s diving workforce was ranked ninth within the nation and the highest workforce within the Big 12 Conference, whereas the Utes ranked thirteenth amongst all mixed Division I applications and take the highest spot within the Big 12 when the US PDCA launched its first preseason coaches ballot earlier this month.
 

• On the ladies’s aspect, the Utes will probably be led by Kathryn Grant and Callie Eaglestone.
• Eaglestone was acknowledged because the Big 12 Freshman Diver of the Meet on the convention championships final season and the duo each represented the Utes on the NCAA Championships and can look to return to McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta come March.
• Eaglestone earned a spot on each the all-Big 12 first and second groups whereas Grant was named to the convention’s second workforce.
• Elias Petersen, final season’s Big 12 Men’s Diver of the Year, will look to anchor the lads’s aspect after putting fourth to earn All-America standing on the 1-meter springboard and twenty fifth on the 3-meter springboard on the 2025 Championships.
• Petersen broke his personal program document within the 1m final 12 months and smashed the Ute Natatorium document that stood since 2018 with a listing rating of 411.45. He will probably be joined on the lads’s aspect by Auburn switch Alex Just.

 
Coaches Corner
Two new additions have joined the Utah teaching workers for the reason that Utes had been within the pool final. Persson introduced on alumnus McKay King to assist information the swim program. King swam for the Utes in the course of the 2016-17 season, incomes Pac-12 all-academic workforce honors, after swimming at BYU. He spent final season teaching at American Fork High School, main the boys’ workforce to the 5A state title, and has overseen the coaching of Paralympian Audrey Kim, who has set three American information and claimed 5 induvial titles whereas below King’s steerage.
 
On the boards, Marschner introduced on Logan Andrews to assist coach the Ute divers. Andrews spent the final two years as the pinnacle diving coach at New Mexico after spending the prior season at Ouachita Baptist. He spent his school profession at Auburn, the place he certified for NCAA Zones all 4 years and was a two-time finalist on the SEC Championships. He was teammates with present Utah swimming assistant coach Aly Tetzloff whereas in Alabama.
 
King and Andrews be a part of Tetzloff, Jos Smith, Jordan Taylor and Brody Lewis as assistant coaches below Persson and Marschner.
 
Looking Ahead
Utah will get its first likelihood to compete in entrance of its dwelling followers subsequent day trip when the Utes welcome Colorado Mesa to the Ute Natatorium on Halloween. Action begins at midday MT.
 
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