Pioneers Journey to Texas for Western Regional Championship

FORT WORTH, Texas – The University of Denver Pioneers girls’s triathlon crew heads to Texas for the 2025 Western Regional Championship on Sunday at Marine Creek Reservoir.
 
DU will probably be racing within the second warmth of the day at 10 a.m. MT/11 a.m. CT. The different Division-I squads on the Western qualifier are host Texas Christian, Arizona, South Dakota and Chicago State.
 
The Eastern Regionals are being held on Saturday in Troutman, North Carolina at Lake Norman State Park.
 
Denver final raced on Oct. 4 on the Prairie State Cup in De Witt, Illinois, and was led by freshman Jenna Topott, who received her warmth and positioned third general within the race. This weekend is a homecoming for Topott as she is from close by Allen, Texas. The crew solely had three triathletes race on the Prairie State Cup and positioned ninth within the general standings regardless of not having a full squad of scorers.
 
The Pioneers may have a full lineup on the beginning line for regionals, with Topott becoming a member of fellow freshmen Lucrezia Gowdy, Mia Stanley-Hunt and Olivia Wimberger, in addition to upperclassmen captains in senior Elizabeth Harita and junior Maira Carreau.
 
Carreau has positioned on the All-Region Team in every of the earlier two years, as she received Eastern Regionals as a freshman in 2023 at Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia, and got here in third in final yr’s Western Regionals in Springfield, Missouri.
 
DU is conversant in the course, because the crew has raced on it the previous two years within the Battle within the Fort Collegiate Cup. The Pioneers completed fourth in 2023 and fifth in 2024 iteration that was additionally hosted by TCU.
 
The course at Marine Creek may have a bit totally different begin than lately because the triathletes will full only a single triangular swim within the lake at 750 meters after beforehand finishing a two-lap swim. From the water on the east facet of the reservoir, the athletes will run up a hill to transition for the four-lap bike portion totaling 20 kilometers. The bike course via adjoining Tarrant County College and alongside Marine Creek Parkway options a number of technical parts which might be slender with tight turns. The 5K run is on a two-lap course on the campus and runs parallel to many of the bike route.
 
Denver completed third ultimately season’s Western Regionals and has positioned on the rostrum as a crew in every of their final 5 regional races relationship again to its 2021 win out east at Smith Mountain Lake.
 
The Pioneers enter this weekend because the Tenth-ranked general crew within the nation and eighth amongst Division-I squads within the remaining regular-season scores. Carreau leads Denver because the Tenth-ranked particular person athlete within the nation.