Lopes battle in Hawaii; girls’s squad takes 2nd-day win

HONOLULU — Grand Canyon delivered a strong weekend at Duke Kahanamoku Aquatic Complex, posting a number of conference-leading occasions and setting two pool information throughout a double-dual meet weekend towards Hawaii.

GCU’s girls edged the host on Day 2 by a rating of 134–127, capping a profitable two-day competitors.

Day 1 recap

The Lopes made an early assertion in Friday’s session behind record-worthy sprints and relays. GCU freshman Sara Mose received the 50-yard freestyle in 22.78 seconds, the Mountain West’s No. 1 time this season.

Lopes teammate Taylor Stasny added a 55.64 within the 100 particular person medley for one more high Mountain West time.

On the lads’s aspect, Jasu Ovaskainen clocked 50.00 within the 100 IM for Big West No. 1 time.

In relays, the lads’s 400 freestyle group of Mario Perez, Eli Cohen, Grzegorz Wanat and Guillermo Carrey completed in 2:57.06 (Big West No. 1).

Additional highlights included Paula Martinez Moreno successful the 100 butterfly (54.10), Alex Volkov topping the lads’s 100 backstroke (49.08) and Carter Dooling successful the 100 breaststroke (56.20).

In addition to Volkov’s win, Asher Havenhill positioned second (49.14 ) and Mohamed Mohamady took third (50.23) within the 100 backstroke.

Day 2 recap

GCU continued its surge on Saturday. The males’s 400 medley relay of Volkov, Dooling, Ovaskainen and Guillermo Carrey broke the pool file that GCU had beforehand set in 2024 with a time of  3:14.34 on Saturday.

Stasny set one other facility mark within the 200 breaststroke, clocking 2:12.10 to interrupt the mark of two:12.47 by Minnesota’s Kierra Smith in 2015.

Mose adopted with a 49.72 within the 100 freestyle.

Other winners included Martinez within the 200 butterfly (2:01.59), Mohamed Mohamady within the 200 backstroke (1:47.63), Dooling within the 200 breaststroke (2:01.39) and Ovaskainen within the 200 particular person medley (1:49.61).

On Day 2, the Lopes added a number of key victories to an already spectacular weekend. Mario Perez received the lads’s 50 freestyle in 19.92 seconds whereas fellow Spaniard Marta Guasp claimed the ladies’s 200 backstroke title with a 2:01.21.

Sophomore Beth Young took the 50 breaststroke (28.37), and Dooling swept the lads’s breaststroke sprints with a 25.42 within the 50 and a 2:01.39 within the 200.

Ovaskainen secured a 1:49.61 victory within the males’s 200 IM, and Martinez captured the ladies’s 200 butterfly (2:01.59)

The girls’s 400 medley relay of Guasp, Young, Martinez and Mose completed first in 3:41.80. 

Sophomore Omar Elsayd headlined the lads’s diving occasions by successful the 1-meter springboard with 335.48 factors, outscoring Hawaii’s Tristan Rodriguez by greater than 35 factors.

On Day 2, Elsayd continued his dominance, capturing the 3-meter title with 338.78 factors. 

GCU’s girls secured a slender group win, defeating Hawaii 134–127, whereas the lads added a number of top-three finishes to cap off a powerful group displaying in a 134-128 loss.

The Lopes’ performances positioned this system atop a number of convention leaderboards and etched two new marks into the pool file books, underscoring their development.

The weekend marked the primary true twin meets of the season. The Lopes will head to Air Force for a two-day assembly beginning Friday.