Swim and Dive Headvertisements to Las Vegas for UNLV Twin

SALT LAKE CITY – The University of Utah swim and dive program heads to Las Vegas for a twin meet towards UNLV on Saturday. Racing will get underway at 11 a.m. MT on can be broadcast dwell on the UNLVAthletics YouTube channel. Live outcomes might be discovered on the MeetCellular app.
 
Opponent: UNLV
Location: Las Vegas, Nev.
Date: Saturday, Nov. 8
Time: 11:00 a.m. MT
Livestream: UNLVAthletics YouTube
Live Results: MeetCellular App
 
Halloween W
The Utes dominated of their house opener on Halloween, with the lads’s crew beating Colorado Mesa 228-72 and the ladies’s aspect successful by a 192-108 scoreline. The Utes got here out on prime in 26 of 32 occasions, together with eight podium sweeps.
 
Erin Palmer and Megan Legarth led the best way for the ladies of Utah with a team-high 18 factors. Palmer logged wins within the 100 Free, 100 Breast and 200 Free Relay and Legarth took gold in each the 100 and 200 Back. The duo additionally teamed with Veronica Gourley and Julia Bartell to win the 400 Medley Relay. Evan VanBrocklin led the lads’s aspect with 18 factors due to wins in each the 100 and 200 Free and took gold within the 200 Free Relay alongside Davis Stachelek, Ethan Moore and Sebastian Wrona. Caleb Gallagher, Nash Hale, Strahinja Maslo, Brandon Miller and Jakub Walter all contributed 13 factors within the victory.
 
On the diving board, Utah got here out on prime in each the 1-meter and 3-meter springboard on the lads’s and girls’s aspect. Elias Petersen made his season debut and took each golds on the lads’s aspect, whereas Callie Eaglestone and Kathryn Grant every logged a win of their first competitors of the season.
 
First Meet, No Jitters
Utah opened the season on the highway towards Wyoming in Green River. The males’s aspect began the marketing campaign with a 196-104 victory over the Cowboys whereas the ladies’s crew fell, 172-128.
 
Caleb Gallagher logged 20 factors for the Utes, due to wins in each the 100 and 200 Breast, whereas Davis Stachelek and Evan VanBrocklin every logged a pair of particular person wins and a few relay victories. On the ladies’s aspect, Rylee McColley led the cost with 18 factors for the Utes due to a pair of victories, whereas Megan Legarth, Erin Palmer, Ella Derby and Teagan Steinmetz all logged double-digit factors.
 
Attila Bernatsky shined for head diving coach Richard Marschner, successful the lads’s 3m with an inventory whole of 281.25 and positioned second within the 1m. Alex Just positioned second within the 3m in his Utah debut as effectively. Annalise Shrader and Cierra Cole additionally confirmed promise of their collegiate debut. Cole completed second within the girls’s 3m and third within the 1m, whereas Shrader logged a second-place end result within the 1m and positioned fourth within the 3m.
 
Bernatsky Breaks Out
Sophomore diver Attila Bernatsky was named the Big 12 Men’s Diver of the Week final week after a stellar begin to the season towards Wyoming. Bernatsky claimed his first collegiate win on the 3-meter springboard due to a 281.25 record rating. The Winnipeg, Canada native additionally completed second on the 1-meter springboard, logging a 256.60 rating within the occasion.
 
Bernatsky’s recognition is the primary of his profession and the eleventh weekly award by the Utes since becoming a member of the Big 12 Conference previous to final season. Eight of Utah’s 11 weekly awards have come from divers.
 
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.
 
A Look Back – In the Pool
Utah Swimming will look to proceed the advance 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 girls’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 towards 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 towards BYU, the quickest time recorded contained in the Ute Natatorium.
• Palmer was named the Female Swimmer of the Meet ultimately 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 instances within the 200-, 500- and 1650-yard freestyle occasions.
• Chirafisi, Lambert and Durgan McKean return to the pool after incomes all-Big 12 first crew honors a season in the past, whereas Lambert, VanBrocklin, Walter, Strahinja Maslo and Brandon Miller had been named to the all-Big 12 second crew.
• On the ladies’s aspect, Palmer earned a primary crew all-Big 12 nod final season.

 
A Look Back – 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 girls’s diving crew was ranked ninth within the nation and the highest crew 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 can 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 crew.
• 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 yr and smashed the Ute Natatorium document that stood since 2018 with an inventory rating of 411.45. He can be joined on the lads’s aspect by Auburn switch Alex Just.

 
Coaches Corner
Two new additions have joined the Utah teaching workers because the Utes had been within the pool final. Persson introduced on alumnus McKay King to assist information the swim program. King swam for the Utes throughout the 2016-17 season, incomes Pac-12 all-academic crew honors, after swimming at BYU. He spent final season teaching at American Fork High School, main the boys’ crew 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 steering.
 
On the boards, Marschner introduced on Logan Andrews to assist coach the Ute divers. Andrews spent the final two years as the top 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 part of Tetzloff, Jos Smith, Jordan Taylor and Brody Lewis as assistant coaches below Persson and Marschner.
 
Looking Ahead
Utah stays on the highway subsequent week for the primary of two competitions down in Texas. The diving crew heads to Austin for the Texas Diving Invitational from Nov. 13-15, earlier than assembly up with the swim program in Dallas from Nov. 19-22 for the SMU Invitational.
 
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