Utah Tech Swimming Hosts Fifth-Annual Trailblazer Invite This Weekend

Women’s Swimming | 11/18/2025 11:09:00 AM

Utah Tech swimming continues the autumn portion of its 2025-26 competitors schedule this week by internet hosting the Fifth-Annual Trailblazer Invitational on the HPC Pool. This week’s Invitational is the primary of three-straight dwelling meets the Trailblazers will host this season. 
 
Day one of many meet on Wednesday night time will function 4 relay race occasions beginning at 7 p.m. (MT). Meanwhile the ultimate three days of competitors (Thursday-through-Saturday) will start with every day with morning preliminary periods at 10 a.m. (MT), adopted by night finals periods at 5 p.m. (MT).
 
The Trailblazers will swim towards fellow WAC foe California Baptist, together with groups from UC Davis, UC San Diego, Fresno State, Pacific and San Diego. In addition, CBU, UCSD and Pacific will compete in a three-team males’s meet.
 
COACHING STAFF: Utah Tech alumnus Shawn King is in his third season as head coach of the Trailblazer program. 
            Last season, King led the Trailblazers to a seventh place end on the last Western Athletic Conference championships. His staff additionally mixed to interrupt 4 college information and publish a number of extra top-10 all-time program marks. 
In his first season poolside at Utah Tech, he guided the staff to its second quickest season at school historical past, breaking seven college information, whereas accumulating three All-WAC honors. In addition, the Trailblazers mixed to publish 75% life finest instances in competed occasions throughout the season.
Utah Tech additionally carried out within the classroom, because the staff earned 2024-25 CSCAA Division I Scholar All-America honors with a cumulative 3.62 GPA.
Coach King is joined poolside by third-year assistant coach Colby Clark.
 
NEW SEASON = NEW CONFERENCE: After competing within the WAC since transitioning to NCAA Division I standing within the 2020-21 season, Utah Tech will compete beneath a brand new convention banner this season.
            The Trailblazer program is now an affiliate member of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF). Utah Tech joins six different former WAC packages within the new league this season, together with California Baptist, Idaho, New Mexico State, Northern Arizona, Northern Colorado and UTRGV. 

TRAILBLAZERS IN THE MPSF: Utah Tech owns a number of top-25 MPSF particular person marks after the primary week of the 2025-26 common season.

50 Free

19. Gabby Henry – 24.00 (Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv’l) 

 

100 Free

22. Cera Mallory – 52.41 (at New Mexico State/New Mexico Tri-Meet)

 

200 Free

17. Cera Mallory – 1:53.35 (Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv’l)

23. Natalia Zmierczak – 1:54.98 (at New Mexico State/New Mexico Tri-Meet)

 

500 Free

12. Cera Mallory – 5:04.34 (Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv’l)

 

1,000 Free

9.  Cera Mallory – 10:26.19 (at New Mexico State/New Mexico Tri-Meet)

1,650 Free

N/A

 

50 Back

9. Makaela Perea – 26.68 (Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv’l)

 

100 Back

22. Mary Sims Cross – 58.04 (Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv’l)

200 Back

11. Kate Reichner – 2:04.97 (Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv’l)

18. Makaela Perea – 2:06.49 (Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv’l)

 

50 Breast

N/A

 

100 Breast

24. Reagan Patterson – 1:06.07 (at New Mexico State/New Mexico Tri-Meet)

 

200 Breast

10. Cera Mallory – 2:21.06 (at New Mexico State/New Mexico Tri-Meet)

24. Alyssa Gordon – 2:24.76 (Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv’l)

 

50 Fly

N/A

 

100 Fly

24. Gabby Henry – 57.90 (at New Mexico State/New Mexico Tri-Meet)  

 

200 Fly

23. Kate Reichner – 2:09.85 (at New Mexico State/New Mexico Tri-Meet)

 

100 IM

N/A

200 IM

N/A

 

400 IM

12. Alyssa Gordon – 4:35.93 (Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv’l)

13. Kate Reichner – 4:35.96 (Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv’l)

 

NEXT UP FOR THE TRAILBLAZERS: Utah Tech returns to motion this upcoming Dec. 12-13, with a two-day dwelling twin meet vs. Northern Arizona.