Denver Sweeps Colorado Mines to Open 2026

DENVER – The University of Denver males’s and girls’s swimming and diving applications opened the calendar yr 2026 with a sweep of the Colorado School of Mines on Friday afternoon in El Pomar Natatorium.
 
Team Scores:
Men’s:
Denver: 190
Colorado School of Mines: 49
 
Women’s:
Denver: 189
Colorado School of Mines: 47
 
Event Winners:
Women’s 1-Meter – Savanna Berry – 279.23 – NCAA Zone Cut
Men’s 1-Meter – Dakotah Parker – 325.05 – NCAA Zone Cut
Women’s 3-Meter – Savanna Berry – 291.38 – NCAA Zone Cut
Men’s 3-Meter – Dakotah Parker – 336.15 – NCAA Zone Cut
Women’s 200 Medley Relay – Ali Beay, Tenaya Winter, Julia Saxman, Isabella Cardenas – 1:40.59
Men’s 200 Medley Relay – Liam Simmons, Kito Campbell, Hamish McLellan, Luke Milburn – 1:28.55
Women’s 1000 Free – Genevieve Franklin – 10:20.85
Men’s 1000 Free – Finn Holdredge – 9:37.28
Women’s 200 Free – Sabrina Rachjaibun – 1:51.48
Men’s 200 Free – Dylan Mes – 1:39.40
Women’s 50 Free – Julia Saxman – 23.32
Men’s 50 Free – Tommy Hancock – 20.72
Women’s 200 IM – Samantha Synsvoll – 2:04.98
Men’s 200 IM – Nico Morton – 1:50.50
Women’s 200 Fly – Sabrina Rachjaibun – 2:04.90
Men’s 200 Fly – Gabe Jones – 1:50.90
Women’s 100 Free – Isabela Cardenas – 50.91
Men’s 100 Free – Hamish McLellan – 44.33
Women’s 200 Back – Darian Koler – 2:02.36
Men’s 200 Back – Quinn Collins – 1:49.18
Women’s 500 Free – Samantha Synsvoll – 5:05.24
Men’s 500 Free – Finn Holdredge – 4:40.27
Women’s 200 Breast – Peyton Mullowney – 2:17.39
Men’s 200 Breast – Kito Campbell – 2:02.66
Women’s 400 Free Relay – Tenaya Winter, Isabella Cardenas, Izzy Burton, Julia Saxman – 3:27.62
Men’s 400 Free Relay – Hamish McLellan, Tommy Hancock, Luke Milburn, Benjamin Stone – 3:00.68
 
How it Happened:
Friday’s meet opened with diving. On the ladies’s facet, Savanna Berry swept the 2 occasions with scores of 279.23 within the 1-meter and 291.38 within the 3-meter. Dakotah Parker took each of the lads’s occasions, scoring 325.05 within the 1-meter and 336.15 within the 3-meter. Berry’s scores have been her first NCAA Zone Cuts of the yr on each of occasions, whereas Parker earned his first NCAA Zone Cut on the 3-meter board. Trip Gregory bought his first NCAA Zone Cut on the 1-meter, whereas Tatum Brasfield earned her first NCAA Zone Cut on the 1-meter board. 
 
Denver opened the swimming portion of the meet when Ali Beay, Tenaya Winter, Julia Saxman and Isabella Cardenas mixed for a time of 1:40.59 within the girls’s 200 medley relay. On the lads’s facet, Liam Simmons, Kito Campbell, Hamish McLellan and Luke Milburn turned in a time of 1:28.55.
 
To the primary particular person swim of the afternoon, Genevieve Franklin girls’s the ladies’s 1000 free with a time of 10:25.85, edging out teammate Paige Reilly’s time of 10:31.61.
 
In the lads’s distance race, Finn Holdredge outswam teammate Max O’Neil together with his time of 9:37.28 to take the highest spot within the males’s 1000.
 
Sabrina Rachjaibun led a gaggle of three Pioneers that completed within the prime 4 of the ladies’s 200 free together with her time of 1:51.48. Winter took second in 1:51.88 and Sienna Nitke clocked in at 1:55.42 to take fourth.
 
Dylan Mes and Pierce Bickerton earned a 1-2 within the males’s 200 free with occasions of 1:39.40 and 1:39.81, respectively.
 
In the primary dash of the afternoon, Saxman received the 50 free with a 23.32, dropping 0.62 seconds off her time. Beay grabbed second in 24.17. On the lads’s facet, Tommy Hancock led a podium sweep for the Pioneers together with his time of 20.72. Benjamin Stone took second in 21.00 and Luke Milbrun grabbed third in 21.08.
 
Samanta Synsvoll and Lilly Zippel earned a 1-2 within the girls’s 200 IM with occasions of2:04.98 and a pair of:05.90. Denver males’s took the highest 4 spots within the males’s 200 IM. Nico Morton turned in a 1:50.50 to steer the again, Noah Laird grabbed second in 1:51.43, Cota Clise took third in 1:54.63 and Ian O’Neil recorded a 1:56.36 to complete fourth.
 
Rachjaibun bought her second win of the afternoon within the girls’s 200 fly, incomes a 2:04.90 within the occasion to take the highest spot. Denver’s males have been led within the occasion by Gabe Jones, who reached the wall in 1:50.90. Ian O’Neil took second in 1:53.63 and Brandon Saeedi took fourth in 1:57.49.
 
Cardenas led one other Denver 1-2, this time within the 100 free together with her time of fifty.91. Izzy Burton recorded a 52.68 to complete second. McLellan and Hancock swam the 100 in 44.33 and 45.26, respectively to earn the highest two spots for the Pioneer males.
 
Denver’s girls earned the highest 4 spots within the girls’s 200 again. Darian Koler received the race with a 2:02.36, Zippel grabbed second in 2:04.39, Mina Ada Solaker completed third in 2:06.83 and Maria Delmonte rounded out the quartet with a fourth-place end in 2:08.10.
 
The Pioneer males swept the highest 5 spots within the 200 again. Collins took first in 1:49.18, Morton took second proper behind him in 1:49.96, Mason Bruhn rounded out the rostrum locations in 1:51.12.
 
Synsvoll led a Denver podium sweep within the 500 free together with her time of 5:05.24. Nika Spehar completed second in 5:07.59 and Franklin took third in 5:11.49. Holdredge accomplished the space occasion sweep together with his time of 4:40.27 to take the occasion title.
 
Peyton Mullowney earned her first win of the afternoon within the 200 breast, outswimming the sector with a 2:17.39. Campbell led a males’s podium sweep together with his time of two:02.66 within the 200 breast. Clise turned in a 2:02.82 to take second and Max Roslin completed third in 2:03.76.
 
The meet wrapped up with Denver’s sweep of the 400 free relay. Denver’s girls’s group of Winter, Cardenas, Burton and Saxman completed in 3:27.62 and McLellan, Hancock Milburn and Stone swam the occasion in 3:00.68.  
 
Up Next:
Denver’s males’s and girls’s applications will return to motion subsequent weekend for a pair of duals in El Pomar Natatorium. On January 9, Denver’s girls will welcome New Mexico whereas the Pioneer males host Utah (Dive 12 p.m./Swim 2 p.m. MT). A day later, the Pioneers will welcome BYU’s males’s and girls’s applications to El Pomar. Start occasions on January 10 are set for diving to start at 10 a.m. MT and swimming to begin at 12 p.m. MT.
 
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