Busy Weekfinish Kicks Off 2026 Swim and Dive Slate

SALT LAKE CITY – The University of Utah swim and dive program opens the 2026 portion of its schedule this weekend with three separate meets. The males’s swim staff travels to Denver on Friday, Jan. 9, for a twin meet whereas the ladies’s facet heads to Los Angeles for a quad meet towards UCLA, Iowa and UCSB on Saturday, Jan. 10. The Utah diving staff can be headed to the City of Angels for the UCLA Diving Invite from Jan. 11th of September.

Diving
Opponents: California Baptist, Northern Arizona, Pepperdine, San Diego State, UCLA, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, UNLV, USC
Location: El Pomar Natatorium | Denver, Colo.
Date: Friday, Jan. 9 – Sunday, Jan. 11
Time: 11:30 a.m. MT
Live Results: DiveMeets

Men’s Swim
Opponent: Denver
Location: Spieker Aquatic Center | Los Angeles, Calif.
Date: Friday, Jan. 9
Time: 2:00 p.m. MT
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Live Results: Meet Mobile

Women’s Swim
Opponents: UCLA, Iowa, UCSB
Location: Spieker Aquatic Center | Los Angeles, Calif.
Date: Saturday, Jan. 10
Time: 11:00 a.m. MT
Live Results: Meet Mobile

Among the Best
The Utes had been represented within the girls’s, males’s and mixed staff rankings when the US Professional Diving Coaches Association (US PDCA) revealed its second set of in-season rankings on the finish of final month. The girls’s staff checked in at No. 19 nationally, the mixed squad was ranked No. 21 and the lads’s facet acquired votes.

Utah sits because the second-highest-ranked Big 12 college on the ladies’s facet, three spots behind No. 16 Kansas, and the third-highest-ranked males’s squad behind No. 11. Arizona and RV TCU. As a mixed program, Utah is second within the convention behind solely No. 14 Arizona.

Big Scores Earn Big 12 Awards
So far this season, 4 Utah divers and two Ute swimmers have earned weekly awards from the Big 12 Conference. Elias Petersen has earned Men’s Diver of the Week honors twice whereas Attila Bernatsky has been acknowledged as soon as and each Kathryn Grant and Callie Eaglestone has been named the convention’s Women’s Diver of the Week. Petersen and Eaglestone took dwelling Diver of the Week recognition on Dec. 30 for his or her performances in Miami and towards Hawaii.

Nolan Dunkel and Stephanie Oiesen additionally earned Utah swimming’s first weekly awards of the marketing campaign following the Utes’ twin meet towards Hawaii. Dunkel took dwelling Men’s Newcomer of the Week honors after inserting second within the 100 Fly and main off the gold medal 200 Medley and 200 Free relay squads. Oiesen took second within the 100 Back, positioned sixth within the 100 Free and led off the fourth-place 200 Free relay staff en path to her first-career Newcomer of the Week nod.

Since becoming a member of the Big 12 previous to final season, Utah has claimed 17 weekly awards, 12 of which have come from divers. Petersen leads all Utes with 5 weekly awards, all Diver of the Week nods.

2025 Ends with Hawaii Sweep
The University of Utah swim and dive program wrapped up the 2025 portion of its schedule with a pair of wins over Hawaii. The males’s staff improved to an ideal 4-0 document in twin meets with a 165-59 victory behind six occasion sweeps, whereas the ladies of Utah claimed their second win of the marketing campaign, beating the Rainbow Wahine, 126-98.

Erin Palmer paced all Utah swimmers with 18 factors because of wins within the 50 Free and 100 Breast, whereas Isabella Riso and Megan Legarth got here away with 9 factors apiece. Nolan Arnholt, Nick Chirafisi, Caleb Gallagher, Strahinja Maslo, Winston Sundeen and Evan VanBrocklin tied for the staff lead on the lads’s facet with 9 factors, every taking dwelling a gold medal.

Utah claimed eight of 12 podium spots on the springboards. Callie Eaglestone swept the ladies’s competitors with Kathryn Grant ending simply behind her in second on each boards, and Emilia Nilsson Garip made her season debut with a third-place end. Elias Petersen logged a pair of top-two outcomes for the lads’s facet.

Utes Sweep Springboard Titles in Miami
Elias Petersen gained on each the 1-meter and 3-meter springboards to steer the lads’s facet towards FAU, whereas Callie Eaglestone and Kathryn Grant each logged a first-place end to tempo the ladies’s staff towards FIU and Marshall in diving’s closing break up meet of 2025. Utah tallied eight podium finishes throughout 4 finals.

Petersen claimed his third 1-meter win of his senior season with a 307.05 listing rating. Alex Just completed in third place with a 276.95 – his greatest mark because the season opener – whereas Attila Bernatsky positioned fifth with a 259.35. Petersen earned his second 3-meter win of the season with a 348.30, ending simply forward of Bernatsky, who positioned second with a personal-best 302.70. Tuesday marked the primary time the sophomore eclipsed 300 factors on the board.

Grant led the best way for the Utah girls on the 1-meter board and was one among 5 Utes to complete within the high six. Her 286.30 was sufficient to say her second win on the occasion in as many meets, narrowly beating out Eaglestone’s 279.05. Sarah Kauffman positioned fourth with a 230.85, her greatest mark of the season, whereas the freshman duo of Cierra Cole and Annalise Shrader positioned fifth and sixth, respectively, at 218.10 and 212.05.

On the 3-meter springboard, Eaglestone gained with a 289.85 whereas Grant positioned second with a 266.35. Shrader got here in fourth with a 236.50.

Records Fall in New Jerey
Nine Utah divers earned podium finishes throughout three days of competitors on the Big Al Invitational. The spotlight of the weekend was Kathryn Grant’s 308.80 to win the ladies’s platform competitors, which broke the pool document. Grant had set the pool document on the similar occasion again in 2022, however reclaimed the document after it was damaged final yr. Her rating was the second-best mark in program historical past and simply the third Utah tally over 300 on the occasion. The senior additionally claimed the 1-meter title after a setting a private greatest in prelims.

Callie Eaglestone logged three top-five finishes on the weekend, inserting second on the 1-meter board, third on the 3-meter and fourth on platform. Her 300.15 mark within the 1-meter prelims was the primary time she had damaged 300 on the board and set the Tenth-best rating in Utah historical past.

Elias Petersen led the lads’s facet with a win on the 1-meter, a second-place end on the 3-meter and a third-place end on platform.

Medals Aplenty at SMU Invitational
The Utes garnered 21 podium finishes throughout a profitable 4 days on the SMU Invitational final month, with seven swimmers incomes a number of medals.

Ella Derby and Erin Palmer led all Utah Utes with 47 and 46.5 factors, respectively, and had been the lone Utah swimmers with three podiums. Derby took second in each the 200 and 400 IM and positioned third within the 800 Free relay, setting 5 private bests and a season greatest alongside the best way, whereas Palmer took second within the 100 Breast, third within the 50 Free with a program-record 22.11, and teamed with Derby within the 800 Free relay. Teagan Steinmetz contributed 42 factors and Hayley Smith added 31 because the Utah girls positioned third out of 9 groups.

The males of Utah additionally positioned third behind 46 factors from Nick Chirafisi and 42 factors from Finn Winkler. Chirafisi set this system document within the 200 Free with a 1:33.75 to complete fourth whereas getting on the rostrum in each the five hundred Free and 800 Free relay. Winkler took second within the 200 IM and third within the 100 Fly whereas setting 10 private bests on the weekend.

In whole, 34 new top-10 instances had been set in Dallas. Winkler etched his title in this system document ebook 5 instances, essentially the most of any Utah Ute on the weekend.

Seniors Shine is Lone Star State
Seniors Kathryn Grant and Elias Petersen powered the Utes on the Texas Diving Invitational to open November, main Utah in a meet that included six groups ranked within the high 20 nationally.

Grant positioned fourth on the 1-meter and fifth on each the 3-meter and platform, the one lady in Austin to complete within the high 5 on all three occasions. She tied for first individually with 43 factors on the weekend, scoring a 288.15 on the 1-meter, 298.25 on the 3-meter and 249.30 in her first platform competitors of the season.

Petersen additionally led the lads’s facet with three finals appearances. He positioned eighth on each the 1- and 3-meter springboards and completed fifteenth on platform.

Records Rewritten in Las Vegas
Five Utes etched their names within the University of Utah swim program document ebook whereas 13 swimmers set private bests on Saturday afternoon in Utah’s twin meet towards UNLV. As a staff, Utah’s males’s squad stayed undefeated on the yr with a 178-84 victory over the Rebels whereas the ladies’s facet dropped a tightly-contested battle, falling 144-108.

Finn Winkler, Nolan Dunkel, Caleb Gallagher, Erin Palmer and Rylee McColley every logged top-10 instances in Las Vegas, the primary Utes to take action this season. Winkler and Palmer every tallied a pair of high instances, with Palmer doing so within the 50 and 100 Free and Winkler within the 100 Back and 200 IM.

Winkler led the best way for the Utes with 22 factors on the afternoon, ending first within the 100 Free and 200 IM and positioned second within the 100 Back with a 47.27, the seventh-fastest time by a Ute. That mark trailed solely Dunkel’s 46.91, the fifth-fastest lead to program historical past.  Gallagher and Nick Chirafisi every logged 18 factors to assist lead the Utes to victory with Gallagher profitable the 100 and 200 Breast in addition to the 200 Medley Relay. His 54.02 within the 100 Breast marked the ninth-fastest time within the occasion by a Ute.

On the ladies’s facet, Palmer and McColley led Utah with 18 factors apiece whereas Teagan Steinmetz completed with 10 factors. Palmer logged a 22.24 within the 50 Free, the second-fastest time in program historical past and the quickest by a Ute since she swam a 22.25 within the occasion final season, and her 49.72 within the 100 Free is the Tenth-best mark. McColley’s 2:12.17 end within the 200 Breast marked a brand new private greatest and is the fourth-fastest time in Utah historical past.

Halloween W
The Utes dominated of their dwelling opener on Halloween – the Utes’ final non-split meet of the season – with the lads’s staff beating Colorado Mesa 228-72 and the ladies’s facet profitable by a 192-108 scoreline. The Utes got here out on high 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 facet with 18 factors because of 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 high in each the 1-meter and 3-meter springboard on the lads’s and girls’s facet. Elias Petersen made his season debut and took each golds on the lads’s facet, 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 street towards Wyoming in Green River. The males’s facet began the marketing campaign with a 196-104 victory over the Cowboys whereas the ladies’s staff fell, 172-128.

Caleb Gallagher logged 20 factors for the Utes, because of 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 facet, Rylee McColley led the cost with 18 factors for the Utes because of 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, profitable 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 properly. 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 consequence within the 1m and positioned fourth within the 3m.

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