Utes Shut Common Season with Rivalry Meet

SALT LAKE CITY – The University of Utah swim and dive program closes out the common season on Friday evening, taking up BYU in Provo within the newest installment of the rivalry.
 
Opponents: BYU
Location: Richards Building Pool | Provo, Utah
Date: Friday, Feb. 6
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Live Results: Meet Mobile
 
The girls of Utah have received 9 consecutive meets towards BYU, together with a 169-131 win a season in the past due to 11 gold medals, whereas the lads want to snap a two-meet drought. Utah and BYU confronted off towards each other on the Big 12 West Championship final month, with each Ute squads scoring greater than their rivals.
 
Looking Back
The Utes confronted a troublesome check towards SMU final trip, and regardless of 4 gold medals from the ladies’s facet and 7 from the lads, Utah dropped either side of the twin meet.
 
Hayley Smith led the Utah girls with 18 factors on Saturday due to wins within the 500 and 100 Free and Erin Palmer added 13 factors on a first-place consequence within the 100 Breast and a second-place end within the 100 Free. On the lads’s facet, Nick Chirafisi additionally received gold within the 500 and 1000 Free to prepared the ground with 18 factors whereas Evan VanBrocklin added 14 factors due to a gold within the 200 Fly and a bronze within the 100 Free.
 
On the diving boards, Utah was led by senior captains Elias Petersen and Kathryn Grant. Grant took gold on each the 1-meter and 3-meter springboards whereas Petersen received on 1-meter for the fourth time this season.
 
Big Scores Earn Big 12 Awards
Utah has earned a complete of 10 Big 12 Conference weekly awards this season:
 
Oct. 30, 2025

Nov. 20, 2025

Dec. 11, 2025

Dec. 30, 2025

Jan. 15, 2026

Feb. 5, 2026

 
Since becoming a member of the Big 12 previous to final season, Utah has claimed 20 weekly awards, 13 of which have come from divers. Petersen leads all Utes with 5 weekly awards, all Diver of the Week nods, and was acknowledged because the convention’s Diver of the Year a season in the past.
 
Among the Best
The Utes had been represented within the girls’s, males’s and mixed group rankings when the US Professional Diving Coaches Association (US PDCA) launched its second in-season ballot final month. The girls’s group checked in at No. 19 nationally, the mixed squad was ranked No. 21 and the lads’s facet obtained votes.
 
Utah sits because the second-highest-ranked Big 12 faculty 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.
 
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