Denver Hosts Opening Evening of First Chance Invitational

DENVER – The University of Denver males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving packages opened the ultimate weekend of the common season with the First Chance Invitational on Friday afternoon inside El Pomar Natatorium.
 
Event Winners:
Men’s 3-Meter Dive – 349.30 – NCAA Zone Cut – 5^th in DU History
Women’s 3-Meter Dive – 318.15 – NCAA Zone Cut – 4^th in DU History
Women’s 200 Medley Relay – 1:40.27 – Ali Beay, Tenaya Winter, Julia Saxman, Isa Cardenas
Women’s 400 IM – Samantha Synsvoll – 4:28.82
Men’s 400 IM – Cota Clise – 4:02.20
Women’s 200 Free – Tenaya Winter – 1:50.76
Women’s 100 Back – Isa Cardenas – 55.59
Men’s 100 Back – Quinn Collins – 48.64
Men’s 100 Breast – Kito Campbell – 53.85
Women’s 200 Fly – Sabrina Rachjaibun – 2:03.12
Women’s 1650 Free – Genevieve Franklin – 17:17.12
Men’s 1650 Free – Finn Holdredge – 15:46.35
 
How it Happened:
Friday morning’s diving occasions noticed massive scores flying within the closing common season meet for the Pioneer divers. Trip Gregory gained the boys’s 3-meter with a 349.30. Gregory’s rating ranks because the fifth-best rating on the 3-meter in Denver’s Division I historical past. Colin Breuer led Denver’s divers within the 1-meter with a rating of 319.90 to take second and earn his first NCAA Zone Cut within the occasion. Breuer’s rating additionally moved him as much as seventh in program historical past within the males’s 1-meter.  
 
In the ladies’s 3-meter dive on Friday, Savanna Berry and Kaitlin Calvery earned a Denver 1-2 within the occasion with a pair of NCAA Zone Cuts. Berry scored a 318.15, shifting her to fourth in program historical past within the occasion, whereas Calvery turned in a 303.25. Tatum Brasfield additionally earned a personal-best within the occasion and moved into ninth in program historical past along with her rating of 291.65.
 
Denver opened the swimming portion of the meet with a win within the ladies’s 200 medley relay because the quartet of Ali Beay, Tenaya Winter, Julia Saxman and Isa Cardenas mixed for a time of 1:40.27.
 
Freshman Samantha Synsvoll continued her robust begin to her rookie marketing campaign with a win within the 400 IM, reaching the ultimate wall in 4:28.82. On the boys’s aspect, Cota Clise gained the 400 with a time of 4:02.20 to provide the Pioneer males their first win of the day.
 
Tenaya Winter saved issues rolling for the Denver ladies, main the 17 swimmer discipline along with her time of 1:50.76.
 
Pierce Bickerton completed second within the males’s 200 free, trailing solely new El Pomar Natatorium document holder Alexander Metzler from Wyoming who swam the occasion in 1:35.82.
 
Cardenas received the Pioneers again within the win column along with her victory within the ladies’s 100 again, clocking in at 55.59 to edge out the 18 swimmer discipline.
 
In the boys’s backstroke occasion, Quinn Collins earned the highest spot along with his time of 48.64.
 
Friday’s occasions shifted to the breaststroke with Peyton Mullowney reaching the wall in second along with her time of 1:03.54. Kito Campbell approached the pool document within the males’s 100 breast, ending first in 53.85.
 
Junior Sabrina Rachjaibun swam a balanced 200 fly, taking the lead close to the halfway level and never relinquishing it the remainder of the best way along with her time of two:03.12. Hamish McLellan led the Denver males within the fly, ending third along with his time of 1:49.17.
 
Following a break, Genevieve Franklin led a Pioneer podium sweep within the ladies’s mile along with her time of 17:17.12. Nika Spehar clocked in at 17:24.24 and Paige Reilly reached the ultimate wall in 17:34.49.
 
In the boys’s mile, Finn Holdredge led a Denver 1-2 along with his time of 15:46.35, whereas Max O’Neil completed the gap race in 16:04.29.
 
Winter, Saxman, Izzy Burton and Cardenas mixed to swim the ladies’s 400 free relay in 3:25.03 of their closing timed check earlier than the Summit League Championships. On the boys’s aspect, Matija Pantic, McLellan, Tommy Hancock and Benjamin Stone earned a time of two:59.28.
 
Up Next:
Denver will wrap-up its pre-championship schedule on Saturday morning when the Pioneers shut out the First Chance Invitational. Swimming motion will start at 10 a.m. MT in El Pomar on Saturday, and shall be streamed stay on YouTube.
 
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