Sullivan, Mimoso Place to End Big 12 Championships for WVU

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Senior Abigail Sullivan and freshman Rafael Mimoso earned their first particular person profession medals to wrap up the 2026 Big 12 Swimming and Diving Championships for the West Virginia University males’s and girls’s swimming and diving staff on Saturday on the Greensboro Aquatic Center in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Mimoso ended his debut season with a seventh-place end within the males’s 200-yard breaststroke (1:55.84). He swam the second-fastest time in program historical past (1:55.67) throughout prelims to qualify for the A last.

Two different Mountaineers posted top-10 program occasions within the 200 breast, as freshman Caden Oprandy recorded a 1:56.70 in prelims and sophomore Erik Petruzzi touched the wall at 1:57.35 to complete second within the C last.
 
Sullivan rolled into the A last after ending fourth within the prelims on platform. She would go on to put eighth with 227.85 factors.
 
Redshirt senior Natasha Whittall completed her WVU profession recording the seventh-fastest time in class historical past within the 200-yard backstroke (1:58.45) throughout prelims. She positioned seventh within the B last on Saturday evening. Freshman Giada Del Medico additionally posted a top-10 time, ending 1:59.32 within the C last.
 
The different spotlight of the evening got here within the males’s 1650-yard freestyle with freshman Jake Salcedo swimming the fourth-fastest time in class historical past (15:21.63) to put 14^th. On the ladies’s aspect, senior Olivia Busch positioned 15^th with a last time of 16:52.09.
 
In the ultimate occasion of the evening, the lads’s relay staff positioned seventh within the 400-yard freestyle relay (2:55.87). In the lead off, redshirt junior Christian Simpson swam the ten^th-fastest time in class historical past (43.93)
 
West Virginia completed seventh out of seven groups on the lads’s aspect and 10^th out of 10 on the ladies’s aspect.
 
Final Men’s Standings

1. Arizona State
2. Arizona
3. Utah
4. TCU
5. BYU
6. Cincinnati
7. West Virginia

 Final Women’s Standings

1. Arizona State
2. Arizona
3. Houston
4. Cincinnati
5. Kansas
6. TCU
7. Utah
8. BYU
9. Iowa State
10. West Virginia

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