4 Extra All-America Finishes for Mines Swimming

By: Sam Boender

Results
 
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Three people and a relay offered the Colorado School of Mines girls’s swimming workforce 4 all-America finishes Friday on the 2026 NCAA Division II Swimming & Diving Championships.
 
Mary Flikkema, Jordan Tierney, and Mikaela Khan claimed the person accolades. Tierney, Flikkema, Cameryn Schmidt, and Kaya Flaherty teamed up on the all-American relay. Flikkema’s efficiency was a Twelfth-place end within the 100-back with a time of 55.52. Tierney went 1:02.10 within the 100-breast and likewise positioned Twelfth within the nation. Khan’s night time noticed her take eleventh within the nation within the 200-fly due to a 2:02.60 tempo. Tierney, Flikkema, Schmidt, and Flaherty teamed up within the 200-freestyle relay and stopped the clock at 1:34.48 which put them Twelfth in all of NCAA Division II as an unseeded relay. Those performances boosted Mines’ girls to 58 complete factors which has the Orediggers fifteenth within the workforce standings. Mines’ males head into the ultimate day ranked twenty fifth in eight factors total.
 
Earlier within the day, Vladislav Kazakin represented the Oredigger males within the 500-free and completed twentieth with a time of 4:28.48. Jakson Winn went 48.24 within the males’s 100-back which put him nineteenth within the nation. Schmidt and Anna Bream joined Tierney within the girls’s 100-breast. Schmidt positioned twenty fifth nationally due to her 1:03.27 tempo. Bream was thirty third total in 1:04.69. The girls’s 200-fly was subsequent the place Savannah Karas joined Khan and made her first-ever NCAA Championship look. Karas’ closing collegiate race noticed her take twenty sixth within the nation with a time of two:06.76 which additionally wrapped the morning session for the Orediggers.
 
The closing day of racing for Mines on the NCAA meet contains the 100-free, 200-breast, 1650-free, and the 400-freestyle relay. Prelims start at 10 a.m. CT. Live protection is obtainable by means of hyperlinks at www.minesathletics.com and at www.ncaa.com.
 
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