Three Pioneers Earn Prime-4 Finishes on Night Two at NICs

DENVER – The University of Denver males’s and ladies’s swimming applications wrapped up day two on the 2026 CSCAA National Invitational Championships on Friday morning on the FAST Facility in Ocala, Florida.
 
Denver’s males sit eighth of the 30 groups which have scored heading into the ultimate day on Saturday, whereas the ladies rank 16^th of 52 scoring groups on the nationwide meet.
 
The Pioneers had three underclassmen mix for 3 top-four finishes on Friday night time, led by sophomore Hamish McLellan’s second-place end within the males’s 100 fly.
 
How it Happened
Denver’s girls opened night time two with an 11^th place end within the 200 medley relay, whereas the Pioneer males took 16^th within the relay.
 
In the primary particular person race of the night time, junior Sabrina Rachjaibun dropped 1.39 seconds off her prelim time to take eighth within the girls’s 400 IM with a time of 4:17.87.
 
In the boys’s distance medley, Nico Morton held his fourth place spot from the prelims session with a time of three:51.09, enhancing on his time by 2.74 seconds from Friday morning’s time.
 
Building off final night time’s win within the 50 fly, freshman Julia Saxman shaved greater than a half a second on her prelims time in Friday night time’s 100 fly finals, ending fourth with a 53.34.
 
Sophomore Hamish McLellan completed second within the males’s 100 fly by the slimmest of margins, clocking in at 46.69, 0.01 seconds off Alex Volkov’s (Grand Canyon) time.
 
Freshman Samantha Synsvoll earned extra high quality factors for the Pioneers with a sixth-place end within the girls’s 200 free in a time of 1:47.97. Classmate Pierce Bickerton took 13^th within the males’s 200 free with a time of 1:38.28.
 
The night time wrapped up with the 800 free relays. The girls’s quartet of Synsvoll, Tenaya Winter, Isa Cardenas and Rachjaibun mixed for a time of seven:21.06 to complete fourth.
 
Thursday Night Event Wins:
Women’s 50 Fly – Julia Saxman – 23.69
 
Remaining Schedule
Saturday, March 14 (Prelims 7:30 a.m. MT, Finals 4 p.m. MT)
Women’s 100 IM – Isa Cardenas
Men’s 100 IM – Nico Morton
Women’s 200 Back – Samantha Synsvoll
Men’s 200 Back – Quinn Collins
Women’s 100 Free – Isa Cardenas
Men’s 100 Free – Matija Pantic
Men’s 200 Breast – Kito Campbell, Nico Morton
Women’s 200 Fly – Sabrina Rachjaibun
Women’s 400 Free Relay
Men’s 400 Free Relay
 
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