Main Test Awaits Utah Swimming in Dallas

SALT LAKE CITY – Following a record-breaking efficiency final day out during which six top-10 occasions have been recorded, the Utah swimming program will look to proceed its robust early-season run on the SMU Invitational on the Robson & Lindley Aquatics Center in Dallas, Texas. The meet will run from Wednesday, Nov. 19, by Saturday, Nov. 22.
 
Opponents: Air Force, Arkansas, Drury, Hawaii, North Texas, (RV/RV) Notre Dame, (7/3) Stanford
Location: Dallas, Texas | Robson & Lindley Aquatics Center
Dates: Wednesday, Nov. 19 – Saturday, Nov. 22
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Record Rewritten in Las Vegas
Five Utes etched their names within the University of Utah swim program document guide whereas 13 swimmers set private bests on Saturday afternoon in Utah’s twin meet towards UNLV. As a crew, Utah’s males’s squad stayed undefeated on the 12 months with a 178-84 victory over the Rebels whereas the ladies’s facet dropped a tightly-contested battle, falling 144-108.
 
Finn Winkler, Nolan Dunkel, Caleb Gallagher, Erin Palmer and Rylee McColley every logged top-10 occasions in Las Vegas, the primary Utes to take action this season. Winkler and Palmer every tallied a pair of high occasions, with Palmer doing so within the 50 and 100 Free and Winkler within the 100 Back and 200 IM.
 
Winkler led the best way for the Utes with 22 factors on the afternoon, essentially the most by any Utah swimmer by three meets this 12 months. The sophomore completed first within the 100 Free and 200 IM and positioned second within the 100 Back with a 47.27, the seventh-fastest time by a Ute. That mark trailed solely Dunkel’s 46.91, the fifth-fastest lead to program historical past.  Gallagher and Nick Chirafisi every logged 18 factors to assist lead the Utes to victory with Gallagher profitable the 100 and 200 Breast in addition to the 200 Medley Relay. His 54.02 within the 100 Breast marked the ninth-fastest time within the occasion by a Ute.
 
On the ladies’s facet, Palmer and McColley led Utah with 18 factors apiece whereas Teagan Steinmetz completed with 10 factors. Palmer logged a 22.24 within the 50 Free, the second-fastest time in program historical past and the quickest by a Ute since she swam a 22.25 within the occasion final season, and her 49.72 within the 100 Free is the Tenth-best mark. McColley’s 2:12.17 end within the 200 Breast marked a brand new private greatest and is the fourth-fastest time in Utah historical past.
 
Halloween W
The Utes dominated of their residence opener on Halloween, with the lads’s crew beating Colorado Mesa 228-72 and the ladies’s facet profitable by a 192-108 scoreline. The Utes got here out on high in 26 of 32 occasions, together with eight podium sweeps.
 
Erin Palmer and Megan Legarth led the best way for the ladies of Utah with a team-high 18 factors. Palmer logged wins within the 100 Free, 100 Breast and 200 Free Relay and Legarth took gold in each the 100 and 200 Back. The duo additionally teamed with Veronica Gourley and Julia Bartell to win the 400 Medley Relay.
 
Evan VanBrocklin led the lads’s facet with 18 factors because of wins in each the 100 and 200 Free and took gold within the 200 Free Relay alongside Davis Stachelek, Ethan Moore and Sebastian Wrona. Caleb Gallagher, Nash Hale, Strahinja Maslo, Brandon Miller and Jakub Walter all contributed 13 factors within the victory.
 
First Meet, No Jitters
Utah opened the season on the street towards Wyoming in Green River. The males’s facet began the marketing campaign with a 196-104 victory over the Cowboys whereas the ladies’s crew fell, 172-128.
 
Caleb Gallagher logged 20 factors for the Utes, because of wins in each the 100 and 200 Breast, whereas Davis Stachelek and Evan VanBrocklin every logged a pair of particular person wins and a few relay victories. On the ladies’s facet, Rylee McColley led the cost with 18 factors for the Utes because of a pair of victories, whereas Megan Legarth, Erin Palmer, Ella Derby and Teagan Steinmetz all logged double-digit factors.
 
Big Test within the Big 12
Utah will look to take one other step ahead as a program because it embarks on its second season within the Big 12 Conference. The Utah males positioned third on the Big 12 Championships a season in the past, whereas the ladies’s squad positioned fifth within the convention. The Utes will look to enhance on these finishes this season, bringing again 22 returners on the lads’s facet and 17 on the ladies’s.
 
A Look Back – In the Pool
Utah Swimming will look to proceed the development it has seen underneath the management of Jonas Persson, who embarks on his fourth season on the helm of this system. After a profitable first season within the Big 12 Conference, each the lads’s and girls’s groups will purpose to compete for a convention title this season.

• Erin Palmer put collectively her quickest season within the pool final season, posting quite a lot of program data. Her 1:00.40 within the 100-yard breaststroke towards Wyoming shattered a program document that had stood since 2014, whereas her 22.55 within the 50-yard freestyle marked the second-fastest time in program historical past. She additionally clocked a 22.57 within the occasion towards BYU, the quickest time recorded contained in the Ute Natatorium.
• Palmer was named the Female Swimmer of the Meet ultimately season’s CSCAA National Invitational Championships.
• Nick Chirafisi, Jakub Walter, Jones Lambert and Evan VanBrocklin smashed the Utah program document within the 800m freestyle relay – a mark that had stood for 11 seasons – on the 2025 Big 12 Championships.
• Chirafisi set three private bests on the convention meet, recording new quickest occasions within the 200-, 500- and 1650-yard freestyle occasions.
• Chirafisi, Lambert and Durgan McKean return to the pool after incomes all-Big 12 first crew honors a season in the past, whereas Lambert, VanBrocklin, Walter, Strahinja Maslo and Brandon Miller have been named to the all-Big 12 second crew.
• On the ladies’s facet, Palmer earned a primary crew all-Big 12 nod final season.

 
Coaches Corner
Persson introduced on alumnus McKay King through the offseason to assist information the swim program. King swam for the Utes through the 2016-17 season, incomes Pac-12 all-academic crew honors, after swimming at BYU. He spent final season teaching at American Fork High School, main the boys’ crew to the 5A state title, and has overseen the coaching of Paralympian Audrey Kim, who has set three American data and claimed 5 titles whereas underneath King’s steering.
 
King joins Jos Smith, Jordan Taylor, Aly Tetzloff and Brody Lewis as assistant coaches underneath Persson.
 
Looking Ahead
Utah divers journey to Princeton, N.J., for the Big Al Invitational from Dec. 4-6. Utah swimming hosts the annual Utah Winter Classic on Dec. 13 earlier than closing out the 12 months with a twin meet towards Hawaii inside Ute Natatorium on Dec. 22.
 
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