PROVO, Utah — BYU men’s swimming won each of the relay events and brought down three pool records as competition concluded at Denver’s El Pomar Natatorium on Saturday.
“This was an incredibly fast meet,” said BYU head swimming coach Shari Skabelund. “Our athletes battled hard and came up with some amazing swims for this time of year.”
After winning the 200 medley and 400 free relays on Friday, the Cougars continued their ways from the get-go on Saturday with a first-place finish in the 400 medley relay. Tanner and Emerson Edwards, along with Brad Prolo and Joshua Reed combined to clock an El Pomar Natatorium pool record 3:13.38. The previous stood since 2014.
Luigi Riva, Prolo and the Edwards brothers also broke a seven-year-old pool record with their 1:27.05 win in the 200 medley relay on Friday.
While shy of a pool record, BYU’s 200 free relay squad of Tanner Edwards, Reed, Diego Camacho Salgado and Riva swam the event in 1:20.51 to collect the Cougars’ fourth and final relay win of the meet.
Prolo won BYU’s second and third individual events of the meet on Saturday, breaking pool records in both. The senior from San Clemente, California eclipsed a decade-old pool record in the 200 fly to win at 1:47.05 over Denver’s Dylan Wright. Prolo finished the day with a winning 53.75 in the 100 breast, sufficient to beat the Pioneers’ Alex Lynch by over a second and break a pool record set in 2006.
The Cougars posted six more top-3 finishers on Saturday, including runner-up results from Payton Plumb, Tama Tuitama, Tanner Edwards and Camacho Salgado.
BYU outscored Wyoming 199-135 but came up short of Denver 176.5-157.5.
Diving Recap
Chase Hindmarsh was BYU’s top finisher in both the platform preliminary and final at the Bruin Diving Invitational at Spieker Aquatic Center in Los Angeles, California on Saturday.
Hindmarsh took fifth in the preliminary with a score of 339.70, then finished the day with a total score of 646.05 to take fifth in the final. Russell Haws took 12th to start at 246.45, then joined Hindmarsh in the final where he finished 11th at 527.45.
Carter Davis and Nathan Marshall rounded out BYU’s scoring on Saturday as they finished 13th and 16th, respectively.
BYU now returns home to the friendly confines of the Richards Building Pool for its first of two home meets in coming weeks. The Cougars will host a tri-meet of their own Jan. 19-20 versus Air Force and Colorado Mesa. Competition begins Jan. 19 at 5 p.m. and again on Jan. 20 at 11 a.m. MST.