PROVO, Utah — Mackenzie Miller Lung clocked 2:09.61 to break BYU women’s swimming’s 200 breast school record on Friday as the Cougars concluded competition at the Texas Invitational.
Swimming Recap | Texas Invitational | Lee & Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center | Austin, Texas
Miller Lung’s record-breaking performance came as she finished runner-up in the preliminary race behind only Lucy Bell of No. 4 Stanford, the nation’s fastest 200 breast swimmer.
A junior from Clovis, California, Miller Lung topped Katie McBratney’s previous school record of 2:11.44 set in 2021. Following Friday’s swim, Miller Lung jumps into the top-15 nationally in the 200 breast, overtaking swimmers from Southern Illinois, No. 10 Wisconsin and No. 1 Virginia.
Freshmen Jasmine Anderson and Lucy Warnick kept the successes coming for the Cougars in the 200 breast.
Anderson swam a personal-best 2:13.42 to take eighth in the prelim and finish the day fifth all-time at BYU. Warnick took 17th at 2:15.53 in the prelim, then cut over two seconds for 2:13.36 and the program’s fourth-fastest time in the final.
BYU women’s swimmers have swam sub-2:14.00 in the 200 breast just five times since 1991. Three of those performances occurred on Friday with Miller Lung, Anderson and Warnick.
In total, the Cougars combined for 34 season-best times on Friday, 20 of which went down as collegiate-best as well.
Diving Recap | SMU Invite | Robson & Lindley Aquatics Center | Dallas, Texas
Alexia Jackson Hansen finished fourth in both 3-meter preliminary and final rounds on Friday. Jackson Hansen improved her score from 283.50 in the prelim to 286.05 in the final. Brooklyn Larson Clouse took 11th in both rounds with her best six-dive score of the day coming at 245.10 in the prelim.
BYU women’s diving returns for its final day in Dallas at 1 p.m. CST on Saturday.