FEDERAL WAY, Wash. — BYU women's swim and dive tallied two more broken school records, three more all-conference finishes and 10 personal bests as Big 12 Swim and Dive Championships continued on Thursday at Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatics Enter.
Addison Richards and Lucy Warnick jostled for position as BYU’s top 400 individual medley swimmers on Thursday, and both came out with All-Big 12 performances.
After taking fifth in the 400 IM preliminary at 4:16.27, Warnick upped her game with a cut of over a second for a fourth-place 4:15.21 finish in the final. Richards sheared over eight seconds off her previous best to clock 4:16.04 and take fourth in the prelim before an All-Big 12 Second Team fifth-place finish in the final at 4:17.14.
Warnick was the only freshman to earn a first team finish in the 400 IM and did so with the third-fastest time in program history. Richards’ second team spot is her fifth career all-conference honor and first in the Big 12.
Alexia Jackson Hansen earned BYU women’s diving’s first all-conference finish of the meet during 3-meter competition on Thursday. Jackson Hansen scored a season-best 314 to take fourth in the prelim and advance to the A final. There, Jackson Hansen scored 294.50 for a sixth-place finish and All-Big 12 Second Team.
In three days at Big 12 Championships, the BYU women have now broken four individual or relay records. On Thursday, it was Emma Marusakova’s turn to do so individually and in the 400 medley relay.
Marusakova opened the day in the 100 fly with a personal-best 53.95, rising to No. 4 all-time at BYU. The best of 53.95 proved short lived as the junior from Zilina, Slovakia returned to win the B final and finish ninth overall with a school-record 53.23. Marusakova’s record performance overtook Angela Price’s 53.26 set in 2007. Freshman Sarah Eliason followed one spot behind Marusakova in the B final with an 11th-place finish at 53.87. Eliason’s 53.87 ranks fourth all-time at BYU in the 100 fly.
Marusakova returned from her record-breaking 100 fly to leadoff the 400 medley relay at day’s end with a 55.56 in the 100 back. Mackenzie Miller Lung followed at 57.79 in the 100 breast while Eliason went 53.79 in the 100 fly and Halli Williams posted an anchor 100 free of 49.63. Together, the foursome clocked 3:36.77, cutting nearly three seconds off a school record which had stood since 2011.
Haylee Tiffany set her second and third personal bests in the 200 free in three days with sequential improvement from Tuesday’s 800 free relay to Thursday’s 200 free preliminary and final. Tiffany shaved 0.59 seconds off her 800 free split for a personal-best 1:48.58 in the prelim, enough to put her at ninth all-time at BYU. The freshman from Pleasant Grove, Utah then peeled off another 0.28 seconds for a 12th-place finish in the final at 1:48.30. Tiffany now ranks fifth all-time at BYU in the 200 free.
Through Thursday, the BYU women stand in seventh with a team score of 449. Events continue on Friday at 10 a.m. PST on ESPN+ with the 200 fly prelim.