GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – BYU women’s swim and dive fell just short of victory against the Denver Pioneers in Saturday’s meet at the El Pomar Natatorium.
“Our team showed tremendous heart today,” head coach Tamber McAllister said. “... our women battled all the way to the final relay. Lucy Warnick stepped up in a big way, delivering clutch swims that kept us in the fight for every point. We narrowly fell to a strong Denver squad, but the resilience and unity we saw across the roster is exactly what we’re building on as we move forward.”
Despite the loss, the team set three new top-10 BYU finishes, with freshman Taylor Bennett finishing the 50 freestyle at 23.15, earning another 10th fastest finish in program history , and junior Tatum Cooley earning a time of 50.35 in the 100 freestyle, also the 10th-fastest in BYU history. Lucy Warnick remained seventh all time in the 100 breaststroke but improved her time to 1:01.70.
Swimming
BYU opened the meet with second- and third-place finishes from the B and C relay teams in the 200 medley relay event. Directly following, freshman Cher Patrick earned a first-place victory in the 1,000 freestyle at 10:18.55.
In the 200 freestyle, the Cougars claimed first and second, with Haylee Tiffany hitting the wall at 1:48.87 and Victoria Schreiber clocking a 1:49.05.
Warnick earned BYU’s next first-place finish in the 100 breaststroke at 1:01.70. Sophomore Lucy Marek and senior Elle Decker would then place second and third in the 200 butterfly in the next event.
Cooley took first in the 50 freestyle at 22.97, where she was followed by Bennett, who took third and earned the 10th-fastest finish in BYU history in the event at 23.15. Cooley took first in the next event, the 100 freestyle, earning another 10th-fastest finish in program history at 50.35. Tiffany followed her in second at 50.74 in the same race.
Warnick took first again in the 200 breaststroke at 2:13.73. Junior Abril Arias also competed, placing third with a time of 2:20.43. Warnick closed out individual events with a first-place finish in the 200 individual medley at 2:01.62, and freshman Brinley Knoll followed in third at 2:04.41.
The concluding event of the meet was the 200 freestyle relay, where the A team finished at 1:30.97, earning first place. The B and C teams also competed, placing third and fifth.
Diving
Freshman Brooklyn Goeckeritz stood at the helm for the BYU dive team, placing third in the 1-meter event and fourth in the 3-meter. She earned a total score of 263.70 on a 14.40 degree of difficulty in the 1-meter and a 252.23 in the 3-meter, competing at a 14.50 degree of difficulty in the event.
Sophia DeBergh competed in the 3-meter event, taking fifth at 242.40 on a 15.60 degree of difficulty. Aubryn Ordyna and Betty Martin also represented the Cougars with seventh- and eighth-place finishes.
All three competed in the 1-meter event as well, earning sixth, seventh and eighth.
Up Next
BYU swim and dive will travel to Tempe, Ariz., for the Big 12’s Duel in the West this upcoming Friday and Saturday, with live results available on Meet Mobile.