COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. The Western Colorado swimming and diving workforce closed out Day 2 of the Colorado School Basic on Saturday with a slim lead over the host Tigers, 570-552, atop the workforce leaderboard.
The Mountaineers had one first-place end, 5 second-place finishes on the day from LynDea Turner and a scorching end in 18 championships in swimming occasions to inside inches of the Tigers at Schlessman Natatorium.
HOW DID IT HAPPEN
- Within the morning preliminaries, 23 swimmers earned an opportunity to return to the championship and comfort warmth finals within the night.
- Turner’s win got here after posting the highest time within the morning preliminaries within the 400-yard particular person medley. He took the primary place within the scorching stage of the championship in 4 minutes 53.28 seconds and stored his place on the entrance of the sphere.
- Becoming a member of Turner within the finals of that championship had been teammates Leah Wagner and Lauren Linneman. Wagner (5:02.89) was fourth and Linneman (5:08.58) fifth as all three climbers improved on their prelims within the evening finals.
- Turner then added a seventh-place end within the 200 freestyle (2:04.60) and Wagner added a third-place end within the 100 breaststroke (1:09.75).
- Jordan Maruska was the highest scorer for the West on the evening. He was second within the 200 (2:00.07) and third within the 100 (55.69). Behind Maruska in each occasions was Makenna Lambert, fourth within the 100 (56.41) and third within the 200 (2:02.78).
- Courtney Koplan was one other runner-up for Western, taking 2nd within the 100 backstroke (1:00.93) after including a Fifteenth-place end (57.38) within the 100 backstroke earlier within the evening.
- The 200 butterfly positioned second for Western swimmers. Anna Maurello (2:10.39) completed second within the championship last by 28/100ths of a second, with teammates Miranda Noonan (2:28.87) and Elisa Ellsbury (2:32.78) including fourth and fifth, respectively.
- Three different climbers scored Coplan’s one centesimal, beginning with Afton Web page, who completed fifth in 1:02.56. Tayla Liddle completed sixth (1:03.82) with Bella Gacez (1:05.01) incomes a comfort vote for ninth. Liddle additionally added an eighth-place end within the 200 (2:06.04).
- It was Addison O’Donnell who completed second in 1:09.68, forward of Wagner within the 100 championship. And fifth in the identical warmth was Trinity Caudle (1:11.64).
- Western comfort warmth scorers included Taylor Grebe within the 100 free (sixteenth, 57.15), Emma Smith within the 200 free (14th, 2:09.10) and Sydney-Ann Morris within the 200 free (2:11.33).
- The early factors of the day got here between the preliminary and last swim periods, as a trio of Mountaineer divers accomplished the 1-meter diving last. Meredith Clabaugh was second with 11 dive factors at 331.20, Alexandra Wallis was sixth (297.65) and Grebe was tenth (277.15).
- The ultimate occasion of the night session was the 400 free relay. O’Donnell, Turner, Lambert and Maruska mixed for second place in 3:44.32 and the foursome of Coplan, Web page, Smith and Grebe completed fourth in 3:51.79. Lambert’s 54.76 was the quickest of all swimmers, whereas Maruska’s 55.24 was the third quickest.
EXTRA POINTS
- Maruska leads all swimmers within the Basic with 48 factors.
- Turner’s 33 factors are ninth most, adopted by Lambert and Wagner’s 31 factors.
NEXT
The Mountaineers will look to keep up their lead over the Tigers on the ultimate day of the Basic. Sunday preliminaries start at 9 a.m., and the championship session begins at 4 p.m
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