Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) Men and Women
- Dates: Wednesday, February 19th – Saturday, February 22nd (Co-Ed); prelims 10:30AM/Finals 6PM
- Location: East Los Angeles College, Monterey Park, CA (Pacific Time Zone)
- Defending Champion: UNLV men (departed to WAC), UC-Davis women (results)
- Live Results: Should be here once the meet begins
- Live Video (If available): Should be here once meet starts
- Championship Central
Only eight women’s teams and three men’s teams are in the conference this year. All teams have a shot at the title, and the meet began tonight with the 200 medley and 800 freestyle relay for both genders.
UC-Santa Barbara has the early lead for the women, up 80 to 68 from UC-Davis. Brigham Young University is up four points, 56 to 52, to University of the Pacific. Hawaii is in third at 32 points, due to an unfortunate disqualification of their ‘A’ 800 freestyle relay.
200 Medley Relays
Women –
Santa Barbara clinched the first relay in a time of 1:39.87, just .02 over UC-Davis at 1:39.89. UCSB team of Allison Knight, Katie Records, Andrea Ward and Sophia Yamauchi had the small margin of the victory over Hilary Hunt, Liliana Alvarez, Hilvy Cheung and Haley Porter.
The big difference came up when Alvarez put up a 27.7 to Records, 28.36. Ward responded for UCSB, splitting 23.12 to Cheung’s 24.02, for UCSB to have the marginal lead for Yamauchi.
Brigham Young was third, 1:40.90.
Men –
Hawaii won the event, by two seconds over Pacific. The Hawaii team of Karch Perkins, Paulo dePaula, Karl-Richard Hennebach and Ali Maclean finished at 1:27.27. Hennebach split 20.80 on the butterfly leg for the Warriors.
BYU was third, 1:29.38.
800 Freestyle Relays
Women –
Again it was UCSB with the win, but this time they had about a 1.5 lead over Davis – 7:16.42 to 7:17.94. Andrea Ward led off their relay in 1:47.03. Her teammates Heren Alanis, Monica Garcia and Anne Peanasky wrapped up the rest of the relay for the Gauchos.
Hawaii was third at 7:21.19. Jasmine Alkhaldi lead off just behind Ward at 1:47.17 for the Rainbow Warriors.
Men –
Hawaii disqualified their relay here, leaving BYU with the win in the event. On the live results link, there were no take off reaction to determine who had jumped for the Warriors.
Brigham Young finished in 6:31.41. Jake Taylor anchored their relay in 1:36.01. That left Pacific with the second place, in 6:36.50.
Mathematically doing splits, Hawaii’s final time would have been around a 6:27 – well ahead of BYU.