Meet Stats
- Complete results
- January 28, 2017
- Score
- Men: Denver 246, Air Force 114
- Women: Denver 244, Air Force 114
Press Release
Courtesy of Denver Athletics
The University of Denver swimming and diving programs swept Air Force in the 2017 DU-AFA Spring Eliminator Championships, highlighted by 50-yard sprints in every event on Saturday night at El Pomar Natatorium. In the meet, the Pioneers set seven new pool records, including four relay records and five NCAA B standard times. Denver men’s program also earned a victory in every final on Saturday.
Team Scores
Men
Denver defeats Air Force 246-114
Women
Denver defeats Air Force 244-114
Denver opened the night with a pair of El Pomar Natatorium records in the men’s and women’s 200 medley relays. The women broke the record when junior Morgan McCormick (Golden, Colo.), senior Amanda Sanders (Superior, Colo.), junior Heidi Bradley (Victoria, B.C.) and senior Johanna Roas (Munich, Germany) combined for a time of 1:39.52. Denver’s men’s quartet also cleared the record, as junior Anton Loncar (Hillsboro, Ore.), senior Tim Cottam (Sydney, Australia), redshirt-senior Kyle Robrock (Savage, Minn.) and freshman Sid Farber (Portland, Ore.) earned a time of 1:27.12.
After a set of sprint preliminaries, both teams took to the water in the 200 free. Roas set a new El Pomar Natatorium record, clocking in 1:47.36 for her second win in the event this season. When converting to the NCAA altitude adjusted time, Roas finished the event in 1:46.16, which would break her previous 200 free school record (1:46.31) and set a new Summit League record. Junior Maddie Myers (Arvada, Colo.) touched second in the event for Denver with a time of 1:49.94.
Freshman Colin Gilbert (Kamloops, B.C.) won his second 200 free race of the campaign on the men’s side, out-touching the field with a time of 1:39.33.
Following the sprint semifinals, the two squads competed in the lone distance race of the day, the 500 free. Myers would have set a new pool record in the women’s event had it not been for the display put on by Air Force’s Genevieve Miller, who bested the record by more than six seconds with a time of 4:49.02. The Denver junior did go on to finish second with a time of 4:51.99, the first of three Pioneers to finish in the top-four in the race. Gilbert won his second 500 free in the calendar year with a time of 4:29.94.
Robrock earned the first of seven-straight Denver sprint victories with a time of 21.64 in the 50 fly.
Roas won her third event of the evening in the 50 back, touching in 24.68 to out-pace McCormick who finished second in 25.64. Loncar continued his impressive season in the backstroke with a victory on the men’s side in 22.34.
In the 50 breast, sophomore Bailey Andison (Smiths Falls, Ontario) and Sanders traded the lead a couple of times before Andison just out-touched her teammate by 0.05 seconds with a time of 28.44. Cottam and senior Patrick Guillory(Meadows Place, Texas) took 1-2 in the men’s race with times of 25.02 and 25.16, respectively.
During the sprint semifinals of the 50 free on Saturday night, junior Morgan Wice-Roslin (Colorado Springs, Colo.) temporarily set a new El Pomar Natatorium record, finishing her heat in first at 22.83, 0.03 seconds ahead of the prior record. Wice-Roslin later won the final in the women’s 50 free in 22.90. Robrock won his fourth 50 free race of the campaign on the men’s side to finish the sprint races on Saturday night with a time of 19.93.
With four events to go following the sprints, Andison, McCormick and Myers took 1-3 in the women’s 200 IM, led by Andison’s third-straight win in the event, touching at 2:01.30.
Sophomore Kyle Ewoldt (Gilbert, Ariz.) and senior Ben Severino (Des Moines, Iowa) finished 1-2 in the men’s 200 IM, as Ewoldt picked up his second win of the campaign in 1:51.00 and Severino touched in 1:52.51.
The Pioneers ended the evening on a high note, setting four pool records in the final two events.
In the women’s 200 free relay, Roas picked up her second individual pool record of the night, finishing her opening 50 free leg in 22.80, 0.03 seconds faster than Wice-Roslin finished earlier in the evening. The A-relay team of Roas, Wice-Roslin, Bradley and sophomore Lauren Moden (Parker, Colo.) combined for a time of 1:31.73.
Robrock did the same on the men’s side, breaking a three-year old El Pomar record in the 50-free with an opening leg time of 19.91 to lead Pioneer teammates Cottam, Farber and Loncar to a pool record 1:19.49 in the men’s 200 free relay.
Down in Colorado Springs this weekend, the Denver divers took part in the Air Force Diving Invitational. In the men’s 1-meter preliminaries, sophomore Ryan Reed (Springdale, Ark.) and freshman Alex Morgan (Dyer, Ind.) led the Pioneers with 17th (231.80) and 18th (211.55) place finishes in the 22-diver field. Later in the invitational, Reed finished 11th (255.95) in the 3-meter prelims, while Morgan finished the event in 16th. On the women’s side, freshman Sammy Walker (Los Gatos, Calif.) finished 51st in the 1-meter and 16th in the 3-meter.
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Up Next:
Denver will have a weekend off next week before heading to the 2017 Summit League Swimming and Diving Championships February 15-18 in Indianapolis, Ind.