2024 UNLV FINIS Invitational
The UCLA girls continued its run by means of the competitors on Tuesday on the UNLV FINIS Invitational, whereas the boys’s meet noticed a variety of winners from a number of totally different applications and some actually thrilling finishes.
Girls’s Day 2 Highlights
The Bruin girls kicked off the session with a 1:36.72 win within the 200 medley relay, which missed their season-best by solely .03 seconds.
The primary three legs of the relay Fay Lustria (24.72, .05 enchancment); Eva Carlson (26.98, .04 second enchancment), and Emma Harvey (22.81, .14 second enchancment) have been all, in actual fact, quicker than they swam on the Ohio State Invite in November. Solely the anchor Ana Jih-Schiff added, splitting 22.19 on the freestyle leg, however was nonetheless properly forward of her flat-start lifetime finest of twenty-two.76, making this a harmful relay come February and March.
They rolled off that right into a seven win day, together with swimmers each on that relay and others who weren’t on that relay.
After a season-best within the 200 IM on day 1, Rosie Murphy did the identical within the 400 IM on day 2. Her 4:10.56 was 4 seconds higher than she swam on the Ohio State Invite three weeks in the past to guide a UCLA 1-2-3-4 end within the race.
The Bruins took 5 of the highest six spots within the 100 fly, led by Emma Harvey in 53.18; the highest 4 spots within the 100 breaststroke led by Eva Carlson in 59.99 (a quarter-second higher than she was on the Ohio State Invite); 5 of the highest six spots within the 100 again led by Harvey once more in 52.98; and a win within the 800 free relay in 7:15.85.
Eden Chang then capped the time off with a win within the girls’s 1-meter.
It wasn’t a complete sweep of the day’s occasions for the UCLA girls: Wyoming sophomore Tara Joyce gained the 200 free in 1:46.87, holding-back a late cost from UNLV’s Erika Carlson (1:47.69).
That swim is a season-best for Joyce and the third-fastest swim of her profession. She and Carlson completed 1-2 ultimately yr’s Mountain West Convention Championships on this occasion in 1:46.11 and 1:47.30, respectively, and at the moment are arrange for an additional massive battle in February.
Males’s Highlights – Day 2
The lads from Division II Colorado Mesa began the second day of the meet as they did the primary by profitable a relay.
This time it was the 200 medley, including to their 200 free win on Monday. The crew of Andrew Scoggin (21.86), former Cal Bear Forrest Frazier (23.96), Dejan Urbanek (21.04), and Harry Stacey (19.10) mixed to only edge out UNLV by a margin of 1:25.96 to 1:26.11.
CMU’s mid-season 1:24.66 is the highest time in D2 to date this season.
UNLV freshman Caleb Manning gained an exciting 400 IM within the first particular person race of the day. He opened up a gigantic lead on the sphere early within the race, sitting 3.3 seconds clear after the breaststroke.
However Cal Baptist’s Mark Kovacsics, who was greater than seven seconds behind Manning after the butterfly and backstroke legs and 6 seconds again after the breaststroke leg, roared dwelling within the final 100, splitting 50.32 on the freestyle portion of the race. For perspective, that’s a quicker closing 100 than Leon Marchand swam final season when he gained the NCAA title (and quicker than many of the NCAA finals subject).
Watch the wild end under beginning on the 8:15:00 mark.
Pacific’s Javier Lopez-Guillen gained the boys’s 100 fly in 46.85, which shaves .05 seconds off his earlier finest time from the Trailblazer Invitational three weeks in the past. That extends his lead atop the MPSF rankings this season. Lopez-Guillen was a European Junior Championship finalist over the summer season for Spain and was an enormous under-the-radar pickup for the Tigers within the offseason.
He’s now inside three tenths of Mason Miller‘s 2018 college file of 46.58.
Cal Baptist’s Andrija Petkovic gained the boys’s 200 free in 1:35.76, which shaves .04 seconds off his season finest from November.
UNLV grabbed one other nail-biter particular person win when the two-time defending WAC Champion Danny Beji gained the 100 breast in 53.04, out-touching Cal Poly’s Evan Yoo (53.06).
For Yoo, that’s solely .07 seconds behind his finest time from the Texas Invitational in November. A junior who didn’t go a finest time on this occasion final season, Yoo has been one of many greatest beneficiaries of this system’s change in head teaching this season.
Frazier, the Cal switch, was third in 54.14 for Colorado Mesa.
On his third swim of the day, and after having the very best leadoff cut up on the medley relay, CMU’s Scoggin gained the 100 again in 46.91. That crushes his season better of 48.13 completed at altitude on the mid-season CMU Invitational and will lock up his NCAA D2 Championship invite because the #6 time within the nation.
His teammate Agata Naskret broke the ladies’s D2 file earlier within the season and completed third within the girls’s occasion on Tuesday, giving the Mavericks a burgeoning fame within the occasion.
UNLV completed the day with a win within the males’s 800 free relay, although this time it was a no-doubt efficiency. They dominated all through many of the race, ending in 6:31.08 and profitable by precisely six seconds over Wyoming.
UNLV diver Alejandro Vazquez gained the boys’s 3-meter with a rating of 341.70.
Group Scoring After Day 2
Males
- UNLV – 634
- Colorado Mesa – 565
- Cal Poly – 399
- Cal Baptist – 360.5
- Pacific – 307
- Wyoming – 268.5
- Linfield – 16
Girls
- UCLA – 860
- UNLV – 526
- Wyoming – 405
- Colorado Mesa – 311
- Cal Baptist – 197
- Pacific – 138
- Cal Poly – 127
- Linfeidl – 8
