Dec. 7, 2014
Day 3 Results
Iowa City- The Hawkeye Invitational has concluded, and it was a weekend the Pioneers did well in many events.
Day three was no different from days one and two in terms of Pioneers performance.
In the women's 1650 freestyle featured several Pioneers who all had qualified for finals. Tyra Rooney posted a time of 16:34.80 which sealed second place for her. Maddie Myers took third with her time of 16.34.80. Fifth place was captured by Clara Jenck, her time of 16:51.09. In sixth place was freshman Grace Sommerville. Her time of 16:57.74 sealed her sixth place in the finals was just another solid performance for the Pioneers today. Sommerville continued her day with a first place finish in the 200 yard butterfly with a time of 2:00.97
The 1650 for the Men's team was also successful. Dylan Bunch took another first place finish home in the finals. His NCAA Standard B cut time of 15:00.87 won the event by 25 seconds. Jeremiah Zgliczynski claimed second place with a time of 15:25.50 which is also a NCAA Standard B cut time. Freshman Alex Walton also qualified for the finals in the 1650. His time of 15:37.45 got him a fith place finish in the finals.
Sam Corea continued her record setting weekend setting another record. She set a meet record and pool record in the 200 yard backstroke. Her NCAA Standard B cut time claimed her first place and another DU record. Corea's day continued with a 400 yard freestyle relay victory along with teammates Johanna Roas, Zoe Huddleston and Drew Matthews. Their time of 3:19.65 is a new meet record for the Hawkeye Invitational and the new record for Denver.
More success was found in the 200 yard backstroke by the Men's side. Anton Loncar swam a 1:44.82 scored him second place as a freshman. Also freshman Jared Smith also swam well and claimed third place with his time of 1:45.72. Both the freshman's times qualified for NCAA Standard B Cut times. Coach Brian Schrader praised the young student athlete's performances calling their times "lifetime bests."
Johanna Roas and Drew Matthews qualified for the 100 yard freestyle. The two of them took second and third. Roas' second place time was 49.89 which is good enough for a NCAA Standard B Cut time. Matthews took third with a time of 50.09.
Freshman success continued with Ray Bornman. His time in the 100 yard freestyle was an NCAA Standard B Cut and claimed him first place. 43.91 was his final time and he missed the school record .06 seconds. Bornmans flirtation with school record continued in the 400 freestyle relay. Along with teammates Willy Van Dehy, Luke Williams, and Tim Cottam finished just two tenths of a second from the record for the school.
Amanda Sanders continued his solid weekend with a third place finish and NCAA Standard B Cut time in the 200 breaststroke. With a time of 2:12.94 she solidified her third place finish. In the same finals race Maddie Eyolfson took sixth place with her rime of 2:18.70 finishing just ahead of her teammate Maddie Myers who clocked in at 2:18.92
Coach Schrader was also feeling good about Tim Cottam and Travis Greenwald's performances in the 200 breaststroke. Cottam finished third with his time of 2:00.08 and Greenwald finished fourth 2:01.74.
Andrew Torres posted a lifetime best time in the 200 butterfly where he claimed a third place finish. His NCAA Standard B cut time of 1:44.18 is the new record for Denver Swimming.
Senior Diver Ross Edfort also had a good day securing a finals score of 311.70 which was enough to get him fourth place today and is a new Pioneers record.
Coach Brian Schrader was thrilled with his teams performance this weekend. "This might be our best meet as a group in the fall since I have been here. Our athletes were really motivated to swim well. They have been training well, and also trying to gather some deep focus on a few technique things to implement. We saw good results on both of those focal points. Really pleased with our relay swims on the women's side of things-- school and summit league records are a great way to look at the rest of the season and ask them ...now where do you want to go? The men's relays showed some great promise as well...I think our 400 Free and 800 Free relays were our second fastest ever, and it just motivates us to be better. We saw great swims and best times from seniors down to freshmen athletes, distance swimmers to sprinters, and i think that always makes you better as a group and helps people be motivated. "
He continued highlighting performances of the weekend "We have some relays and individuals ranked on a national level. We need to celebrate that and then move on to work on how to get faster during this next part of the season. I think Dylan Bunch and Sam Corea will in all likelihood be competing at NCAAs, and see if we can have the rest of our team with NCAA standards make sure they punch their tickets as well. It truly is fun to see "Denver" in the polls and event rankings. We have a great thing going training in the Rocky Mountains and providing a quality education at a great institution, and our student athletes are getting it done. "
Coach Schrader isn't dwelling on the good weekend his team had "
we want to see if we can go back to training and training at a higher level to see if we can build and go faster than our peformances this weekend. Our dual meet schedule coming up will be challenging but great preparation to get ready for Summit League championships. We have two teams we race that are their conference champion or runner up -- Boise are Mountain West Champs. BYU is MPSF champions.... WYO were runners up in the WAC. All have NCAA qualifiers and all will be great competition and give us great challenges in every event. They will bring out our best and help us be great at the end of the season. " Pioneers swimming will head to training camp in San Diego on Thursday. This two a day camp will take place on Coronado Island. They will be out there for eight days then break for the holidays.
