Final Results

TEMPE, Ariz. - The University of Denver men's and women's swimming and diving teams swam well on the road, but fell in both dual meets at Arizona State on Saturday afternoon at the Mona Plummer Aquatic Complex.

[30] Denver's women (3-2) dropped the dual by a count of 152.5-135.5 to [40] Arizona State (3-0), while the [31] Denver men (0-1) fell to [37] Arizona State (3-0) by a score of 196-99.

"On the women's side, I thought we raced pretty well. It was a close meet, and we left some points on the board. It might be a dual that got away from us, but I'm proud of how we fought," head coach Brian Schrader said. "Our guys had a great day of racing today even though it didn't show on the scoreboard. We had some of our best dual meet performances of all time, but credit Arizona State today, they came out to make a statement and swam really fast this afternoon."

Junior Morgan McCormick (Golden, Colo.) continued her success in the backstroke on Saturday, taking the 100 and 200 yard back with a pair of NCAA B Standards at times of 54.78 and 1:57.46, respectively.

Junior Maddie Myers (Arvada, Colo.) earned an NCAA B Standard of her own in the 400 IM, touching the wall in a tie for first at 4:17.75, nearly 1.6 seconds ahead of the provisional time.

Denver swept the 1000 free events. Myers touched first in the women's race at 10:05.75 and freshman Colin Gilbert (Kamloops, B.C.) won the men's race at 9:12.84. Myers earned her second distance swim victory later in the afternoon in the 500 free, clocking in at 4:55.04. Gilbert would go on to finish second in the men's race with a time of 4:34.50.

"Maddie Myers was an absolute warrior today," Schrader said. "She stepped up when we needed her to against some great competition."

Junior Anton Loncar (Hillsboro, Ore.) picked up an NCAA B Standard of his own in the 200 back with a time of 1:46.20, in addition to leading the Pioneers earlier in the meet in the 100 back with a time of 48.95. Both of Loncar's times were good for second place finishes on Saturday.

Senior Amanda Sanders (Superior, Colo.) swept the two breaststroke events with an NCAA B Standard of 2:15.19 in the 200, several events after winning the 100 breast with a time of 1:03.10.

Junior Heidi Bradley (Victoria, B.C.) took both of the butterfly events with times of 55:87 and 2:03.14.

The Pioneers opened the meet with a win in the women's 400 medley relay, as McCormick, Sanders, freshman Josie Valette (Boudler, Colo.) and senior Johanna Roas (Munich, Germany) combined for a time of 3:43.52, winning the race by seven tenths.

"I'm very excited about our women's 400 medley relay," Schrader said. "I anticipate it being in the top 15 or 20 in the country once all the results are reported after this weekend."

Senior Andrew Torres (Arvada, Colo.) and Gilbert led Denver in the men's 200 fly, finishing second and third with times of 1:49.67 and 1:50.88, respectively.

Torres' classmate Kyle Robrock (Savage, Minn.) and freshman Sid Farber (Portland, Ore.) turned in strong showings in the 50 free, as Robrock finished a tenth behind ASU's Tadas Duskinas for second, and Farber touched just 0.02 seconds after Robrock at 20.63.

Following Sanders win in the 200 breast, senior Tim Cottam (Sydney, Australia) led the Pioneers in the men's event with a time of 2:01.17, good enough for a second place finish on Saturday.

To end the meet, Denver's men's 200 free relay finished at 1:20.60, 0.03 seconds behind the Arizona State relay for second. Farber, Cottam, Robrock and junior Ray Bornman (Mackay, Queensland) swam the A-relay for the Pioneers on Saturday.

"I expect our men's 200 free relay to be in or near the top-10 in the country," Schrader said. "We had a great week of training this week and we swam like it out there today, and this relay was a great way to wrap-up our dual meets down here."

In diving, Sammy Walker (Los Gatos, Calif.) scored 249.23 points on the one meter board and 210 on the three meter.

Men's diver Ryan Reed (Springdale, Ark.) led Denver on both boards with scores of 266.78 on the one meter board and 268.35 at three meters.

UP NEXT:

The Pioneers swimmers will have a little more than a month off before heading to Austin for the four-day Texas Invitational beginning November 30. Denver's men's diving team will head to Cal Poly next Saturday for a meet in San Luis Obispo.

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