MINNEAPOLIS – The University of Denver men's and women's swimming and diving programs wrapped up night two of the 2025 Minnesota Invite on Friday at the Jean K Freeman Aquatic Center.
 
Team Scores:
Men's:
[6] Cal 1454.5
[RV] Minnesota 955.5
Harvard 844
Denver 775
UNLV 332
 
Women's:
[6] Cal 1237
[21] Minnesota 1143.5
Harvard 855.5
Denver 629.5
Rutgers 547.5
UNLV 434
 
Denver's women opened the second night of competition with a fifth-place finish in the women's 200 medley relay as the group of Ali Beay, Tenaya Winter, Julia Saxman and Angie Wyand combined for a time of 1:41.02. The Pioneer men's relay of Quinn Collins, Kito Campbell, Hamish McLellan and Matija Pantic turned in a time of 1:28.08 en-route to a sixth-place finish.
 
After recording the eighth-fastest time in program history on Friday morning, Julia Saxman shaved 0.07 seconds off her time in the 100 fly on Friday night to move up to seventh in Denver's Division I history with a 53.69 to ultimately take 10^th in the event.
 
Fresh off his school record this morning, Hamish McLellan reached the men's 100 fly final wall in 46.97 on Friday night, 0.05 seconds slower than his school-record time in the prelims, but he did move up two spots to sixth on the timing board Friday to earn quality points for the Denver men.
 
Sabrina Rachjaibun improved on her prelim time by exactly a second on Friday to take seventh in the 400 IM. Samantha Synsvoll picked up two spots off her prelims finish this morning to take 12^th with a 4:21.63. Mina Ada Solaker finished 14^th in 4:22.99 and Lilly Zippel was scored 15^th in a time of 4:26.63.
 
Denver had three men's swimmers in the 400 IM on Friday. Nico Morton led the trio, dropping 1.3 seconds off his prelims time to turn in a 3:52.80 and take 10^th. Gabe Jones grabbed 13^th in 3:55.58 and Cota Clise finished 15^th in 3:58.47.
 
Back to freestyle, Izzy Burton finished 16^th in the 200 on Friday night in 1:51.45, while on the men's side Pierce Bickerton took 11^th in 1:38.00 and Dylan Mes finished 13^th with a time of 1:38.38.
 
Peyton Mullowney led Denver's two swimmers in the 100 breast finals on Friday, reaching the wall in 12^th in the event with a 1:03.92. Zoe Lynch also improved on her prelims time from this morning, taking 16^th in 1:05.95.
 
After turning in the second-fastest time in program history on Friday morning, junior Kito Campbell was just 0.04 slower on Friday night, keeping his fifth-place qualifying spot in the finals with a 52.95. Sam Baker finished 15^th in 58.66 and Thomas Truter took 16^th in 59.20.
 
Beay swam in the women's 100 back A-Final, taking eighth in 54.71 in the Friday night session. Darian Koler improved a spot from the morning, finishing 15^th with a time of 55.73.
 
Collins and Liam Simmons finished 13^th and 14^th in the men's 100 back, finishing in times of 48.81 and 48.89, respectively.
 
The swimming portion of Friday ended with the 800 free relay. DU's men finished third when Mes, Bickerton, Kurt Owens and Pantic turned in a 6:38.44.
 
In diving, Dakotah Parker backed up his NCAA Zone Cut on Friday morning with a sixth-place finish in the 1-meter finals, scoring 292.25. Trip Gregory took seventh with a score of 287.60.
 
MINNESOTA INVITE REMAINING SCHEDULE:
Saturday, December 6
Swimming Prelims 9 a.m. MT/Diving Prelims 11 a.m. MT/Swimming and Diving Finals 4 p.m. MT
1650 Free (1 session)
200 Back
100 Free
200 Breast
200 Fly
400 Free Relay (Finals Only)
Platform Diving
 
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