PUEBLO, Colo. Western Colorado swimming and diving put on a dominating performance Saturday at the Colorado State University Pueblo Quad meet, sweeping three duals by commanding scores as well as setting a pool record in the opening event.

The Mountaineers downed the host ThunderWolves by a score of 194-43, defeated Southwest Minnesota State, 187-53, and overwhelmed Adams State, 219-18.

The meet was seeded as with an invitational – all together, seeded heats slowest to fastest – with the results separated afterward into dual-meet competitions.

THE ESSENTIALS
Event: CSU Pueblo Quad Meet
Location: Sam Jones Aquatic Center, Pueblo, Colo.
Final scores: Western def. CSU Pueblo, 194-43; Western def. SW Minn. State, 187-53; Western def. Adams State, 219-18

HOW IT HAPPENED

• The Mountaineers in the first event gave the competition a hint of what was to come all afternoon. The quartet of Courtney Coplan (backstroke), Addison O'Donnell (breaststroke), Abigail Yalcin (butterfly) and Makenna Lambert (freestyle) posted a Sam Jones Aquatic Center record time of 4 minutes, 8.07 seconds in winning the 400-yard medley relay. The previous mark was 4:12.54, set by Colorado School of Mines in 2010.
• The depth of the Western roster also shone through in the event as the second-place foursome of Tayla Liddle, Trinity Caudle, Anna Maurello and Jordan Maruska were just 0.24 seconds off what had previously been the pool record.
• Of the seven individual events captured by a Mountaineer swimmer, two provided 1-2-3 sweeps. Yalcin won the 200 individual medley (2:14.59) followed at the pads by Grace Humbert (2:17.13) then LynDea Turner (2:19.78), and Yalcin (1:00.32) later led the sweep in the 100 butterfly as Maurello (1:04.03) and AvaMarie Hopewell (1:04.38) were second and third.
• Two events saw 1-2 finishes by Western, beginning with the 100 breaststroke, in which Addison O'Donnell (1:10.33) and Trinity Caudle (1:11.71) raced to the top spots. The other was in the 500 freestyle with Hopewell (5:29.65) leading Turner (5:33.63) to the pads.
• Joining Yalcin as a double-event winner was Lambert, who won both the 50 (25.12) and 100 (55.62) freestyle races. And like Yalcin, Lambert was also on the record-setting medley relay as well as Western's second place 400 free relay that closed out the meet schedule.
• The Mountaineers added a first place, and more, in the 1-meter diving event as freshman Alexandra Wallis won the event with a score of 211.00. Teammates Meredith Clabaugh (203.30) and Taylor Grebe (146.00) placed third and fourth, respectively.
• Other Mountaineer highlights were provided by Liddle's four second-place finishes (400 medley relay, 400 free relay, 200 and 1,000 freestyles), and Maruska (second in both relays, third in the 1,000 and fourth in the 200 free).

LOOKING AHEAD
The Mountaineers travel to Albuquerque, N.M., for a double-dual Friday, October 21 against host University of New Mexico and CSU Pueblo.