KEARNEY, Neb.  A school record by diver Chloe Brown on the 3-meter board was just one of seven first-places racked up by Western Colorado swimming & diving on Saturday as it swept the weekend with a victory at the University of Nebraska Kearney Sprint Meet.

The Mountaineers also swam to the title at Friday's UNK Distance Meet.

JUST THE FACTS
Event: UNK Sprint Meet
Location: Kearney HS Pool, Kearney, Neb.
Team scores: 1 – Western Colorado (829 pts.), 2 – Neb.-Kearney (568), 3 – CSU Pueblo (329), 4 – Barton (Kan.) CC (115)

HOW IT HAPPENED

• Saturday's Sprint Meet was a prelim/finals competition, with timed finals of the 200-yard medley and freestyle relays in the morning preliminaries session, along with the 11-dive 3-meter competition.
• Western took second in both relays, edged out by a UNK squad by 4/10th of a second in the medley relay and just 17/100ths of a second in the free relay.
• In the morning's diving competition, Brown led a 1-2-3 finish – again, as the Mountaineer trio of Brown, Alexandra Wallis and Ashlynn Mixon also did the same Friday on the 1-m board – by scoring 458.55 points for her 11 dives, smashing the previous school record (387.00) and posting a score that surpasses one of the standards for the NCAA Division II Pre-Qualification Diving Meet.
• Wallis was second with a personal best 423.85 points, also surpassing the pre-qualification meet standard, and Mixon posted a personal best score of 318.10 to take third place.
• Makenna Lambert won the 200 freestyle in a time of 1 minute, 57.93 seconds, and later in the finals placed second in the 100 free (53.59) and second in the 50 free (25.36) seconds.
• Riley Taylor also earned first- and second-place finishes in the finals session, winning the 100 backstroke (1:00.11) and placing second in the 100 butterfly (1:00.94).
• The winner of that butterfly race, Joanna Swiderska (59.19), joined Lambert on the podium for the 50 free, placing third with a time of 25.50.
• Morgan Nielsen made it a 1-2 finish early in the finals with her second-place time of 2:00.17 in the 200 free, then at the end of the session captured first in the 500 free (5:22.87).
• Leah Wagner added to the Western points haul with a first place in the 200 individual medley (2:13.32), and a third place in the 100 breaststroke (1:09.56) immediately after placing fourth in the 100 back (1:03.26).
• Leading a 1-2-3 finish in the breaststroke event was Ella Fries (1:08.73) who touched out Trinity Caudle (1:09.30) in second place.

UP NEXT
The swimmers and divers will return to action on December 5-7 at the Warrior Invitational in Fremont, Neb., hosted by Midlands University.