GUNNISON, Colo.  Saturday brings Western Colorado swimming & diving its final regular-season meet on the schedule, hosting Adams State University for the Mountaineer program's Senior Recognition Meet and SAAC-sponsored Pack the House event.

The meet schedule includes a 1-meter diving session of the six optional dives at 10 a.m., team warmups to follow, Western's senior recognition beginning at noon with the remainder of the event schedule (which includes the 1M ,5 voluntary dives event) beginning immediately afterward.

The Mountaineers will honor Trinity Caudle, Makenna Lambert and Miranda Noonan in the Senior Recognition ceremony.

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• The Mountaineers are coming off a resounding team title at the Colorado College Classic last weekend. Western concluded the first session of the three-day meet with the lead over the host Tigers, then piled on points over the next two day to earn the team title with 1,259.5 points, ahead of Colorado College's 946 runner-up point total.
• Western's LynDea Turner earned the Classic's high-point award, scoring a total of 74 points after winning the 100- and 200-yard backstroke events, finishing second in the 200 and 400 individual medley events, and leading off the winning 200- and 400-medley relays.
• The Mountaineers' dominance at the meet was displayed on the high-point list as Western swimmers earned the first eight spots on the list, along with the 10th-place position.
• Two other Western swimmers coming away with four first-place finishes were Joanna Swiderska and Leah Wagner. Swiderska won the 100 and 200 butterfly events and was on the medley relays with Turner. Wagner won the 200 and 400 IMs and the 200 breaststroke and swam on the winning 200 medley relay.
• Swiderska's 72 points and Wagner's 69 points trailed only Turner on the high-point list.
• The Adams State meet is the final tune-up opportunity for the program as it readies for the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference championship meet in Grand Junction, Colo., on Feb. 11-15.

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• The Grizzlies visit Paul Wright Natatorium with a season record of 1-5 in duals. Early in the season they finished third in the two-day Coaches Classic, and more recently finished seventh at the Warrior (Midland Univ.) Invitational — won by the Mountaineers — and fourth at the Colorado College Classic.
• ASU's top swimmer at the Colorado College Classic was Emily Markle, who was ninth in the individual high-point standings with 59 points. Markle was third in the 200 breaststroke, fourth in the 100 breaststroke, and fifth in both the 200 and 400 IMs.
• Teammate Jocelyn Jones also added points from championship heats at the Classic, placing seventh in the 50 free and eighth in the 200 free.
• The Grizzlies won the first six duals with Western, beginning with the 2012-13 season, but Western won the first meeting between the two programs in the 2015-16 season and have added 19 more victories to that initial win in Alamosa, Colo.

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Western will compete in the RMAC championship meet in February, hosted by Colorado Mesa University at the El Pomar Natatorium.