UCLA Swims Past Denver in Final Home Dual of Season

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The UCLA swim dive and team clinched a win over Denver in its final home dual meet of the season on Saturday morning at Spieker Aquatics Center.

The Bruins (6-0) won all 14 races in the rain-drenched meet, bringing the swim-only score to 156-98. The final score will be adjusted based on the results of this weekend’s Bruin Diving Invitational.

Eleven different UCLA swimmers logged individual wins, led by sophomore Paige MacEachern who had a meet-best two victories (200 fly, 500 free).

The senior quartet of Sophia Kosturos, Claire Grover, Gabby Dang, and Rachel Rhee teamed up to deliver a pair of relay wins for the Bruins, and each logged one individual win as well.
UCLA opened the dual with a demonstrative win in the 400 medley relay, with the seniors combining to post a time of 3:42.96, over six seconds faster than the field.

Freshman Katrina Bellio followed that up with a dominant showing in the first individual race of the day, the 1000 free. Bellio went a best time of 9:45.62, and was the lone swimmer to beat the 10-minute mark.

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Next up was the 200 free, which saw Rhee (1:50.89) and sophomore Gizem Guvenc (1:51.04) battled it out to finish 1-2.

Sophomore Eva Carlson (1:02.89 in the 100 breast) and MacEachern (2:02.94 in the 200 fly) followed with solid wins of their own, and Grover (22.93) closed the first half of the meet by out-sprinting the field in the 50 free.

On the re-start, senior Brooke Schaffer (51.48) kept it going for UCLA with a win in the 100 free, edging out Guvenc (51.51).

Freshman Rosie Murphy (1:59.51) followed that by ending up as the lone swimmer to break two minutes in the 200 back. Sophomore Ana Jif-Schiff had a similarly-wide victory in the 200 breast (2:15.75), beating out the field by three-plus seconds.

MacEachern completed her double with a solid performance in the 500 free (5:00.05), earning her first win in that event this season. Dang (54.76 in the 100 fly) and Kolessar (4:27.21 in the 400 IM) brought home wins in the final two individual races of the day, before the seniors went 1:32.39 in the 200 free relay to close out the meet.

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