Women's Swimming | 2/26/2023 12:06:00 AM

Utah Tech closed out its history making run at the 2023 Western Athletic Conference Swimming Championships with one more gold medal and three total medals on the final day of competition on Saturday at the City of Pfarr Natatorium in Pfarr, Texas.
 
The Trailblazers wound up with 10 total medals over the four days of competition, which included four gold medals, far and away the highest medal total in program history. That medal haul, along with several more top-10 individual and relay finishes, led to a fourth-place team finish, which is the best showing for the Trailblazers in their three seasons in the WAC. 

Northern Arizona won its 10^th-straight women's conference championship with 835 points, followed by runner-up Grand Canyon (605 pts), Northern Colorado (493) in third, and Utah Tech with 462 points. 
 
Junior Pia Murray wrapped up her historic conference championship appearance with her third individual gold medal, and her fourth gold overall, after she won the 200-yard backstroke with a school record and NCAA D-I "B" cut time of 1:54.96.
 
Murray swept both backstroke conference titles, winning the 100 back along with 100 butterfly, and swam a leg on UT's gold medal winning 400 medley relay on Friday night. 
 
Sophomore Ally Boynton, who claimed silver behind Murray in Friday's 100 back final, won her second individual silver medal with a runner-up finish in the 200 back with a D-I "B" cut time of 1:55.98 (#2 all-time at UT). 
 
The Trailblazers then closed their stellar weekend with a bronze medal in the 400 freestyle relay with a school record time of 3:22-33. Freshman Ikea Losey covered the first 100 yards in 50.72 (#5 all-time at UT), while Boynton, Murray and freshman Natalia Zmierczak closed out the race to clinch the Blazers' 10^th and final medal. 
 
Along with the medal performances, there were several other top individual final results posted on the final night. Freshman Reese Hazan finished missed the podium with a fourth place showing in the 200 butterfly at 2:00.16 (#4 all-time at UT), this after she posted the top preliminary time earlier in the day with a school record and D-I "B" cut 1:59.03.
 
Before she won bronze in the relay, Losey clocked a school record in the 100 free final with a fifth-place 50.28, while junior Skyler Lyon placed sixth in the 200 breast (2:17.69; #6 all-time at UT), and freshman Lily Magda recorded the second-fastest 1,650 free time in program history with a 17:09.02 to finish eighth overall.