Women's Swimming | 11/20/2024 8:00:00 AM

Utah Tech Swimming continues the fall portion of its 2024-25 competition schedule this weekend by hosting the Fourth-Annual Trailblazer Invitational.
 
The three-day meet will be held this Thursday-through-Saturday at the Utah Tech HPC Pool. The meet will begin each day with morning preliminary sessions at 10 a.m., followed by evening finals sessions at 5 p.m. 
 
The Trailblazers will swim against fellow WAC foes California Baptist and Northern Colorado, along with teams from UC Davis, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, CSU Bakersfield, Fresno State, Pacific, Pepperdine and San Diego. In addition, CBU, UCD, UCSB, CSUB and Pacific will compete in a five-team men's meet.
  
COACHING STAFF: Utah Tech alumnus Shawn King is in his second season as head coach of the Trailblazer program.   
        In his first season poolside at Utah Tech, he guided the team to its second fastest season in school history, breaking seven school records, while collecting three All-WAC honors. In addition, the Trailblazers combined to post 75% life best times in competed events during the season.
Utah Tech also performed in the classroom, as the team earned CSCAA Division I Scholar All-America honors with a cumulative 3.79 GPA.
        Coach King is joined poolside by second-year assistant coach Colby Clark.

TRAILBLAZERS IN THE WAC: Utah Tech owns several top-25 WAC individual marks heading into the final three meets of the regular season.
50 Free
26. Mandy Farnum – 24.58 (at Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
 
100 Free
T17. Cera Mallory – 52.60 (at Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
23. Mandy Farnum – 53.01 (at Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
 
200 Free
21. Cera Mallory – 1:55.37 (at Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
 
500 Free
8. Cera Mallory – 5:03.26 (at Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
T23. Kaiya Lawson – 5:18.42 (at Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
 
1,000 Free
7. Cera Mallory – 10:19.76 (at Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
23. Kaiya Lawson – 10:59.67 (at Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
24. Jenna Tracy – 11:05.85 (at Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
 
1,650 Free
N/A
 
50 Back
20. Dani Cannon – 27.76 (at Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
21. Mary Sims Cross – 27.81 (at Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
 
100 Back
13. Mary Sims Cross – 57.85 (at Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
21. Dani Cannon – 59.02 (at Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
 
200 Back
8. Mary Sims Cross – 2:05.05 (at Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
24. Dani Cannon – 2:08.78 (at Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
 
50 Breast
25. Yara Olsen – 31.64 (at Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
 
100 Breast
19. Grace Benson – 1:06.76 (at Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
20. Yara Olsen – 1:06.93 (at Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
 
200 Breast
19. Alyssa Gordon – 2:24.76 (at Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
21. Yara Olsen – 2:25.48 (at Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
 
50 Fly
23. Gabby Henry – 27.16 (at Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
 
100 Fly
16. Gabby Henry – 57.54 (at Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
23. Mandy Farnum – 58.57 (at Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
 
200 Fly
11. Gabby Henry – 2:07.74 (at Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
17. Kam Swanson – 2:09.61 (at Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
 
200 IM
8. Allie Hayes – 2:09.90 (at Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
14. Jordan Musselman – 2:10.67 (at Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
 
400 IM
13. Alyssa Gordon – 4:34.97 (at Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
25. Kaiya Lawson – 4:42.92 (at Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
 
NEXT UP FOR THE TRAILBLAZERS: Utah Tech returns to action this upcoming Dec. 6-7, with a two-day dual meet at Northern Arizona.