Women's Swimming | 1/24/2025 9:23:00 PM

Utah Tech combined to break five school records during the first session of its two-day home WAC dual meet against Northern Arizona on Friday evening at the HPC Pool.
 
Night one featured six relays races, four of which were won by the Trailblazers as they outscored the Lumberjacks by a 48-46 count.
 
Utah Tech got the night started on a winning note with a victory in the 800-yard freestyle relay as the team Cera Mallory, Natalia Zmierczak, Kaiya Lawson and Paulina Sansores clocked the second-fastest time in school history at 7:29.75. 
 
Mallory got off the blocks in a flash and posted the program's seventh-fastest 200 free time with an opening leg 1:51.04.
 
The five other relay races the Blazers competed on Friday night had not been swam by the a Utah Tech team since 2018. 
 
The first of which, the 4x100 individual medley relay, ended with the Utah Tech "A" team being disqualified, but not before Grace Benson broke her own 100 IM school record with an opening leg time of 56.96. Benson's time also broke the school's HPC pool record in that event. 
 
Utah Tech bounced back to win the 300 back relay, as the team of Allie Hayes, Dani Cannon and Mary Sims Cross shattered the school record by over 13 seconds with a time of 2:48.41.
 
Then in the 300 breaststroke relay, the trio of Yara Olsen, Benson and Alyssa Gordon bettered the previous school record by over 17 seconds with a second-place time of 3:13.29.
 
The Trailblazers went on to win the final two races of the night in record-breaking fashion, including the 300 butterfly relay, in which Abby Hill, Gabby Henry and Mandy Farnum bested the previous school record by nearly 15 seconds with a time of 2:49.42.

Utah Tech went on to close the night with a victory in the 500 free relay as the team of Farnum, Henry, Zmierczak and Mallory combined for a record time of 4:26.39, nearly 20 seconds faster than the previous school standard.
 
In addition, the Trailblazer "B" team of Zofia Gorska, Sorina Rom, Lawson and Jenna Tracy posted the second-fastest time in that event in program history with a fourth-place 4:39.28.
 
Utah Tech will close out its 2024-25 home slate with the final day of its dual with NAU on Saturday morning beginning at 11 a.m. (MT).