Women's Swimming | 11/18/2025 11:09:00 AM

Utah Tech swimming continues the fall portion of its 2025-26 competition schedule this week by hosting the Fifth-Annual Trailblazer Invitational at the HPC Pool. This week's Invitational is the first of three-straight home meets the Trailblazers will host this season. 
 
Day one of the meet on Wednesday night will feature four relay race events starting at 7 p.m. (MT). Meanwhile the final three days of competition (Thursday-through-Saturday) will begin with each day with morning preliminary sessions at 10 a.m. (MT), followed by evening finals sessions at 5 p.m. (MT).
 
The Trailblazers will swim against fellow WAC foe California Baptist, along with teams from UC Davis, UC San Diego, Fresno State, Pacific and San Diego. In addition, CBU, UCSD and Pacific will compete in a three-team men's meet.
 
COACHING STAFF: Utah Tech alumnus Shawn King is in his third season as head coach of the Trailblazer program. 
            Last season, King led the Trailblazers to a seventh place finish at the final Western Athletic Conference championships. His team also combined to break four school records and post several more top-10 all-time program marks. 
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 2024-25 CSCAA Division I Scholar All-America honors with a cumulative 3.62 GPA.
Coach King is joined poolside by third-year assistant coach Colby Clark.
 
NEW SEASON = NEW CONFERENCE: After competing in the WAC since transitioning to NCAA Division I status in the 2020-21 season, Utah Tech will compete under a new conference banner this season.
            The Trailblazer program is now an affiliate member of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF). Utah Tech joins six other former WAC programs in the new league this season, including California Baptist, Idaho, New Mexico State, Northern Arizona, Northern Colorado and UTRGV. 

TRAILBLAZERS IN THE MPSF: Utah Tech owns several top-25 MPSF individual marks after the first week of the 2025-26 regular season.
50 Free
19. Gabby Henry – 24.00 (Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l) 
 
100 Free
22. Cera Mallory – 52.41 (at New Mexico State/New Mexico Tri-Meet)
 
200 Free
17. Cera Mallory – 1:53.35 (Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
23. Natalia Zmierczak – 1:54.98 (at New Mexico State/New Mexico Tri-Meet)
 
500 Free
12. Cera Mallory – 5:04.34 (Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
 
1,000 Free
9.  Cera Mallory – 10:26.19 (at New Mexico State/New Mexico Tri-Meet)

1,650 Free
N/A
 
50 Back
9. Makaela Perea – 26.68 (Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
 
100 Back
22. Mary Sims Cross – 58.04 (Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)

200 Back
11. Kate Reichner – 2:04.97 (Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
18. Makaela Perea – 2:06.49 (Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
 
50 Breast
N/A
 
100 Breast
24. Reagan Patterson – 1:06.07 (at New Mexico State/New Mexico Tri-Meet)
 
200 Breast
10. Cera Mallory – 2:21.06 (at New Mexico State/New Mexico Tri-Meet)
24. Alyssa Gordon – 2:24.76 (Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
 
50 Fly
N/A
 
100 Fly
24. Gabby Henry – 57.90 (at New Mexico State/New Mexico Tri-Meet)  
 
200 Fly
23. Kate Reichner – 2:09.85 (at New Mexico State/New Mexico Tri-Meet)
 
100 IM
N/A

200 IM
N/A
 
400 IM
12. Alyssa Gordon – 4:35.93 (Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
13. Kate Reichner – 4:35.96 (Pepperdine Rodionoff Inv'l)
 
NEXT UP FOR THE TRAILBLAZERS: Utah Tech returns to action this upcoming Dec. 12-13, with a two-day home dual meet vs. Northern Arizona.