Women's Swimming | 10/3/2026 3:40:00 PM

Utah Tech put together a solid start to its 2026-27 season with a fourth place team finish at the Colorado Mesa Intermountain Shootout, which concluded on Saturday at the El Pomar Natatorium in Grand Junction.
 
The Trailblazers, who posted five top-10 individual event finishes during Friday's opening session, doubled that effort with 10 top-10s on Saturday. 
 
Five of those top showings came in a pair of sprint events, beginning with the 50-meter breaststroke, where junior Jenna Tracy recorded the fifth-fastest time in program history with a sixth-place 30.49. 
 
Sophomore Madeleine McGaughy followed closely in seventh in 30.52, which was the seventh-fastest time in school history. The sophomore also came away with a ninth-place showing in the 100 butterfly (57.87 – AA).
 
In the 50 butterfly, sophomore Kiana Hugins swam the fourth-fastest time in school history at 25.62 to place fourth, while fellow sophomore Marta Valkovska (26.20 - #9 all-time at Utah Tech) and freshman Alyssa Soderquist (26.32) placed ninth and tenth, respectively.
 
Junior Alyssa Gordon accounted for two more top-10s, placing eighth-overall in both the 500 free (5:04.57 – altitude adjusted) and the 200 breast (2:21.38 – AA). 
 
Meanwhile, senior Cera Mallory posted her third top-10 on the weekend with a sixth-place finish in the 200 breast (2:19.02 – AA). 
 
Fellow senior Mary Sims Cross also recorded multiple top-10s at the meet as she took fifth in the 200 backstroke at 2:03.35 – AA). 

In addition, the Trailblazer bookended the final day with top-10s in a pair of relay races. Utah Tech began the day with a third place finish in the 200 medley relay, with the team of Cross, Tracy, Hugins and senior Sorina Rom clocking a time of 1:45.30. 
 
Then in the final race of the meet, the 400 free relay, the team of Mallory, junior Nia Turagavou, Rom and McGaughy touched the wall in third place at 3:29.57 (AA).  

Utah Tech will return to action next weekend at the Pepperdine Rodionoff Invitational.