PROVO -- The BYU men's and women's swimming and diving teams opened the season with a sweep of instate and conference rival University of Utah Friday night.
The men won all 13 events to beat the Ute squad 157-78, while the women recorded wins in eight of 13 events to win by a 137-106 margin.
The men's team had a solid performance by the entire team. Senior All-American Arunas Savickas won the 200 free, and helped the 400 medley relay team and the 400 free relay team to first place finishes. Teammate Gary Tan dominated in winning both the 200 IM and the 200 back, as well as swimming on the 400 medley relay team with Savickas. Freshman Terrence Lim won two events in his first ever swim meet at BYU. Lim won the 1000 and the 500 free.
"Our guys swam really well," said BYU men's coach Tim Powers. "Utah really competed well. They kept their chins up and battled the entire meet."
Other multiple winners on the men's side included Billy Betz and Mike Mullen. Betz won the 100 free and was on the winning 400 free relay team. Mullen won the 50 free and was on the winning 400 medley relay and 400 free relay.
The women's team was led by Heidi Lietz and high school All-American Tamber Covington. Covington won both the 200 IM and the 200 breast in her first ever meed for BYU. Covington's time of 2:17.65 is a new pool and school-altitude record. Lietz helped the women's team by winning both the 50 and 100 free. She also swam on the winning 400 medley relay team.
"We swam well--we had to, to win," said BYU women's coach Stan Crump. "We were a little deeper than they were and we've trained really hard. Utah is a much improved team though."
On the other end of the pool, sophomore Kelli Einfeldt won both the 1M and 3M diving events. On the men's side, All-Americans Justin Wilcock and Aaron Russell led the Cougar divers. Wilcock won the 1M and Russell won the 3M and finished second on the 1M.
Both squads travel to Irvine, Calif., next week to participate in the Big West Shootout Nov. 3-4.
Event 1 Women 400 Yard Medley RelayTeam Relay Finals Time
1 BYU A 3:56.05
Adkinson, Tina Tasker, Jennifer
Lietz, Heidi Thompson, Amy
28.95 31.37 30.16 34.81
26.84 30.88 25.33 27.71
2 UU A 3:57.87
Hausknecht, Heidi Chamberlain, Melissa
Blundell, Erin Norton, Sarah
28.35 30.86 32.50 36.74
26.04 31.46 24.19 27.73
3 BYU B 3:58.07
Thompson, Melissa Covington, Tamber
Ferrell, Monica Grant, Amanda
29.35 30.98 30.62 34.38
27.41 31.85 25.37 28.11
4 BYU C x4:04.16
McClellan, Amy Tadlock, Nikki
Juvan, Lyndi Busby, Melissa
29.78 30.84 30.80 35.54
27.60 33.80 25.79 30.01
5 UU B 4:13.34
Nye, Amber Roth, Gretta
Robinson, Callie Fowler, Lori
29.87 31.85 32.53 37.77
29.37 34.95 26.26 30.74
6 BYU D x4:19.50
Collins, Nancy Lambert, Jamie
Jensen, Rachel Oles, Sonrisa
31.39 32.39 32.58 37.19
30.91 37.56 27.00 30.48
Event 2 Men 400 Yard Medley Relay
Team Relay Finals Time
1 BYU A 3:25.09
Savickas, Arunas Tobler, Nick
Tan, Gary Mullen, Mike
2 BYU B 3:31.92
Johnson, Chris Mullen, Ryan
Smith, C.Farr Buys, Michael
3 UU A 3:36.26
Bray, Brendon Johnson, Curt
Allen, Tom Durrant, Brandon
Event 3 Women 1000 Yard Free
Name Team Finals Time
1 Kaiser, Kristen UU 10:29.09
28.40 30.20 30.94 31.34
31.25 31.49 31.45 31.67
31.72 31.83 31.83 31.92
31.97 31.99 32.08 32.00
32.10 31.95 31.89 31.07
2 Walker, Melissa UU 10:41.63
29.31 30.95 31.22 31.70
32.26 32.26 32.42 32.46
32.27 32.48 32.52 32.47
32.51 32.21 32.75 32.49
32.66 32.48 32.59 31.62
3 Jensen, Codi BYU 11:04.16
29.46 31.89 32.51 32.87
33.14 33.36 33.70 33.67
33.61 33.58 33.90 33.93
34.46 33.90 33.42 33.35
33.70 33.89 33.13 32.69
4 Bennett, Dallas BYU 11:11.01
31.09 32.91 33.27 33.92
33.72 33.34 33.40 33.52
34.10 33.70 34.08 33.90
33.90 33.75 34.00 33.65
34.04 33.75 33.73 33.24
5 Lewis, Kimberly UU 11:13.99
29.94 32.55 33.23 33.17
33.72 33.88 34.09 34.25
34.39 34.00 34.12 34.01
33.99 34.30 34.14 34.12
34.19 34.18 34.28 33.44
6 Koenen, Rachelle BYU 11:27.15
29.75 32.45 33.04 33.81
34.09 34.38 34.50 35.02
34.92 34.29 34.80 35.20
34.70 35.27 35.22 35.37
35.35 35.25 35.12 34.62
7 Egan, Kristi BYU x11:46.62
31.75 33.83 34.45 34.99
34.95 34.91 35.05 35.56
35.65 35.90 35.88 35.70
36.45 36.59 36.45 36.47
36.01 35.76 35.82 34.45
Event 4 Men 1000 Yard Free
Name Team Finals Time
1 Lim, Terrence BYU 9:52.63
26.52 29.04 29.57 29.34
29.30 29.74 29.95 30.00
30.12 30.24 30.30 29.95
30.01 30.20 30.29 30.18
30.12 30.43 29.79 27.54
2 Ayres, Ryan BYU 9:58.48
25.83 29.39 30.03 29.69
29.85 30.12 30.01 29.87
30.14 30.11 29.52 30.16
30.33 30.40 30.84 30.52
30.47 30.74 30.82 29.64
3 Armstrong, Christian BYU 10:07.15
27.02 29.19 29.73 30.29
30.51 30.33 30.48 30.15
30.50 30.81 30.60 30.87
30.97 30.86 30.78 30.82
31.17 31.01 31.23 29.83
4 Lofgren, Magnus UU 10:14.40
26.23 29.07 29.72 29.93
29.61 29.86 30.46 30.64
30.47 31.23 31.45 31.69
32.19 32.03 32.04 31.97
31.95 32.31 31.58 29.97
5 Fishburn, Brian UU 10:26.34
27.92 30.30 30.94 31.18
30.84 31.37 31.27 31.27
31.49 31.56 31.82 31.81
31.97 32.14 32.31 31.89
32.07 31.70 31.88 30.61
Event 5 Women 200 Yard Free
Name Team Finals Time
1 Blundell, Erin UU 1:56.60
28.14 29.01 29.36 30.09
2 Thompson, Amy BYU 1:57.91
28.16 30.27 30.05 29.43
3 Rumfallo, Ashlee BYU 1:58.35
27.45 30.14 30.98 29.78
4 Ferrell, Monica BYU 1:58.38
28.28 29.84 30.38 29.88
5 Wayman, Jamie UU 2:01.61
28.17 30.61 31.04 31.79
6 Gerber, Rebecca UU 2:05.08
28.53 31.42 32.37 32.76
7 Collins, Nancy BYU x2:05.97
29.57 32.30 32.30 31.80
Event 6 Men 200 Yard Free
Name Team Finals Time
1 Savickas, Arunas BYU 1:40.06
23.79 25.51 25.40 25.36
2 Mason, Jeff BYU 1:43.53
24.04 26.25 26.78 26.46
3 Johnson, Chris BYU 1:46.45
24.84 26.79 27.37 27.45
4 Allen, Tom UU 1:49.35
25.47 27.70 28.39 27.79
5 Durrant, Brandon UU 1:49.37
24.97 27.63 28.48 28.29
Event 7 Women 50 Yard Free
Name Team Finals Time
1 Lietz, Heidi BYU 24.19
2 Hausknecht, Heidi UU 24.26
3 Norton, Sarah UU 24.37
4 Statkeviciute, Neringa UU 25.12
5 Tadlock, Nikki BYU 25.21
6 Predium, Laura BYU 25.47
7 Jensen, Rachel BYU x25.51
8 Fowler, Lori UU x25.89
--- Busby, Melissa BYU X
--- Oles, Sonrisa BYU X25.82
Event 8 Men 50 Yard Free
Name Team Finals Time
1 Mullen, Mike BYU 21.15
2 Betz, Billy BYU 21.25
3 Costello, Rob BYU 21.89
4 Larson, David BYU x21.93
5 Shino, Trent UU 22.74
6 Allen, Keric UU 22.97
Event 9 Women 200 Yard IM
Name Team Finals Time
1 Covington, Tamber BYU 2:09.52
29.19 33.80 35.54 30.99
2 Adkinson, Tina BYU 2:12.07
28.56 33.69 39.08 30.74
3 Grant, Amanda BYU 2:13.32
28.86 36.30 36.62 31.54
4 Mason, Rachel BYU x2:14.08
28.87 33.09 38.91 33.21
5 Chamberlain, Melissa UU 2:15.19
30.04 36.96 37.69 30.50
6 Randall, Laura UU 2:24.65
32.82 37.76 40.02 34.05
Event 10 Men 200 Yard IM
Name Team Finals Time
1 Tan, Gary BYU 1:52.25
23.80 27.83 33.90 26.72
2 Denke, Alexander BYU 1:56.92
24.84 30.24 34.51 27.33
3 Fleisch, David UU 1:58.98
25.08 29.01 36.44 28.45
4 Johnson, Curt UU 1:59.45
25.97 34.07 32.80 26.61
5 Johnston, Josh BYU 2:01.14
26.18 29.89 36.98 28.09
6 Godfrey, Daniel UU 2:01.18
26.21 31.19 35.88 27.90
7 Schimmer, Travis UU x2:03.80
26.71 32.54 35.45 29.10
8 Tobler, Nathan BYU x2:04.20
25.82 32.14 36.30 29.94
Event 11 Women 1 mtr Diving
Name Team Finals Score
1 Einfeldt, Kelli BYU 163.90
2 Routsong, Rachelle BYU 145.50
3 Comins, Jill UU 139.50
4 Fleming, Erica UU 138.80
5 Dahl, Tessa BYU 130.10
6 Cropper, Aubrie BYU x126.55
--- Bogner, Laurel BYU X70.50
--- Clark, Tessa BYU X126.85
--- Laurel, Jackie BYU X139.25
Event 12 Men 1 mtr Diving
Name Team Finals Score
1 Wilcock, Justin BYU 193.50
2 Russell, Aaron BYU 190.45
3 Richards, Sterling UU 185.90
4 Patil, Viraj BYU 183.30
5 Brown, Trent UU 174.35
6 Thompson, James UU 136.40
Event 13 Women 200 Yard Fly
Name Team Finals Time
1 Blundell, Erin UU 2:08.44
28.24 31.17 33.19 35.84
2 Kaiser, Kristen UU 2:09.51
29.51 32.56 33.27 34.17
3 Ferrell, Monica BYU 2:11.81
28.97 32.86 33.91 36.07
4 Teerlink, Jennifer BYU 2:18.72
29.89 33.48 36.29 39.06
5 Juvan, Lyndi BYU 2:18.94
28.84 34.38 36.63 39.09
Event 14 Men 200 Yard Fly
Name Team Finals Time
1 Johnston, Josh BYU 1:58.41
27.27 30.86 30.15 30.13
2 Allen, Tom UU 1:58.50
27.28 29.98 31.17 30.07
3 Allen, Keric UU 2:03.00
27.33 31.17 32.16 32.34
4 Linford, Joe UU 2:03.73
26.20 29.89 32.07 35.57
--- Morris, Rob BYU X2:00.69
27.20 30.55 31.20 31.74
--- Tobler, Nathan BYU X2:01.09
27.01 31.06 31.69 31.33
Event 15 Women 100 Yard Free
Name Team Finals Time
1 Lietz, Heidi BYU 52.51
25.24 27.27
2 Norton, Sarah UU 53.47
25.82 27.65
3 Statkeviciute, Neringa UU 55.08
26.46 28.62
4 Tadlock, Nikki BYU 55.76
26.82 28.94
5 Predium, Laura BYU 55.81
26.87 28.94
6 Busby, Melissa BYU x55.98
26.80 29.18
7 Wayman, Jamie UU 56.38
27.35 29.03
8 Fowler, Lori UU x57.33
27.25 30.08
Event 16 Men 100 Yard Free
Name Team Finals Time
1 Betz, Billy BYU 46.56
22.35 24.21
2 Durrant, Brandon UU 48.79
23.47 25.32
3 Godfrey, Daniel UU 50.35
24.11 26.24
--- Mason, Jeff BYU X46.63
22.75 23.88
--- Buys, Michael BYU X47.48
22.88 24.60
--- Larson, David BYU X48.54
23.58 24.96
Event 17 Women 200 Yard Back
Name Team Finals Time
1 McClellan, Amy BYU 2:07.12
30.05 31.79 32.71 32.57
2 Thompson, Melissa BYU 2:09.36
30.77 32.30 33.38 32.91
3 Adkinson, Tina BYU 2:10.38
30.29 32.25 33.61 34.23
4 Nye, Amber UU 2:14.90
32.13 33.90 34.31 34.56
5 Collins, Nancy BYU x2:19.56
33.82 35.36 35.44 34.94
6 Robinson, Callie UU 2:27.10
34.25 36.55 38.13 38.17
Event 18 Men 200 Yard Back
Name Team Finals Time
1 Tan, Gary BYU 1:50.20
25.85 27.80 28.35 28.20
2 Fleisch, David UU 1:57.65
28.17 29.17 30.15 30.16
3 Bray, Brendon UU 1:58.33
27.84 29.70 30.65 30.14
4 Brooks, John UU 2:06.20
29.05 31.29 32.64 33.22
--- Savickas, Arunas BYU X
--- Johnson, Chris BYU X1:57.82
27.85 29.70 30.28 29.99
Event 19 Women 500 Yard Free
Name Team Finals Time
1 Kaiser, Kristen UU 5:10.45
28.48 30.05 31.07 31.36
31.49 31.61 31.67 31.96
31.80 30.96
2 Walker, Melissa UU 5:16.63
28.82 30.77 31.32 31.99
32.08 32.03 32.31 33.01
32.45 31.85
(Event 19 Women 500 Yard Free)
3 Rumfallo, Ashlee BYU 5:23.24
29.93 31.73 32.42 32.64
32.57 32.83 33.11 33.06
33.17 31.78
4 Jensen, Codi BYU 5:25.88
28.97 32.00 32.95 33.14
33.51 33.51 33.70 33.58
32.96 31.56
5 Lewis, Kimberly UU 5:26.92
30.23 33.07 33.20 33.59
33.20 33.13 33.17 33.06
32.72 31.55
6 Bennett, Dallas BYU 5:30.08
30.65 32.48 33.25 33.43
33.38 33.56 33.59 33.19
33.51 33.04
7 Koenen, Rachelle BYU x5:36.56
30.42 32.87 33.47 33.76
34.21 34.14 34.61 34.49
34.58 34.01
Event 20 Men 500 Yard Free
Name Team Finals Time
1 Lim, Terrence BYU 4:46.61
25.88 28.40 28.46 28.87
28.79 29.29 29.49 30.06
29.35 28.02
2 Lofgren, Magnus UU 4:53.24
26.34 28.51 28.85 29.06
29.63 29.84 30.07 31.22
30.37 29.35
3 Fishburn, Brian UU 5:04.49
27.28 29.95 30.80 30.81
31.27 31.21 31.19 31.03
30.92 30.03
4 Thiel, Konrad UU 5:17.30
27.41 30.86 32.13 32.06
33.00 32.36 32.53 32.92
32.53 31.50
--- Ayres, Ryan BYU X4:47.04
25.68 28.72 29.37 29.60
30.10 29.01 29.36 29.27
28.94 26.99
Event 21 Women 3 mtr Diving
Name Team Finals Score
1 Einfeldt, Kelli BYU 165.10
2 Comins, Jill UU 158.00
3 Cropper, Aubrie BYU 146.00
4 Fleming, Erica UU 132.15
5 Routsong, Rachelle BYU 119.15
6 Bogner, Laurel BYU x111.50
7 Dahl, Tessa BYU x107.60
--- Laurel, Jackie BYU X126.45
--- Clark, Tessa BYU X130.15
Event 22 Men 3 mtr Diving
Name Team Finals Score
1 Russell, Aaron BYU 197.25
2 Richards, Sterling UU 175.55
3 Brown, Trent UU 163.90
4 Thompson, James UU 151.65
--- Patil, Viraj BYU X173.05
--- Wilcock, Justin BYU X188.00
Event 23 Women 200 Yard Breast
Name Team Finals Time
1 Covington, Tamber BYU 2:17.65
32.48 34.94 34.96 35.27
2 Grant, Amanda BYU 2:23.24
32.55 36.69 37.42 36.58
3 Tasker, Jennifer BYU 2:24.17
32.78 36.38 37.92 37.09
4 Chamberlain, Melissa UU 2:27.23
34.36 36.90 38.07 37.90
5 Roth, Gretta UU 2:33.12
33.50 38.72 40.03 40.87
6 Mason, Rachel BYU x2:35.00
33.34 38.78 41.21 41.67
7 Randall, Laura UU 2:40.70
35.97 40.08 41.72 42.93
--- Lambert, Jamie BYU X2:34.32
34.59 39.85 40.32 39.56
--- Egan, Kristi BYU X2:38.52
35.73 40.21 40.66 41.92
Event 24 Men 200 Yard Breast
Name Team Finals Time
1 Tobler, Nick BYU 2:07.79
29.28 32.99 31.94 33.58
2 Godfrey, Daniel UU 2:13.74
30.21 34.03 34.60 34.90
3 Schimmer, Travis UU 2:14.21
30.81 34.05 34.78 34.57
4 Carlile, John Mikael UU 2:14.78
30.40 33.91 35.41 35.06
5 Shino, Trent UU x2:15.55
30.36 33.70 34.99 36.50
--- Armstrong, Christian BYU X2:12.32
29.83 33.21 34.36 34.92
--- Mullen, Ryan BYU X2:18.97
30.17 34.61 36.10 38.09
--- Moore, Sean BYU DQ
30.49 33.81 34.01 34.61
Event 25 Women 400 Yard Free Relay
Team Relay Finals Time
1 UU A 3:37.82
Hausknecht, Heidi Statkeviciute, Neringa
Wayman, Jamie Lewis, Kimberly
25.23 26.98 25.78 28.89
26.30 29.51 26.15 28.98
2 UU B 3:49.17
Gerber, Rebecca Fowler, Lori
Robinson, Callie Nye, Amber
27.28 29.49 26.74 30.52
27.38 30.95 27.47 29.34
3 BYU B 3:52.60
Oles, Sonrisa Teerlink, Jennifer
Jensen, Rachel Busby, Melissa
26.98 29.75 27.85 33.19
27.51 30.20 26.99 30.13
--- BYU A DQ
Predium, Laura Rumfallo, Ashlee
Thompson, Amy Jensen, Codi
26.15 28.60 25.90 29.13
27.74 30.33 25.77 28.13
Event 26 Men 400 Yard Free Relay
Team Relay Finals Time
1 BYU A 3:04.31
Mullen, Mike Savickas, Arunas
Mason, Jeff Betz, Billy
22.33 24.48 21.54 23.51
21.61 24.45 22.50 23.89
2 UU A 3:15.59
Fleisch, David Johnson, Curt
Lofgren, Magnus Allen, Keric
23.21 25.18 23.25 24.91
23.20 26.19 23.22 26.43
3 UU B 3:30.66
Linford, Joe Bray, Brendon
Fishburn, Brian Brooks, John
24.16 26.24 24.60 28.26
25.21 28.65 24.99 28.55
--- BYU B X3:09.67
Morris, Rob Denke, Alexander
Buys, Michael Larson, David
23.37 24.78 22.24 24.38
22.40 24.80 22.44 25.26
--- BYU C X3:18.01
Mullen, Ryan Johnson, Chris
Ayres, Ryan Costello, Rob
23.77 24.91 23.32 26.55
23.58 26.85 23.40 25.63
--- BYU D X3:18.12
Lim, Terrence Tobler, Nathan
Johnston, Josh Smith, C.Farr
23.71 26.41 23.24 26.13
23.86 25.62 23.61 25.54
Scores
Men BYU 157, Utah 78
Women BYU 131, Utah 106
The men's and women's swimming and diving teams will host instate rival Utah in the first dual meet of the season, Friday at 6 p.m., in the Richards Building Pool. Both the men's and women's teams are set to defend their Mountain West Conference Championships.
Series with the Utes
The men and women were both 2-0 against the Utes last season. The men are 14-6 in the last 20 meets against Utah, while the women have gone undefeated in 10 meets the past five seasons.
Men Swimmers to Watch
Arunas Savickas, senior: Swims back and free. Won two individual titles at the 2000 MWC Championships. Represented his native Lithuania at the 2000 Olympic Games. All-America honors all three years at BYU.
Gary Tan, sophomore: Swims back. Tan is the national record holder in the 200 back in his native singapore and was a MWC finalist in two events. Represented Singapore in 2000 Olympic Games.
Drew Watkins, sophomore: Swims breast. Watkins placed second in the 200 breast and third in the 100 breast at the MWC Championships as a freshman.
Women Swimmers to Watch
Jennifer Tasker, senior: Swims breast. Tasker is the defending MWC Champion in the 200 breast. All-America honors and four-time Olympic Trials participant.
Amanda Grant; sophomore: Swims breast and free. Grant is the defending MWC Champion in the 100 breast.
Tamber Covington; freshman: Swims breast and IM. The team's top recruit, Covington was a high school All-American and a 2000 Olympic Trials qualifier.
Divers to Watch
Aaron Russell, sophomore: Russell won the MWC title on the 1M last year and was an NCAA qualifier in both the 1M and 3M. Earned All-America honors.
Justin Wilcock: sophomore: Returned from a two-year LDS mission. 1998 WAC Champion on 1M, 3M and platform. Earned NCAA All-America honors.
Kelli Einfeldt; sophomore: Team captain this season after a solid freshman year.
Anna Tutunnikova; senior: Tutunnikova is a two-time Russian national champion.
