Day One Results
 
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – Wednesday evening saw an outstanding start to the TYR/CMU Invitational for the Colorado School of Mines Men's and Women's Swimming teams, with multiple records and NCAA-qualifying times at CMU El Pomar Natatorium.
 
Both the Oredigger men and Mines' women accounted for one program record and one NCAA-qualifying time each. For the women, it was the 200-medley relay accounting for the record while Meghan Slowey posted a NCAA "B" time. On the men's side, the 800-freestyle relay slayed the program record and Ronan Lauinger raced to a NCAA "B" time of his own. In the team race, both Oredigger squads finished opening day #2 in the standings. Mines' women boast 155 points, and sit just 52 points behind first-place Colorado Mesa while leading NCAA Division I Northern Arizona by 16 points. The Oredigger men tout 194 points to trail the first-place Mavericks by 18.
 
The evening of timed finals started with Emma Neuroth, Cameryn Schmidt, Annie Osmun, and Jorie Selig combining in the 200-medley relay to touch in 1:43.27. It bested the previous record held by Daphne Williams, Abigail Wong, Madeleine Oakley, and Mia Wood by more than a second. Slowey continued the night with her NCAA "B" time of 10:24.28 in the 1000-free. Right after that, Lauinger posted his NCAA cut on the men's side in the same event, finishing in 9:38.21. Capping the highlights was the men's quartet of Garrett Waite, Jakson Winn, Michael Kietzman, and Joe Peak posting a 6:43.00 in the 800-freestyle relay. That time was 2.5 seconds faster than the previous record of Zack Gertig, Josh Graber, Ethan Pfeiffer, and Kyle Burt set in 2014.
 
Also notable was the men's 200-medley relay. Sam LaPrade, Waite, Charles Burroughs, and Seth Krause touched just .05 seconds shy of the program record with a time of 1:28.81. Individually, Isabella Bono, Maggie Wells, Jake Sherman, Jaron O'Grady, Andres Saa, Scott Reeder, and Josh Lee all competed in the 1000-free. Ava Burger, Jordan Tierney, Savannah Karas, Jules Hays, Luca Burns, Jack Engler, Braden Hunt, Kylie VanderMeer, Slowey, Emi Jedryka, Olivia Kisow, Wells, Bono, Lauinger, Braden Whitmarsh, Gavin Gilmore, and Nick Delany all added relay appearances as well.

Mines continues the TYR/CMU Invitational on Thursday morning as the meet breaks into prelims/finals split days. Prelims begin at 10 a.m. with finals going off at 5 p.m. Free, live video will be offered on the RMAC Network and live results will be linked at www.minesathletics.com.
 
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