Results
 
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – The Colorado School of Mines Men's and Women's Swimming teams closed out their trip to the TYR/CMU Invitational on Saturday evening at Colorado Mesa.
 
The highlight of the final day was a program record in the women's 400-freestyle relay. The Mines quartet of Jennifer Pierson, Jordan Tierney, Maggie Wells, and Kylie VanderMeer posted a time of 3:28.24 which broke the program's unadjusted and altitude-adjusted best mark. Additionally, Tierney grabbed silver in the 200-breast, and the Orediggers produced 10 NCAA "B" times.
 
Tierney's NCAA time in the 200-breast was 2:17.59. Isabella Bono and Julie Gill had NCAA times in the 1650-free, going 17:58.52 and 17:31.79, respectively. The men's mile saw Lucas Hoke, Joseph Lev-Tov, and Jake Sherman all go under the "B" cut with times of 16:10.14, 16:13.66, and 16:16.36. Then, in the 100-free, Pierson went off for a 51.76, Michael Kietzman touched in 44.93, and Jakson Winn put up a 45.21 – all NCAA "B" times.
 
At the tail end of the night, Jaron O'Grady had a NCAA time of 1:50.11 while taking fourth in the 200-fly. That prefaced the women's record in the 400-freestyle relay. Kietzman, Sawyer Jones, Gavin Moore, and Winn sandwiched the women's record with a 3:01.09 in the men's relay. All of that gave Mines' women 405 points in a fourth-place finish as a team while the Oredigger men finished third thanks to 573 points.
 
Mines has a month off from competition before returning to action on Jan. 3 at University of Denver.
 
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