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RMACs Day 4: More Oredigger Hardware at RMAC Championships

2/14/2025 9:01:00 PM

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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – The nationally-ranked Colorado School of Mines Men's and Women's Swimming teams had another outstanding day on Friday at the 2025 RMAC Swimming & Diving Championships. Vladislav Kazakin's second gold medal of the week and Joseph Lev-Tov's Summit Award topped the list of highlights.
 
At the end of the penultimate day of the conference meet, Mines' men sit second in the team standings with 613 points, and the Oredigger women are third thanks to 872.5 points. Both of Colorado Mesa's teams lead the standings. Simon Fraser is 8.5 points ahead of Mines' women. Kazakin's gold came in the 500-free after he earned the top seed in prelims. He broke the program record and broke it again in the evening. Both races were NCAA "B" times. Lev-Tov's RMAC Summit Award honored the top cumulative grade-point average among all men's swimmers at the meet. Jakson Winn, after breaking the program record in the 100-back on Thursday night, broke the record again during Friday's finals while taking silver and a First-Team All-RMAC award. Overall, the Orediggers totaled five All-RMAC swims and five medals on Friday.
 
During prelims, the Orediggers had 29 qualifiers for finals. Isabella Bono, Eden Addison, Julie Gill, Maggie Wells, Ava Labrose, and Elizabeth Powers in the women's 500-free. Bono, Addison, and Gill did so thanks to NCAA "B" cuts. Lucas Hoke, Joseph Lev-Tov, Jake Sherman, Ronan Lauinger, and Cameron MacMillan joined Kazakin as finalists in the men's 500-free. Emi Jedryka and Kerrigan Hemp earned evening berths in the women's 100-back. So did Jakson Winn and Luca Burns in the men's 100-back. Jordan Tierney raced to the #1 seed in the women's 100-breast thanks to a NCAA "B" time with Ava Burger, Olivia Kisow, and Zooecia Phoebus joining her. Joe Hutchinson's 100-breast led the Oredigger men. Gavin Moore, Gavin Gilmore, and Kevin Burns raced well enough to join him after dark. Jack Engler also appeared in the men's 100-breast. The 200-fly saw advancement from Sophia Buhr, Savannah Karas, Jaron O'Grady, Max Waring, and Andres Saa with Mattie Oberley tossing in an exhibition swim. Sawyer Jones and Lucas Waasdorp both dabbled with a morning time trial.
 
In the evening, Bono, Addison and Wells parlayed NCAA times in the 500-free. Kazakin and Winn provided the aforementioned highlights in the 500-free and 100-back, respectively. To confirm, Kazakin's gold also made him First-Team All-RMAC. Tierney hit the wall at a NCAA "B" pace for bronze and Second-Team All-RMAC distinction in the 100-breast. Jennifer Pierson, Kyle VanderMeer, Sophia Cristal, and Tierney made up the Orediggers' top 200-freestyle relay on the women's side which won bronze and Second-Team All-RMAC honors. Michael Kietzman, Sawyer Jones, Jakson Winn, and Kevin Burns were on Mines' silver-medal 200-freestyle men's relay that earned First-Team All-RMAC accolades. Every other finalist for the Orediggers collected teams points as well.
 
Saturday marks the final day of league racing and includes the 100-free, 200-back, 200-breast, 1650-free, And 400-freestyle relay. Pay-per-view video will be available on the RMAC Network with free live results at www.minesathletics.com.
 
Fans can keep up with Mines swimming on "X" (formerly Twitter), Facebook and Instagram at @MinesSwimming. They can also keep up with Colorado School of Mines Athletics all year long on Facebook, "X" and Instagram using the handle @MinesAthletics.
 
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