Big West Championships Day 1 Recap: UCSB Women and Hawaii Men Lead After Massive Women’s DQs ...Middle East

By Madeline Folsom on SwimSwam

Big West Conference – Men and Women

The Big West Championships kicked off last night, and the women’s standings look very different than we thought they would after two events. The UCSB women are in the lead with 70 points, sitting just four points ahead of UC Davis in 2nd with 66.

On the men’s side, Hawaii is in 1st after winning all three events on the first day of competition.

Scores After Day 1

Women’s 

Men’s 

Women’s Recap

There were no women’s diving events on Wednesday, so the only events were the 200 medley relay and the 800 free relay.

The 200 medley started off with a bang after the top three teams all swam under the previous meet record in the event of 1:37.71 set by UCSD last year.

The Hawaii ‘A’ relay had the fastest time at 1:37.04 with Aziza Meyer on backstroke (25.22), Zofia Tyminksa on breaststroke (27.41), Holly Nelson on butterfly (22.66), and Quincy Key on freestyle (21.75).

UCSD touched in 1:37.30 with their team of Maddie O’Connell (24.97), Chloe Braun (26.69), Eva Boehlke (23.16), and Dani Carter (22.48).

After the race, Hawaii and UCSD were both disqualified for false starts, which led to the 3rd finishing team UCSB earning the title and the meet record. They touched in 1:37.69 with their team of Hazel Derr (24.93), Ashley Ray (27.10), Makena Leacox (23.79), and Miranda Stevenson (21.87). They came in more than two seconds ahead of UC Davis’s 2nd place team, who touched in 1:39.96.

The women’s 800 freestyle relay saw UCSD and Hawaii bounce back to earn the top two spots.

UCSD broke the meet record with their 7:11.42 coming in two tenths faster than the 7:11.65 they swam at this meet last year.

Asia Kozan led off in 1:45.20. This was a massive season best time for her, and will put her under the NCAA qualifying time of 1:45.53. If she replicates this performance en route to the conference title on Friday, she will earn an NCAA qualification in the event.

Kozan was followed by Sydney Niles (1:48.00), Sophia Bell (1:48.80), and Edana Huang (1:49.42).

Hawaii finished 2nd with their team of Brooke Bennett (1:48.08), Gaby Kelly (1:49.67), Mia Blazevska Eminova (1:49.26), and Rebekka Luoto (1:50.19)

UCSB finished 4th in 7:18.35 to lock up the top spot in the overall leaderboard.

Men’s Recap

Hawaii kicked the meet off with the top time in the men’s 200 medley relay. They touched in 1:24.48 to come in a little more than half-a-second ahead of Grand Canyon’s 1:25.16 in 2nd.

Karol Ostrowski swam 21.04 on the backstroke leg. Tom Caps was 32.71 on the breaststroke. Jack Simon swam 20.75 on the fly, and Finn Brophy was 18.98 on the freestyle.

The Grand Canyon men’s team of Alex Volkov (21.36), Carter Dooling (24.03), Mario Perez (20.71), and Guillermo Carrey (19.06) finished half-a-second ahead of UCSD’s 1:25.64 for 3rd.

In between the two relays, the men had their 1-Meter diving finals. Hawaii junior Tamayo Ramirez came out on top by just two points over Grand Canyon sophomore Omar Elsayed, who finished 2nd in 358.65. After Elsayed, there was a 60 point gap before Hawaii’s Olly Wignall, who finished 3rd with his score of 294.55.

The final event of the meet saw Hawaii pick up their 3rd gold medal. Adam Zdybel (1:37.42), Regan Richardson (1:38.43), Victor Dagenais (1:34.53), and Tom Thalau (1:33.25) swam 6:23.63.

They won by almost five seconds over the 2nd place UCSB team of Elek Zettle (1:35.86), Lucas Hubbard (1:38.47), Mason Wendler (1:37.61), and Owen Barry (1:36.41) who swam 6:28.35.

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