ST. GEORGE, Utah — A championship quest that began last week in Southern California reached its conclusion in Utah on Saturday as the University of Hawai'i swimming and diving teams completed a sweep of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championship in St. George, Utah.
 
The UH divers set the tone by capturing all six golds in the MPSF Diving Championship held Feb. 12-14 in Mission Viejo, Calif. The Rainbow Wahine and Rainbow Warrior swimming teams built on those performances over the four-day MPSF Swimming Championship this week at the Utah Tech Human Performance Center to sweep the MPSF titles for the first time since 2020.  
 
The Rainbow Wahine entered the final day of the four-day meet with a commanding lead in the women's standings and won three events on Saturday to finish with a total of 794 points and captured their second straight MPSF title and seventh in the last eight years. UC Santa Barbara placed second with 606 points.
 
The Rainbow Warriors finished off a dominant week by shattering the UH and MPSF Championship records in the men's 400 freestyle relay with a time of 2:50.54. UH finished with 794.5 points in the men's standings with UC Santa Barbara second with 667.5 points. The men's title was UH's first since 2020.
 
The Warriors won all five of the meet's relay events, setting the MPSF Championship record with each victory.
 
The Rainbow Wahine began Saturday's evening session with Dorottya Dobos and Anna Friedrich claiming gold and silver in the 200-yard backstroke. Zofia Tyminska and Kathryn Ivanov also went 1-2 in the 200 breaststroke and Cass Treydte and Holly Nelson claimed silver and bronze in the 100 freestyle.
 
The Rainbow Wahine capped their meet by winning the 400 freestyle relay with the team of Treydte, Nelson, Friedrich and Mira Selling finishing in 3:16.97, well ahead of runner-up UC Davis.
 
On the men's side, UH's Jordan Meacham began the day by breaking the school record in the 100 freestyle in the preliminaries with a time of 43.12 seconds. He then lowered the mark again in the finals with a time of 42.86 seconds.
 
Timothy Gallagher began the evening with a silver in the 200 backstroke and Justin Lisoway earned bronze in the 200 breaststroke.
 
The Rainbow Warriors punctuated the meet with their record swim in the 400 freestyle relay with the team of Karol Ostrowski, Meacham, Dietrich Meyer and Mario Surkovic. Ostrowski turned in a lead-off leg of 42.66 seconds to give UH the lead. Meacham and Meyer widened the margin and Surkovic finished off a performance that shattered the previous UH record of 2:53.70 set last year by Surkovic, Meacham, Ian Venter and Gallagher. They also broke the MPSF record of 2:52.25 set by BYU last year.
 
In all, UH won five women's events (three individual, two relays) and the nine men's events (four individual, five relays) in the meet.
 
Team Standings (Men)
1. Hawai'i – 794.4
2. UC Santa Barbara – 667.5
3. Incarnate Word - 473
4. Cal Poly - 471
5. UC San Diego – 444
6. CSU Bakersfield – 2889
7. Pacific - 273

Team Standings (Women)
1. Hawai'i - 794
2. UC Santa Barbara - 606
3. UC San Diego – 585
4. UC Davis – 563
5. CSU Bakersfield – 354
6. Cal Poly – 245
7. Pepperdine – 198
8. Pacific - 176
9. UC San Diego – 157
10. Incarnate Word - 102

UH MPSF SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONS
WOMEN
400 Free Relay (3:16.97)
200 Back — Dorottya Dobos (1:57.33)
200 Breast — Zofia Tyminska (2:12.39)
100 Back — Anna Friedrich (53.48)
800 Free Relay (7:13.63)
Platform Diving — Elma Lund (272.90)
1-Meter Diving — Isabelle Lombardi (293.55)
3-Meter Diving — Elma Lund (284.10)

MEN
400 Free Relay (2:50.54)
100 Free — Jordan Meacham (42.86)
400 Medley Relay (3:07.53)
100 Breast — Justin Lisoway (53.45)
200 Free — Mario Surkovic (1:35.14)
50 Free — Karol Ostrowski (19.30)
200 Free Relay (1:16.75)
800 Free Relay (6:20.74)
200 Medley Relay (1:24.44)
Platform Diving — Juan Gonzalez (370.85)
1-Meter Diving — Mackaby Pennington (363.95)
3-Meter Diving — Juan Gonzalez (413.90)