The Pomona-Pitzer Colleges repeated as conference champions behind four event victories, including three consecutive podium sweeps, on the final day of the 2025 SCIAC Swimming & Diving Championship.
Championship Central
Day One Recap
Day Two Recap
Day Three Recap
Full Results
Another pair of meet records and a second SCIAC record fell by the conclusion of the meet.
Mackenzie Mayfield of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges stepped up in a highly anticipated 200-yard butterfly race to clock a conference-record 2:01.30, while Pomona-Pitzer rookie
Izzy Yoon secured the 100/200 Back double with a record-breaking 2:00.61.
Francesca Coppo,
Nina Aballea,
Charlotte Dixon and
Valerie Mello capped the nightwith a new meet record in the 400 Free Relay, touching in 3:21.54 with Mello anchoring in the only sub-50 split of the race (49.17)
The Sagehens entered the day with an 84-point lead and gave up more than half of that margin in the opening event, the 1650 Free, before asserting their dominance with three consecutive podium sweeps. Yoon fronted a quartet of rookies with Dixon,
Amaia Sherman and
Mollie Appl atop the 200 Back results, followed by Mello sprinting to a 49.95 in the 100 Free ahead of Aballea and Coppo.
Emmie Appl joined
May Ling Roberts and
Graeleigh Jones in the 100 Breast to complete the feat.
CMS finished second as a team with 886 points, followed by Chapman University for a second straight year with 442.5 points. California Lutheran University trailed the Panthers by only 25.5 points while Occidental College flipped an 18-point deficit to edge Caltech by six, 311-305. Whittier College secured seventh place with 205 points as the University of Redlands ended with 161 and the University of La Verne on 96.
Katy Shaw became a three-time 1650 Free champion to match the same feat achieved in the 500 Free the second day of the meet. Two-sport teammate
Reverse Schmidt finished runner-up ahead of
Kendall Moffitt for the Regals.
Kiana Tanizaki-Hudson, the 100 Fly champion from Day Three, added another All-Conference accolade to an impressive resume likely ticketed for the NCAA Championships with a runner-up finish in the 200 Fly, followed by the Athenas’ multi-All-Conference honoree Sun
Young Byun. CMS earned a silver medal and CLU bronze to end the night.
Those with NCAA ‘B’ cuts will await potential selection to the Division III Championship, for which the top 20 individual and additional at-large bids will be announced on Wednesday, Feb. 26.
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