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Men's NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships Completed

Men's NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships Completed

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Men's NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships Completed

The final day of the NCAA men's swimming & diving championships completed on Saturday with swimmers from three WAC schools competing.

In Saturday's action, Bakersfield's Mitchell Huxhold swam in the final heat of the 1650 free.  He had the seventh fastest time of all entrants but finished 17th with a time of 14:56.21.  UNLV's 400 free relay team finished 11th in the 400 free relay to earn 12 more points with a time of 2:52.36.

On Friday, UNLV's 200 free relay finished 15th in the prelims to advance to the consolation finals where it finished 15th.  Wyoming's Adam Kalms also advanced to the consols with a 13th place finish in the 200 free, but fell one spot to 14th at night.

On Thursday, both of UNLV's relays advanced to finals as the 200 free relay finished in sixth place while the 400 medley relay was 16th.  Bakersfield's Mitchell Huxhold set a new school record in the 500 free and finished in 15th place with a time of 4:16.71 to earn a spot in the evening's consolation final.  UNLV's Dillon Virva also advanced to the consols with a time of 19.19 in the 50 free to finish in 10th place in the prelims. In the finals, UNLV took sixth in the 200 free relay to earn 26 points.  Virva was 13th in the 50 free and Huxhold placed 16th in the 500 free.  The Rebels were 15th in the 400 medley relay.

In the team scores, UNLV was 19th with 50 points while Wyoming was 44th with three points and Bakersfield was 48th with one point.

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Thursday, March 27

Prelims-11:00 a.m. CT
200 Free Relay-UNLV (Dillon Virva, Tom Paco-Pedroni, Guilherme Passos, Samuel Lameynardie); 6th, 1:17.30*
500 Free-Mitchell Huxhold, Bakersfield; 15th, 4:16.71*
500 Free-Ryan Nelson, Wyomiing, 47th, 4:24.84
200 IM-Adam Kalms, Wyoming; 38th, 1:46.00
50 Free-Dillon Virva, UNLV; 10th, 19.19
50 Free-Tom Paco-Pedroni, UNLV; 19th, 19.51
400 Medley Relay-UNLV (Henrique Machado, David Szele, Dillon Virva, Tom Paco-Pedroni); 16th, 3:09.25

Finals-7:00 p.m. CT
200 Free Relay-UNLV (Dillon Virva, Tom Paco-Pedroni, Guilherme Passos, Samuel Lameynardie); 6th, 1:17.58 (26 points)
500 Free-Mitchell Huxhold, Bakersfield; 16th, 4:18.61 (1 point)
50 Free-Dillon Virva, UNLV; 13th, 19.43 (4 points)
400 Medley Relay-UNLV (Henrique Machado, David Szele, Dillon Virva, Tom Paco-Pedroni); 15th, 3:09.78 (4 points)

Friday, March 28
Prelims-11:00 a.m. CT
200 Medley Relay-UNLV (Henrique Machado, David Szele, Dillon Virva, Tom Paco-Pedroni); 15th 1:26.09
400 IM-Ryan Nelson, Wyoming; 31st, 3:48.21
100 Fly-Dillon Virva, UNLV; DFS
200 Free-Adam Kalms, Wyoming; 13th, 1:33.98
200 Free-Mitchell Huxhold, Bakersfield; 36th, 1:36.50
100 Breast-David Szele, UNLV; 27th, 53.65
100 Back-Henrique Machado, UNLV; 43rd, 48.04

Finals-7:00 p.m. CT
200 Medley Relay-UNLV (Henrique Machado, David Szele, Dillon Virva, Tom Paco-Pedroni); 15th, 1:26.24 (4 points)
200 Free-Adam Kalms, Wyoming; 14th, 1:34.64 (3 points)

Saturday, March 29
Prelims-11:00 a.m. CT
200 Back-Henrique Machado, UNLV; DFS
100 Free-Tom Paco-Pedroni, UNLV; 17th, 42.58
100 Free-Adam Kalms, Wyoming; 34th, 43.74
100 Free-Dillon Virva, UNLV; DFS
200 Fly-Ryan Nelson, Wyoming; 34th, 1:46.69
400 Free Relay-UNLV (Samuel Lameynardie, Tom Paco-Pedroni, Dillon Virva, Giacomo Gremizzi); 15th, 2:53.07

Finals-7:00 p.m. CT
1650 Free (last heat of timed finals)-Mitchell Huxhold, Bakersfield; 17th, 14:56.21
400 Free Relay-UNLV (Samuel Lameynardie, Tom Paco-Pedroni, Dillon Virva, Giacomo Gremizzi); 11th, 2:52.36* (12 points)

*WAC Record