by DENVER, Colo. – A long weekend of traveling and competition has finally come to a close for the University of New Mexico swimming and diving team as they wrapped up the Denver Relay Meet ranking second place with an overall score of 228 points.
The Lobos were 66 points behind University of Denver who took first place with 294 points but led University of Wyoming and Colorado School of Mines who finished at third and fourth place with 174 and 60 points, respectively.
The Denver Relay meet consisted of a total of 23 events, 12 in which New Mexico competed.
The Lobos saw a pattern of multiple second and fourth place finishes in the same events.
Pataki, Wheeler, and Lengyel took second place in the 300-yard butterfly, 3×100 fly relay, with a time of 2:52.70. Moss, Bertrand, and Burns came after for fourth place at 2:59.54.
Next was the 300-yard backstroke, 3×100 back relay. McKee, Caitlin Gardiner, and Amber Amber took second clocking in at 2:51.60 and UNM’s fourth placing team of Ginnis, Amelie Braul, and April Chee finished at 2:57.89.
New Mexico took second and fourth in the same event for the last time during the 100-yard freestyle, 4×25 relay.
The teams of Pataki, Ginnis, King and Burns and Chee, Braul, McKee and Lilliestrom finished four second and fourth place at 43.71 and 44.15, respectively.
Further points were added to the Lobos score with two more second place finishes and one more fourth place finish.
Walker, Englestead, and McGill made for a strong team as they took second place in the 300-yard breaststroke, 3×100 breast, at 3:19.81. Ginnis, Chee, Braul, and Pataki brought in another second place finish when they swam the 400-yard freestyle relay with a time of 3:30.91.
Chee, McKee, Braul, and Lilliestrom placed in the top four of the 100-yard freestyle, 4×25 relay, clocking in at 44.15 to add another fourth place finish for the Lobos.
