Fresno State Athletics
Fresno State
Mountain West Championships
Three 'Dogs reach consolation finals on day two
2/18/2016 12:00:00 AM | Swimming & Diving
By Jason Kelm
jakelm@csufresno.edu
GoBulldogs.com
COLLEGE STATION, Texas - The Fresno State swimming and diving team continued to make strides during day two of the Mountain West Championships at the Texas A&M Natatorium in College Station, Texas on Thursday.
Fresno State junior Esme Gullick rewrote the Bulldog record book in the 200-yard individual medley twice, swimming a 2:02.23 in the prelims and finishing in third place in the consolation finals with a time of 2:01.76. Gullick set the previous high mark earlier in the season at 2:02.46.
Bulldog senior Leah Hatayama also set a personal record twice today in the 50-yard freestyle. Her preliminary time of 22.94 seconds got her into the consolation finals in which she placed third with a time of 22.93 seconds, an NCAA `B' standard. Hatayama continues to hold the second-fastest 50 free time in Bulldog history.
Fresno State junior diver Shelbie Holden also reached the consolation finals and finished in third place in the 3-meter dives with a score of 285.70, an NCAA `A' standard.
The Bulldogs were unable to reach finals in the 500-yard free and placed 10th in the 200-yard free relay.
Nevada took the top two spots in the 3-meter dives, Boise State placed first in the 200 free relay and 200 IM, Air Force swam fastest in the 500 free, and San Diego State took the top spot in the 50 free.
Team Leaderboard
- Nevada (284)
- Boise State (254.5)
- San Diego State (213)
- UNLV (161)
- Wyoming (152)
- San Jose State (126)
- New Mexico (99.5)
- Air Force (95)
- Colorado State (92)
- Fresno State (70)
Friday's events
9:00 a.m. PT - 400 IM prelims, 100 fly prelims, 200 free prelims, 100 breast prelims and 100 back prelims
4:30 p.m. PT - 400 medley relay finals, 400 IM finals, 100 fly finals, 200 free finals, 100 breast finals and 100 back finals
How to watch and stay updated
The Mountain West will be supplying real-time live scoring and live video for all 21 championship events. Links, highlights and post-event interviews will be posted at http://www.themw.com/page/championship_w-swim.
Day one
Day one began with the 1-meter dive preliminaries, in which Fresno State junior Shelbie Holden (237.05) and senior Lacie Ruth (171.80) placed 19th and 29th, respectively.
In the late afternoon, the Bulldogs took seventh place in the 200 medley relay and 10th place in the 800-yard freestyle relay (7:28.04) with the group of Hatayama, Esme Gullick, Mazutaityte and Casey Kennemann.
Boise State swam first in both relays and Nevada took the top two spots in the 1-meter dive finals.
2016 Pre-Championship Coaches' Poll
| Rank | Team (1st place votes) | Points |
| 1. | Boise State (3) | 73 |
| Nevada (3) | 73 | |
| 3. | San Diego State (3) | 70 |
| 4. | Wyoming (1) | 60 |
| 5. | UNLV | 43 |
| 6. | Air Force | 35 |
| 7. | New Mexico | 31 |
| 8. | San Jose State | 28 |
| 9. | Fresno State | 24 |
| 10. | Colorado State | 13 |
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