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Bulldogs place third at 2025 Mountain West Championships for best finish in program history
2/22/2025 10:14:00 PM | Swimming & Diving
HOUSTON - The Fresno State swim and dive team earned a podium finish at the 2025 Credit Union 1 Mountain West Championships. Fresno State finished in third place with 1,022 points, marking the best finish in program history since joining the Mountain West in 2013.Â
Fresno State's final day featured two more podium appearances and two new program records. Jenna Pulkkinen and Aliz Kalmar returned to the podium in the 200 breaststroke, for a two-three finish, respectively. Both swimmers missed out on last year's podium placement on a fourth (Pulkkinen) and fifth (Kalmar) place finish.Â
The 400 freestyle relay set a new program record by 1.3 seconds after winning the second heat. Wiktoria Dabrowska keeps her name on the record breaking relay and is joined by Pulkkinen, Julia Matney and Ryley Clark. Kalmar shortened the 200 breaststroke program record in the preliminary session with a time of 2:08.38.Â
How it happenedÂ
In the final session of the day Fresno State sent 13 Bulldogs to finals with six going into a championship final.
Freshman Clark saw her first showing in a championship final in the 200 backstroke. The Arizona native finished prelims seeded second on a time of 1:58.80. Clark closed the event in fifth place on a personal best 1:56.79, good for the program's third fastest time. Sienna Cheng-Lucey rounded out the consolation final in 16th on a personal best.Â
The 200 breaststroke group had five finalists with Kalmar as the No. 1 seed and Pulkkinen as No. 3. Kalmar took back the program record from Pulkkinen with a 2:08.38 in prelims. Samantha Arredondo and Madison Caserio qualified into the consolation heat and Katie Ueda in the bonus. In finals, Pulkkinen clocked a second-place time of 2:09.53, while Kalmar finished one-hundredth of a second later (2:09.54) to fill out the top three. Both times marked NCAA 'B' Standards.Â
Four Bulldogs earned another slew of personal bests in the 200 butterfly. Matney had the highest team finish with fifth (2:00.35), followed by Sera Hanagan (2:01.75) in eighth to close the A final. Korrie Tengan finished tenth (2:01.77) and Ava Elloitt in 22nd (2:06.36).
Up Next: Fresno State will await the selection of the three swimmers who have earned an NCAA 'B' cut, Aliz Kalmar, Jenna Pulkkinen, Sera Hanagan. The 2025 NCAA Women's Swimming & Diving Championships will be hosted at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatics Center in Federal Way, Washington from March 19-22.Â
Divers will prepare for the next selection process for NCAA Championships with a Zones qualifying meet, where the top five of each event will earn a spot at NCAA Championships. Grace Ally has qualified in all three diving disciplines and Natalia Bedolla in the 1 & 3-meter.Â
FINAL TEAM SCORESÂ
Fresno State's final day featured two more podium appearances and two new program records. Jenna Pulkkinen and Aliz Kalmar returned to the podium in the 200 breaststroke, for a two-three finish, respectively. Both swimmers missed out on last year's podium placement on a fourth (Pulkkinen) and fifth (Kalmar) place finish.Â
The 400 freestyle relay set a new program record by 1.3 seconds after winning the second heat. Wiktoria Dabrowska keeps her name on the record breaking relay and is joined by Pulkkinen, Julia Matney and Ryley Clark. Kalmar shortened the 200 breaststroke program record in the preliminary session with a time of 2:08.38.Â
How it happenedÂ
In the final session of the day Fresno State sent 13 Bulldogs to finals with six going into a championship final.
Freshman Clark saw her first showing in a championship final in the 200 backstroke. The Arizona native finished prelims seeded second on a time of 1:58.80. Clark closed the event in fifth place on a personal best 1:56.79, good for the program's third fastest time. Sienna Cheng-Lucey rounded out the consolation final in 16th on a personal best.Â
The 200 breaststroke group had five finalists with Kalmar as the No. 1 seed and Pulkkinen as No. 3. Kalmar took back the program record from Pulkkinen with a 2:08.38 in prelims. Samantha Arredondo and Madison Caserio qualified into the consolation heat and Katie Ueda in the bonus. In finals, Pulkkinen clocked a second-place time of 2:09.53, while Kalmar finished one-hundredth of a second later (2:09.54) to fill out the top three. Both times marked NCAA 'B' Standards.Â
Four Bulldogs earned another slew of personal bests in the 200 butterfly. Matney had the highest team finish with fifth (2:00.35), followed by Sera Hanagan (2:01.75) in eighth to close the A final. Korrie Tengan finished tenth (2:01.77) and Ava Elloitt in 22nd (2:06.36).
Up Next: Fresno State will await the selection of the three swimmers who have earned an NCAA 'B' cut, Aliz Kalmar, Jenna Pulkkinen, Sera Hanagan. The 2025 NCAA Women's Swimming & Diving Championships will be hosted at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatics Center in Federal Way, Washington from March 19-22.Â
Divers will prepare for the next selection process for NCAA Championships with a Zones qualifying meet, where the top five of each event will earn a spot at NCAA Championships. Grace Ally has qualified in all three diving disciplines and Natalia Bedolla in the 1 & 3-meter.Â
FINAL TEAM SCORESÂ
- San Diego State 1,283Â
- UNLV 1,178Â
- Fresno State 1,022Â
- Nevada 998Â
- Washington State 975Â
- Wyoming 856Â
- Colorado State 697Â
- Air Force 546Â
- New Mexico 392Â
- San José State 285Â
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