PROVO, Utah — Brad Prolo and Jordan Tiffany each defended their own Richards Building Pool records on Saturday as BYU men’s swim and dive finished the job with a 181-113 win over rival Utah.
“This meet is so much fun,” said BYU head swimming coach Shari Skabelund. “Utah’s gotten the better of us in recent years but this time we really focused in on winning and showed up.”
The Cougars ballooned an 88-62 lead on Friday into a meet win on Saturday with key performances in several events.
After finishing second in each of the day’s first two events, Prolo flipped the momentum switch for BYU with a rousing upset in the 200 breast. Prolo tore through the water on his way to upping his own pool record with a new personal-best of 1:55.94. Utah’s Jaek Horner, a 2022 Second Team All-American, finished second at 1:56.04. Horner entered the meet ranked No. 16 nationally in the event.
Prolo’s 1:55.94 is good for No. 2 all-time at BYU behind only teammate and third-place finisher Emerson Edwards.
The Cougars continued to build on their lead as Tiffany helped BYU secure 16 more points in the 100 fly. Tiffany kept the pool record to himself with a winning 45.72 after previously clocking a record 46.42. Prolo took runner-up to Tiffany with a personal-best 47.15. Tanner Edwards and Carson Hamblin followed to give BYU each of the top-four spots in the race.
Luigi Riva, Diego Camacho Salgado, Payton Plumb and Tiffany finished the meet off for the Cougars by winning the 400 free relay with a pool-record 2:54.65. Riva’s 43.94 in the leadoff added another pool record to BYU’s tally as well.
Camacho Salgado and Alan Gonzalez contributed four more points a-piece to BYU with second-place spots in the 100 and 500 free, respectively.
Mickey Strauss pocketed two more event wins on the season with top scores of 353.85 in the 3-meter dive and 324.68 in the 1-meter dive.
With the regular season concluded, BYU now turns its attention to the Big 12 Swim and Dive Championships Feb. 27-March 2 at The Aquatic Center at Mylan Park in Morgantown, West Virginia.