FEDERAL WAY, Wash. — BYU men's swim and dive picked up two more All-Big 12 finishes on Friday as the league swim and dive championships continued at Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatics Center.
Peter Etzold and Chase Hindmarsh delivered the All-Big 12 finishes for the Cougars in the 100 breast and platform dive, respectively.
Etzold earned his way to the 100 breast A Final with his first personal best of the day, this at 52.96. In the final, Etzold cut another 0.56 seconds to finish fifth for All-Big 12 Second Team. The freshman from Cape Town, South Africa climbed to second all-time at BYU in the 100 breast with his performances on Friday.
Hindmarsh finished his Big 12 Championship meet with a second championship final appearance, this time on platform. After tallying 330.60 points to take fourth in the prelim, Hindmarsh secured All-Big 12 Second Team with an eighth place overall finish at 310.35. The senior from Tomball, Texas now concludes his BYU career with seven all-conference honors.
While just over a tenth-of-a-second from breaking a school record, the men’s 200 free relay squad of Luigi Riva, Max Kleinman, Fletcher Madsen & Diego Camacho Salgado secured 54 more points for the Cougars’ cause on Friday night. Riva led off the relay with a 19.43, his second personal best in the 50 free in as many days. Kleinman and Madsen followed in 19.47 and 19.34, respectively, with Camacho Salgado anchoring at 19.63. Though 0.59 seconds off the championship time, the Cougars held off West Virginia and Utah for the top-3 finish.
Jacob Ballard, Kleinman and Payton Plumb provided BYU with three more notable performances on day four in Federal Way. Ballard notched the program’s second-fastest 200 fly all-time with a 1:44.64 to finish ninth in the final. Kleinman earned a place in the 100 back B Final with a personal-best 47.42 and 10th-place spot in the prelim. The freshman’s 47.42 came with a cut of 0.36 seconds and ups him to fourth on the program record boards. Plumb also cut over a third-of-a-second off his previous best for a 48.21 in the 100 back final, good for 10th in BYU history.
The BYU men enter the final day at Big 12’s with a fifth-place spot in the team standings at 780 points. The Cougars will look close the gap on fourth-place TCU when events resume on Saturday at 10 a.m. PST on ESPN+ with the 200 back preliminary.