MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (Feb. 20, 2018) – The Cowgirl Swimming and Diving teams opened up the 2019 Mountain West Championship on Wednesday afternoon. Wyoming sits in seventh place with 113.50 points. Nevada leads all teams with 204 points followed by San Diego State and defending champion Boise State. 
 
Senior Peyton GrandPre posted a score of 243.95 in the 1-meter preliminaries to advance to the consolation finals. She would secure herself an 11^th place finish with a season-best score of 262.50. Fellow senior CeeJay Harris nearly qualified with a score of 237.80. She was followed by freshman McKenna Houlihan in 21^st (236.90) and junior Abigail Zoromski in a tie for 22^nd (232.80).
 
The 200-medley relay and 800-freestyle relays rounded out day one of the conference championship. In the 200 medley, the team of seniors Samantha Burke and Isobel Ryan, sophomore Hannah Mclean-Leonard and freshman Phoebe Browne placed ninth-place with a season-best time of 1:41.17. They would finish almost four seconds faster than its previous best of 1:44.95.
 
Wyoming secured an eighth-place finish in the 800-meter freestyle relay. The team of sophomore Katelyn Blattner and Kristen Covello along with freshmen Lainee Jones and Sani Carsrud touched the wall in 7:23.42 to earn the eighth-place finish for the team.
 
Action will continue tomorrow with preliminaries for the 500-freestyle beginning 10 a.m. MT, followed by the 200 IM, 50 freestyle, three-meter diving plus the 400-medley relay. The evening session with the finals of each event are set to start at 5:30 p.m.