Postseason set to continue for Lopes

The Grand Canyon swimming and diving team will be competing this week in postseason competitions.

The diving squad is in Flagstaff, Ariz. to compete in the NCAA Zone E diving championships to qualify for the NCAA Championships.

Shiori Bak, Isaac Poole, and Reece Robles will compete in both the men's and women's side of the event. Each competitor at the Zone E championships had to qualify throughout the conference season.

Twelve men and twelve women from the swimming team will travel to Elkhart, Ind. For the College Swimming Coaches Association of America National Invitational Championships.

The Lopes will hope to build off of the WAC Championships where they had 131 personal best times.

The NCAA Zone E Diving Championships take place Mar. 11-13 while CSCAA National Invitation Championships will happen Mar. 14-16.

Monday's dive events will include the 1-meter competition on the women's side. Tuesday's events will include the 3-meter event and the meet will close out with platform diving on Wednesday.

The event will be streamed on nauathletics.com/watch.

The Lopes are coming off a strong WAC Championship meet that included the following:

WAC Championship by the Numbers

3 WAC Records
1. Women's 200 Medley Relay (Rittenbach, Nakashima, Martinez, Brunlehner)
2. Women's 100 Breaststroke (Maria Brunlehner)
3. Men's 200 Breaststroke (Jonathan Rom)
4. 8 WAC Champions Women's 200 and 400 Medley Relays
5. Maria Brunlehner – 200 IM, 100 Breast, 100 Free (2nd year in a row winning all 3)
6. Paula Martinez – 100 Back
7. Jonathan Rom – 200 Breast (2^nd year in a row)
8. Alex Volkov – 100 Back
8 GCU Team Records
1. Women's 200 and 400 Medley Relays
2. Men's 400 Free Relay
3. Maria Brunlehner – 100 Breast, 50 Breast (as split from 100), 100 Free
4. Jonathan Rom – 200 Breast
5. Isaac Poole – 1 Meter Springboard Diving
12 NCAA B Cuts
1. Maria Brunlehner – 100 Breast, 100 Free
2. Guillermo Carrey – 50 and 100 Free
3. Sam Jennings – 100 Back
4. Paula Martinez – 100 Fly and 100 Back
5. Mohamed Mohamady – 200 Back
6. Jonathan Rom – 100 and 200 Breast
7. Alex Volkov – 100 Back
8. Grezgorz Wanat – 100 Free
32 CSCAA National Invitational Championship Cuts
28 WAC Podium Finishes
74 New All-Time Top 10 Times
1. 38 Men, 36 Women (30 Men, 44 Women last year)
131 Lifetime Best Times
1. 76 Men, 55 Women (44 Men, 63 Women last year)

WAC Championship by the Numbers

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Players Mentioned

Shiori Bak

Maria Brunlehner

Sam Jennings

Mohamed Mohamady

Isaac Poole

Isaac Poole

Reece Robles

Jonathan Rom

Alex Volkov

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