Lopes men place 2nd; women take 7th in Open Water

Saturday, October 18

Long Beach, Calif.

Grand Canyon

MPSF Open Water Championships

10/18/2025 4:19:00 PM | Men's Swimming and Diving, Women's Swimming and Diving

GCU's Servi swims 3rd in close individual finish

By: Nathan Peters

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Grand Canyon swimmers earned a strong team finish at the MPSF Open Water Championships on Saturday, posting multiple top-10 performances in the men's and women's 5K races while recording solid relay efforts.

On the men's side, sophomore Batu Servi led the Lopes with a third-place finish in the 5,000-meter freestyle, clocking in at 59 minutes, 7.67 seconds to help the team secure a runner-up team total with 110 points.

Servi's time came down to a brief run to the finish line. He stumbled slightly getting out of the water, leading to his finish being less than two seconds behind the winner.

Servi was closely followed by junior Colin Campbell (10th, 1:03:53.0) and junior Joe Stephenson (13th, 1:04:16.9), while freshman Rex Biebel (17th, 1:05:04.46) and senior Mario Perez (23rd, 1:08:02.77) provided additional scoring depth.

In the men's 2,000-meter freestyle relay, the GCU quartet of Servi, Perez, Stephenson and Campbell placed third with a time of 25:15.79, adding key points to the team total.

GCU ultimately finished second out of nine men's teams behind California Baptist, which scored 135 points.

On the women's side, junior Vivi Criscione placed 16th in the 5K with a time of 1:04:57.0.

Criscione was followed closely by sophomore teammate Kaitlyn Logue in 24th (1:05:53.0).

Senior Elisa Corradi (33rd, 1:07:16.0), junior Summer Dean (39th, 1:07:54.0) and senior Marta Guasp (41st, 1:09:04.0) rounded out GCU's lineup.

The women's relay team of Guasp, Criscione, Dean and Logue placed sixth in the 2,000-meter freestyle relay with a time of 26:47.0.

The Lopes scored 56 points to finish seventh out of 17 in the women's team standings, which was won by Rice.

Full results can be found here.