Lopes post fast times in road losses at Air force

Friday, October 31

USAF Academy, Colo.

Grand Canyon

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Air Force

Photo by: Nathan Peters

11/1/2025 5:40:00 PM | Men's Swimming and Diving, Women's Swimming and Diving

Stasny continues to shine in every event

By: Nathan Peters

Air Force Academy, Colo. — Grand Canyon swimming and diving had numerous strong performances despite the team losses to Air Force in the two-day meet.

Sophomore Taylor Stasny led the Lopes with an impressive individual slate, winning the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:15.93, placing first in the 200-yard individual medley at 2:04.87, and contributing to both GCU's victorious 200 medley relay (1:41.81) and 400 medley relay (3:44.45). Stasny's consistency in breaststroke and IM events paced a deep women's group that posted four top-two relay finishes.

Freshman Paula Martinez Moreno swept the butterfly events, taking first in the 100-yard butterfly at 55.14 and the 200-yard butterfly at 2:01.76. Martinez also swam on the winning 200 and 400 medley relays alongside Luna Torre Ayala, Stasny, Marta Guasp and Sara Mose.

Mose continued her impressive freshman season with a 50-yard freestyle victory in 22.92 seconds, while adding legs on both top-two freestyle relays.

The women's 400 freestyle relay team of Sara Mendoza, Stasny, Katelyn Huffman, and Mose placed second in 3:25.76.

On the men's side, Guillermo Carrey captured the 100 freestyle title in 44.61 and anchored GCU's 1st place 400 freestyle relay (3:00.48) with Mario Perez, Eli Cohen, and Trypp Duarte.

Perez added a first-place showing in the 50 freestyle (20.32) and another in the 200 butterfly (1:50.80), while Cohen swam a 21.96 butterfly split on the 400 medley relay, the No. 2 all-time 50 fly split in GCU history.

Senior Alex Volkov finished first in the 100 backstroke with a time of 49.02, and helped the Lopes to first-place finishes in both the 100 freestyle relay (1:20.80) and 400 medley relay (3:19.35).

Grand Canyon also earned strong performances from Omar Elsayed, who won the men's 3-meter diving event with 409.80 points while also winning the platform competition (389.95 points). In addition, the sophomore added a 2nd place 1-meter finish (336.40 points).

Batu Servi also placed second in the 500 freestyle in 4:38.61.

Despite the team losses of 224-147 (women's) and 208-155 (men's) the meet closed with the Lopes' freestyle relays taking wins — the women finishing first in the 200 with a squad of Mendoza, Huffman, Mose, and Krisalyn Henderson (1:33.58). The men posted a first-place finish of 1:20.80 in 200 freestyle relay behind Carrey, Volkov, Cohen and Perez.