Pepperdine Women Overcome Skyler Brunar’s Dirty Double to Win 3rd MPSF Title in 4 Years ...Middle East

By Braden Keith on SwimSwam

2025 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) Championships

MPSF FINAL TEAM SCORES

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The final day of the 2025 MPSF Championships saw the Pepperdine women take a narrow victory ahead of San Diego, and the Pacific men win their dual meet championship over Incarnate Word.

On the women’s side, USD got in the first blow when sophomore Skylar Bruner won the women’s 1650 free in 17:09.49, which she followed with a 2:00.84 win in the 200 backstroke in the very next event. That 200 backstroke led a 1-2-3 finish for the Toreros and put them briefly into the lead.

After a virtual draw in the 100 free, where Icarnate Word’s Jada Ashford won in 50.25, Pepperdine made their big move in the 200 breaststroke.

While Pacific’s Paige Sondgeroth (2:17.41) and Annelise Thomas (2:18.55) went 1-2 in that race, Pepperdine’s four entries outscored USD’s three 54-29 to swing things back in favor of the Waves.

Another Pacific win in the 200 fly, this time from senior Noemi Melendez (2:04.75), couldn’t stop another event ‘win’ for Pepperdine in the 200 fly, 48-26. In a meet where almost every entry scored, Pepperdine had more swimmers late in the meet, and that was the difference-maker.

Pacific won again in the 400 free relay in 3:23.23, making three straight victories to close the meet for the Tigers. While their eight wins led all women’s teams at the meet, they didn’t have the depth to get enough swimmers into A-finals to contend for the team title.

In total, Pepperdine set five new school records, won five MPSF event championships and had 43 top-8 individual performances this week.

On the men’s side, where only two teams were competing, the final day’s events were split between Pacific and Incarnate Word.

UIW’s Panos Vlachogiannakos won the 1650 free in 15:17.63 – a near-identical time to the 15:17.92 that placed him 2nd in a much more robust field last season.

Pacific 5th year Aidan Scott won the 200 back in 1:47.40, leading a 1-2-3-4 finish for his team that just about sealed the meet with four races to go.

Pacific won again when Mitchell Hopper topped the 100 free in 43.39, out-touching UIW’s Fabio Fasolo by .04 seconds. That’s a new best time for Hopper by a tenth in what will likely be his final conference championship meet.

UIW got back in the winner’s column in the 200 breaststroke, with Maksym Holubnychyi winning in 1:58.19, more than a second ahead of Pacific’s Mattie Giurgevich, but Pacific again took the most points in the event thanks to a 2-3-4-6-8 finish.

Pacific freshman Javier Lopez-Guillen wrapped the individual racing with a win in the 200 fly in 1:45.08. He swam 1:43.67 mid-season in this event.

Incarnate word won the final event, the 400 free relay, in 2:54.74, including a 42.96 split from Fasolo. That left them two seconds ahead of Pacific’s runner-up time of 2:56.71, with Hopper swimming 43.59 on the leadoff leg.

After losing several members to other conferences, the MPSF will once again grow next season amid the constant state of conference realignment in the Western US. Next year, they will add seven WAC schools in swimming and diving: California Baptist University, University of Idaho, New Mexico State University, Northern Arizona University, Northern Colorado University, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, and Utah

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