{"id":188310,"date":"2026-02-22T03:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/188310\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T03:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:51:07","slug":"spartans-finish-strong-on-final-day-of-mw-championships-sjsu-athletics-official-athletics-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/188310\/","title":{"rendered":"Spartans Finish Strong On Final Day of MW Championships &#8211; SJSU Athletics &#8211; Official Athletics Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cReally excited with how we finished up the meet.\u201d<br \/>Hear from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sagehopkins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@sagehopkins<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AllSpartans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#AllSpartans<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IE5OTMyRnx\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/IE5OTMyRnx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SJSU Swimming&amp;Diving (@SJSUSwim) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SJSUSwim\/status\/2025402170804502601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 22, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>HOUSTON\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/player\/genevieve-george\" title=\"Genevieve George\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Genevieve George<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/player\/vilma-lindberg\" title=\"Vilma Lindberg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vilma Lindberg<\/a> each finished 12th in their respective finals race on Saturday as the San Jos\u00e9 State women\u2019s swimming and diving team finished ninth at Credit Union 1 Mountain West Championships in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>George finished 12th in the 200 backstroke with a time of 1:58.11.<br \/>\nLindberg was 12th in the 200 breaststroke at 21:14.49.<br \/>\nFour Spartans finished in the top-25 in the 100 freestyle \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/player\/lillie-grover\" title=\"Lillie Grover\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lillie Grover<\/a> 18th, 50.65; <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/player\/dalton-sickon\" title=\"Dalton Sickon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dalton Sickon<\/a>, 50.70; <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/player\/stephanie-sifferman\" title=\"Stephanie Sifferman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stephanie Sifferman<\/a> 20th, 50.74; and <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/player\/mya-azzopardi\" title=\"Mya Azzopardi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mya Azzopardi<\/a>, 23rd, 51.16.<br \/>\nDiver <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/player\/elinor-windram\" title=\"Elinor Windram\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elinor Windram<\/a> scored a 208.85 in the platform preliminaries to move into seventh all-time on the SJSU platform list.<br \/>\nThe 400 freestyle relay team of Grover, Sickon, Sifferman and Azzopardi finished in 3:21.84, the ninth-fastest time in school history.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Spartans finish strong at the Credit Union 1 Mountain West Swim &amp; Dive Championships! \ud83c\udfa5<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AllSpartans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#AllSpartans<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nwhZo61hh8\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/nwhZo61hh8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SJSU Swimming&amp;Diving (@SJSUSwim) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SJSUSwim\/status\/2025405739922067647?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 22, 2026<\/a><br \/>\n200 Backstroke<br \/>12. <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/player\/genevieve-george\" title=\"Genevieve George\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Genevieve George<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a01:58.11<br \/>100 Freestyle<br \/>18. <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/player\/lillie-grover\" title=\"Lillie Grover\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lillie Grover<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a050.65<br \/>19. <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/player\/dalton-sickon\" title=\"Dalton Sickon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dalton Sickon<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a050.70<br \/>20. <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/player\/stephanie-sifferman\" title=\"Stephanie Sifferman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stephanie Sifferman<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a050.74<br \/>23. <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/player\/mya-azzopardi\" title=\"Mya Azzopardi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mya Azzopardi<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a051.16<br \/>200 Breaststroke<br \/>12. <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/player\/vilma-lindberg\" title=\"Vilma Lindberg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vilma Lindberg<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a02:14.49<br \/>400 Freestyle Relay<br \/>9. San Jos\u00e9 State (Grover, Sickon, Sifferman, Azzopardi) \u00a0 \u00a03:21.84<br \/>Preliminaries<br \/>Platform Diving<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/player\/elinor-windram\" title=\"Elinor Windram\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elinor Windram<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0208.85<br \/>200 Backstroke<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/player\/hannah-ernst\" title=\"Hannah Ernst\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hannah Ernst<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a02:03.73<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/player\/bethany-burga\" title=\"Bethany Burga\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bethany Burga<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a02:09.97<br \/>100 Freestyle<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/player\/keira-vail\" title=\"Keira Vail\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keira Vail<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a051.00<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/player\/nikki-lahey\" title=\"Nikki Lahey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikki Lahey<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a051.12<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/player\/noemi-bravo-guzman\" title=\"Noemi Bravo-Guzman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Noemi Bravo-Guzman<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a051.34<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/player\/lais-gasparini-e-silva\" title=\"Lais e Silva\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lais e Silva<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a051.95<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/player\/luna-balbuena\" title=\"Luna Balbuena\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luna Balbuena<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a051.95<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/player\/jayne-harcarufka\" title=\"Jayne Harcarufka\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jayne Harcarufka<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a053.15<br \/>200 Breaststroke<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/player\/ashley-jackson\" title=\"Ashley Jackson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ashley Jackson<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a02:22.36<br \/>#AllSpartans<br \/>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cReally excited with how we finished up the meet.\u201dHear from @sagehopkins #AllSpartans pic.twitter.com\/IE5OTMyRnx \u2014 SJSU Swimming&amp;Diving (@SJSUSwim) February&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":{"0":"post-188310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-san-jose","9":"tag-san-jose-headlines","10":"tag-san-jose-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}