Lexy Halladay-Lowry was the first BYU woman to cross the line as she placed ninth in a career-best 6000-meter time of 19:33.4. Carmen Alder finished 15 seconds later to place 14th in 19:48.6. Jenna Hutchins was the third BYU woman to finish under the 20-minute mark as she placed 20th in 19:54.7.

Riley Chamberlain and true freshman Nelah Roberts placed 27th and 35th to round out the Cougars scoring five. Chamberlain clocked 20:00.1 for a new personal best and Roberts 20:06.0 in her debut over the 6000m distance.

No. 2 BYU scored 105 total points to finish on top as they beat No. 3 Washington’s 157 points, No. 1 Northern Arizona’s 165 points, Big 12 opponent No. 28 West Virginia’s 204 points and No. 4 Notre Dame’s 213 points.

“I am really proud of how we are coming together at this point in the season,” said head coach Diljeet Taylor. “The team culture is probably the thing that I am most proud of. We are just going to continue to work and build. We are definitely not at our best quite yet, but there are some things that we are taking away from this course and how it played out. We are walking away with gratitude for where we are at right now, but we are hungry to continue to keep building and see where we can end up.”

Up next, the BYU women will travel to Waco, Texas for the Big 12 Cross Country Championships Nov. 1 at the Cottonwood Creek Golf Course.

Cougar men’s and women’s swim and dive compete in Texas

BYU men’s swim and dive concluded competition against No. 12 Texas A&M and TCU on Saturday with another matchup win over the Horned Frogs in College Station, Texas.

The Cougars outscored TCU 92-75 but fell 96-71 to Texas A&M.

Darwin Anderson, Tanner Nelson and Alan Gonzalez started the day off strong for BYU with three of the top four spots in the 1,000 free. Anderson won at 9:17.86, good for No. 3 all-time at BYU. Nelson took second with a 1.46 second advantage over third-place Trey Dickey of TCU. Gonzalez followed in fourth at 9:29.30.

Jordan Tiffany notched BYU’s second win of the day with a 48.16 in the 100 back. Tiffany left Aggie swimmers trailing in second through fourth position, including reigning SEC 200 and 400 IM champion Baylor Nelson.

Tanner Nelson, Jackson Dubreuil, Jacob Ballard and Joseph Pyon took four of the top six spots in the 200 fly race with Nelson winning at 1:48.79.

Max Kleinman clocked 50.07 to finish runner-up in the 100 individual medley. Kleinman debuted on a BYU top-10 board at the Intermountain Shootout Oct. 4-5 with a 50.65 for No. 3 all-time at BYU in the 100 IM. With 50.07 on Saturday, Kleinman climbed to No. 2 while Tyler Edlefsen posted the program’s 10th-fastest 100 IM at 52.74.

Marti Llop recorded BYU men’s diving’s top score of the day with a 324.40 to finish fourth on 1-meter.

The BYU women had a tougher time, coming up just shy of another win over TCU with a narrow 85.5-81.5 defeat. Texas A&M outscored BYU 103.5-61.5.

Emma Marusakova, Mackenzie Miller Lung, Sarah Eliason and Tatum Cooley combined to start the day off strong for BYU with a 1:42.65 win in the 200 medley relay. The Cougars beat TCU by 0.53 seconds with the BYU “B” squad of Annie Reichner, Jasmine Anderson, Lily Flint and Halli Williams in third at 1:44.53.

Miller Lung tacked on a second win in as many days with a time of 1:03.26 in the 100 breast. The junior from Clovis, California left Aggie swimmers in positions two through four on her way to her fourth event win of the young season.

Sophomore Tatum Cooley won the 100 free race in 51.30 as she found the wall just one-hundredth of a second ahead of Texas A&M’s Ella McQuinn.

Halli Williams, Lily Flint, Emma Marusakova and Haylee Tiffany combined to finish the day with a 3:28.66 and third-place finish in the 400 free relay.

After a week off, the Cougars return home for a dual meet with UNLV at the Richards Building Pool on Nov. 2 at 1 p.m. MDT.