All-Arizona Quad Meet
Arizona State dominated the primary quad meet between the 4 Arizona Division I swimming packages. The lads went 2-0 on the day and the ladies went 3-0 to remain unbeaten via the start of the 2024-25 season.
Males’s Meet
- Notice: outcomes present a 39.67 break up within the 100 free for Jonny Kulow. Whereas we are able to’t definitively say it didn’t occur, all of the context round it signifies that it most likely is a timing error, however was nonetheless an excellent break up for October. The meet had a variety of timing points.
Ilya Kharun continues to be on hearth this season. After stellar performances within the Solar Devils twin towards UNLV—together with a 1:39.47 200 fly—the sophomore had one other robust efficiency at this untraditional meet, which featured the 600 freestyle and the 100 IM, together with the 50s and 150s of stroke.
Already this season we’ve seen Hubert Kos add his identify to the all-time high 10 record within the 100 IM and Kharun didn’t waste his likelihood within the occasion, dashing to a 46.91. Per our information, that’s the third-fastest 100 IM in historical past and makes Kharun simply the third man to interrupt 47 seconds together with Shaine Casas (46.33) and Leon Marchand (46.63).
Kharun was additionally spectacular at house in his butterfly occasions. He swam a 19.94 50 butterfly, which appears to be the second-fastest flat begin 50-yard fly. For reference, the quickest we’ve discovered is Josh Liendo’s 19.90 to open his 100 fly on the 2024 NCAAs (Caeleb Dressel was out in 19.99 on his NCAA-record swim). Kharun opened his particular person occasions with the 150 fly, successful in 1:12.29. That’s quicker than his first 150 yards on his 200 fly PB from final season; there, he was a 1:12.86 on the primary 150 yards.
The Solar Satan males had no scarcity of occasion winners on Saturday. Kharun led the group with three however senior Patrick Sammon and freshman Lucien Vergnes every picked up two wins. Sammon received the 150 freestyle in 1:07.24 in a 1-2 end with Jonny Kulow. Sammon then received the 300 freestyle, outdueling Wildcat freshman Tomas Lukminas (2:30.76).
Verges, a freshman from France, led a 1-2-3-4 Solar Satan end within the 50 backstroke, swimming 21.75. He’s primarily a breaststroke specialist and picked up the win within the 150 breaststroke, swimming 1:24.07.
Reece Grady (600 free, 5:22.73), Tommy Palmer (50 free, 19.83), and Jono Adam (150 again, 1:14.64) additionally contributed occasion wins for the Solar Devils.
It wasn’t all Solar Devils although—the Arizona Wildcats have been capable of swipe three occasion wins of their very own to make them a break up meet, dropping to ASU however triumphing over GCU. Arizona received each the lads’s and girls’s 1-meter, with Gage DuBois incomes 330.45 factors to guide the lads. Again within the pool, junior Bryan Wong received the 300 IM in 2:52.48 and senior Daniel Younger took the 50 breaststroke with a 24.10.
Girls’s Meet
To open the meet, the Solar Devils despatched out their college document holders within the 200 medley relay—Miriam Sheehan, Iza Adame, Julia Ulmann, and Caroline Bentz—to tackle the 400 medley relay. The quartet swam a 3:34.09, with Sheehan as soon as once more nearing the 100 again college document with a 52.64 opening leg. The time is 1.23 seconds off the Solar Devils’ quickest time from final season (3:32.86), which had 4 completely different swimmers.
Like the lads’s squad, the ladies had a plethora of occasion winners, as eight completely different girls touched the wall first for the Solar Devils. Alexa Reyna and Deniz Ertan every had two wins. The sophomore, Reyna, received her first win by beating Ertain within the 600 freestyle, swimming 5:43.08. Ertan received the 150 fly (1:25.84), then the 2 tied for the win within the 300 freestyle with a 2:46.40. There, Charli Brown clocked 2:46.74, ending simply behind the successful duo.
After successful the opening medley relay, Sheehan received the 50 backstroke in 24.29, main a 1-2 end with Bentz, her fellow ACC switch who received the 150 again for her half (1:22.78). Then, she completed second within the 50 fly behind the freshman Ulmann, 24.18 to 24.29.
Elli Straume (150 free, 1:18.73), Sonia Vaishnani (300 IM, 3:05.24), and Zoe Summar (150 breast, 1:36.22) picked up the opposite occasion wins for the Solar Devils as the ladies went 3-0 on the day.
Arizona received the ladies’s and males’s 1-meter boards and 50 breaststroke. Within the girls’s 50 breast, Eleni Gewalt took the win for the Wildcats (28.09). Brooke Earley earned 307.80 factors to take first on 1-meter as Arizona misplaced to ASU, however received towards Grand Canyon and NAU. NAU didn’t win any occasions, however their depth gave the 11x defending WAC champions the room to beat GCU, 144-137.
Grand Canyon picked up two occasion wins. Elisa Corradi received the 100 IM, and senior Maria Brunlehner picked up Grand Canyon’s lone occasion win of the day, swimming 22.57 to win the 50 freestyle forward of Arizona’s Lexi Duchsherer.
Full Scores
Girls:
- ASU, 201 – Arizona, 80
- ASU, 218 – NAU, 63
- ASU, 211 – Grand Canyon, 70
- Arizona, 201 – NAU, 79
- Arizona, 184 – Grand Canyon, 97
- NAU, 144 – Grand Canyon, 137
Males:
- ASU, 202 – Arizona, 79
- ASU, 230 – Grand Canyon, 51
- Arizona, 197.5 – Grand Canyon, 82.5
