USC vs ARIZONA (MEN’S & WOMEN’S DUAL)
- Friday, November 8, 2024
- Uytengsu Aquatics Middle, Los Angeles, CA
- SCY (25 Yards)
- RESULTS
TEAM SCORES
WOMEN
- USC – 193
- Arizona – 107
MEN
- USC – 169.5
- Arizona – 130.5
USC hosted Arizona for a males’s and girls’s twin meet on the Uytengsu Aquatics Middle in Los Angeles. The Trojans beat the Wildcats handily within the girls’s meet, whereas USC gained in a a lot nearer affair within the males’s meet.
WOMEN’S RECAP
USC sophomore Minna Abraham was distinctive on the day, successful the ladies’s 200 free in a blistering 1:42.01. Not solely is {that a} season finest efficiency, it additionally marks the quickest 200 free within the NCAA thus far this season. In actual fact, Abraham is the one girl thus far to crack 1:43 within the occasion this season. She was out quick on Friday, splitting 49.24 on the opening 100.
Following her win within the 200 free, Abraham took the ladies’s 100 free as nicely, swimming a 47.96. As soon as once more, that efficiency marks a season finest for Abraham, in addition to the Sixth-fastest time within the NCAA this season.
Abraham additionally helped the USC girls’s 400 free relay to victory. She led the workforce off in 48.36, then Vasilissa Buinaia break up 48.45 on the 2nd leg, Mackenzie Hodges clocked a 48.63 on the third leg, and Ella Ristic anchored in 49.79. The workforce hit the wall in 3:15.23, beating Arizona’s ‘A’ relay by 5 seconds.
Previous to the 400 free relay, Mackenzie Hodges picked up a decisive win within the girls’s 200 IM, the place she swam a 1:58.29. She swam a balanced race, splitting 25.82 on fly, 29.87 on again, 35.28 on breast, and 27.32 on breast. Hodges additionally gained the 200 again on the day, clocking a 1:54.76.
USC’s Caroline Well-known was a triple occasion winner on the day.. Well-known picked up a win within the girls’s 100 again with a 52.33, touching 1st by over 2 seconds. She then gained the 50 free in 22.45, touching out teammate Buinaia (22.49). To shut out her meet, Well-known gained the ladies’s 100 fly in 52.33, seeing Abraham are available 2nd with a 53.17.
Along with her particular person wins, Well-known helped the Trojans’ 200 medley relay to victory. Well-known (24.25), Ashley McMillan (27.90), Genevieve Sasseville (24.05), and Buinaia (21.74) mixed for a 1:37.94.
OTHER EVENT WINNERS
MEN’S RECAP
Although Arizona finally misplaced the meet, they gained each males’s relays on the day. Within the 200 medley relay, Ralph Daleiden (22.06), Daniel Younger (23.48), Haakon Naughton (20.88), and Tomas Lukminas (19.36) teamed up for a 1:25.78, successful the race by almost a second. Arizona would additionally go on to win the 400 free relay in 2:52.69. Lars Kuljus (44.08), Daleiden (42.88), Jadan Nabor (43.37), and Lukminas (42.36) mixed to get the job finished.
Lukminas and Daleiden every gained a person occasion on the day as nicely. Lukminas gained the lads’s 200 free in 1:33.95, holding off a late cost from USC’s Luke Maurer, who ended up ending 2nd in 1:34.04. Daleiden would win the 100 free later within the meet, swimming a 43.40. Lukminas got here in 2nd within the 100 free, touching in 43.62.
In the meantime, the Chmielewski brothers have been phenomenal for USC at this meet. Krzysztof Chmielewski kicked off his meet with a decisive victory within the males’s 1000 free, clocking a blistering 8:48.78. The efficiency marks a season finest for Chmielewski, additionally coming in because the #8 time within the NCAA this season. Later within the meet, Krzysztof gained the five hundred free in 4:22.86. He additionally gained the 200 fly in 1:42.37.
Michal Chmielewski picked up a win within the males’s 100 again with a 47.21.
There was a tie within the males’s 100 breast on Friday, seeing Arizona’s Daniel Younger and USC’s Chun Chan every contact in 52.66. Although they tied, they swam the race in another way. Younger was out in 24.24, whereas Chan clocked a 24.91 on the opening 50. In fact, meaning Chan got here residence significantly quicker than Younger.
Chan would go on to win the 200 breast by over a second. He swam a 1:55.53, pulling into the lead on the third 50 of the race and increasing it by the end.
OTHER EVENT WINNERS
- Males’s 50 free: Artem Selin (USC) – 19.93
- Males’s 3-meter diving: Moritz Wesemann (USC) – 4:07.20
- Males’s 200 again: Will Meyers (Arizona) – 1:45.91
- Males’s 100 fly: Haakon Naughton (Arizona) – 46.75
- Males’s 1-meter diving: Moritz Wesemann (USC) – 403.60
- Males’s 200 IM: Sanberk Oktar (USC) – 1:46.65
