ASU vs GCU
Arizona State swept the occasions versus Grand Canyon on Saturday, with the #3 ranked males successful 233-66 and the #14 ranked ladies successful 248-48.
The occasions had been highlighted by Ilya Kharun splitting 19.26 on the medley relay for the seventh quickest fly break up in historical past.
Males’s Recap
The meet opened with the 200 medley relays, the place the ASU males took the highest 4 spots. The ‘A’ workforce of Quinlan Gould (22.39), Filip Senc-Samardzic (24.45), Ilya Kharun (19.26), and Leo Roden (19.47) went 1:25.57 for the win by about half a second over the ‘B’ relay.
Kharun’s break up marks the seventh quickest break up ever, coming in simply behind his personal 19.24 break up from the 2023 NC State Invite. Kharun has been sooner twice this season, clocking 18.89 at this yr’s Wolfpack Invite for the #1 spot on the rankings and 19.12 at a tri-meet with Cal and Stanford for #4 all time. Kharun additionally occupies the #9 and #10 spots on the all-time rankings.
The ASU males had 4 two-event winners. Freshman Tolu Younger gained the boys’s 50 free in 19.90, the one swimmer below 20 seconds, and the boys’s 100 fly in 47.62, a brand new greatest time and tenth drop from the 47.71 he went on the Wolfpack Elite Invitational.
The opposite males’s dual-event winners had been Daniel Matheson, a senior, within the 500 free (4:21.69) and 400 IM (3:52.31), junior Andy Dobrzanski within the 100 breast (52.92) and the 200 breast (1:55.30), and freshman Lucien Vergnes within the 100 again (46.66) and 200 again (1:44.95).
Sophomore Ilya Kharun swam the 100 and 200 freestyles, successful the 100 in 42.15. He completed third within the 200 free, going 1:36.22 for his first time swimming the occasion this season. Senior Tiago Behar gained the 200 in 1:34.79, and Jonny Kulow took 2nd in 1:35.53.
ASU additionally took the highest three spots for the boys. The boys’s race was nearer with Patrick Sammon (42.36), Tiago Behar (42.78), Christian Osterndorf (44.01), and Jack Wadsworth (43.79) successful the occasion by a second-and-a-half over the ‘B’.
100 free champion Ilya Kharun appeared on the C-relay, which he led off in 42.08 (the quickest break up of the day). Jonny Kulow led off the ‘B’ in 42.64. Different notable relay splits got here from Filip Senc-Samardzic going 42.79 on the ‘C’-relay, and Quin Seider swimming 43.26 on the ‘B’. All of those splits would have been sooner than a number of the swimmers on the ‘A’.
Different ASU Occasion Winners:
The Grand Canyon males had a couple of quick swims as properly. Graduate pupil Harper Houk picked up two 2nd-place finishes within the 100 and 200 breaststroke occasions, swimming 55.26 and a couple of:00.76 respectively. Junior Alex Volkov took 2nd within the 100 backstroke at 47.17. GCU additionally picked up 2nd and third within the 50 freestyle with sophomore Guillermo Carrey swimming 20.06 for 2nd and junior Mario Perez ending in 20.08 for third.
Prime three ending swimmers included senior Sam Jennings within the 200 backstroke, ending in 1:48.95 for third, and sophomore Jasu Ovaskainen within the 100 fly, ending in 48.05.
The divers additionally earned three top-three finishes. Within the 1-meter occasion Andrew Bussman (313.90) and Omar Elsayed (212.33) picked up 2nd and third on the boys’s facet. Elsayed completed 2nd within the 3-meter with a rating of 308.63.
Ladies’s Recap
The ASU ladies dominated the meet, taking the highest two in each occasion and the highest three in all however one. They began the meet off with the highest 4 spots within the 200 medley relay, coming in at 1:38.41 with their workforce of Caroline Bentz (24.63), Iza Adame (27.10), Charli Brown (24.16), and Erin Milligan (22.52). This was nearly two seconds forward of their ‘B’ relay’s time of 1:40.21.
Their medley relay has damaged the college report 4 instances this season, most not too long ago the day earlier than swimming this meet, however they went with a unique order and configuration vs GCU. The traditional relay is Miriam Sheehan, Iza Adame, Julia Ullmann, and Caroline Bentz they usually maintain the workforce report at 1:35.69. Ullmann ended up swimming fly on the ‘D’ relay, splitting the quickest break up of 23.48, and Sheehan appeared on the backstroke leg of the ‘C’ relay the place she additionally went the quickest break up at 24.26
ASU additionally had two dual-event winners. Sophomore Alexa Reyna swept the space free occasions, coming in at 16:48.07 within the mile to win by greater than 10 seconds. She additionally went 4:48.42 within the 500 free, 13 seconds forward of 2nd place Lia Csulak’s 5:01.76.
Graduate switch Caroline Bentz was the opposite ladies’s two-event winner, taking the highest spot within the 100 and 200 freestyle occasions in 48.73 and 1:47.41 respectively.
Whereas no one else had two 1st-place finishers, there have been three ladies who earned 1st and 2nd place spots, and two of them got here from the breaststroke occasions. Seniors Iza Adame and Emma Gehlert traded off 1st and 2nd positions. Adame gained the 100 breaststroke in 1:01.06 and picked up a 2nd place within the 200 breaststroke at 2:14.82. Gehlert was the alternative, successful the 200 breast in 2:13.34 and ending 2nd within the 100 at 1;01.73.
Freshman Julia Ullmann was the opposite 1-2 finisher, successful the 200 butterfly in 1:58.82, and coming in simply behind Bentz for 2nd within the 100 free along with her 50.44.
ASU ended the meet with one other dominant relay swim, once more gathering the highest 4 locations. The ‘A’ workforce of Caroline Bentz (49.13), Erin Milligan (50.04), Mary Brinker (50.77), Elli Straume (50.56) swam 3:20.50 to beat the ASU ‘B’ squad by nearly 4 seconds.
Different ASU Occasion Winners:
Grand Canyon had two ladies end within the high three, one swimmer and one diver. Senior Aleksandra Wegrzynowska completed third within the 500 freestyle at 5:05.20.
Within the 1-meter diving occasion, Lacy Neighbor completed 2nd with a rating of 249.68 for the ladies, 26 factors again of the first place finisher.
ASU will probably be again within the water on January tenth to host Minnesota.
The GCU ladies will swim once more on January eleventh vs New Mexico State, and the GCU males are again in motion on January 18th vs California Baptist.
