Arizona State vs. Cal vs. Stanford
- November 7-8, 2024
- Mona Plummer Aquatic Heart, Tempe, Arizona
- Brief Course Yards (25 yards)
- Outcomes on Meet Cellular: “ASU vs. CAL vs. Stanford”
- Workforce Rankings:
- Males: #2 Cal, #7 Arizona State (and rising), #8 Stanford
- Girls: #3 Stanford, #8 Cal, NR Arizona State
The defending NCAA Champion Arizona State males saved the throttle huge open on Thursday night in opposition to two of their former Pac-12 rivals Cal and Stanford in a meet that included the crew that options the highest two groups from final 12 months’s males’s NCAA Championship meet.
The 2 day meet will resume at 10AM Pacific Time on Friday morning.
Males’s Recap
Workforce Scores After Day 1 weren’t instantly out there.
It’s a transitional 12 months for the Arizona State males, shedding lots of their stars and NCAA Champions and their head coach Bob Bowman to the College of Texas.
Those that stayed, nonetheless, have continued to rise – very true for the dash crew, which new head coach Herbie Behm focuses on.
They opened the meet on Thursday with a 1:21.83 within the 200 medley relay, which is the highest time within the nation to this point – six-tenths higher than they have been in opposition to NC State final week. It’s additionally now simply 1.3 seconds off what they have been to position 2nd finally 12 months’s NCAA Championship meet.
That relay included Lucien Vergnes (20.88), Andry Dobrzanski (23.48), Ilya Kharun (19.12), and Jonny Kulow (18.35). The again half of that group is, briefly course, one of the best back-half within the nation. Kharun’s break up was three-tenths higher than he break up at NCAAs final 12 months, and solely Florida’s Josh Liendo had a sooner fly break up in March (18.97).
200 medley relay
The Solar Satan sprinters led the way in which for them all through the night. Vergnes, a freshman from France, gained the 100 again in 45.32, good for third within the NCAA this 12 months (Texas’ Will Modglin leads the way in which in 44.81).
Later within the session, Dobrzanski gained the 100 breast in 51.92 forward of a 52.29 from the wildly-versatile Vergnes. Cal freshman Yamato Okadome, who had a breakout profession opener in October, was third in 52.47.
The one dash occasion on Thursday that the Solar Devils didn’t win was the 100 free, the place Cal’s Jack Alexy swam 41.87 to pip Kulow by .02 seconds. They rank third and 4th within the NCAA this 12 months (Arizona State was beforehand 1-2-3 within the nation in that occasion).
That’s an enormous early-season marker for the Olympic medalist Alexy, who don’t usually put up massive markers this early within the season. Within the crew’s early November twin final 12 months, he was solely 43.44 within the 100 free as he usually builds by the spring semester to peak at NCAAs.
Arizona State’s Patrick Sammon was third in 42.00 and Tommy Palmerwas 4th in 42.52.
Males’s 100 free
The most effective group of 100 freestylers within the nation, it was unsurprising that the Arizona State males dominated the session finale within the 400 free relay. They swam 2:46.68 with a relay of Kharun (42.35), Sammon (41.50), Filip Senc-Samardzic (41.75) and Jonny Kulow (41.08). That point is a tenth off what Arizona State went final weekend, although Senc-Samardzic was about seven-tenths higher on the third leg.
It wasn’t all sprinting for ASU, although: Kharun additionally gained the 200 fly in 1:39.60 over Stanford’s Andrei Minakov (1:40.86). Kharun is the defending NCAA Champion and Minakov, if he can re-find his stride briefly course, is amongst his largest challengers to repeat. ASU freshman Michael Hochwalt gained the 400 IM in 3:45.33, beating out a area of NCAA qualifiers from final season like Cale Martter, Rick MIhm, Tyler Kopp, and Liam Custer.
Kharun’s 200 fly
Different day 1 winners embody Stanford junior Liam Custer within the 1000 free. He break up 50.13 on his final 100 to carry off a 49.60 from Arizona State’s Daniel Matheson and provides the Cardinal their solely males’s swimming win of the day. Custer touched in 8:49.08 and Matheson was 2nd in 8:49.26. These have been finest occasions for each swimmers: Custer by over two seconds and Matheson by nearly 5.
Cal’s Gabriel Jett swam an entire race to win the 200 free in 1:32.21. He break up 45.18/47.03, with the back-half making the distinction over runner-up Sammon (1:33.30). For Jett, like Alexy, that’s a way-ahead-of-schedule efficiency within the fall semester when he’s traditionally not been a lot sooner than that even on the mid-season invite.
Whereas this Arizona State crew isn’t as deep because the one which gained the title final 12 months, they’re exhibiting early this season that they’re nonetheless an excellent program with lots of good items in lots of totally different locations that’s going to make some noise in March.
Cal’s Josh Thai gained the lads’s 3-mter diving and Stanford’s Jack Ryan gained the 1-meter.
Girls’s Recap
Workforce Scores After Day 1 weren’t instantly out there.
The Cal Golden Bears girls received the primary win of the day, however the Stanford girls continued their massive momentum from the top of final season and gained 7 of the 9 swimming occasions of the day to presumably lead the scores after the meet’s first day.
Sophomore Caroline Bricker, who was one of many largest breakouts within the NCAA final season as a freshman, gained each the 200 fly (1:54.02) and 400 IM (4:08.42) on Thursday. She was superb early within the season final 12 months as nicely, however her 200 fly time was even sooner than she was in your entire fall semester as a freshman.
Bricker’s season ended on the NCAA Championships with a 4th place end within the 400 IM after dropping greater than seven seconds in her inaugural collegiate season.
Girls’s 200 fly
The signal of an enormous efficiency is when Bricker will get high billing over her Olympic teammate Torri Huske. Huske, the Olympic champion within the 100 fly gained the person 100 free on Thursday in 47.84, beating out Cal freshman Mary-Ambre Moluh; later within the session, Huske led off Stanford’s profitable 400 free relay in 47.62. She additionally swam the backstroke leg of the 2nd place Cardinal 200 medley relay, splitting 24.35.
Moluh is a little bit of a growing story for Cal. The freshman from France broke a pile of age group data in her house nation in backstroke races, however has been targeted almost-exclusively on freestyle for Cal. She anchored their profitable 200 medley relay as nicely (splits unavailable, however the remaining time was 1:35.28 for third within the NCAA this season).
Whereas Cal is a bit skinny in freestyle sprinters this season, it has fifth 12 months Isabelle Stadden as probably the greatest backstrokers within the nation, so Moluh’s transfer could also be as a lot out of necessity as something. Stadden gained the 100 again on Thursday in 51.33, beating out ASU senior switch Caroline Bentz (52.99).
Stadden’s swim ranks her seventh within the NCAA this season.
Girls’s 100 again
Different Stanford winners embody Kayla Wilson within the 200 free, touching in 1:44.81 to beat out Cal All-American and Olympian Lea Polonsky (1:45.32). Wilson is the entrance of what may very well be an excellent Stanford 800 free relay this season, relying on how they determine to allocate their relay items in March.
Stanford senior Aurora Roghair, one other revelation final season who got here inside a couple of locations of creating the U.S. Olympic Workforce, gained the 1000 free in 9:28.61. That’s a finest time by six-tenths of a second, although she’s nonetheless ranked because the Twenty third-best performer of all-time within the occasion.
Arizona State sophomore Alexa Reyna had one of many Solar Satan girls’s finest performances of the day to complete 2nd in that 1000 free in 9:40.78, which is a lifetime finest for her as nicely by simply over half-a-second.
Lucy Thomas dipped below 1 minute for the primary time this season to win the 100 breaststroke in 59.53.
Stanford additionally swept the springboard diving occasions, with senior Lauren Burch profitable on 1-meter and senior Maria Papwroth profitable on 3-meter.
