CAL vs USC (COMBINED DUAL)
- Friday, January 17, 2025
- Spieker Aquatics Complicated, Berkeley, CA
- SCY (25 Yards)
- RESULTS
TEAM SCORES
WOMEN
- Cal – 185
- USC – 115
MEN
- Cal – 212
- USC – 88
Cal hosted USC for a twin meet this afternoon on the Spieker Aquatics Complicated. The Golden Bears emerged victorious in lopsided remaining scores for each the boys’s and ladies’s meets. The story of the meet, nonetheless, was Cal revealing the addition of two Olympians to their males’s roster with simply over a month earlier than the ACC Championships. Lucas Henveaux made his return to Cal after serving to the Golden Bears win the 2023 NCAA Championships, whereas France’s Mewen Tomac lastly made his debut for Cal after he was set to hitch the crew within the fall.
Henveaux was nothing wanting exemplary in his return to the Golden Bears, ripping a 4:11.17 within the 500 free. Not solely does that efficiency are available lower than a second off Henveaux’s profession better of 4:10.50, however he additionally set a brand new pool report within the course of. Moreover, Henveaux’s swim marks the 4th-fastest efficiency within the NCAA this season.
Henveaux additionally popped a 1:32.14 within the 200 free at this time, profitable that occasion as properly. He was very constant within the race, splitting 21.27, 23.12, 23.85, and 23.90 respectively by 50. Heanveaux additionally cut up 42.82 on Cal’s ‘C’ 400 free relay.
There was a 2nd pool report damaged on the day, as Dare Rose clocked a forty five.17 within the males’s 100 fly, breaking that report as properly. That was a really robust efficiency for Rose, coming in properly underneath a second off his profession better of 44.46, which he swam on the NCAA Championships final March. Rose would go on to swim a 1:42.46 for third within the males’s 200 fly.
Tomac was superb in his collegiate debut. He kicked issues off with a 46.26 within the males’s 100 again, which was good for 2nd. It was teammate Destin Lasco who received the occasion in 46.06. Tomac then went 1:42.77 within the 200 again, which was 4th. Lasco additionally received that occasion, swimming a 1:39.21, whereas Gabriel Jett got here in 2nd with a 1:39.56.
Tomac swam the 200 IM as properly, taking fifth with a 1:47.66.
Previous to his 1:39 within the 200 again, Jett received the boys’s 200 fly in 1:40.06, touching first by properly over 2 seconds.
The lads’s 100 breast noticed an excellent race between USC freshman Chun Ho Chan and Cal freshman Yamato Okadome. Chan received the race in 51.72, touching out Okadome, who swam a 51.92. Okadome went on to win the boys’s 200 breast by an enormous margin, clocking a speedy 1:51.65.
Cal’s Matthew Chai was improbable within the males’s 1000 free at this time, clocking a really fast 8:45.81. The race marks a profession finest for Chai by 6 seconds. He unfavorable cut up the race, going 4:24.65 on the opening 500 yards, then cut up 4:21.16 on the again half of the race.
Cal’s dash duo of Jack Alexy and Bjorn Seeliger had been wonderful at this time as properly. Alexy received the boys’s 100 free in 41.62, whereas Seeliger swam a 42.10 for 2nd. Within the 50 free, Seeliger received in 18.86, profitable the race by over a second.
Seeliger (20.75), Luca Gissendaner (23.47), Rose (19.84), and Alexy (18.34) teamed as much as win the boys’s 200 medley relay in 1:22.40. Matthew Jensen (42.75), Seeliger (41.91), Lasco (42.35), and Rose (43.32) mixed to win the boys’s 400 free relay in 2:50.33.
Cal freshman Mary-Ambre Moluh swept the ladies’s spring free occasions on the day, profitable the ladies’s 50 free in 22.01, and the 100 free in 48.35.
The ladies’s 200 free was an exceptional race. Cal’s Leah Polonsky received the race in 1:44.05, whereas USC’s Minna Abraham got here in 2nd with a 1:44.19, and Cal’s Ava Chavez touched third in 1:44.41. Polonsky held a slim lead all through the race. Polonsky went on to win the ladies’s 200 IM as properly, swimming a 1:56.68.
There was additionally an excellent race within the ladies’s 500 free, as USC’s Justina Kozan received in 4:42.58, touching out Chavez, who went 4:42.75. Kozan had expanded her result in almost 2 seconds in the midst of the race, however Chavez progressively closed the hole over the again half of the race, making it a really tight end.
USC’s Claire Tuggle received the ladies’s 1000 free in 9:34.50, entire Cal’s Maya Geringer got here in 2nd with a 9:35.98.
To no shock, Cal’s Isabelle Stadden swept the backstroke occasions on the day. She clocked an excellent twin meet swim of fifty.26 within the 100 again, earlier than ripping an eye-popping 1:49.96 within the 200 again.
USC’s Kaitlyn Dobler swept the ladies’s breaststroke occasions on the day. She kicked issues off with a 59.22 within the 100 breast, profitable the race by over half a second. Dobler then went on to clock a 2:11.33 within the 200 breast, whereas teammate Ashley McMillan got here in 2nd with a 2:11.33.
Moluh (48.63), Stadden (48.01), Morgan Brophy (49.13), and McKenna Stone (48.34) teamed as much as win the ladies’s 400 free relay for Cal with a 3:14.11. The Cal 200 medley relay crew of Stadden (23.34), Polonsky (26.53), Stone (23.07), and Moluh (21.36) mixed for a 1:34.30, profitable the race decisviely.
OTHER EVENT WINNERS
- Males’s 200 IM: Sanberk Yigit Oktar (USC) – 1:45.16
- Males’s 1-meter diving: Moritz Wesemann (USC) – 388.25
- Males’s 3-meter diving: Moritz Wesemann (USC) – 403.10
- Ladies’s 100 fly: Lizzy Prepare dinner (Cal) – 52.02
- Ladies’s 200 fly: Lilou Ressencourt (Cal) – 1:55.30
- Ladies’s 1-meter diving: Kate Miller (USC) – 303.60
- Ladies’s 3-meter diving: Kate Miller (USC) – 307.35
