Cal vs Stanford (Males)
- Berkeley, CA
- January 31, 2025
- SCY (25 Yards)
- Meet Outcomes Obtainable on Meet Cell: “Cal vs Stanford (Males)”
- Staff Scores:
- #3 Cal 175 – #9 Stanford 125
The #3 Cal males hosted #9 Stanford as we speak for a wet final common season meet earlier than the ACC Championships subsequent month, and the Bears got here out on prime, enhancing their twin meet report to 5-1.
The spotlight of the meet was Lucas Henveaux’s nation-leading time within the first occasion of the meet, the lads’s 1650 the place he swam 14:29.74
Henveaux simply made his return to Cal for his or her final residence meet, after competing with them for the 2022-2023 season, serving to the Golden Bears to an NCAA title. His time as we speak was quicker than the 14:44.14 he went on the 2023 NCAA Championships to put ninth, and it replaces Texas swimmer Rex Maurer’s 14:30.47 on the prime of the DI rankings.
The up to date 1650 rankings:
- Lucas Henveaux (Cal)- 14:29.74
- Rex Maurer (Texas)- 14:30.47
- Noah Millard (Yale)- 14:33.47
- David Johnston (Texas)- 14:35.42
- Owen Lloyd (NC State)- 14:37.23
He swam virtually the alternative race of earlier chief Maurer, getting out quick and holding on tight, slightly than descending to drop a blistering remaining 100 (as Maurer did). With lower than a second separating the 2, it’s wanting like it is going to be an thrilling and shut race within the males’s 1650 on the NCAA Championships in March, which doesn’t occur fairly often.
His time was additionally a brand new staff report for the Golden Bears, taking down Nick Norman’s 2018 report of 14:30.82.
Henveaux additionally received the five hundred freestyle, ending eight seconds forward of the remainder of the sector, stopping the clock at 4:10.82. That is the third quickest time within the NCAA this season.
The meet began with a victory within the 200 medley relay for Cal, coming in about half-a-second forward of the Stanford ‘A’. Destin Lasco (21.28) Yamato Okadome (23.06), Dare Rose (19.68), and Jack Alexy (18.80) got here collectively to go 1:22.82, beating Stanford’s 1:23.25 set by their staff of Aaron Sequeira (21.34), Ron Polonsky (23.24), Andrei Minakov (19.95), and Ethan Harrington (18.72).
Destin Lasco went on to additionally win each of his particular person occasions. He began with the highest spot within the 200 freestyle, coming in at 1:31.85, which is tied for ninth within the NCAA this season. His 2nd win got here within the 200 IM, the place he went 1:41.68 to take the occasion by two seconds and transfer himself to eighth within the rankings.
Bjorn Seeliger received the 100 again in 45.55, and got here 2nd within the 100 free in 42.37 behind teammate Jack Alexy’s 41.61. Alexy’s time was one one-hundredth quicker than his season better of 41.62, rating him fifth within the NCAA.
Alexy additionally received the 50 free in a brand new season finest time of 19.00, which is able to tie him for twelfth within the DI rankings.
Stanford’s first occasion of the day went to senior Ron Polonsky within the 100 breast in 51.40. This was an add from the 51.21 he swam on the SMU Invite, which presently ranks him tenth within the NCAA. He additionally completed 2nd within the 200 breast at 1:52.53.
The Cardinals stored the great occasions rolling with a win within the very subsequent occasion, the 200 fly. Andrei Minakov went 1:40.54 within the occasion, simply off his season better of 1:40.30. Minakov additionally received the 100 fly in 44.83, which was an enormous season finest for him, dropping from the 45.57 he went at Cal’s meet in opposition to ASU and Stanford. His time as we speak strikes him as much as ninth within the nation.
Cal got here again with an occasion win, sweeping the highest two spots within the males’s 200 backstroke. Mewen Tomac took the occasion in 1:40.30 and Keaton Jones got here in 2nd in 1:41.80.
Yamato Okadome received the 200 breast for Cal in 1:52.31, off his season better of 1:51.65 that ranks him sixth within the nation.
The ultimate occasion of the meet additionally went to Cal, with their ‘A’ relay coming in simply over a second forward of Stanford’s ‘A’. Nans Mazellier (43.02), Gabriel Jett (41.95), Bjorn Seeliger (41.54), Jack Alexy (41.04) went 2:47.55 within the occasion. That is the fifth quickest time within the NCAA this season, coming in forward of Stanford’s season finest time. The Stanford ‘A’ at this meet went 2:48.71 with their staff of Henry McFadden (42.72), Rafael Gu (42.64), Andres Dupont Cabrera (41.70), and Andrei Minakov (41.65).
Each males’s groups might be again in motion on the 2025 ACC Championships subsequent month. The ladies’s groups are racing tomorrow for his or her model of the Battle of the Bay.
