2015 Men’s Pac 12 Championship: Cal, USC Split Relays to Open Meet

PAC 12 MEN

  • Dates: Wednesday, March 4th – Saturday, March 7th; Prelims 11AM/Finals 6PM (Diving February 25th-February 28th with women’s Pac-12s)
  • Location: Federal Way, WA  (Pacific Time Zone)
  • Defending Champion: California (results)
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ICYMI:

Last one, fast one!  Night one of the 2015 Men’s Pac 12 Championship–the final swimming conference championship meet of the power conferences.  Cal looks to start the meet off on the right foot with another win in the 200 medley relay, while USC aims to repeat in the 800 free relay.

SCHEDULE

200 Medley Relay

Chuck Katis opened up a lead with a swift 23.67 breaststroke leg, giving Cal just enough room to hold off USC, 1:24.16 to 1:24.39.  The Trojans equaled or bettered the Bears in each of the other three relay legs, but the four-tenth differential between Katis and Morten Klarskov made all the difference.

A comparison of the two squads:

Cal:
Murphy – 21.21
Katis – 23.67 (44.88)
Lynch – 20.32 (1:05.20)
Messerschmidt – 18.96 (1:24.16)

USC:
Spinazzola – 21.21
Klarskov – 24.08 (45.29)
Carter – 20.21 (1:05.50)
Condorelli – 18.89 (1:24.39)

Both teams actually trailed after the opening 50, with David Nolan getting Stanford out to an early lead in a blistering 21.13.  The Cardinal, however, quickly fell back in the breaststroke lg before a strong fly leg from Andrew Liang (20.35) solidified them in the third spot in 1:25.13.

Despite having the fastest breaststroke (Kevin Cordes at 23.52) and freestyle (Brad Tandy at 18.74) legs in the field, Arizona settled for fourth in 1:25.17.  In-state rival Arizona State, who was actually well ahead at the 150 mark, settled for *fifth in 1:25.72, also under the NCAA ‘A’ standard.

*USC’s B relay was the fifth fastest team in 1:25.18, with a great front half from Ralf Tribuntsov (21.25) and Sergio Lujan-Rivera (23.96), but only A relays score points at this meet.

800 Free Relay

Returning three of four legs from their NCAA championship relay from last March, the USC Trojans pulled away from Stanford over the final leg to win in a time of 6:12.51, crushing the previous Pac 12 Meet record.

The defending champions built an early 2+ second lead behind great opening legs from Dylan Carter (1:33.55) and Reed Malone (1:32.86), but David Nolan closed the gap to just 0.04 with a 1:32.49 third leg that included a 22.9 final 50.  Luckily for USC, Cristian Quintero dropped a 1:31.65 over the final 200 to seal the win.  That 6:12.51 is now the second fastest time in the country this year, and is more than two seconds under the old, super-suited meet record from 2009.

Stanford finished in second in 6:14.98, which included Nolan and three others (Drew Cosgarea, Tom Kremer, and Thomas Stephens) all swimming between 1:34.0 and 1:34.4.  More importantly, that will put the Cardinal in the final heat at NCAA’s (they currently sit 5th nationally).  Last season, they finished third overall from the second-fastest heat.

Cal was a distance third in 6:19.30, including a solid a 1:34.39 leadoff from Trent Williams.

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bobo gigi
9 years ago

Off topic but for those who want to watch Nathan Adrian, Natalie Coughlin, Anthony Ervin, Sarah Sjöström, Katinka Hosszu, Mireia Belmonte, Jazmin Carlin, Michael Jamieson, Yannick Agnel, Florent Manaudou, Jérémy Stravius, Camille Lacourt, Frédérick Bousquet and many others in action at the 3rd stage of the FFN Golden Tour in Marseille, I give you some news and links now because I will be absent from swimswam until next Sunday evening.

Finals will be:
Friday at 6 PM here in France/12 PM ET in USA
Saturday at 6 PM here in France/12 PM ET in USA
Sunday at 4.30 PM here in France/10.30 AM ET in USA

LIVE RESULTS
http://www.liveffn.com/cgi-bin/resultats.php?competition=30077&langue=fra

bobo gigi
Reply to  bobo gigi
9 years ago
Peter Davis
9 years ago

Best time of the year started about 6 hours ago. Goes til end of March…

Cal
124.16 will be under123 in a few weeks. Most conservatively there is about .4, .5, .0, .3 room for improvement on each leg which would = 122.9. What I think: 20.51, 22.96, 20.04, 18.48 = 121.99 🙂 Tony Cox played the ‘lynchpin’ role on the relays the last two years – he swam the 50/100 fly, 50/100 back, and 50 free on relays at NCAAs for Cal, so it’s fitting that Justin is taking over for him now.
619 not great but it looks like Chill Will had noone to race while anchoring. Will be tough to even crack the top 8… Read more »

peter davis
Reply to  Peter Davis
9 years ago

Forgot to mention Cosgarea, Williams, Carter, Soedel into NCs with their 800 leadoff efforts.

bobo gigi
9 years ago

Best relay splits

4X50 medley
Back. Dave Nolan (Stanford) 21.13
Breast. Kevin Cordes (Arizona) 23.52
Fly. Dylan Carter (USC) 20.21
Free. Brad Tandy (Arizona) 18.74

4X200 free
Cristian Quintero (USC) 1.31.65

SWIMFAN
9 years ago

2014:

1 University of Southern Calif-CA A 6:17.40 6:12.54 A
1) Carter, Dylan FR 2) r:+0.24 Colupaev, Dimitri SR 3) r:+0.04 Malone, Reed FR 4) r:+0.41 Quintero, Cristian JR
r:+0.68 21.56 45.30 (45.30) 1:09.15 (1:09.15) 1:33.61 (1:33.61)
1:54.71 (21.10) 2:18.15 (44.54) 2:42.20 (1:08.59) 3:07.77 (1:34.16)
3:28.87 (21.10) 3:52.71 (44.94) 4:16.52 (1:08.75) 4:40.62 (1:32.85)
5:01.96 (21.34) 5:25.11 (44.49) 5:48.85 (1:08.23) 6:12.54 (1:31.92)

2015:

1 USC-CA ‘A’ 6:28.85 6:12.51 A 40
1) Carter, Dylan SO 2) r:0.11 Malone, Reed SO
3) r:0.13 Domagala, Michael SO 4) r:0.26 Quintero, Cristian SR
r:+0.62 21.44 44.84 (44.84)
1:08.97 (1:08.97) 1:33.55 (1:33.55)
1:54.99 (21.44) 2:18.74 (45.19)
2:42.58 (1:09.03) 3:06.41 (1:32.86)
3:27.35 (20.94) 3:51.15 (44.74)
4:15.59 (1:09.18) 4:40.86 (1:34.45)
5:01.94 (21.08) 5:24.99 (44.13)
5:48.79 (1:07.93) 6:12.51 (1:31.65)

SWIMFAN
Reply to  SWIMFAN
9 years ago

I think they will win it again at NCAA..

Ole 99
9 years ago

With the creation of the big conference networks, am I the only one that keeps thinking swimming coverage has taken s big step backward. We’ve gone from free live feeds to tape delayed filler coverage.

SWIMFAN
Reply to  Ole 99
9 years ago

I don’t think so as we were able to watch SEC, ACC, and even other smaller conferences on live video. PAC12 needs to step up its game!

ole 99
Reply to  SWIMFAN
9 years ago

Might be my cable provider, but ESPN did not give me access to the SEC Network.

samuel huntington
9 years ago

USC looks like it will go 1,2,3 in the 200 with Quintero, Malone, Carter.

SWIMFAN
Reply to  samuel huntington
9 years ago

As they should… Weren’t they 1:33s out of HS???

Reply to  SWIMFAN
9 years ago

I don’t think so. 134 for carter… I think 135 for malone.

ArtVanDeLegh10
Reply to  Hulk Swim
9 years ago

I’m pretty sure Carter went 1:33 at a meet before he started swimming for USC his Freshman year. If I remember correctly, he started with USC in the winter, but went 1:33 at a meet in December. I don’t think that constitutes being 1:33 in HS, but he was 1:33 before he got to USC.

Admin
Reply to  ArtVanDeLegh10
9 years ago

This is correct. He was a 1:33.67 at Winter Juniors in 2013, which is still his second-best time (behind the 1:33.61 that he went at Pac-12’s).

At that point, he was already living in LA and training with USC, though he wasn’t officially on the college roster.

samuel huntington
9 years ago

USC, looking very sharp. and their sophomore class is outstanding.

SwimGeek
9 years ago

usc goes 6:12. Blistering 1:31.65 anchor by Quintero!

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