2017 MEN’S PAC-12 CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Wednesday, March 1-Saturday March 4
- Federal Way, WA (Pacific Time Zone)
- Defending Champion: Stanford (results)
- Psych sheets
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- Live Video
- Pac-12 Record Book
- Championship Central
- Saturday Finals Heat Sheet
MEN’S 1650 FREE – FINALS
- NCAA ‘A’ cut: 14:44.43
- NCAA ‘B’ cut: 15:30.39
- Conference Record: Martin Grodzki, 2012, 14:24.35
Championship Record: Erik Vendt, 2003, 14:35.97
- True Sweetser, Stanford: 14:35.93
- Grant Shoults, Stanford: 14:50.06
- Liam Egan, Stanford: 14:57.47
The Stanford men dominated the 1650 free, with freshman True Sweetser leading the way in Pac-12 Championship record time. Sweetser finished the race in 14:35.93 to cut .04 off Erik Vendt’s championship record set way back in 2003.
Sweetser ended up coming in ahead of his second-place freshman classmate Grant Shoults by nearly fifteen seconds. Shoults finished in 14:50.06, and, in turn, had a big margin on his junior teammate and third-place finisher Liam Egan (14:57.47).
Fourth place was the first non-Cardinal swimmer, as Arizona State freshman Benjamin Olszewski hit next in 14:59.49. USC junior Pawel Furtek was fifth in 15:05.60, followed by Utah freshman Matteo Sogne in 15:12.54.
MEN’S 200 BACK – FINALS
- NCAA ‘A’ cut: 1:39.87
- NCAA ‘B’ cut: 1:46.39
- Conference Record: Ryan Murphy, 2015, 1:36.77
Championship Record: Ryan Murphy, 2015, 1:38.34
The Pac-12 swimmers are two for two with meet records tonight, as the great Ryan Murphy outswam his own meet championship record 1:38.34 set back in 2015. Tonight, Murphy split 22.96/24.66/25.10/25.35 to swim 1:38.07.
USC sophomore Patrick Mulcare won a battle for second against Arizona State senior Richard Bohus, finishing in 1:39.37. Bohus was third in 1:39.52.
Fourth went to Stanford junior Patrick Conaton in 1:41.01, followed closely by Stanford sophomore Abraham DeVine in 1:42.08. Andy Song was sixth in 1:42.98.
MEN’S 100 FREE – FINALS
- NCAA ‘A’ cut: 42.25
- NCAA ‘B’ cut: 44.29
- Conference Record: Vlad Morozov, 2013, 40.76
- Championship Record: Vlad Morozov, 2013, 41.38
- Cameron Craig, Arizona State: 41.95
- Sam Perry, Stanford: 42.30
- Justin Lynch, Cal: 42.49
Arizona State freshman Cameron Craig posted a big win over Stanford junior Sam Perry tonight with 41.95. Craig split 20.39/21.56 to take his second win of the meet. Perry finished in 42.30.
Cal junior Justin Lynch was third in 42.49, followed by his freshman teammate Michael Jensen with 42.63. Canadian Olympian and USC junior Santo Condorelli finished fifth in 42.94.
ASU senior Tadas Duskinas was sixth in 43.00, with USC’s Dylan Carter seventh in 43.07. Arizona’s Jorge Iga rounded out the final with 43.42.
MEN’S 200 BREAST – FINALS
- NCAA ‘A’ cut: 1:52.99
- NCAA ‘B’ cut: 1:59.79
- Conference Record: Kevin Cordes, 2014, 1:48.66
- Championship Record: Kevin Cordes, 2014, 1:51.80
- Steven Stumph, USC: 1:53.08
- Hunter Cobleigh, Cal: 1:53.51
- Christian Lorenz, ASU: 1:53.87
USC senior Steven Stumph emerged victorious in a tight three-way battle against Cal senior Hunter Cobleigh and ASU junior Christian Lorenz.
Stumph split 25.65/28.78/28.96/29.69 for 1:53.08 to outswim the duo. Cobleigh split 25.67/28.53/29.38/29.93 for 1:53.51 for second. Lorenz was third with 25.63/28.82/29.34/30.08 to finish third in 1:53.87.
USC senior Ridge Altman finished fourth in 1:54.04, followed by Stanford sophomore Matt Anderson in 1:54.53. Cal junior Matt Whittle finished sixth in 1:54.67.
MEN’S 200 FLY – FINALS
- NCAA ‘A’ cut: 1:41.86
- NCAA ‘B’ cut: 1:47.99
- Conference Record: Tom Shields, 2013, 1:39.65
- Championship Record: Tom Shields, 2011, 1:40.31
- Andrew Seliskar, Cal: 1:41.12
- Michael Thomas, Cal: 1:41.83
- Justin Wright, Arizona: 1:41.88
Andrew Seliskar, a sophomore from Cal, set a new championship record in the 200 fly, taking down Tom Shields’s 2011 mark of 1:41.12 by .19. He split 22.80/25.81/25.88/27.23.
Cal made major points in this event, when sophomore Michael Thomas finished second in 1:41.83.
Arizona junior Justin Wright was third in 1:41.88, followed by Stanford senior Jimmy Yoder in 1:42.48. His fellow Stanford senior classmate Tom Kremer was fifth in 1:42.96, followed by Cal freshman Jack Xie in 1:43.04.
Going into the final relay, Stanford leads with 754 points, followed by Cal with 735 and USC with 623.
MEN’S 400 FREE RELAY – FINALS
- NCAA ‘A’ cut: 2:52.45
- NCAA ‘B’ cut: 2:54.20
- Conference Record: USC, 2015, 2:47.06 (Quintero, Condorelli, Tribuntsov, Carter)
- Championship Record: California, 2011, 2:48.16 (Moore, Daniels, Shields, Adrian)
- ASU: 2:48.95 (Richard Bohus, Andrew Porter, Tadas Duskinas, Cameron Craig)
- USC: 2:50.37 (Dylan Carter, Santo Condorelli, Ralf Tribuntsov, Reed Malone)
- Cal: 2:50.55 (Justin Lynch, Michael Jensen, Andrew Seliskar, Long Gutierrez)
The men of Arizona State, Richard Bohus (42.13), Andrew Porter (43.00), Tadas Duskinas (42.37), and Cameron Craig (41.45), came out with the win in the men’s 400 free relay by a second and a half.
USC’s Dylan Carter (42.61), Santo Condorelli (42.24), Ralf Tribuntsov (42.90), and Reed Malone (42.62) were second, followed by Cal’s Justin Lynch (42.38), Michael Jensen (42.89), Andrew Seliskar (42.74), and Long Gutierrez (42.54).
Stanford grabbed fourth place points with 2:52.79, followed by Arizona with 2:52.79.
FINAL RESULTS
Overall team depth pushed Stanford to the conference championship victory, coming in just 17 points ahead of Cal. USC was second, followed by Arizona State, Arizona, and Utah.
- Stanford: 784
- Cal: 767
- USC: 657
- Arizona State: 531
- Arizona: 360
- Utah: 257
Stanford won on the strength of their four divers who won 2 events, took one 2nd, one 3rd, two 4ths, a 7th, an 8th, and two 10th. Cal had one diver. Cal won the swim meet. I guess this could mean Stanford had better overall team depth.
Day 4 recap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQLYJfpZp5g
Stanford is probably happy to finish ahead of Cal. We’ll see who will be ahead at NCAAs….
Stanford should rush home to present that trophy to the Stanford Men’s Dive Team
Cal should go and present their trophy to… oh wait
Or the distance free group, or the IM group, … that’s is what depth is.
Cal should go home and recruit a diver
It was just another training meet for Murphy. He’s not on the same planet as his backstroke college opponents.
Condorelli was very quiet this week. He’s a much better long course swimmer but it seems clear he was not tapered for that meet.
Yeah, he goes from missing an Olympic medal in the 100 free by .03 to being tied for 34th in the NCAA in the 100 free this season. Is it all attributable to lack of rest, or is he truly not swimming well? We’ll have an answer in three weeks.
Seliskar seems to be on the right track again after a tough last olympic year. But he still has to show me that resurgence in the big pool too. He’s a much better short course swimmer and will always be a much better short course swimmer. His underwaters and turns are his strengths. But I don’t forget he swam 1.55 in the 200 fly in LCM. And I think the 200 fly is the only event in which he can make the US team for worlds or olympic games.
Glad to know that you think the most versatile active American swimmer is only a contender in 1 event. And he doesn’t have to show you anything. The fact is that Seliskar has yet to qualify for a WC or Oly team, but that he could realistically make it in the 200 fly, and then potentially 200 and 400 IM, along with the freestyle relays. He has to translate his short couse speed, yeah. But you know who only had a shot at making an Olympic team in 1 event? Phelps, 200 fly in Sydney. Swimmers can rebuild themselves. Conger used to be a backstroker. So to write off a swimmer based on their performances so far is very presumptive.… Read more »
I’d love to read what you wrote about Tom Shields from 2010-2013
Who could think one year ago that ASU would have finished second in the 4X100 medley relay very close to Cal and first in the 4X100 free relay?
Great job by Mr Bowman and his team.
Cameron Craig is a freestyle beast in the making. I wonder what will be his best event in the future? 100 free or 200 free? In SCY right now I would say the 100 free is a little bit short and the 200 free seems perfect. In long course last summer the 100 free was his best event (PB of 49.41). I like swimmers who finish strong and in LCM you need that kind of swimmers. He can make the US team for Budapest.
The people who did really good are all the people who were their before Bowman except for Craig. Porter is from UofA
Well naturally, this is only Bowman’s 2nd year so the upperclassmen are going to have been there before him… What’s notable is that most (or all?) of those swimmers have improved in the last two years. Bohus was 47.1 in the back, now he’s 44.9, Lorenz dropped time in the breaststroke, Duskinas dropped time in the 100 free and fly. Plus there were several newcomers this year, headlined by a freshman who could potentially end up being the best swimmer in school history (Craig), a big time transfer in Porter, and another freshman on the NCAA bubble in the 1650 in Olszewski. I’d say Bowman has done well so far.
if Kal one it would have been different lol
Wow ASU did amazing gotta wonder how they’ll do next year though with basically their entire relay team gone
While the ASU seniors did an awesome job this year, they have great freshmen coming in next season!!! ASU is just gonna better! #BestIsYetToCome
Really? What amazing swimmers are they bringing in? Grant House is the only recruit that could really make an impact.
I know you are anxious, Uberfan! Just wait and see. Nobody saw ASU winning the 400 Free relay (the next finishers were not even close!!!) or even getting a very close 2nd to Cal in the 400 Medley relay! Much less, winning this year’s PAC-12 Swimmer of the Meet. How funny how you guys keep counting us out and shutting down ASU and their head coach. It’s just Bowman’s second year, well technically. His first year (2015-2016), he was not even involved with the recruiting at all!
In 2016-2017, ASU started strong and finished strong!!! And next year we are going to podium as a team, regardless what haters say. Again, I know you are very anxious Uberfan! Sit tight… Read more »