2023 WOMEN’S PAC-12 CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Wednesday, February 22 – Saturday, February 25, 2023
- Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center, Federal Way, WA
- Defending Champions:
- Women: Stanford (1x)
- Live Results
- Live Video
- Championship Central
- Fan Guide
- Psych Sheet
- Day 4 Prelims Live Recap
For those unfamiliar with swimming terminology, the concept of “Ups” and “Downs” is a good way to track which teams performed best at prelims. In prelims, swimmers qualify for one of three finals heats: the top 8 finishers make the A final, places 9 through 16 the B final and places 17 through 24 the C final. In finals, swimmers are locked into their respective final, meaning a swimmer in the B heat (spots 9-16) can only place as high as 9th or as low as 16th, even if they put up the fastest or slowest time of any heat in the final.
In the Big 12, swimmers in the ‘C’ or “Bonus” final don’t score, which is different from other Power Five conferences.
With that in mind, we’ll be tracking “Ups and “Downs” after each prelims session. “Up” refers to swimmers in the A final, and “Down” to swimmers in the B final.
TEAM SCORES THROUGH DAY 3
- Stanford – 1149.5
- Cal – 874.5
- USC – 817.5
- UCLA – 701.5
- ASU – 541
- Arizona – 452
- Utah – 363
- Washington State – 263
Stanford led the way with 13 A-finalists emerging from Saturday morning’s prelims, including top seeds in three of the four events.
Third-place USC will have to take advantage of its three A-finalists in the 200 breast (top seed Kaitlyn Dobler, No. 2 Isabelle Odgers, and No. 7 Katherine Adams) if it wants to gain ground on second-place Cal. The Trojans also put a pair into the 100 free A-final (Anicka Delgado and Elise Garcia), but they don’t have any A-finalists in the 200 back or 200 fly.
Further down the team standings, fourth-place Arizona State is expected to outscore UCLA by about 20 points today, but unfortunately the Sun Devils have a 160.5-point deficit to overcome. Their highest qualifier this morning was Lindsay Looney, who took second in the 200 fly prelims behind Stanford’s Charlotte Hook.
Fellow Cardinals Claire Curzan and Torri Huske paced the 200 back (1:50.93) and 100 free (48.01) heats, respectively.
DAY 3 UPS/MIDS/DOWNS
| ALL | 200 Back | 100 Free | 200 Breast | 200 Fly | |
| Stanford | 13/1/2 | 5/0/0 | 3/1/2 | 2/0/0 | 3/0/0 |
| California | 7/6/4 | 3/1/1 | 2/3/0 | 0/0/2 | 2/2/1 |
| USC | 5/8/3 | 0/4/1 | 2/1/0 | 3/1/1 | 0/2/1 |
| UCLA | 3/5/8 | 0/1/2 | 2/1/2 | 1/1/1 | 0/2/3 |
| Arizona State | 2/7/5 | 0/1/1 | 0/1/2 | 0/4/1 | 2/1/1 |
| Washington State | 2/0/5 | 0/0/1 | 0/0/2 | 1/0/1 | 1/0/1 |
| Utah | 1/3/2 | 0/1/1 | 0/0/0 | 1/2/1 | 0/0/0 |
| Arizona | 0/1/3 | 0/0/1 | 0/0/0 | 0/0/1 | 0/1/1 |
Day 4 Scored Prelims
- Stanford: 376.02
- California: 294.0
- USC: 263.0
- Arizona State: 175.5
- UCLA: 156.0
- Washington State: 78.5
- Utah: 73.0
- Arizona: 32.0
I get the system of Up/Mid/Down. It seems to be a SwimSwam convention, and I also notice it always seems to follow with an explanation. I don’t recall hearing it used before starting reading SwimSwam consistently (going on ten years, maybe ?).
Instead of having to explain it every time, I often wondered why we can’t just say “A/B/C finals”. (Well, I’m telling you that IS what I say.). It does not take any longer to type; it is pretty much intuitive; it would save the repeated explanations. And it would eliminate the negative connotation associated with “Downs”. At a big meet, just making it back at night in A, B or C is quite a positive for many swimmers.… Read more »