2024 MOUNTAIN PACIFIC SPORTS FEDERATION (MPSF) CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Dates:
- Diving: Monday, February 12 – Wednesday, February 14
- Swimming: Wednesday, February 21 – Saturday, February 24
- Location:
- Diving: Marguerite Aquatic Center, Mission Viejo, CA
- Swimming: Human Performance Center, St. George, UT
- Defending Champions (men): BYU (3x) – now in Big 12
- Defending Champions (women): Hawaii (1x)
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TEAM SCORES
MEN
- Hawaii – 369
- Incarnate Word – 243
- UC Santa Barbara – 220
- Cal Poly – 206
- CSU Bakersfield – 165
- UC San Diego – 123
- Pacific – 109
WOMEN
- Hawaii—384
- UC Davis – 343
- UC Santa Barbara – 216
- UC San Diego – 203
- CSU Bakersfield – 132
- Pepperdine – 128
- Cal Poly – 110
- U of San Diego – 81
- Pacific – 53
- Incarnate Word – 44
Through the 2nd day of the 2024 MPSF Championships, Hawaii has expanded their lead in the men’s team standings, while the Hawaii women’s team now holds a 41-point lead.
The Rainbow Warriors posted the highlight of the night, as their men’s 200 free relay relay shattered the MPSF record and earned an NCAA ‘A’ standard. The team of Karol Ostrowski (19.37), Jakub Ksiazek (19.04), Jordan Meacham (19.37), and Edward Stoddard (18.97) combined for a 1:16.75, which blew away the MPSF record of 1:18.07. Hawaii also dipped under the NCAA ‘A’ cut of 1:16.80, which means this relay has now qualified for the NCAA Championships. Importantly, now that Hawaii has a relay ‘A’ cut, if one of their swimmers swims an ‘A’ cut in an individual event, Hawaii will be able to race any relay in which they have swum the ‘B’ standard at NCAAs as well (presuming any swimmer on their team earns an individual invite).
Karol Ostrowski is a junior at Hawaii, having transferred there this season after spending his first two college seasons as a star for NCAA Division II powerhouse Drury. Ostrowski was a Polish Olympian at the Tokyo Olympics, having swum on Poland’s men’s 4×100 free relay. His impact on Hawaii is being felt right now. He went on from the relay last night to win the men’s 50 free individually as well. Ostrowski posted a 19.30 to win the event, setting a new Hawaii program record. As you might expect, the 50 free was a great event for the Rainbow Warriors, seeing Jakub Ksiazek take 2nd in 19.50, and Edward Stoddard come in 3rd at 19.64.
UC San Diego had a big day in the women’s events as well. They took the women’s 200 free relay in 1:29.96, just missing the MPSF record of 1:29.83. Miranda Renner (22.75), Josette Odgers (22.58), Asia Kozan (22.12), and Mackenzie Lee (22.51) teamed up to earn the win.
Renner would go on to win the women’s 50 free individually as well, clocking a 22.70. Interestingly, Asia Kozan posted the fastest split of anyone in the 200 free relay (22.12), but didn’t race the event individually. Instead, Kozan swam the 200 IM individually, where she would have qualified for the ‘A’ final, but was DQ’d in prelims for not finishing on her back going into the backstroke-to-breaststroke turn.
UC San Diego still picked up a win in the event, however, as fellow freshman Eva Boehlke swam a 1:59.84, winning the race decisively in finals. She opened up a big lead, splitting 55.45 on the first 100 off 25.73 and 29.72 fly and back splits. A 35.32 breast split then made her lead insurmountable.
It was a sweep for UC San Diego in the women’s events, as Juli Arzave won the women’s 500 free in 4:45.91. She won the race comfortably, steadily growing her lead to over 2 seconds throughout the race.
Incarnate Word picked up a win in the men’s 500 free, as Panos Vlachogiannakos swam a 4:22.30. He built up a big lead on the front half of the race then held onto it through the back half.
UC Santa Barbara also earned a win on the night, as Austin Sparrow won the men’s 200 IM in 1:44.30.
Mike Stephens contiuing to do a great job with the Hawaii program!
“Importantly, now that Hawaii has a relay ‘A’ cut, if one of their swimmers swims an ‘A’ cut in an individual event, Hawaii will be able to race any relay in which they have swum the ‘B’ standard at NCAAs as well.”
I thought they only had to have a swimmer get selected for NCAAs in order to compete in the relay, not specifically get an A cut. Can anyone enlighten me?
You need both:
-A swimmer selected (they should have this)
-An ‘A’ cut relay
OR
-If you have 4 individually qualified swimmers, you can send relays where you have ‘B’ cuts.
So they don’t need a swinger to make an individual A cut just one to get selected individually? Article doesn’t say that
No, any swimmer on the team can get invited. Doesn’t matter if they’re a member of the relay to get there.
Technically yes they need to wait for an individual to get invited. Karol is almost-certainly going to earn an individual invite, but yes until that’s official it’s not a certainty.
Is he though? 19.30 isn’t going to make it and I doubt his 100 will be that much better. Maybe they can get in via diver?
If he goes a 41.2 he’s in, but when he went 41.2 he was 18.9 in the 50 and 1:33.2 in the 200… 42.3 made it last year but 30th rank is already 42.4 without any Power Five conference meets added in… Stoddard’s 100 fly might be an interesting one to watch.
So you have to have an individual competitor to be eligible for relays?
I guess that’s where my confusion lies. Say nobody from Hawaii makes it individually, then that “A” cut relay is not allowed to swim?
Gotta have an individual
Not quite. I went back to check the rules because they’ve tweaked it a few times in the last few years.
Any individual swimmer qualifies, “A” relays are in and then any “B” relays are in too. There used to be a loophole where one qualified DIVER would get “A” relays in, but they now specify “one invited swimmer.”
If they have an “A” cut, and no individual invited swimmers, they can swim ONLY the “A” cut relay with four uninvited relay swimmers, but then they don’t get the “B” standards.
So this 200 free relay goes for sure. To get the “B” relays they need an individual invited swimmer.
Uninvited relay swimmers don’t get individual events.