The Cal Bears hosted the Utah Utes today, easily handling their PAC-12 guests 174-120 in the women’s dual and 165-128 for the men. While the Utes were no match for the strength of the Bears’ roster, both teams managed to turn in times that will impact the early season rankings.
Full results with splits are here.
In the women’s dual, Cal won 13 of the 16 events. Amy Bilquist and Katie McLaughlin were double event winners, with Bilquist taking the 50 free (23.05) and 200 back (1:57.03,) and McLaughlin winning the 200 and 500 freestyles. McLaughlin’s times of 1:47.65 and 4:50.40 are currently ranked #3 and #2 so far for the 2015-16 NCAA Season.
Other Cal times making dents in the rankings were Celina Li’s 400 IM win of 4:16.23 which ranks #2 so far, and Noemie Thomas‘ 100 fly now topping the list with 53.78.
The Cal ladies were not the only impressive performances of the day. Breaststroke was a bright spot for the Utah women, as Stina Colleou was able to edge Cal’s Kathleen Baker in the 100, 1:03.66 to 1:03.88 for the win. Utah also took ownership of the 200 breast, as Colleou (2:15.45) finished second, just behind teammate Genevieve Robertson. Robertson’s 2:14.49 is good enough for 4th so far in the NCAA rankings. Ute diver Amanda Casillas also won the 1-meter in 302.70, over 20 points ahead of Cal’s Phoebe LaMay.
The Cal men managed to take the top spot in all but two events, with Andrew Seliskar and Ryan Murphy leading the way, taking two events each. Seliskar swam the 200 breast in 2:00.46, and held off Utah’s Paul Unger in the 100 back, 49.11 to 49.25. Murphy won the 50 free in 20.15 and took the win and top ranked time so far in the NCAA with 47.22 for the 100 fly.
Other high ranking times turned in by Cal include Josh Prenot’s 1:45.27 in the 200 fly that lands him in the #2 spot nationally, and Jacob Pebley’s 200 back that ranks him #3 with 1:45.77. Utah’s Kristian Kron was right behind him with a #5 ranked 1:46.00 backstroke as well.
Utah took first and second in both diving events. Josiah Purss won the 1-meter (363.08) and 3-meter ( 362.70,) while teammate Jake Crayne was second in both, scoring 317.40 and 343.80 in those events respectively. Utah’s only other event winner was Bence Kiraly in the 500 free, whose 4:28.04 ranks #6 so far on the season. Kiraly also nearly took the win in the 200 free away from Cal’s Trent Williams, who out-touched him 1:37.08 to 1:37.44. Those times land them third and fourth in the NCAA at this date.
Tomorrow, Utah continues their road trip with a dual at Stanford, starting at 2pm PST.
I’m hoping for some 100 IM in a 50 meter pool results tonite. Video would be good too. Flipping over from fly to back at the 25 meters is the tricky part.
Prenot going 3:46 400IM not good enough to make the article? Never heard of anyone going that fast in season. Probably the swim of the year so far.
@swimdad I will gladly take the bet that they will last through the day. Cal’s times here will not be beaten either by Texas or Florida. You name yourself swimdadisacalfan for the rest of the month if you lose.
The only reason they will not be beaten is because today’s swim are in a 50m pool.
and i agree with you
The Longhorns swim a Tri-Meet in Austin starting in a couple of hours. Wanna take bets that the Cal times don’t last through the end of the day?
Cal times will last until tomorrow at least; they are swimming long course today.
For times to be eligible for NCAA qualifying, the meet must include a minimum of two (2) teams, therefore, times from intersquad competitions are not eligible for submission to the Top Times listings. It doesn’t mean they aren’t ridiculously fast for October (February/March too!) though!!!
My conspiracy theory is he Texas guys were swimming in salt water at Jamail for the intrasquad meet and that is why they were able to put up those times.
This will be a solid theory until March when 2 guys on that team break 44 in the 100 fly. But this gives me 5 months to think of another conspiracy theory.
Yeah, I heard the course was 3 yards under regulation for the intersquad too…
Pretty safe to assume crazy fast happens every afternoon in Austin. Doesn’t even shock me anymore to read about the insane times at practice or time trials the Texas boys throw down.
Didnt schooling and conger post a pair of 45’s earlier in the season? that would make murphy the third fastest if so,
Anon – this has been asked at least twice every weekend this season. Texas doesn’t submit their results from the intrasquad meet as official. They haven’t for at least the last few years. Because they’re not submitted, this means that there’s guarantee of knowing if the times swum at that meet were properly officiated, correct suits, etc. Our rankings will only ever include times that have been submitted as official times to the NCAA. Everything else is more-or-less “pre-season.”
There were no officials at the Texas team meet. The times could not possible count.
This season? How about this question gets asked every season that Texas goes bonkers in intrasquad results with times other teams don’t see until February? Haha.