The Golden Bears have repeated at Pac-12 Champions, winning their second straight title tonight.
Cal was absolutely dominant on the final night of the 2019 Men’s Pac-12 Swimming and Diving Championships, sweeping every event of the session and breaking two Pac-12 meet records. The Bears also won the closing 400 free relay, giving them a clean sweep of all five relays at Pac-12’s. Check out full results below and recaps of all the swims from the night.
Final Scores:
1- Cal (948)
2- Stanford (716)
3- University of Arizona (570)
4- Arizona State (459.5)
5- USC (366.5)
6- Utah (335)
1650 Free
Cal senior Nick Norman got the Golden Bears off to a strong start on the final night of Pac-12’s, opening up with a dominant win in the mile with a 14:33.96. That was not only a season best for Norman, but it broke the Pac-12 record in that event which had stood at 14:35.93.
That record had been held by Stanford’s True Sweetser, who was fourth in this final in 14:49.41. In second was Sweetser’s teammate, James Murphy (14:44.07), while Cal sophomore Sean Grieshop rounded out the podium in third (14.44.83).
Event 16 Men 1650 Yard Freestyle
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Name Year School Seed Finals
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1 Norman, Nick SR CAL-PC 14:46.56 14:33.96
2 Murphy, James JR STAN-PC 14:53.83 14:44.07
3 Grieshop, Sean SO CAL-PC 14:56.63 14:44.83
4 Sweetser, True JR STAN-PC 14:46.43 14:49.41
5 Fail, Brooks SO UA-AZ 14:43.90 14:50.88
6 Hirschberger, Matthew SO STAN-PC 14:56.48 14:54.65
7 Olszewski, Benjamin JR ASU-AZ 15:06.93 14:56.21
8 Johansson, Victor FR USC-CA 14:55.57 14:57.15
200 Back
Sophomore Bryce Mefford kept the ball rolling for Cal in the 200 back, winning the second individual event of the night and dropping more than two seconds from his prelims time. Mefford finished in 1:39.13 and was joined under the 1:40 barrier by Zachary Poti (1:39.88), who won the 100 back earlier in the meet.
Rounding out the podium was another Cal sophomore, Daniel Carr, who was third in 1:40.25. Carr was also runner-up to Poti in the 100 back earlier in the meet.
Event 17 Men 200 Yard Backstroke
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Name Year School Prelims Finals
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=== A - Final ===
1 Mefford, Bryce SO CAL-PC 1:41.19 1:39.13
2 Poti, Zachary JR ASU-AZ 1:40.96 1:39.88
3 Carr, Daniel SO CAL-PC 1:41.08 1:40.25
4 Conaton, Patrick SR STAN-PC 1:40.47 1:40.92
5 Cowand, Glen SO STAN-PC 1:41.61 1:41.97
6 McArthur, Daniel SR UTAH-UT 1:41.49 1:42.62
7 Ho, Ben JR STAN-PC 1:42.31 1:42.81
8 Anderson, Thomas JR UA-AZ 1:41.23 1:43.29
100 Free
Pawel Sendyk got his second win at Pac-12’s in a dramatic fashion, dropping more than a second from his prelims swim to finish first out of lane 8 in 41.95. That is a huge best time for the Cal junior and his first time under 42 seconds. Sendyk had already won the 50 free earlier in the meet, where he led a 1-2-3 sweep for Cal.
In second was Michael Jensen, who was the top seed coming into tonight’s final. His time of 42.15 just misses lifetime best. Cal almost made it a 1-2-3 sweep again in the sprint event, but Utah senior Austin Phillips broke up the Golden Bear contingent with a strong swim of 42.29 for bronze. In fourth was Cal sophomore Ryan Hoffer (42.40).
Event 18 Men 100 Yard Freestyle
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Name Year School Prelims Finals
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=== A - Final ===
1 Sendyk, Pawel JR CAL-PC 43.00 41.95
2 Jensen, Michael JR CAL-PC 42.37 42.15
3 Phillips, Austin SR UTAH-UT 42.61 42.29
4 Hoffer, Ryan SO CAL-PC 42.64 42.40
5 O'Haimhirgin, Liam JR UTAH-UT 42.69 42.54
6 Swift, Carter SO ASU-AZ 42.52 42.80
6 Miljenic, Nikola SO USC-CA 42.68 42.80
8 Iga, Jorge JR UA-AZ 42.91 42.91
200 Breast
Andrew Seliskar had a monster swim in the 200 breast, dropping more than three seconds from his prelims swim to absolutely destroy his old meet record. Seliskar touched in 1:49.80, taking down his meet record of 1:51.30 and breaking 1:50 for the first time in his career. The Cal senior’s previous best time had been a 1:50.40 from last year’s NCAA’s. That swim also makes Seliskar that fastest 200 breaststroker so far this season and the first swimmer to break 1:50 this year.
In second was teammate Reece Whitley (1:50.62), who dropped a second from his own lifetime best to move up to third in the country. These two were well ahead of the field, with third going to Arizona freshman David Schlicht (1:53.50). Schlicht was also runner-up in the 200 IM and 400 IM. This was Cal’s third straight event win of the evening and their second 1-2 finish of the night.
Event 19 Men 200 Yard Breaststroke
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Name Year School Prelims Finals
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=== A - Final ===
1 Seliskar, Andrew SR CAL-PC 1:53.14 1:49.80
2 Whitley, Reece FR CAL-PC 1:52.39 1:50.62
3 Schlicht, David FR UA-AZ 1:54.13 1:53.50
4 Roy, Daniel FR STAN-PC 1:54.12 1:53.75
5 Arvidsson, Karl JR CAL-PC 1:54.37 1:54.44
6 Pastorek, Brennan SO STAN-PC 1:53.32 1:54.54
7 Iida, Sam SO UA-AZ 1:53.79 1:54.62
8 Poppe, Hank JR STAN-PC 1:53.25 1:54.82
200 Fly
Cal junior Zheng Quah gave the Golden Bears a sweep of individual events while also breaking his own meet record in the 200 fly. Quah touched first in 1:39.86, taking down his own meet record of 1:40.24 and putting him close to his Pac-12 record and lifetime best of 1:39.29 from the Georgia Invitational in the fall.
Cal made it a 1-2-3 sweep of this event, with sophomore Trenton Julian coming in second in 1:41.74 and senior Mike Thomas grabbing third in 1:42.17.
Event 20 Men 200 Yard Butterfly
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Name Year School Prelims Finals
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=== A - Final ===
1 Quah, Zheng JR CAL-PC 1:42.28 1:39.86
2 Julian, Trenton SO CAL-PC 1:42.79 1:41.74
3 Thomas, Mike SR CAL-PC 1:43.29 1:42.17
4 Liang, Alex SO STAN-PC 1:42.99 1:42.74
5 Xie, Jack JR CAL-PC 1:43.33 1:43.14
6 Meyer, Brendan JR UA-AZ 1:43.31 1:43.23
7 Jurek, Mark JR USC-CA 1:44.67 1:44.41
8 Oh, Mathias SR UA-AZ 1:44.23 1:45.16
400 Free Relay
Cal closed the meet with another relay win, touching first in a dominant 2:48.80 to complete their sweep of all five relays at the Pac-12 Championships. The team of Michael Jensen (42.33), Pawel Sendyk (42.30), Ryan Hoffer (42.27), and Andrew Seliskar (41.90) led the field from start to finish to put an exclamation point on strong meet for the Cal Bears.
That time was just off their second-ranked time in the country from the Georgia Invite in the fall, and looking at the flat starts that Jensen, Sendyk, and Hoffer put up in the individual 100 free earlier in the session there is reason to believe this relay could be a full second or two faster come NCAA’s.
Event 21 Men 400 Yard Freestyle Relay
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School Seed Finals
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1 CAL-PC 'A' 2:48.44 2:48.80
1) Jensen, Michael JR 2) Sendyk, Pawel JR
3) Hoffer, Ryan SO 4) Seliskar, Andrew SR
2 UA-AZ 'A' 2:52.02 2:50.45
1) Iga, Jorge JR 2) Dobbs, Chatham SR
3) Anderson, Thomas JR 4) Ercegovic, Marin FR
3 ASU-AZ 'A' 2:52.60 2:50.51
1) Swift, Carter SO 2) Carlson, Evan SO
3) Poti, Zachary JR 4) House, Grant SO
4 STAN-PC 'A' 2:51.96 2:51.67
1) Cogswell, Cole SR 2) DeVine, Abrahm SR
3) LeVant, Jack FR 4) Conaton, Patrick SR
5 UTAH-UT 'A' 2:52.60 2:52.36
1) O'Haimhirgin, Liam JR 2) Phillips, Austin SR
3) Chiun, Felix SO 4) Moreira, Rodolfo SO
6 USC-CA 'A' 2:53.30 2:53.27
1) Miljenic, Nikola SO 2) Grissom, Kyle SR
3) Sancov, Alexei FR 4) Mulcare, Patrick SR
7 UA-AZ 'B' 2:56.80 x2:57.37
1) Reid, Noah JR 2) Namir, Daniel FR
3) Johnston, Aldan FR 4) Schlicht, David FR
8 USC-CA 'B' NT x2:57.93
1) Finello, Thomas FR 2) Reed, Thomas JR
3) Ama, Joao JR 4) Koenigsperger, Mario
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