2019 Men’s Pac-12 Swimming and Diving Championships: Cal Vaults Into Lead On Day Two

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Cal capitalized on their momentum from last night to surge into the lead on the second night of finals at the 2019 Pac-12 Swimming and Diving Championships. The Cal Bears picked up wins in three of the four contested events, taking home gold in the 200 IM, 50 free, and 200 free relay while also capitalizing on the 10 swimmers they put into A-finals out of this morning’s prelims session.

Check out the full recap of the second night of finals, including full results and updated team scores, below.

Scores Following Day Two:

1- Cal (342)
2- Stanford (308)
3- Arizona State (248)
4- University of Arizona (223)
5- USC (176)
6- Utah (169)

500 Free

USC freshman Victor Johansson held on to his top seed from this morning, dropping a little more than a second to take the Pac-12 title in 4:13.30. Johansson was actually trailing Cal sophomore Trenton Julian into the last 50 before turning it on with a 24.93 final split. Julian, who was the second seed out of the morning, finished just behind Johansson in 4:13.61. That moves Johansson up to 14th in the country, just ahead of Townley Haas.

While USC got the first individual event win, this was a strong event for Cal. Sophomore Sean Grieshop held onto his seed from the morning to finish third in 4:14.56, while Cal senior Nick Norman moved from eighth to fifth with a 4:15.51. Notably, Stanford’s Jack LeVant won the B final in 4:14.21, faster than Stanford’s three A-finalists.

Event 6  Men 500 Yard Freestyle
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    Name                 Year School            Prelims     Finals        
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                        === A - Final ===                         
 
  1 Johansson, Victor      FR USC-CA            4:14.52    4:13.30  
  2 Julian, Trenton        SO CAL-PC            4:15.01    4:13.61  
  3 Grieshop, Sean         SO CAL-PC            4:15.96    4:14.56  
  4 Fail, Brooks           SO UA-AZ             4:15.99    4:14.94  
  5 Norman, Nick           SR CAL-PC            4:17.80    4:15.41  
  6 Hirschberger, Matthew  SO STAN-PC           4:16.41    4:15.51  
  7 Murphy, James          JR STAN-PC           4:16.88    4:15.89  
  8 Calloni, Johannes      SO STAN-PC           4:16.09    4:17.83

200 IM

Cal senior Andrew Seliskar took the 200 IM for Cal, dropping more than three seconds from his prelims swim this morning to finish first in 1:40.53. That was just off David Nolan’s 2015 meet record of 1:40.07 and knocks .02 off his season best and #1 ranked time in the country from the Georgia Invitational.

Top-seeded Arizona freshman David Schlicht dropped to second place tonight, slashing about 8-tenths from his prelims time to finish in another lifetime-best 1:42.38. Stanford senior Abrahm DeVine, who was fourth in this event at NCAA’s last year just ahead of Seliskar, finished third here in 1:42.77 just ahead of Arizona State’s Grant House (1:42.83) and Cal’s Mike Thomas (1:42.86).

 Event 7  Men 200 Yard IM
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    Name                 Year School            Prelims     Finals        
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                        === A - Final ===                         
 
  1 Seliskar, Andrew       SR CAL-PC            1:43.93    1:40.53  
  2 Schlicht, David        FR UA-AZ             1:43.12    1:42.38  
  3 DeVine, Abrahm         SR STAN-PC           1:43.98    1:42.77  
  4 House, Grant           SO ASU-AZ            1:43.97    1:42.83  
  5 Thomas, Mike           SR CAL-PC            1:43.87    1:42.86  
  6 Carr, Daniel           SO CAL-PC            1:44.29    1:43.93  
  7 Pastorek, Brennan      SO STAN-PC           1:44.18    1:44.00  
  8 Liang, Alex            SO STAN-PC           1:44.38    1:44.02

50 Free

Cal junior Pawel Sendyk grabbed the second individual event win for the Golden Bears tonight, touching the wall in 18.83. Sendyk led a 1-2-3 finish for Cal, as Ryan Hoffer (19.12) and Michael Jensen (19.30) joined him on the podium.

That gives Sendyk an A cut and moves him up to #3 in the country for this season. His time also narrowly missed the Pac-12 meet record of 18.80 set by Brad Tandy back in 2014. Nikola Miljenic from USC was the highest finisher who wasn’t a Golden Bear, touching in 4th (19.35).

 Event 8  Men 50 Yard Freestyle
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    Name                 Year School            Prelims     Finals        
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                        === A - Final ===                         
 
  1 Sendyk, Pawel          JR CAL-PC              19.09      18.83  
  2 Hoffer, Ryan           SO CAL-PC              19.38      19.12  
  3 Jensen, Michael        JR CAL-PC              19.55      19.30  
  4 Miljenic, Nikola       SO USC-CA              19.59      19.35  
  5 Phillips, Austin       SR UTAH-UT             19.61      19.43  
  6 Grissom, Kyle          SR USC-CA              19.57      19.48  
  7 Biondi, Nate           SO CAL-PC              19.56      19.72  
  8 Zdroik, Brad           SR STAN-PC             19.62      19.75

200 Free Relay

Cal secured their third relay win of Pac-12’s, as the team of Sendyk (19.14), Hoffer (18.81), Jensen (19.03), and Zheng Quah (19.45) won the event in 1:16.43. That is a little over half a second off of their #3 time in the country (1:15.86).

Just behind in second (1:17.05) was the Arizona team of Chatham Dobbs (19.64), Thomas Anderson (19.07), Jorge Iga (19.11), and Marin Ercegovic (19.23), while the Utah team of Austin Phillips (19.47), Liam O’Haimhirgin (19.37), Clay Stoddard (19.07), and Rodolfo Moreira (19.20) was just behind them in 1:17.11.

Event 9  Men 200 Yard Freestyle Relay
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    School                                 Seed     Finals        
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  1 CAL-PC  'A'                         1:15.86    1:16.43  
     1) Sendyk, Pawel JR              2) Hoffer, Ryan SO              
     3) Jensen, Michael JR            4) Quah, Zheng JR               
  2 UA-AZ  'A'                          1:17.70    1:17.05  
     1) Dobbs, Chatham SR             2) Anderson, Thomas JR          
     3) Iga, Jorge JR                 4) Ercegovic, Marin FR          
  3 UTAH-UT  'A'                        1:17.36    1:17.11  
     1) Phillips, Austin SR           2) O'Haimhirgin, Liam JR        
     3) Stoddard, Clay SO             4) Moreira, Rodolfo SO          
  4 STAN-PC  'A'                        1:17.97    1:17.50  
     1) DeVine, Abrahm SR             2) Zdroik, Brad SR              
     3) Gonzalez, Mason FR            4) Cogswell, Cole SR            
  5 USC-CA  'A'                         1:18.98    1:17.79  
     1) Miljenic, Nikola SO           2) Grissom, Kyle SR             
     3) Sancov, Alexei FR             4) Vissering, Carsten SR        
  6 ASU-AZ  'A'                         1:18.39    1:17.84  
     1) Swift, Carter SO              2) Carlson, Evan SO             
     3) Kohner, Gage SR               4) Luc, Ethan FR                
  7 UA-AZ  'B'                          1:20.98   x1:19.37  
     1) Reid, Noah JR                 2) Namir, Daniel FR             
     3) Combs, Tai FR                 4) Rubie, Dakota SO             
  8 UTAH-UT  'B'                        1:21.10   x1:21.62  
     1) Yost, Luke FR                 2) Montgomery, Colten JR        
     3) Fridlander, David FR          4) King, Robert FR

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