2020 Pac-12 Men’s Championships Day 2 Prelims: Shoults Leads 500; Cal Gets Top 2 Twice

The 2020 Pac-12 Men’s Championships continued with the first prelims session on Thursday.

Cal is the defending champion and got off to a strong start with an win in the 800 free relay, but disqualified the 400 medley relay, as did Arizona State. With diving having happened last week, that leaves USC in first place ahead of Stanford and Cal is stunningly in sixth heading into Day 2.

Here is a look at the session:

Men - Team Rankings - Through Event 5                       
 
  1. University of Southern Calif      167   2. Stanford University               163
  3. University OF Arizona             159   4. Utah, University of               134
  5. Arizona State University           81   6. Univ of California, Berkeley       68

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Thursday’s Up-Mid-Down (A, B and C finalists)

• Cal 10, 2, 6
• Arizona State 6, 3, 3
• Arizona 4, 3, 3
• Stanford 2, 11, 1
• USC 1, 1, 5
• Utah 0, 4, 6

Pac-12 Men’s Championships: 500 Free

Stanford senior Grant Shoults put together a nice and easy 500 free to take the top seed. His time of 4:15.32 was three seconds slower than his seed time, but enough to take the top seed and likely have some more left in the tank for finals.

On the other hand, Arizona State freshman Julian Hill dropped eight seconds from his seed time to take the second seed in prelims in 4:15.62.

Arizona’s Brooks Fail took the third seed in 4:15.80, while Cal’s Trenton Julian was fourth in 4:16.44.

Arizona State’s Benjamin Olszewski took the fifth seed (4:17.30), followed by Cal’s Calvin David (4:17.98), Sean Grieshop (4:17.99) and Arizona State’s Liam Bresette (4:18.04).

 Event 6  Men 500 Yard Freestyle
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    Name                 Year School               Seed    Prelims        
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                      === Preliminaries ===                       
 
  1 Shoults, Grant         SR STAN-PC           4:12.74    4:15.32  
                 23.12        48.75 (25.63)
        1:14.55 (25.80)     1:40.53 (25.98)
        2:06.58 (26.05)     2:32.66 (26.08)
        2:59.29 (26.63)     3:25.55 (26.26)
        3:50.90 (25.35)     4:15.32 (24.42)
  2 Hill, Julian           FR ASU-AZ            4:23.22    4:15.62  
                 23.48        49.04 (25.56)
        1:14.92 (25.88)     1:40.87 (25.95)
        2:07.02 (26.15)     2:32.99 (25.97)
        2:58.78 (25.79)     3:24.49 (25.71)
        3:50.30 (25.81)     4:15.62 (25.32)
  3 Fail, Brooks           JR ARIZ-AZ           4:11.79    4:15.80  
                 23.96        49.78 (25.82)
        1:16.02 (26.24)     1:42.54 (26.52)
        2:08.68 (26.14)     2:34.53 (25.85)
        3:00.42 (25.89)     3:25.74 (25.32)
        3:50.97 (25.23)     4:15.80 (24.83)
  4 Julian, Trenton        JR CAL-PC            4:15.56    4:16.44  
                 23.39        48.87 (25.48)
        1:14.75 (25.88)     1:40.99 (26.24)
        2:07.33 (26.34)     2:33.19 (25.86)
        2:59.18 (25.99)     3:25.24 (26.06)
        3:50.97 (25.73)     4:16.44 (25.47)
  5 Olszewski, Benjamin    SR ASU-AZ            4:19.37    4:17.30  
                 24.22        50.76 (26.54)
        1:17.38 (26.62)     1:43.85 (26.47)
        2:09.39 (25.54)     2:35.17 (25.78)
        3:00.65 (25.48)     3:26.15 (25.50)
        3:51.91 (25.76)     4:17.30 (25.39)
  6 David, Calvin          FR CAL-PC            4:28.34    4:17.98  
                 23.87        49.44 (25.57)
        1:15.60 (26.16)     1:41.59 (25.99)
        2:07.31 (25.72)     2:33.14 (25.83)
        2:59.35 (26.21)     3:25.76 (26.41)
        3:52.24 (26.48)     4:17.98 (25.74)
  7 Grieshop, Sean         JR CAL-PC            4:16.91    4:17.99  
                 23.62        49.56 (25.94)
        1:15.83 (26.27)     1:42.22 (26.39)
        2:08.56 (26.34)     2:34.62 (26.06)
        3:00.80 (26.18)     3:26.85 (26.05)
        3:52.65 (25.80)     4:17.99 (25.34)
  8 Bresette, Liam         SO ASU-AZ            4:20.51    4:18.04  
                 23.97        50.00 (26.03)
        1:16.01 (26.01)     1:42.27 (26.26)
        2:08.75 (26.48)     2:34.94 (26.19)
        3:01.08 (26.14)     3:26.99 (25.91)
        3:52.54 (25.55)     4:18.04 (25.50)

Pac-12 Men’s Championships: 200 IM

Cal took four of the top six seeds in the 200 IM, including the top two.

Daniel Carr took the top spot in 1:42.15, ahead of teammate Zheng Quah (1:43.78).

Stanford’s Brennan Pastorek was third in 1:44.41, ahead of Cal’s Bryce Mefford (1:44.7). Stanford’s Alex Liang took the fifth seed in 1:44.49, followed by Cal’s Reece Whitley (1:44.53).

Arizona’s Etay Gurevich (1:44.57) and Sam Iida (1:44.68) rounded out the top eight.

 Event 7  Men 200 Yard IM
==================================================================
    Name                 Year School               Seed    Prelims        
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                      === Preliminaries ===                       
 
  1 Carr, Daniel           JR CAL-PC            1:44.59    1:42.15  
                 22.02        47.17 (25.15)
        1:17.24 (30.07)     1:42.15 (24.91)
  2 Quah, Zheng            SR CAL-PC            1:45.34    1:43.78  
                 21.95        47.20 (25.25)
        1:18.91 (31.71)     1:43.78 (24.87)
  3 Pastorek, Brennan      JR STAN-PC           1:49.45    1:44.41  
                 22.90        49.15 (26.25)
        1:18.66 (29.51)     1:44.41 (25.75)
  4 Mefford, Bryce         JR CAL-PC            1:44.71    1:44.47  
                 22.60        48.27 (25.67)
        1:19.69 (31.42)     1:44.47 (24.78)
  5 Liang, Alex            JR STAN-PC           1:46.89    1:44.49  
                 22.83        48.87 (26.04)
        1:19.53 (30.66)     1:44.49 (24.96)
  6 Whitley, Reece         SO CAL-PC            1:43.65    1:44.53  
                 22.74        48.39 (25.65)
        1:18.15 (29.76)     1:44.53 (26.38)
  7 Gurevich, Etay         SR ARIZ-AZ           1:45.60    1:44.57  
                 22.35        48.74 (26.39)
        1:18.81 (30.07)     1:44.57 (25.76)
  8 Iida, Sam              JR ARIZ-AZ           1:45.65    1:44.68  
                 23.22        49.60 (26.38)
        1:19.31 (29.71)     1:44.68 (25.37)

Pac-12 Men’s Championships: 50 Free

Cal made it two events in a row getting the top two seeds. As expected Ryan Hoffer and Pawel Sendyk took the top two spots.

Hoffer, the defending NCAA champion, took the top seed in 19.10, while reigning All-American Sendyk took the second spot in 19.15.

Arizona State freshman Jack Dolan took the third seed (19.40) just head of Cal’s Michael Jensen (19.41).

Arizona State’s Evan Carlson took the fifth seed in 19.48, followed by USC’s Nikola Miljenic (19.53), Arizona’s Marin Ercegovic (19.56) and Arizona State’s Cody Bybee (19.64).

 Event 8  Men 50 Yard Freestyle
==================================================================
    Name                 Year School               Seed    Prelims        
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                      === Preliminaries ===                       
 
  1 Hoffer, Ryan           JR CAL-PC              18.98      19.10  
                  9.16         19.10 (9.94)
  2 Sendyk, Pawel          SR CAL-PC              19.25      19.15  
                  9.18         19.15 (9.97)
  3 Dolan, Jack            FR ASU-AZ              19.76      19.40  
                  9.32        19.40 (10.08)
  4 Jensen, Michael        SR CAL-PC              19.74      19.41  
                  9.39        19.41 (10.02)
  5 Carlson, Evan          JR ASU-AZ              19.60      19.48  
                  9.46        19.48 (10.02)
  6 Miljenic, Nikola       JR USC-CA              19.64      19.53  
                  9.45        19.53 (10.08)
  7 Ercegovic, Marin       SO ARIZ-AZ             19.56      19.56  
                  9.52        19.56 (10.04)
  8 Bybee, Cody            SO ASU-AZ              19.75      19.64  
                  9.38        19.64 (10.26)

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