2021 Pac-12 Men’s Swimming Championships Day Two Heats
Day Two Heats, Houston Texas
Ups, Mids, Downs
- California 9, 9, 1
- Stanford 8, 6, 4
- Arizona 5, 3, 5
- USC 1, 4, 7
- Utah 1, 1, 6
The 2021 Pac-12 men’s swimming championships continued Monday from Houston as the teams are swimming in their first championship style format of the season that was flipped, turned upside down thanks to the COVID pandemic. The heats of the 500 free, 200 IM and 50 free are this morning.
500 Free
Arizona’s Brooks Fail is leading a strong field in the heats of the 500 free with a 4:13.81 this morning in Houston. Fail will have lane four in tonight’s final with Cal seniors Trenton Julian (4:14.54) and Zach Yeadon (4:14.59) surrounding him. It should take around a sub-4:10 to win tonight’s final as five of the guys in the field have reached the A-Final at NCAAs in years past. All five of those guys too are seniors and it should be a hell of a race at finals.
Stanford’s Grant Shoults (4:15.48), who has returned this season as a redshirt senior, is seeded fourth ahead of Cal senior Sean Grieshop (4:15.79).
Event 6 Men 500 Yard Freestyle
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NCAA: N 4:06.32 2/19/2020 Kieran Smith, Florida
PAC-12: M 4:08.92 2009 Jean Basson, ARIZ
PAC-12 Champ: P 4:10.67 2017 Grant Shoults, STAN
4:11.82 A Standard
4:23.34 B Standard
Name Year School Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Fail, Brooks SR ARIZ 4:15.35 4:13.81 B
23.76 49.51 (25.75)
1:15.20 (25.69) 1:41.38 (26.18)
2:07.46 (26.08) 2:33.23 (25.77)
2:58.97 (25.74) 3:24.11 (25.14)
3:49.09 (24.98) 4:13.81 (24.72)
2 Julian, Trenton SR CAL 4:14.08 4:14.54 B
23.19 48.62 (25.43)
1:14.34 (25.72) 1:40.35 (26.01)
2:06.48 (26.13) 2:32.04 (25.56)
2:57.66 (25.62) 3:23.35 (25.69)
3:49.34 (25.99) 4:14.54 (25.20)
3 Yeadon, Zach SR CAL 4:14.90 4:14.59 B
23.18 48.21 (25.03)
1:13.68 (25.47) 1:39.52 (25.84)
2:05.50 (25.98) 2:31.46 (25.96)
2:57.38 (25.92) 3:23.37 (25.99)
3:49.24 (25.87) 4:14.59 (25.35)
4 Shoults, Grant SR STAN 4:15.74 4:15.48 B
22.93 48.19 (25.26)
1:13.72 (25.53) 1:39.45 (25.73)
2:05.79 (26.34) 2:31.97 (26.18)
2:58.20 (26.23) 3:24.37 (26.17)
3:50.38 (26.01) 4:15.48 (25.10)
5 Grieshop, Sean SR CAL 4:23.07 4:15.79 B
23.37 48.48 (25.11)
1:14.10 (25.62) 1:40.23 (26.13)
2:06.29 (26.06) 2:32.38 (26.09)
2:58.60 (26.22) 3:24.59 (25.99)
3:50.47 (25.88) 4:15.79 (25.32)
6 Forst, Preston FR STAN 4:17.32 4:16.90 B
23.86 49.47 (25.61)
1:15.38 (25.91) 1:41.30 (25.92)
2:07.32 (26.02) 2:33.24 (25.92)
2:59.11 (25.87) 3:24.90 (25.79)
3:51.11 (26.21) 4:16.90 (25.79)
7 Mefford, Colby SO CAL 4:21.17 4:18.62 B
23.58 49.34 (25.76)
1:15.44 (26.10) 1:41.77 (26.33)
2:07.97 (26.20) 2:34.00 (26.03)
2:59.77 (25.77) 3:26.00 (26.23)
3:52.16 (26.16) 4:18.62 (26.46)
8 Sweetser, True JR STAN 4:23.53 4:19.43 B
24.39 50.69 (26.30)
1:17.13 (26.44) 1:43.78 (26.65)
2:10.23 (26.45) 2:36.50 (26.27)
3:02.43 (25.93) 3:28.09 (25.66)
3:53.87 (25.78) 4:19.43 (25.56)
200 IM
Cal junior Hugo Gonzalez pulled a 1:41.82 200 IM for the top seed in tonight’s finals as he used a strong back and breast leg to grab lane four. He is leading a trio of Stanford guys with Alex Liang (1:43.24), Jonny Affeld (1:43.42) and Shane Blinkman (1:43.53) as Cal and Stanford each have six A-finalists this morning.
Arizona showed out well this morning with three Wildcats advancing to the final with David Schlicht (1:43.68), Sam Iida (1:43.78) and Ogi Maric (1:44.52) all advancing. Schlicht is stronger in the 400 IM and should vie for the title tomorrow.
Cal’s Daniel Carr (1:44.91) was eighth in prelims and will swim in the A-Final.
Event 7 Men 200 Yard IM
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NCAA: N 1:38.13 2/15/2018 Caeleb Dressel, Florida
PAC-12: M 1:38.14 2019 Andrew Seliskar, CAL
PAC-12 Champ: P 1:40.07 2015 Dave Nolan, STAN
1:41.34 A Standard
1:46.77 B Standard
Name Year School Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Gonzalez, Hugo JR CAL 1:46.14 1:41.82 B
22.38 47.82 (25.44)
1:17.15 (29.33) 1:41.82 (24.67)
2 Liang, Alex JR STAN 1:46.58 1:43.24 B
22.62 48.62 (26.00)
1:18.47 (29.85) 1:43.24 (24.77)
3 Affeld, Jonny FR STAN 1:45.91 1:43.42 B
22.29 47.76 (25.47)
1:17.70 (29.94) 1:43.42 (25.72)
4 Blinkman, Shane FR STAN 1:46.89 1:43.53 B
23.25 48.78 (25.53)
1:17.93 (29.15) 1:43.53 (25.60)
5 Schlicht, David SO ARIZ 1:42.97 1:43.68 B
22.18 47.64 (25.46)
1:17.62 (29.98) 1:43.68 (26.06)
6 Iida, Sam SR ARIZ 1:47.99 1:43.78 B
23.05 49.44 (26.39)
1:18.38 (28.94) 1:43.78 (25.40)
7 Maric, Ogi SO ARIZ 1:46.85 1:44.52 B
22.47 47.52 (25.05)
1:18.86 (31.34) 1:44.52 (25.66)
8 Carr, Daniel SR CAL 1:44.94 1:44.91 B
22.56 47.71 (25.15)
1:19.27 (31.56) 1:44.91 (25.64)
50 Free
Cal freshman Bjorn Seeliger stormed through the 50 free heats with an 18.88 as the only swimmer to break 19 seconds which puts him in a tie for second nationally with fellow freshman Matt Brownstead at Virginia. In fact, the top three in the nation currently are all freshman as Florida’s Adam Chaney is leading the country with an 18.7.
Defending national champ Ryan Hoffer was a 19.00 in the heats as he is unshaved and should be saving a full rest for NCAAs in 23 days. Fellow Golden Bear Nate Biondi (19.87) made it into the final in eighth.
All five schools will have a representative in the A-Final as Arizona’s Marin Ercegovic (19.45) is seeded third, while USC’s Nikola Miljenic (19.47) is fourth and Utah’s Cooper Deryk is fifth (19.64). Stanford will have Mason Gonzalez (19.74) and Luke Maurer (19.79) in the final.
Event 8 Men 50 Yard Freestyle
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NCAA: N 17.63 3/22/2018 Caeleb Dressel, Florida
PAC-12: M 18.58 2019 Ryan Hoffer, CAL
PAC-12 Champ: P 18.80 2014 Brad Tandy, ARIZ
18.96 A Standard
19.96 B Standard
Name Year School Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Seeliger, Bjorn FR CAL 19.23 18.88 A
9.12 18.88 (9.76)
2 Hoffer, Ryan SR CAL 18.97 19.00 B
9.17 19.00 (9.83)
3 Ercegovic, Mari JR ARIZ 20.03 19.45 B
9.43 19.45 (10.02)
4 Miljenic, Nikol SR USC 19.94 19.47 B
9.45 19.47 (10.02)
5 Deryk, Cooper JR UTAH 20.28 19.64 B
9.34 19.64 (10.30)
6 Gonzalez, Mason SO STAN 20.31 19.74 B
9.58 19.74 (10.16)
7 Maurer, Luke FR STAN 20.08 19.79 B
9.60 19.79 (10.19)
8 Biondi, Nate SR CAL 19.84 19.87 B
9.65 19.87 (10.22)
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