The Cal men’s swimming and diving team set three pool records – including one by senior Andrew Seliskar in his final home dual meet – and the Golden Bears rolled past rival Stanford 172-122 on Saturday at Spieker Aquatics Complex.
Seliskar, the decorated and versatile swimmer who has been to nine NCAA Championships finals throughout his career, raced the 200 butterfly in a time of 1:41.89, breaking the old pool mark of 1:43.91.
“There is a lot that people see and appreciate about Andrew’s performances. What I am really impressed with is the process that he has moved through to get to this point,” Cal coach Dave Durden said. “There is a lot more to it than results on a page. The process for him to get to this point in his career and the decisions that he’s made and how he has gone about it has been really impressive. That’s what’s more important than what he did in the 100 fly.”
Sophomore Sean Grieshop set the Spieker record in the 400 individual medley with a mark of 3:48.36 while the Bears’ 200 freestyle relay team of Pawel Sendyk, Ryan Hoffer, Seliskar and Michael Jensen set a new pool standard with a time of 1:17.75.
The Bears (6-0) won 11 individual events, with Seliskar the only multiple winner. He also took the 100 butterfly with a mark of 46.05.
Cal honored its six-member senior class before the meet as they played in their final home meet. Two other seniors won individual races, with Nick Norman taking the 1,000 freestyle in a time of 8:55.28 and Carson Sand capturing the winning the 100 breaststroke in 53.33.
As part of Senior Day, Durden allows his seniors to pick which events they want to swim.
“Our seniors do a nice job of picking the events they want to swim,” Durden said. “They’re not swimming an event they don’t want to do. So that makes it easy for them to focus on what they are trying to accomplish. I want them to feel good about what they are racing.”
Stanford’s Jack Levant, a freshman from Southlake, Texas, won both middle distance freestyle events, the 200-yard freestyle and 500-yard freestyle, but Stanford fell behind early and could not recover after a disqualification in the first event, the 200-yard medley relay.
On the diving side of the competition, Noah Vigran (303.23) won the 1-meter springboard.
USC tops Utah on senior day
Senior Kyle Grissom posted a pair of lifetime bests with wins in the 50y free and the 100y fly while seniors Patrick Mulcare, Carsten Vissering and Billy Monjay also won races to lead the USC men’s swimming team to a 139.5-109.5 win over Utah on Saturday’s Senior Day at the Uytengsu Aquatics Center.
USC improved to 5-2, 3-2 in the Pac-12. Utah dropped to 4-3, 0-3.
Grissom, a team co-captain with Monjay, won the 50y free in 19.35 to lower his PR by 0.25 and just 0.12 off of the pool record. He came back to win the 100y fly in 46.80, also a quarter second under his previous best, while leading a 1-2-3 USC finish. Senior Alex Valente was second (47.34) and sophomore Ariel Spektor was third (47.59).
Mulcare and Vissering each won their respective specialties. Mulcare captured the 200y back in 1:43.37 while Vissering won the 100y breast in 51.75, the latter in another USC sweep. Junior Mario Koenigsperger was second (53.36) with Monjay third (54.53).
Monjay was later victorious in the 200y breast in 1:58.47 with Vissering second (1:58.54) and Koenigsperger third (1:58.88).
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