Photo Credit: Jeff Commings<\/p>\n
TEMPE – Janet Hu and Sean Duggan each won two individual events to lead the Stanford swimming and diving teams to a weekend sweep of both Arizona and Arizona State, as the Cardinal women topped the Sun Devils 131-100 and the Cardinal men came out ahead 134-96 on Saturday at the Mona Plummer Aquatic Center. Stanford also swept Arizona yesterday in Tucson.<\/p>\n
Freshman Janet Hu led the way with two individual victories as the No. 3 Stanford women\u2019s swimming and diving team captured its second win in as many days in Arizona. The Cardinal topped host Arizona State, 131-100, to stay unbeaten against Pac-12 opponents.<\/p>\n
Stanford (5-1, 4-0 Pac-12) used six different swimmers to win seven individual events, while also taking the 400-yard freestyle relay to open the meet. Five of the six Cardinal to win were underclassmen, including four freshmen.<\/p>\n
Sophomore Lia Neal got things started for Stanford with a win in the 200-yard freestyle, after ASU\u2019s Anna Olasz took the 1,000-yard freestyle over sophomore Tara Halsted. Stanford took four of the top six spots in the 200, including a 1-2 finish from Neal and classmate Nicole Stafford with 1:49.15 and 1:49.86 finishes, respectively.<\/p>\n
Neal\u2019s win sparked a run of seven straight swimming wins by the Cardinal. Stanford went 1-2-3 in the next two events to start to pull away from the Sun Devils, behind wins from Hu in the 50-yard freestyle (23.15) and freshman Simone Manuel in the 200-yard IM (2:01.72). Junior mechanical engineering major Julia Ama and senior management science and engineering major Katie Olsen were behind Hu, while sophomore Grace Carlson and freshman Lindsey Engel trailed Manuel.<\/p>\n
Manuel, a standout newcomer from Sugar Land, Texas, was given a lighter load than Friday, when she won the 50-, 100-, and 200-yard freestyle events against Arizona.<\/p>\n
Stanford continued claiming the top spot with victories from freshman Ally Howe (200-yard butterfly, 2:00.44), Engel (100-yard freestyle, 51.14) and Hu (200-yard backstroke, 1:57.57). Hu\u2019s mark was good for an NCAA B-cut, before junior biology major Allison Brown took the 500-yard freestyle in 4:52.30.<\/p>\n
A pair of Arizona State divers split No. 1 ranks in the diving events. Junior human biology major Kelly Markle led Stanford divers with second-place finishes in the 1- and 3-meter.<\/p>\n
Stanford is back at Avery Aquatic Center Friday and Saturday against No. 13 UCLA and No. 12 USC. Friday\u2019s matchup against the Bruins starts at 2 p.m. PT, while Saturday\u2019s meeting with the Trojans is slated to begin at noon PT.<\/p>\n
No. 10 Stanford completed its sweep of the Arizona schools on the road with a 134-96 win in Saturday’s Pac-12 Conference dual meet at Arizona State. The Cardinal (5-0) won nine of 13 events to bring its weekend mark to 18 wins in 27 events.<\/p>\n
Sean Duggan, a junior biomechanical engineering major, was a double winner in the 50- and 100-yard freestyle and helped his team score in the 400-yard medley relay. Drew Cosgarea led off the Cardinal’s winning 400-yard freestyle relay team and picked up second place in the 500-yard freestyle.<\/p>\n
Duggan won the 50-yard freestyle in 20.72 and the 100-yard freestyle in 45.14. Duggan had top-10 times in the NCAA in both events last season.<\/p>\n
Liam Egan won the 1,000-yard freestyle with a time of 9:16.42 and Tom Kremer won the 200-yard freestyle in 1:38.37 to give the Cardinal three consecutive wins to start the meet. Duggan then won the 50-yard freestyle before Gray Umbach won the 200-yard individual medley to make it five wins in five events.<\/p>\n
Stanford wasn’t finished. Kristian Ipsen and Bradley Christensen went 1-2 in the 1-meter diving, Andrew Liang won the 200-yard butterfly, Duggan won the 100-yard freestyle and David Nolan dominated the 200-yard backstroke by 2.39 seconds to make it nine consecutive event victories for the Cardinal to start the dual meet.<\/p>\n
Jan Kutnik of Arizona State broke the streak with a win in the next event — the 500-yard freestyle — but Stanford had the meet under control and cruised the rest of the way to the victory.<\/p>\n
The Cardinal has two weeks until its next competition, a Feb. 7 home dual meet against No. 18 USC. The meet will start at 12 p.m. (PT) at Avery Aquatic Center.<\/p>\n
One day removed from taking on the No. 1 ranked women\u2019s and No. 2 ranked men\u2019s teams from Cal, the Arizona State swim and dive teams welcomed No. 3 and No. 10 women\u2019s and men\u2019s teams from Stanford to Mona Plummer Aquatic Center on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Despite not beating the Stanford Cardinal on either side, there were plenty of bright spots on the day to send off the 11 seniors in their final dual meets in front of the home crowd at Mona Plummer.<\/p>\n
The ASU women (4-7) fell to the Cardinal by the score of 131-100, and the men (3-8) lost 134-96.<\/p>\n
Similar to Friday\u2019s meet against Cal, the springboard competition paced the scoring for the Sun Devils against Stanford. Freshman diver Mara Aiacoboae locked up a first place finish in the 3-meter dive with her score of 320.25, edging out second place by 22 points.<\/p>\n
After sweeping the 1-meter and 3-meter dives on Friday, senior diver Hailey Casper followed that up with yet another first place finish in the 1-meter on Saturday with a score of 302.33 \u2013 a nice send-off to her Sun Devil career at Mona Plummer.<\/p>\n
On the men\u2019s end, freshman David Hoffer finished first in the 3-meter dive with a score of 353.18, and right behind him was junior Hunter Atha, scoring 317.55 to take second place.<\/p>\n
In between the lanes, sophomore distance swimmer Anna Olasz narrowly missed beating her season best time of 10:00.20 in the 1000-yard freestyle set Friday, as she touched the pad in 10:00.68 to take home first in the race on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Tadas Duskinas finished third in the 50 free, just .24 seconds behind the leader. With his time of 20.86, the sophomore beat his first place time Friday by a tenth of a second. And Zac Dalby, one of the 11 Sun Devil seniors competing on Saturday, placed second in the 200 fly with a time of 1:49.63, just half a second behind the leader.<\/p>\n
Arizona State was able to turn it on in the final five races of the day. To get the ball rolling, Jan Kutnik won the 500 free in dramatic fashion, edging out Stanford\u2019s Drew Cosgarea by only .06 seconds.<\/p>\n
It was then freshman Jorie Caneta who took the top spot in the women\u2019s 200-yard breast, clocking in at 2:16.27. Teammates Tory Houston and Ivana Ninkovic were close in tail to finish second and third, respectively. Thibaut Capitaine was able to touch the pad in 2:01.74 to place first in the men\u2019s 200 breast.<\/p>\n
The Sun Devils finished strong in the final 200 free relays. After a women\u2019s win, Richard Bohus anchored the final leg of the men\u2019s race to bring home the top spot with a total time of 1:21.74.<\/p>\n
The Arizona State swim and dive teams\u2019 next dual meet is on Feb. 6th and 7th when they travel down to Tucson to face the Arizona Wildcats in the final Pac-12 matchup of the year before Pac-12 Championships.<\/p>\n