{"id":580572,"date":"2024-03-09T13:18:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T20:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=580572"},"modified":"2024-03-09T13:25:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T20:25:34","slug":"pac-12-mens-championships-day-4-prelims-sun-devils-closing-in-on-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/pac-12-mens-championships-day-4-prelims-sun-devils-closing-in-on-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Pac-12 Men&#8217;s Championships Day 4 Prelims: Sun Devils Closing in on Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024 Pac-12 Men&#8217;s Swimming and Diving Championships continued with the Day 4 prelims from Federal Way, Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The events on deck for the session are the 200 backstroke, 100 freestyle, 200 breaststroke and 200 butterfly.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/results.teamunify.com\/pnws2\/meets\/PAC12M-2024\/?_ga=2.69444121.862508267.1650989788-1178540350.1635270747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Live Results<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pac-12.com\/2024-pac-12-mens-swimming-championships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meet Information Page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/meet\/pac-12-swimming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pac-12 Swimming News<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/pac-12-mens-championships-arizona-state-sets-ncaa-record-in-200-medley-relay-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Day One Recap<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/pac-12-mens-championships-day-2-finals-leon-marchand-sets-ncaa-record-in-500-free\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Day Two Recap<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/pac-12-mens-championships-day-3-finals-hubert-kos-shines-arizona-state-swims-second-fastest-400-medley-relay-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Day Three Recap<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Pac-12 Men&#8217;s 200 Backstroke<\/h2>\n<p>Arizona State took the top two seeds in NCAA A cut times to kick off the final day of the conference championships.<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore<strong> Owen McDonald<\/strong> took the top seed in 1:38.49, about a half second ahead of fellow sophomore <strong>Hubert Kos<\/strong> (1:39.05) as the Sun Devils look to keep control in the meet.<\/p>\n<p>Stanford junior <strong>Aaron Sequeira<\/strong> took the third seed in 1:39.62, leading three Cardinal swimmers. Sophomore<strong> Josh Zuchowski<\/strong> took the fifth spot (1:40.62) and freshman <strong>Rex Maurer<\/strong> took the sixth spot (1:40.68).<\/p>\n<p>Cal grad student <strong>Sebastien Somerset<\/strong> took the fourth seed in 1:40.32, leading three Golden Bears. <strong>Ziyad Saleem<\/strong> took the seventh spot (1:04.73) ahead of <strong>Kai Crews<\/strong> (1:41.09).<\/p>\n<pre><b>Event 17  Men 200 Yard Backstroke<\/b>\r\n==================================================================\r\n         NCAA: N 1:35.73  3\/26\/2016 Ryan Murphy, California\r\n       PAC-12: M 1:35.73  2016      Ryan Murphy, CAL\r\n PAC-12 Champ: P 1:36.94  3\/4\/2023  Destin Lasco, California\r\n                 1:39.13  A Standard\r\n                 1:44.60  B Standard\r\n    Name           Year School               Seed    Prelims              \r\n==================================================================\r\n<b>                      === Preliminaries ===                       <\/b>\r\n \r\n  1 McDonald, Owen   SO ASU               1:39.31    1:38.49 A      \r\n                 23.29        48.51 (25.22)\r\n        1:13.58 (25.07)     1:38.49 (24.91)\r\n  2 Kos, Hubert      SO ASU               1:36.54    1:39.05 A      \r\n                 23.67        49.61 (25.94)\r\n        1:14.05 (24.44)     1:39.05 (25.00)\r\n  3 Sequeira, Aaron  JR STAN              1:40.99    1:39.62 B      \r\n                 23.38        48.38 (25.00)\r\n        1:13.91 (25.53)     1:39.62 (25.71)\r\n  4 Somerset, Sebas  GS CAL               1:43.45    1:40.32 B      \r\n                 23.97        49.47 (25.50)\r\n        1:14.73 (25.26)     1:40.32 (25.59)\r\n  5 Zuchowski, Josh  SO STAN              1:42.36    1:40.62 B      \r\n                 23.96        49.80 (25.84)\r\n        1:15.55 (25.75)     1:40.62 (25.07)\r\n  6 Maurer, Rex      FR STAN              1:39.75    1:40.68 B      \r\n                 23.34        48.93 (25.59)\r\n        1:14.73 (25.80)     1:40.68 (25.95)\r\n  7 Saleem, Ziyad    JR CAL               1:40.90    1:40.73 B      \r\n                 23.49        48.99 (25.50)\r\n        1:14.96 (25.97)     1:40.73 (25.77)\r\n  8 Crews, Kai       JR CAL               1:42.49    1:41.09 B      \r\n                 23.85        49.33 (25.48)\r\n        1:15.20 (25.87)     1:41.09 (25.89)\r\n -----------------------------------------------------------------\r\n  9 Wadsworth, Jack  JR ASU               1:41.28    1:41.43 B      \r\n                 23.95        49.58 (25.63)\r\n        1:15.62 (26.04)     1:41.43 (25.81)\r\n 10 Jones, Keaton    FR CAL               1:40.23    1:41.96 B      \r\n                 24.05        49.56 (25.51)\r\n        1:15.80 (26.24)     1:41.96 (26.16)\r\n 11 Makrygiannis, V  JR USC               1:42.16    1:42.10 B      \r\n                 24.37        50.00 (25.63)\r\n        1:16.23 (26.23)     1:42.10 (25.87)\r\n 12 Najera, Humbert  FR CAL               1:42.28    1:42.13 B      \r\n                 24.14        49.71 (25.57)\r\n        1:15.87 (26.16)     1:42.13 (26.26)\r\n 13 Kwan, Hayden     SO STAN              1:42.39    1:42.16 B      \r\n                 23.96        49.61 (25.65)\r\n        1:15.80 (26.19)     1:42.16 (26.36)\r\n 14 Miller, Brandon  SO UTAH              1:42.74    1:42.40 B      \r\n                 24.45        50.09 (25.64)\r\n        1:16.40 (26.31)     1:42.40 (26.00)\r\n 15 Mefford, Colby   GS CAL               1:40.38    1:42.44 B      \r\n                 23.89        49.93 (26.04)\r\n        1:15.88 (25.95)     1:42.44 (26.56)\r\n 16 O'Leary, Griffi  SO USC               1:43.70    1:43.35 B      \r\n                 24.30        49.93 (25.63)\r\n        1:16.41 (26.48)     1:43.35 (26.94)<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Pac-12 Men&#8217;s 100 Free<\/h2>\n<p>It was another 1-2 seeded finish for the Sun Devils in the 100 free.<\/p>\n<p>Senior <strong>Jack Dolan<\/strong> took the top spot in 41.38, just ahead of sophomore <strong>Jonny Kulow<\/strong>, who got to the wall in 41.53. Teammate <strong>Patrick Sammon<\/strong> took the fourth seed in 41.85.<\/p>\n<p>Cal senior <strong>Matthew Jensen<\/strong> took the third spot in 41.57.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona&#8217;s <strong>Ralph Daleiden Ciuferri<\/strong> took the fifth seed in 42.07, followed by Cal&#8217;s <strong>Liam Bell<\/strong> (42.17), Stanford&#8217;s<strong> Rafael Gu<\/strong> (42.18) and Stanford&#8217;s<strong> Luke Maurer<\/strong> (42.2).<\/p>\n<pre><b> Event 18  Men 100 Yard Freestyle<\/b>\r\n==================================================================\r\n         NCAA: N 39.90  3\/24\/2018 Caeleb Dressel, Florida\r\n       PAC-12: M 40.75  2022      Bjorn Seeliger, CAL\r\n PAC-12 Champ: P 40.90  3\/4\/2023  Bjorn Seeliger, California\r\n                 41.50  A Standard\r\n                 43.46  B Standard\r\n    Name           Year School               Seed    Prelims              \r\n==================================================================\r\n<b>                      === Preliminaries ===                       <\/b>\r\n \r\n  1 Dolan, Jack      SR ASU                 41.53      41.38 A      \r\n                  9.19        19.41 (10.22)\r\n          30.37 (10.96)       41.38 (11.01)\r\n  2 Kulow, Jonny     SO ASU                 41.44      41.53 B      \r\n                  9.31        19.70 (10.39)\r\n          30.51 (10.81)       41.53 (11.02)\r\n  3 Jensen, Matthew  SR CAL                 42.79      41.57 B      \r\n                  9.34        19.99 (10.65)\r\n          30.75 (10.76)       41.57 (10.82)\r\n  4 Sammon, Patrick  JR ASU                 42.28      41.85 B      \r\n                  9.50        19.88 (10.38)\r\n          30.84 (10.96)       41.85 (11.01)\r\n  5 Daleiden Ciufer  SO ARIZ                42.00      42.07 B      \r\n                  9.52        20.11 (10.59)\r\n          31.06 (10.95)       42.07 (11.01)\r\n  6 Bell, Liam       GS CAL                 46.11      42.17 B      \r\n                  9.47        20.17 (10.70)\r\n          31.10 (10.93)       42.17 (11.07)\r\n  7 Gu, Rafael       SO STAN                42.40      42.18 B      \r\n                  9.51        20.22 (10.71)\r\n          31.26 (11.04)       42.18 (10.92)\r\n  8 Maurer, Luke     SR STAN                42.48      42.20 B      \r\n                  9.91        20.53 (10.62)\r\n          31.45 (10.92)       42.20 (10.75)\r\n -----------------------------------------------------------------\r\n  9 Peel, Cam        SR ASU                 43.08      42.54 B      \r\n                  9.26        20.01 (10.75)\r\n          31.26 (11.25)       42.54 (11.28)\r\n 10 Hill, Julian     SR ASU                 42.80      42.64 B      \r\n                  9.77        20.52 (10.75)\r\n          31.72 (11.20)       42.64 (10.92)\r\n 11 Palmer, Tommy    SO ARIZ                43.45      42.77 B      \r\n                  9.62        20.32 (10.70)\r\n          31.58 (11.26)       42.77 (11.19)\r\n 12 Selin, Artem     JR USC                 42.94      42.95 B      \r\n                  9.36        20.10 (10.74)\r\n          31.33 (11.23)       42.95 (11.62)\r\n 13 Hatton, Colby    SO CAL                 43.84      43.05 B      \r\n                  9.52        20.35 (10.83)\r\n          31.63 (11.28)       43.05 (11.42)\r\n 13 Tan, Jonathan    FR STAN                42.87      43.05 B      \r\n                  9.63        20.53 (10.90)\r\n          31.85 (11.32)       43.05 (11.20)\r\n 15 Hawk, Dylan      SR CAL                 43.37      43.11 B      \r\n                  9.74        20.54 (10.80)\r\n          31.65 (11.11)       43.11 (11.46)\r\n 16 Frandson, Trent  JR CAL                 43.72      43.14 B      \r\n                  9.86        20.58 (10.72)\r\n          31.83 (11.25)       43.14 (11.31)<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Pac-12 Men&#8217;s 200 Breaststroke<\/h2>\n<p>Arizona State dominated once again, this time taking the top four seeds in the 200 breaststroke.<\/p>\n<p>Senior <strong>David Schlicht<\/strong> took the top spot in 1:51.41, an NCAA B cut.<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore<strong> Cale Martter<\/strong> took the second spot in 1:52.19, ahead of NCAA record-holder <strong>Leon<\/strong> <strong>Marchand<\/strong>, who took the third seed in 1:52.22. His meet record set last year was 1:47.67 and his NCAA record at the 2022 NCAA Championships is 1:46.91.<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore <strong>Andrew Dobrzanski<\/strong> took the fourth spot in 1:52.98.<\/p>\n<p>Stanford sophomore<strong> Zhier Fan<\/strong> took the fifth spot in 1:53.03, ahead of Cal&#8217;s<strong> Hank Rivers<\/strong> (1:53.13), Stanford&#8217;s <strong>Ron Polonsky<\/strong> (1:53.84) and Cal&#8217;s Sean Swift (1:54.30).<\/p>\n<pre><b>Event 19  Men 200 Yard Breaststroke<\/b>\r\n==================================================================\r\n         NCAA: N 1:46.91  3\/25\/2022 Leon Marchand, Arizona State\r\n       PAC-12: M 1:46.91  2023      Leon Marchand, ASU\r\n PAC-12 Champ: P 1:47.67  3\/4\/2023  Leon Marchand, ASU\r\n                 1:51.09  A Standard\r\n                 1:57.44  B Standard\r\n    Name           Year School               Seed    Prelims              \r\n==================================================================\r\n<b>                      === Preliminaries ===                       <\/b>\r\n \r\n  1 Schlicht, David  SR ASU               1:51.55    1:51.41 B      \r\n                 24.95        53.09 (28.14)\r\n        1:22.12 (29.03)     1:51.41 (29.29)\r\n  2 Martter, Cale    SO ASU               1:54.01    1:52.19 B      \r\n                 25.37        53.99 (28.62)\r\n        1:22.82 (28.83)     1:52.19 (29.37)\r\n  3 Marchand, Leon   JR ASU               1:51.71    1:52.22 B      \r\n                 25.55        54.33 (28.78)\r\n        1:23.90 (29.57)     1:52.22 (28.32)\r\n  4 Dobrzanski, And  SO ASU               1:54.83    1:52.98 B      \r\n                 25.57        53.74 (28.17)\r\n        1:22.97 (29.23)     1:52.98 (30.01)\r\n  5 Fan, Zhier       SO STAN              1:52.68    1:53.03 B      \r\n                 25.41        53.82 (28.41)\r\n        1:23.01 (29.19)     1:53.03 (30.02)\r\n  6 Rivers, Hank     SO CAL               1:58.48    1:53.13 B      \r\n                 25.68        54.22 (28.54)\r\n        1:23.18 (28.96)     1:53.13 (29.95)\r\n  7 Polonsky, Ron    JR STAN              1:55.10    1:53.84 B      \r\n                 25.23        53.88 (28.65)\r\n        1:23.38 (29.50)     1:53.84 (30.46)\r\n  8 Swift, Sean      JR CAL               1:56.73    1:54.30 B      \r\n                 25.72        54.73 (29.01)\r\n        1:23.80 (29.07)     1:54.30 (30.50)\r\n -----------------------------------------------------------------\r\n  9 Zheng, Hayden    JR STAN              1:54.88    1:54.45 B      \r\n                 25.94        54.58 (28.64)\r\n        1:23.64 (29.06)     1:54.45 (30.81)\r\n 10 Dang, Ethan      SR STAN              1:53.51    1:55.11 B      \r\n                 25.78        54.53 (28.75)\r\n        1:24.22 (29.69)     1:55.11 (30.89)\r\n 11 Dillard, Ben     SR USC               1:52.50    1:55.65 B      \r\n                 25.51        53.94 (28.43)\r\n        1:24.04 (30.10)     1:55.65 (31.61)\r\n 12 Soderlund, Jaco  JR CAL               1:53.11    1:55.80 B      \r\n                 26.29        55.86 (29.57)\r\n        1:25.48 (29.62)     1:55.80 (30.32)\r\n 13 Wisdom, Tavner   SO ARIZ              1:57.28    1:56.34 B      \r\n                 25.86        54.97 (29.11)\r\n        1:25.21 (30.24)     1:56.34 (31.13)\r\n 14 Foote, Ryan      SR ARIZ              2:00.42    1:57.07 B      \r\n                 25.92        55.68 (29.76)\r\n        1:26.21 (30.53)     1:57.07 (30.86)\r\n 15 O'Grady, Chris   JR USC               1:52.86    1:57.26 B      \r\n                 25.96        55.55 (29.59)\r\n        1:25.65 (30.10)     1:57.26 (31.61)\r\n 16 Morgan, Keller   FR USC               1:59.87    1:57.48        \r\n                 26.29        55.91 (29.62)\r\n        1:26.42 (30.51)     1:57.48 (31.06)<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Pac-12 Men&#8217;s 200 Butterfly<\/h2>\n<p>Arizona State freshman <strong>Ilya Kharun<\/strong> claimed the top seed in the 200 butterfly to close the session. He got to the wall in 1:39.52.<\/p>\n<p>USC freshman <strong>Krzysztof Chmielewski<\/strong> took the second seed in 1:41.45.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona State senior<strong> Alexander Colson<\/strong> got in to the third spot with a 1:41.64, ahead of Arizona&#8217;s <strong>Haakon Naughton<\/strong> (1:41.90) and USC&#8217;s <strong>Michal Chmielewski<\/strong> (1:42.51).<\/p>\n<pre><b>Event 20  Men 200 Yard Butterfly<\/b>\r\n==================================================================\r\n         NCAA: N 1:37.35  3\/25\/2017 Jack Conger, Texas\r\n       PAC-12: M 1:38.53  2021      Trenton Julian, CAL\r\n PAC-12 Champ: P 1:38.53  2021      Trenton Julian, CAL\r\n    Name                 Year School               Seed    Prelims        \r\n==================================================================\r\n<b>                      === Preliminaries ===                       <\/b>\r\n \r\n  1 Kharun, Ilya           FR ASU               1:37.93    1:39.52  \r\n                 22.25        47.78 (25.53)\r\n        1:13.73 (25.95)     1:39.52 (25.79)\r\n  2 Chmielewski, Krzyszto  FR USC               1:41.20    1:41.45  \r\n                 22.69        48.60 (25.91)\r\n        1:15.17 (26.57)     1:41.45 (26.28)\r\n  3 Colson, Alexander      SR ASU               1:41.32    1:41.64  \r\n                 22.49        48.36 (25.87)\r\n        1:14.84 (26.48)     1:41.64 (26.80)\r\n  4 Naughton, Haakon       SO ARIZ              1:43.13    1:41.90  \r\n                 22.65        48.34 (25.69)\r\n        1:14.64 (26.30)     1:41.90 (27.26)\r\n  5 Chmielewski, Michal    FR USC               1:42.17    1:42.51  \r\n                 22.65        48.44 (25.79)\r\n        1:15.23 (26.79)     1:42.51 (27.28)\r\n  6 Holmes, Gibson         FR STAN              1:43.30    1:42.95  \r\n                 23.09        49.11 (26.02)\r\n        1:15.43 (26.32)     1:42.95 (27.52)\r\n  7 McFadden, Henry        FR STAN              1:43.45    1:43.11  \r\n                 23.46        49.62 (26.16)\r\n        1:15.99 (26.37)     1:43.11 (27.12)\r\n  8 Homans, Harry          GS USC               1:44.60    1:43.19  \r\n                 22.91        49.05 (26.14)\r\n        1:15.65 (26.60)     1:43.19 (27.54)\r\n -----------------------------------------------------------------\r\n  9 Mihm, Rick             SR STAN              1:43.84    1:43.57  \r\n                 23.09        49.13 (26.04)\r\n        1:16.08 (26.95)     1:43.57 (27.49)\r\n 10 Fenlon, Matt           JR STAN              1:43.57    1:43.86  \r\n                 23.23        49.53 (26.30)\r\n        1:16.43 (26.90)     1:43.86 (27.43)\r\n 11 Nabor, Jadan           SR ARIZ              1:44.61    1:44.00  \r\n                 22.88        49.40 (26.52)\r\n        1:16.21 (26.81)     1:44.00 (27.79)\r\n 12 Senc-Samardzic, Filip  FR ASU               1:45.81    1:44.10  \r\n                 22.46        48.68 (26.22)\r\n        1:16.26 (27.58)     1:44.10 (27.84)\r\n 13 VanBrocklin, Evan      SO UTAH              1:42.86    1:44.98  \r\n                 23.57        50.25 (26.68)\r\n        1:17.36 (27.11)     1:44.98 (27.62)\r\n 14 Ghufran, Hayden        SO ARIZ              1:46.07    1:45.18  \r\n                 23.86        50.31 (26.45)\r\n        1:17.24 (26.93)     1:45.18 (27.94)\r\n 15 Parnham, Beck          JR ARIZ              1:46.77    1:45.25  \r\n                 23.78        50.79 (27.01)\r\n        1:17.70 (26.91)     1:45.25 (27.55)\r\n 16 Henderson, Orion       SO ARIZ              1:46.95    1:45.80  \r\n                 23.10        50.35 (27.25)\r\n        1:17.76 (27.41)     1:45.80 (28.04)<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024 Pac-12 Men&#8217;s Swimming and Diving Championships continued with the Day 4 prelims from Federal Way, Washington. 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