Males’s swimming and diving celebrates senior day with win over Trojans

Males’s swimming and diving (4-1, 3-1 Pac-12) outraced the visiting USC Trojans (4-3, 1-3 Pac-12) on the Avery Aquatic Middle on Saturday, successful 169-108 within the crew’s remaining residence meet and penultimate twin meet this season.

As the ultimate meet at Avery of 2022-23, Saturday additionally marked a celebration of the crew’s longest-serving swimmers, seniors Shane Blinkman, Neel Roy, Leon MacAlister, Will Tarvestad and Andrew Matejka.

MacAlister — who mentioned in November that he plans to co-term subsequent yr, exercising his fifth season of NCAA eligibility allowed because of COVID-impacted seasons — led the Cardinal out to their first win of the day within the 200-yard medley relay (1:27.62), alongside freshman Zhier Fan and juniors Ethan Hu and Jonny Affeld. Sophomores Aaron Sequeira and Ron Polonsky teamed up with freshmen Hayden Kwan and Andres Dupont because the second-placed unit (1:28.56).

On the person aspect, MacAlister logged a attribute backstroke win, his time of 47.17 comfortably in first place of the 100-yard backstroke, earlier than the senior added a 3rd place end (44.45) within the 100-yard freestyle behind Dupont and junior Luke Maurer. Fractions of a second behind Maurer on the midway mark, Dupont charged residence to win by the best of margins, clocking 43.94 to Maurer’s 43.95.

Dupont was once more the Cardinal’s highest positioned swimmer within the different dash freestyle occasion, the freshman swimming 20.36 for second place within the 50-yard freestyle adopted by sophomore Avery Voss (20.40) in third. Maurer had earlier emerged victorious from the 200-yard freestyle, stopping the clock at 1:36.66, whereas Matejka (1:38.54) secured third place.

Fan earned a pair of occasion wins, taking high spot in each the 100-yard (53.08) and 200-yard (1:56.93) breaststroke. The freshman was joined on the rostrum every time by junior Ethan Dang, who earned two third-placed finishes. Fan additionally positioned third within the day’s remaining particular person occasion, the 200-yard particular person medley — finishing a Stanford podium sweep, behind Affeld (second, 1:48.51) and Polonsky (first, 1:47.59).

After ending as Stanford’s high performer within the 200-yard butterfly (third, 1:48.05), Kwan led a dominant show by the Cardinal within the 200-yard backstroke — clocking 1:46.31 for first place, and joined within the high three by Polonsky (1:47.84) and Sequeira (1:48.59).

Not for the primary time this season, redshirt sophomore and reigning NCAA champion Andrei Minakov (47.02) claimed first within the 100-yard butterfly by over a second, whereas the 500-yard freestyle noticed junior Preston Forst (4:28.77) topped champion. The day’s distance occasion, the 1000-yard freestyle, went Matt Fenlon’s manner — the sophomore posting a time of 9:19.42 for first place, with freshman Henry Morrissey (9:26.59) touching second.

Throughout the Avery on the diving pool, sophomore Jack Ryan got here out on high within the 1-meter occasion, and junior Hunter Hollenbeck was the crew’s high performer within the 3-meter occasion, taking third place.

Capping off their remaining residence meet of the season in model, freshman Rafael Gu joined Maurer, Voss and Minakov within the 200-yard freestyle relay — the quartet combining for an event-winning 1:19.73.

A number of ‘time trial’ occasions had been additionally organized, the complete outcomes of which could be discovered right here.

Subsequent up

For his or her remaining twin meet of the season earlier than the Pac-12 (Mar. 1-4) and NCAA (Mar. 22-25) Championships, the crew is ready to journey north to Berkeley (Feb. 18, 12 p.m. PT) to go to fierce convention rivals Cal. That match-up is one during which Dan Schemmel’s squad will hope to duplicate their 2021-22 season efficiency, which noticed the Cardinal take an in depth win over the eventual NCAA champions.