2016-2017 USC Men's Swimming and Diving NCAA Media Guide
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2016-2017 USC Men’s Swimming and Diving NCAA Media Guide Steven Stumph 3-Time Pac-12 Champion 200y Breaststroke Carsten Vissering 2017 Pac-12 Champion 100y Breaststroke USC Men’s Swimming and Diving NCAA Championships Notes 2016-2017 USC Quick Facts 2016-2017 Results (7-2, 3-2) LOCATION: ........................................................................................ Los Angeles, CA FOUNDED: ........................................................................................................1880 DATE DAY OPPONENT SITE TIME ENROLLMENT: .......................................................... 43,000 (19,000 undergraduate) 9/9 Fri. Intrasquad USC 2 p.m. PRESIDENT: ..................................................................................... C. L. Max Nikias 9/30 Fri. at Cal Poly San Louis Obispo, Calif. W, 116-81 COLORS: ........................................................................................Cardinal and Gold 10/1 Sat. at UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, Calif. W, 179-78 NICKNAME: ............................................................................ Trojans/Women of Troy 10/21 Fri. CSU Bakersfield USC W, 171-97 CONFERENCE: ................................................................................................ Pac-12 ATHLETIC DIRECTOR: .............................................................................Lynn Swann 11/4 Fri. at Arizona State * USC W, 156.5-142.5 2015-2016 MEN’S RECORD: ..................................................9-1 / 13th at NCAAs 11/5 Sat. at Arizona * USC W, 165-129 2015-2016 PAC-12 RECORD: ................................................4-1 / 2nd at Pac-12s 11/5 Sat. Alumni Relays USC 8 a.m. 2015-2016 WOMEN’S RECORD: .............................................8-2 / 6th at NCAAs 11/11-13 Thur.-Sat. Trojan Diving Inv. USC All day 2015-2016 PAC-12 RECORD: ................................................. 6-1 / 1st at Pac-12s 11/30-12/3 Wed.-Sat. Texas Invitational Austin, Texas All day HEAD COACH: ...........................................................................Dave Salo (11th year) 1/13 Fri. Wisconsin USC W, 143-114 ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH: ................................................. Catherine Vogt (9th year) 1/13-15 Fri.-Sun. Bruin Diving Invite Westwood, Calif. All day ASSISTANT COACH: ............................................................... Chase Bloch (3rd year) 2/3 Fri. at California * Berkeley, Calif. L, 177-109 ASSISTANT COACH: .................................................................... Jeff Julian (1st year) VOLUNTEER ASSISTANT COACH: ..................................Victoria Ishimatsu (5th year) 2/4 Sat. at Stanford * Palo Alto, Calif. L, 179-121 VOLUNTEER ASSISTANT COACH: ...........................................Dan Heraly (1st year) 2/18 Sat. Utah * USC W, 181-118 HEAD DIVING COACH: ........................................................ Hongping Li (18th year) 3/1-4 Wed.-Sat. Men’s Pac-12 Championships Federal Way, Wash. 3rd DIRECTOR OF SWIM OPERATIONS: ................................ Paul Davidson (11th year) 3/6-8 Mon.-Wed. NCAA Zone E Diving Flagstaff, Ariz. All day ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT: ...................................................... Vanessa Massey 3/22-25 Wed.-Sat. Men’s NCAA Championships Indianapolis, Ind. All day AQUATICS OFFICE PHONE: ........................................................... (213) 740-8444 AQUATICS OFFICE FAX: ................................................................. (213) 740-6177 * Pac-12 meet SID CONTACT: .................................................................................... Paul Goldberg Home meets in bold at Uytengsu Aquatics Center. SPORTS INFORMATION OFFICE PHONE: ................................... (213) 740-8480 SPORTS INFORMATION OFFICE FAX: .......................................... (213) 740-7584 SID CELL PHONE: ........................................................................... (213) 725-3567 SID E-MAIL: ...................................................................................pgoldber@usc.edu USC OFFICIAL WEBSITE: ........................................................... www.usctrojans.com USC ATHLETICS FACEBOOK: ...........................................facebook.com/USCTrojans USC ATHLETICS TWITTER: ..................................................twitter.com/USC_Athletics USC SWIMMING TWITTER: ...................................................... twitter.com/USCswim USC SWIMMING INSTAGRAM: .............................................................. USCSWIM 2016-2017 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS ROSTER NAME YEAR NCAA EVENTS (YARDS) HEIGHT HOMETOWN (COLLEGE/HS) Ridge Altman Sr. 200 IM, 100 Breast, 200 Breast 5-11 Kula, Hawaii (Seacrest Country Day) Dylan Carter RS Jr. 50 Free, 200 Free, 100 Free 6-3 Coral Springs, Fla. (American Heritage School) Santo Condorelli RS Jr. 50 Free, 100 Fly, 100 Free 6-1 Jacksonville, Fla. (The Bolles School) Dashiell Enos Jr. 1-Meter, 3-Meter, Platform 5-8 Studio City, Calif. (Connections Academy) Henry Fusaro F 1-Meter, 3-Meter 6-0 Scottsdale, Ariz. Kyle Grissom Fr. Relays 6-0 Porterville, Calif. (Porterville) Jon Knox So. 100 Back, 200 Back 6-3 Sebastopol, Calif. (Analy High) Reed Malone Jr. 500 Free, 200 Free, 100 Free 6-3 Winnetka, Ill. (New Trier) Patrick Mulcare Fr. 200 IM, 400 IM, 200 Back 6-0 Tigard, Ore. (Southridge) Steven Stumph Jr. 200 IM, 100 Breast, 200 Breast 5-7 Moraga, Calif. (Campolinda) Ralf Tribuntsov So. 50 Free, 100 Back, 100 Free 6-5 Silkeborg, Estonia Alexander Valente Fr. 100 Fly, 200 Fly 6-1 Santa Barbara, Calif. (Does Pueblos) Carsten Vissering Fr. 100 Breast, 200 Breast 6-5 Bethesda, Md. (Georgetown Prep) NCAA SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIP NOTES seed in the 200y free and seeded 11th in the 100y free. He is also looking for his first USC’s nine NCAA team titles (1960, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1974, 1975, 1976 NCAA A final, as is fellow redshirt junior Santo Condorelli. Condorelli is seeded high- and 1977) are fourth most nationally and Troy has won a combined 120 NCAA event est in the 50y free, 22nd. Both Carter (Trinidad and Tobago) and Condorelli (Canada) titles (also fourth most), including 98 individually and 22 on relays ... USC won its last took off the 2015-16 season while training for the 2016 Olympics … Sophomore team title in 1977 and posted its last top 3 finish in 1990 with a second place. Since Patrick Mulcare comes in seeded third in the 200y back after winning the race at the 1990, the best USC has done is a quartet of fourth-place finishes in 1991, 2001, 2016 Pac-12s and taking second this year. He is also looking for a repeat scoring ef- 2013 and 2015. The Trojans have won at least one NCAA title in nine of the past 16 fort in the 400y IM … Junior Ralf Tribuntsov, an A finalist in the 100y back last year, is seasons. That included three in 2015 when Cristian Quintero, as a senior, won the seeded 11th in the race this week … Senior Reed Malone is a two-time A finalist in the 200y free and led USC to wins in the 400y and 800y free relays, Troy’s ninth NCAA 500y free and did it once in the 200y free. His highest seed entering the meet is 17th wins in both races. In 2014, Quintero won the 500y free and led USC to a win the in the 500 while he’s 24th in the 200 … Senior Ridge Altman is at his second NCAAs, 800y free relay. In 2013, junior Vladimir Morozov swept the 50y and 100y freestyles, looking to score for the first time. He’s got a good shot in the 200y breast, entered as Troy’s first crowns in the events since 1977 and 1974, respectively. Morozov also led the 21st seed … Sophomore Alex Valente will swim both fly events, looking for his first USC to its first 400y free relay title since 1977. Troy has also won four 400y medley NCAA scoring swim … Sophomore Kyle Grissom is back as a key relay swimmer while relays in its NCAA history …. Senior Steven Stumph, the three-time Pac-12 champ junior Jon Knox returns as a backstroker … Junior diver Dashiell Enos returns to the in the 200y breast, is seeded sixth in the race in a tough field, eyeing his first A final NCAAs. The 2-time Pac-12 3-meter champion is looking for his first NCAA scoring appearance … Sophomore Carsten Vissering, the Pac-12 winner in the 100y breast, result, while freshman Henry Fusaro makes his NCAA debut on both springboards … is the fourth seed in the race after taking 26th last year, though he did score in the USC enters all five relays seeded either ninth or 10th. 200 … Redshirt Junior Dylan Carter, second in the 200y free at Pac-12s, is the fourth 2016-2017 USC Swimming and Diving USC Men’s Swimming and Diving NCAA Championships Notes RIDGE ALTMAN record with the fly leg ... Carter, who won 12 races on the year, broke USC’s record in the 100y fly at the 2016 Texas Invitational with a 45.27 ... At the 2016 FINA World Championships (short course), Carter was a two- Breast/IM • 5-11 • RS Senior time finalist, finishing fourth in the 200m free and seventh in the 50m fly. Kula, Hawaii In the 200m free, he twice broke the Trinidad and Tobago national record, ultimately lowering it to 1:42.48. He also lowered his country’s mark in Seacrest Country Day the 50m fly twice, the second time in the semifinals with a 22.53 ... For his efforts, he won (by popular vote) Trinidad and Tobago’s 2016 Peoples THIS SEASON: Ridge Altman, a 2017 redshirt senior, is making his second Choice Award. 2016: Carter redshirted as a 2016 junior to train for the 2016 Olympics NCAA appearance this season ... At the 2017 Pac-12 Championships, ... He represented Trinidad & Tobago at the Rio Games,