2020 Pac-12 Conference Men's Swimming Championship
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For Immediate Release // Tuesday, March 3, 2020 Contact // Nicole Mitchell ([email protected]) 2020 PAC-12 CONFERENCE MEN’S SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIP GENERAL INFORMATION SCHEDULE OF EVENTS WHAT: 2020 Pac-12 Men’s Swimming Championship Wed., March 4 6 p.m. Finals WHEN: 800 Freestyle Relay Wednesday, March 4 - Saturday, March 7 400 Medley Relay Thurs., March 5 WHERE: Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center 11 a.m. Preliminaries 650 Southwest Campus Drive, Federal Way, WA 98003 500 Freestyle 200 Individual Medley TELEVISION AND LIVE STREAM COVERAGE: 50 Freestyle Expanded live coverage of the Pac-12 Men’s Swimming Finals will air live on Pac-12 Washington and other regional networks and will be 6 p.m. Finals available to authenticated users on Pac-12.com and the Pac-12 Now 500 Freestyle app from Wednesday, March 4 to Saturday, March 7. 200 Individual Medley 50 Freestyle HOW TO WATCH: 200 Freestyle Relay Wednesday, March 4 6:00 p.m. - 2019 Men’s Swimming Championships (Day 1) Fri., March 6 Pac-12 Now app / Pac-12.com 11 a.m. Preliminaries 400 Individual Medley Thursday, March 5 100 Butterfly 6:00 p.m. - 2019 Men’s Swimming Championships (Day 2) Pac-12 Now app / Pac-12.com 200 Freestyle 100 Breaststroke Friday, March 6 100 Backstroke 6:30 p.m. - 2019 Men’s Swimming Championships (Day 3) (LIVE) 6 p.m. Finals Pac-12 Arizona, Pac-12 Bay Area & Pac-12 Washington 400 Individual Medley Saturday, March 7 100 Butterfly 6:30 p.m. - 2019 Men’s Swimming Championships (Day 4) (LIVE) 200 Freestyle Pac-12 Los Angeles & Pac-12 Washington 100 Breaststroke 100 Backstroke MEET RESULTS: Links to live results will be available on Pac-12.com and results will 200 Medley Relay also be posted on the Pac-12 website (https://pac-12.com/mens- Sat., March 7 swimming/championships). Please contact Nicole Mitchell at the 11 a.m. Preliminaries Pac-12 office for more information. 200 Backstroke TICKETS: 100 Freestyle Tickets are available online and will also be available for purchase 200 Breaststroke at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center on the day of the 200 Butterfly event. Gates open at 10 a.m. for the morning session and 5 p.m. for 6 p.m. Finals the evening session. Tickets are general admission and seating is first 1650 Freestyle come, first served. (fastest heat) 200 Backstroke Advanced Ticket Prices - Pac-12.com/tickets 100 Freestyle All Session Pass (March 4-7): 200 Breaststroke Ticket Price Adult: $35.00 200 Butterfly Student with ID/Child (6-17)/Senior (65 and over): $15.00 400 Freestyle Relay One Day Pass: Adult: $10.00 Student with ID/Child (6-17)/Senior (65 and over): $5.00 Onsite Ticket Prices All Session Pass (Mar 4-7): twitter.com/Pac12 Ticket Price Adult: $40.00 Student with ID/Child (6-17)/Senior (65 and over): $20.00 facebook.com/Pac12Conference One Day Pass: Adult: $15.00 Student with ID/Child (6-17)/Senior (65 and over): $10.00 2020 Pac-12 Men’s Swimming Championship 2020 Pac-12 Men’s Swimming Championship 1 PAC-12 MEN’S SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIP PREVIEW Measured by national championships, national awards and Olym- CALIFORNIA: Five-time NCAA Coach of the Year (‘10-12, ‘14, pics success, the Pac-12 Conference has one of the most impres- ‘19) and 2020 U.S. swimming head coach David Durden led No. sive legacies in collegiate swimming. Pac-12 schools own nearly 2 California (6-0, 4-0 Pac-12) to another successful season as a third of all NCAA Division I titles, with 25 NCAA team titles, and the Bears are one of two teams in the nation with a perfect record lead the nation with the most members to have won a team NCAA this season. The 2019 National and Pac-12 Champion is looking title with five (California, Arizona, Stanford, UCLA and USC). for its third-straight and seventh overall league title this week with a strong squad that hold 12 of the Conference’s best times this The 2020 Pac-12 Men’s Swimming Championships will again fea- year. Leading the pack is senior Ryan Hoffer and sophomore Re- ture some of the nation’s top swimming talent as all six Conference ece Whitley. Hoffer owns the league’s best times in the 50-yeard teams are ranked in the College Swimming Coaches Association freestyle (18.98), 100-yard freestyle (42.25), 100-yard butterfly of America (CSCAA) poll. Leading the way is defending Pac-12 (45.46), and is a part of three relay teams looking to defend their Champion CALIFORNIA at No. 2. The Bears are looking for their 2019 Conference titles. Their times in the 200-yard freestyle third-straight and seventh overall league title in Federal Way, relay (time) 200-yard medley (1:23.12) and 400-yard medley Wash., this week. ARIZONA STATE enters at No. 10 nationally, relay (3:03.89) are the Pac-12 top marks this season. 2019 Pac- ARIZONA is No. 13, STANFORD is No. 16 and USC is No. 21. 12 Pac-12 Swimming Freshman of the Year Whitley also leads the conference in the 100-yeard breaststroke (51.50), 200-yard Divers from Arizona and USC helped their teams to the early lead breaststroke (1:51.02), 200-yard individual medley (1:43.65). The in the Pac-12 Championships with top scores in last week’s diving sophomore set four pool records in Cal’s last competition of the competition. Wildcat freshman Bjorn Markentin took first on the season, breaking the 100-yard breastroke (52.77) and 200-yard platform, and recorded a third (375.95) and eighth place (341.15) breastroke (1:53.65) Spieker Aquatics Complex records in addi- score in the one-meter and three-meter, respectively, to help give tion to swimming a 23.85 split on the second leg of the Bears’ pool Arizona 95 points going into week two. Scores from USC’s Georgii record swim in the 200-yard medley relay (1:25.14) Korovin, Brad Dalrymple, Henry Fusaro, and Brad Dalrymple helped push the Trojans into the top spot, also with a 95-point total STANFORD: No. 16 Stanford finished the season with a 4-1 over- ahead of swimming . all record, 3-1 in Conference action. The Cardinal are looking to win its Conference leading 34th Pac-12 title this season with the Stanford’s Conor Casey took titles in the men’s one-meter and help of its top performers led by Grant Shoults. The senior swim- three-meter last week as the Cardinal’s 93 points puts it in third mer is looking to earn his earn his third Pac-12 title and set anoth- place. Utah is in fourth with 74 points, Arizona State is fifth with er championship record as he was the 2017 and 2018 500-yard 47 points, and California is in sixth with 28 points. freestyle champion and set the Pac-12 championship record with a time of 4:10.67 in the same event in 2017. This season, Shoult’s ARIZONA: No. 13 Arizona started off its season with a four- dual- 500-yard freestyle time (4:12.74) is the second best in the league, meet win streak, the programs best season start since 2011, and and he was named Pac-12 Swimmer of the Week on Jan. 15th finished with a winning 5-4 overall record, its most wins since 2013. The Wildcats have a host of talent heading to Federal Way USC: The 21st-ranked Trojans look to impress at the Pac-12 including junior Brooks Fail and senior Thomas Anderson who are Championships behinds its standouts Alexei Sancov and Victor both looking to win their first Pac-12 titles. Fail’s performance at Johansson, both top Conference finishers. Two-time Pac-12 the Minnesota Invitational (Dec. 4-7) earned him the Conference’s Swimmer of the Week Sancov’s hard work at the Art Adamson top times in the 500-yard freestyle (4:11.79) and 1650-yard free- Invitational in November earned him the Conference’s best time in style (14:37.60) this season. Anderson has two top-three league the 200-yard-freestyle (1:32.95), the second-best time in the 200- finishes this year in the 100-year backstroke (46.03 and the 200- yard Individual Medley and the third-best time in the 200-yard yard Individual medley butterfly (1:42.03). Johansson returns to Federal Way to defend his 2019 500-yard freestyle title, currently holding the league’s fifth- ARIZONA STATE: No. 10 Arizona State (4-3,3-2 Pac-12) finished best time of 4:18.22 and the league’s second-best time in the their season with a historic win as then-No. 13 Sun Devils upset 1650-yard freestyle (14:47.27). the then-No. 10 Wildcats (202-92) recording their biggest win since at least 1998. Sophomore Liam Bresette dominated in UTAH: No. 25 Utah (3-4, 1-2 Pac-12) finished its season making Tucson taking first in the in the 500 freestyle (4:20.51) and 200 pool history while recording an upset over No. 21 USC (164-91). Individual Medley (1:47.50), adding a personal-best second-place Sophmore Tyler Klawiter set a new Don Reddish pool mark in the finish in the 200 freestyle (1:35.10) and notching NCAA ‘B’ cuts 1000-yard freestyle at 9:12.59 and Andrew Britton set a new pool in the 200 and 500 freestyles for the first time this season.