For Immediate Release // Monday, February 27, 2017 Contact // Molly Babcock ([email protected]) 2017 PAC-12 CONFERENCE MEN’S SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS GENERAL INFORMATION SCHEDULE OF EVENTS WHAT: Wed., March 1 2017 Pac-12 Conference Men’s Swimming Championships 6 p.m. Timed Finals 200 Medley Relay WHEN: 800 Freestyle Relay Wednesday, March 1 - Saturday, March 4 Thurs., March 2 11 a.m. Preliminaries/Time Standard Trials WHERE: 500 Freestyle Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center 200 Individual Medley 650 Southwest Campus Drive, Federal Way, WA 98003 50 Freestyle 6 p.m. Finals/Time Standard Trials CHAMPIONSHIPS FIELD: 500 Freestyle Arizona, Arizona State, California, Stanford, USC and Utah. 200 Individual Medley 50 Freestyle TELEVISION AND LIVE STREAM COVERAGE: 200 Freestyle Relay (Timed Finals) The Pac-12 Men’s Swimming finals will be broadcast live on Satur- Fri., March 3 day, March 4 at 6:30 p.m. PT / 7:30 p.m. MT on Pac-12 Arizona, 11 a.m. Preliminaries/Time Standard Trials Pac-12 Los Angeles and select other Pac-12 regional networks to be 400 Individual Medley announced at a later date. 100 Butterfly 200 Freestyle Coverage of the prelims and earlier finals will be streamed live on 100 Breaststroke Pac-12.com and the Pac-12 Now app, Wednesday, March 1, Thurs- 100 Backstroke day, March 2, Friday, March 3 and will conclude on Saturday, March 6 p.m. Finals/Time Standard Trials 4. 400 Individual Medley 100 Butterfly TICKETS: 200 Freestyle Tickets are available here. Gates open at 10 a.m. each day for morn- 100 Breaststroke ing sessions and 5 p.m. each day for evening sessions. 100 Backstroke 400 Medley Relay (Timed Finals) Advanced Ticket Prices (available at pac-12.com/tickets) Sat., March 4 All Session Pass (March 1-4): 11 a.m. Preliminaries/Time Standard Trials Adult: $35.00 200 Backstroke Student with ID/Child/Senior (65 and over): $20.00 100 Freestyle One Day Pass: 200 Breaststroke Adult: $10.00 200 Butterfly Student with ID/Child/Senior (65 and over): $5.00 4 p.m. 1650 Freestyle* 6 p.m. Finals/Time Standard Trials Onsite Ticket Prices 1650 Freestyle (fastest heat) All Session Pass (March 4-7): 200 Backstroke Adult: $40.00 100 Freestyle Student with ID/Child/Senior (65 and over): $20.00 200 Breaststroke One Day Pass: 200 Butterfly Adult: $15.00 400 Freestyle Relay (Timed Finals) Student with ID/Child/Senior (65 and over): $10.00 Children 5 and under are admitted free (with an adult). * Tentative start time; all heats except A heat MEDIA CONTACT: The Conference contact for men’s swimming and diving is Molly Babcock ([email protected]). MEET RESULTS: Results and recaps will be posted on the Pac-12 website (pac-12. twitter.com/Pac12 com/mensswimchamps). Please contact Molly Babcock at the Pac- 12 office for more information. facebook.com/Pac12Conference PAC-12 MEN’S SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS SET FOR FEDERAL WAY With five Pac-12 teams ranked in the top 25 in the Feb. 23 College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) poll, the 2017 Pac-12 Men’s Swimming Championships are shaping up to be as competitive as ever. With several Olympians in the field, the meet continues to showcase some of the top swimmers in the world. At the men’s diving competition last weekend, Dashiell Enos (USC) won the 3-meter event with a score of 428.35 for the second-straight year. Bradley Christensen (Stanford) won the 1-meter event also for the second-straight year, scoring 375.90. Tarek Abdelghany (Stanford) was the platform champion. Tied for No. 15 in the country, ARIZONA (2-4-1, 1-3-1 Pac-12) enters the season after tying Arizona State in its last regular-season meet. Junior Nick Thorne had a strong performance being the only male to win more than one event. Thorne earned his first victory in the 200-yard backstroke with a season and personal-best time of 1:43.70. He later won the 400-yard IM with ease, touching in 3:49.18 and giving the Wildcats the lead going into the last event. These were Thorne’s first victories of the season and best finishes in both of the events. Overall, the men won seven events and had multiple swimmers in the top three in 10. Juniors Chris Wieser and Justin Wright both won their events, the 1,00-yard free and 200-yard fly, respectively, in a season-best for Wieser and a third-consecutive win for Wright. Ranked in a tie for No. 15, ARIZONA STATE (4-2-1, 2-2-1 Pac-12) had five season highs and two NCAA B-cuts in its final meet of the regular season against Arizona. Richard Bohus and Patrick Pars both swam their NCAA B-cuts in the 100-yard free. At the meet, Bohus won the second-straight event for the ASU men with his second-fastest 100-yard backstroke of the season, while Zach Poti swam his career fastest, finishing fourth, and Reid Elliott swam his season fastest, finishing fifth. Two events later,Patrick Park also swam a season best in the 200-yard fly, finishing second. First-ranked CALIFORNIA (5-0, 4-0 Pac-12) spent the season jumping around being ranked in the top-10 in the nation with the lowest ranking com- ing on Nov. 23 at sixth (CSCAA). For the last three rankings of the season, the Bears went from first to second to end up on top for the final ranking of the season. Ryan Murphy’s final dual meet in Berkeley was a lot like the ones that have come before – score a few points, break a couple of records and lead Cal to a victory over rival Stanford. The Bears set two pool records at the meet – the 200-yard medley relay (Connor Hoppe, Matthew Josa, Pawel Sendyk, and Murphy) in 1:44.85 and Murphy individually set the 200-yard backstroke in 1:42.37. Sophomore and reigning Pac-12 Swimmer of the Month Andrew Seliskar won three events for the Bears, taking the 200-yard freestyle (1:35.46), 200-yard butterfly (1:44.85), and the 200 breaststroke (1:57.01). Fifth-ranked STANFORD (3-1 Pac-12) is 4-1 in dual meets on the 2016-17 season. The one loss came against No. 1 California. The Cardinal team of Ryan Dudzinski, Matt Anderson, Andrew Liang and Cole Cogswell (1:27.16) started the meet with a runner-up finish in the 200-yard medley relay. Stanford scored a one-two-three finish in the 1,000-yard freestyle, led by True Sweetser (9:00.25). Liam Egan (9:09.37) and Grant Shoults (9:14.97) rounded out the top three. Coming in at No. 13 in the CSCAA polling, USC (6-2, 3-2 Pac-12) won 13 of 16 events in its last meet of the regular season, including seniors Michael Domagala, Reed Malone and Steven Stumph all won their respective events. Sophomore Patrick Mulcare, school record holder in the 200y back, won the race today in 1:41.67, 0.12 off the pool record of 1:41.55 set by Cal’s Jacob Pebley last year and 0.02 off his season best. Trojan junior Jon Knox was second in a season best 1:43.38. Stumph, the two-time defending Pac-12 champion in the 200-yard breaststroke, won the race in a season-best 1:56.34 while Ridge Altman took third in 1:58.34. UTAH (5-2, 3-2 Pac-12) set a new school record and had nine competitors accomplish times good enough for NCAA consideration despite coming up short against then-No. 13 USC in its last meet of the regular season. In the 100-yard breaststroke, Jack Burton took first with a time of 53.64, match- ing the school record set by Ken Tiltges at the 2014 Pac-12 Championships. Burton would later take second in the 200-yard breaststroke (1:57.86) and be one of seven student-athletes to reach a NCAA cut time. Daniel McArthur also took home individual wins in the 200-yard IM (1:48.32) and the 100-yard back (47.25), both times were good enough for NCAA consideration. PAC-12 TEAM CHAMPIONS NCAA CHAMPIONS FROM THE PAC-12 1961.................... USC 1979.................... USC 2000......... STANFORD 1960 USC 1982 UCLA 1962.................... USC 1980....... CALIFORNIA 2001......... STANFORD 1963 USC 1985 STANFORD 1963.................... USC 1981....... CALIFORNIA 2002......... STANFORD 1964 USC 1986 STANFORD 1964.................... USC 1982......... STANFORD 2003......... STANFORD 1965 USC 1987 STANFORD 1965.................... USC 1983......... STANFORD 2004......... STANFORD 1966 USC 1992 STANFORD 1966.................... USC 1984......... STANFORD 2005......... STANFORD 1967 STANFORD 1993 STANFORD 1967.................... USC 1985......... STANFORD 2006......... STANFORD 1974 USC 1994 STANFORD 1968.................... USC 1986......... STANFORD 2007......... STANFORD 1975 USC 1998 STANFORD 1969.................... USC 1987......... STANFORD 2008......... STANFORD 1976 USC 2008 ARIZONA 1970.................. UCLA 1988......... STANFORD 2009......... STANFORD 1977 USC 2011 CALIFORNIA 1971.................. UCLA 1989......... STANFORD 2010......... STANFORD 1979 CALIFORNIA 2012 CALIFORNIA 1972.................... USC 1990......... STANFORD 2011......... STANFORD 1980 CALIFORNIA 2014 CALIFORNIA 1973.................... USC 1991......... STANFORD 2012......... STANFORD 1974.................... USC 1992......... STANFORD 2013....... CALIFORNIA 1975.................... USC 1993......... STANFORD 2014....... CALIFORNIA 1976...............USC (S) 1994......... STANFORD 2015.................... USC .......WASHINGTON (N) 1995......... STANFORD 2016......... STANFORD 1977...............USC (S) 1996* ....... STANFORD * Due to the 1996 Olympic .......WASHINGTON (N) 1997......... STANFORD year, the Pac-10 Swimming 1978...............USC (S) 1998......... STANFORD Championships took place in .......WASHINGTON (N) 1999......... STANFORD the fall of 1995. 2 PAC-12 MEN’S SWIM CHAMPIONSHIPS PAC-12 IN THE OLYMPICS The Pac-12 has established itself as the most dominant Olympic sports conference in the country, laying claim to 360 medals in the last five Olympiads.