For Immediate Release // Monday, February 29, 2016 Contact // Sean Collins ([email protected]) 2016 PAC-12 CONFERENCE MEN’S SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS GENERAL INFORMATION SCHEDULE OF EVENTS WHAT: Wed., March 2 2016 Pac-12 Conference Men’s Swimming Championships 6 p.m. Timed Finals 200 Medley Relay WHEN: 800 Freestyle Relay Thurs., March 3 Wednesday, March 2 - Saturday, March 5 11 a.m. Preliminaries/Time Standard Trials 500 Freestyle WHERE: 200 Individual Medley Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center 50 Freestyle 650 Southwest Campus Drive, Federal Way, WA 98003 6 p.m. Finals/Time Standard Trials 500 Freestyle CHAMPIONSHIPS FIELD: 200 Individual Medley Arizona, Arizona State, California, Stanford, USC and Utah. 50 Freestyle 200 Freestyle Relay (Timed Finals) TICKETS: Fri., March 4 Tickets are available here. Gates open at 10 a.m. each day. 11 a.m. Preliminaries/Time Standard Trials 400 Individual Medley Advanced Ticket Prices (available at pac-12.com/tickets) 100 Butterfly All Session Pass (March 2-5): 200 Freestyle Adult: $35.00 100 Breaststroke Student with ID/Child/Senior (65 and over): $20.00 100 Backstroke One Day Pass: 6 p.m. Finals/Time Standard Trials 400 Individual Medley Adult: $10.00 100 Butterfly Student with ID/Child/Senior (65 and over): $15.00 200 Freestyle 100 Breaststroke Onsite Ticket Prices 100 Backstroke All Session Pass (March 4-7): 400 Medley Relay (Timed Finals) Adult: $40.00 Sat., March 5 Student with ID/Child/Senior (65 and over): $20.00 11 a.m. Preliminaries/Time Standard Trials One Day Pass: 200 Backstroke Adult: $15.00 100 Freestyle Student with ID/Child/Senior (65 and over): $10.00 200 Breaststroke Children 5 and under are admitted free (with an adult). 200 Butterfly 4 p.m. 1650 Freestyle* MEDIA CONTACT: 6 p.m. Finals/Time Standard Trials The Conference contact for men’s swimming and diving is Sean 1650 Freestyle (fastest heat) Collins ([email protected]). 200 Backstroke 100 Freestyle MEET RESULTS: 200 Breaststroke Results and recaps will be posted on the Pac-12 website (pac-12. 200 Butterfly com/mensswimchamps). Please contact Sean Collins at the Pac- 400 Freestyle Relay (Timed Finals) 12 office for more information. * Tentative start time; all heats except A heat twitter.com/Pac12 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. 22 College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) poll, the 2016 Pac- 12 Men’s Swimming Championships are shaping up to be as competitive as ever. With several Olympic team hopefuls in the field, the meet will continue 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 419.35. Bradley Christensen (Stanford) won the 1-meter event, scoring 405.6. Collin Pollard (USC) was the platform champion with a score of 427.7 and was the runner-up in the 1-meter. No. 17 ARIZONA (2-4, 1-3 Pac-12) enters the Pac-12 Championships with 20 student-athletes that have earned NCAA cuts, 17 of which in more than one event. Chris Wieser in the 1,000 freestyle, strictly a dual meet event, has the top time in the Pac-12 and the sixth-best time in the country at 9:01.60. Tyler Fowler is right behind his teammate in the 1,000 free at No. 7 country with a season-best time of 9:02.00. Justin Wright’s 200 fly time of 1:42.79 is good for 13th in the country and second in the Pac-12 on the year.Nick Thorne has the 16th-best time in the country for the 400 IM at 3:44.48. No. 20 ARIZONA STATE (4-4, 1-3 Pac-12), now under the guidance of the highly touted head coach Bob Bowman, broke five school records in its final meet against Arizona, which was the first time the men defeated the Wildcats since 2002. Since returning from two broken wrists suffered in October, Richard Bohus has won eight of 12 events, with the other four being three second-place and one third-place finish. He also broke the 100-yard backstroke ASU record with a time of 46.74. Junior Barkley Perry tied the men’s 200-yard backstroke record – which he set himself at the 2015 Pac-12 Championships – at 1:42.50. Sophomore Patrick Park earned first Pac-12 Swimmer of Month (Nov) award for ASU since 2007 (C.J. Nuess). Second-ranked CALIFORNIA (7-1, 4-1 Pac-12) spent the entire season ranked No. 2 in the nation (CSCAA). Junior Ryan Murphy is the reigning NCAA Swimmer of the Year and owns the American record in the 200 backstroke (SCY) with a time of 1:36.77 set at the 2015 NCAA Championships. He is the two-time defending NCAA champion in both the 100 and 200 backstroke. Cal also set the American record in the 200 medley relay (SCY) at last year’s NCAA Championships, with the team of Murphy, Chuck Katis, Justin Lynch and Tyler Messerschmidt (all but Katis return this year) clocking a time of 1:22.40. 11th-ranked STANFORD (5-2, 2-2 Pac-12) is 5-1 in dual meets on the 2015/16 season. After the loss of David Nolan, a nine-time Pac-12 Champion and two-time NCAA Champion, Stanford has showed exceptional depth and quality throughout the squad all season. The Cardinal faced off against No. 5 North Carolina State in the fall in a nonconference dual meet. After falling behind early, Stanford stormed back to defeat the visiting Wolfpack, 164-136. Stanford also won the A3 Performance Invitational, setting several meet records in the process. Coming in at ninth in the CSCAA polling, USC (6-2, 4-1 Pac-12) will look to defend its first Pac-12 title since 1979. USC swept Cal and Stanford for the first time since 1997. The Trojans victory over Cal was its first since 2000. USC’s win over Stanford was its first at home since 2006 and USC’s third win over Stanford in the last 3 meets (Troy also beat the Cardinal in Palo Alto in 2013 and 2015). Junior Reed Malone, third last year in the 500y free at NCAAs, enters the meet with five career top 6 finishes, including finishing second in the 500y free behind then-teammate Cristian Quintero the past two years. He was fourth in the 200y free in 2015 and sixth in 2014. Also in 2015, he was sixth in the 100y free. Junior Steven Stumph returns as the defending champion in the 200y breast. UTAH (5-2, 3-2 Pac-12) is paced by long-distance freestyler Bence Kiraly, who owns the 10th-best time in the country and No. 1 time in the Pac-12 in the 1650 free at 14:50.19. He won the event at the Pac-12 Championships in 2014. He has now won 16 of the 18 events he has competed in this season and finished as the runner-up in the other two. Kiraly has won 16 of the 18 events he has competed in this season and finished as the runner-up in the other two.Kristian Kron broke the Swedish national record in the 800 free (7:49.82) in November at the Swedish Nationals. 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 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. PAC-12 SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS // March 2, 2015 2 PAC-12 IN THE OLYMPICS The Pac-12 has established itself as the most dominant Olympic sports conference in the country, laying claim to 305 medals in the last four Olympiads. In the modern Olympic era, Pac-12 athletes have amassed 1,143 medals – by far the most of any conference in the country. Put another way, if the Pac-12 was a sovereign nation it would rank fourth in the history of Olympic achievement, trailing only the United States (2,693), the former Soviet Union (1,204) and Germany (1,162) in total medals. In the 2012 London Olympic Games, Conference representa- tives collected 45 medals (19 gold, 14 silver, 12 bronze), a total that would have ranked fifth in the overall medal count by country. Current and former Pac-12 swimmers and divers acocunted for 26 of those medals (13 gold, 5 silver, 8 bronze). Additionally, four current Pac-12 swimming coaches represented the United States in London.