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WSwim,WDive, MDive PAC-12 championships - M T - 02-26-2020
The PAC-12 conference meet for Women's Swimming & Diving, and for Men's Diving, started today.
The schedule of events is available, but the heat sheets are not (maybe later, via PAC-12 page)
The PAC-12's "live results" link doesn't appear to be working and Stanford's "live stats" page gives an error.
It is supposed to be available on PAC-12 network, but I haven't confirmed if they are carrying it all live.
Friday and Saturday finals (and perhaps a program at 1:30PM Saturday) are supposed to be on PAC-12 networks.
The other final sessions may be available on PAC-12.com or PAC-12 Now app, but that is NOT available to Sling customers even though it is made available to Sling.
RE: WSwim,WDive, MDive PAC-12 championships - DenverCard - 02-26-2020
The session tonight (Wednesday) involves only a couple of relays, and usually starts at 6:00 Pacific Time. Things get rolling tomorrow with prelims in the morning and finals starting at 6:00, I believe.
Tons of coverage for all things swimming at Swimswam.com -- for this week's women's Pac-12, next week's men's meet, and nationals three weeks following each. The women's NCAA meet should be very interesting, pitting Stanford's depth against Cal's high-scoring stars, with up-and-comer Virginia also in the mix. This will be Cal's last hurrah, at least for a while, as Stanford and Virginia have been out-recruiting Cal recently. If Stanford can win this year without the major stars from years past, and stretch a three-year streak to four, they expect to have massive reinforcements coming next year in Regan Smith (world records holder as a high school student), Taylor Ruck (Canadian Olympian who swam last year as a frosh at Stanford and took the year off to focus on the Olympics), and Lillie Nordmann, who recently had great swims at the Texas HS championships (and whose slightly less renowned older sister swims at Stanford).
For those interested, Lillie Nordmann's two swims can be found here:
https://swimswam.com/lillie-nordmann-breaks-texas-6a-record-with-143-7-200-free-watch-race-videos/
RE: WSwim,WDive, MDive PAC-12 championships - BobK - 02-26-2020
https://static.pac-12.com/sports/swimming-diving/2020%20Championships/Men%27sDiveResults.pdf
First results. Live stats for today up on go Stanford and the Pac 12
RE: WSwim,WDive, MDive PAC-12 championships - cardcrimson - 02-26-2020
Thanks for posting. Her turns are spectacular.
(02-26-2020, 04:59 PM)DenverCard Wrote: For those interested, Lillie Nordmann's two swims can be found here:
https://swimswam.com/lillie-nordmann-breaks-texas-6a-record-with-143-7-200-free-watch-race-videos/
RE: WSwim,WDive, MDive PAC-12 championships - BobK - 02-26-2020
http://results.teamunify.com/pnws2/
Results for the complete meet
RE: WSwim,WDive, MDive PAC-12 championships - BobK - 02-26-2020
Stanford takes 3rd in both the 800 free relay and the 400 medley relay
RE: WSwim,WDive, MDive PAC-12 championships - M T - 02-27-2020
(02-26-2020, 09:13 PM)BobK Wrote: Stanford takes 3rd in both the 800 free relay and 2nd in the 400 medley relayFixed it for you.
The TeamUnify link doesn't show the results of the 400 MR (just the psych seeding)
Stanford was seeded 2nd but finished 3rd.
Here is the PAC-12 results page.
On the 800 FR, if only the above mentioned big sister Lucie Nordmann had swum on the A relay instead of the B, we might have eaked out a 2nd place by 0.2.
On the 400 MR, 3 of Cal's swimmers beat our 3. Only our breaststroker, Allie Raab, had the best time of all the schools (58.6 - respectable but not going to be top 3 NCAA, IIRC). Cal's Weitzeil is a beast. Her 100 Fr split was 1.87 seconds better than anyone else!
In men's 1m diving, Conor Casey of Stanford won first, by a respectable margin, after being 3rd in the prelims.
RE: WSwim,WDive, MDive PAC-12 championships - M T - 02-27-2020
Day 2: A mixed bag, going into the finals.
Results: PDF; Live
We've got 4 in the championship final of the 500 Fr (qualifying 5th thru 8th), and 1 in the consolation final and 3 in the bonus final.
Finals: we got 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th; 11th; 19th, 20th, 21st
In the 200 IM, we've only got 1 in the consolation final. Ouch.
Finals: we got 9th
In the 50 Fr, Anya Goeders qualified in 2nd place, just barely in front of 3rd and almost a full second behind first.
We have another in that championship final.
We've got 1 in the consolation final, and 5 in the bonus final.
Finals: 3rd, 8th; 10th; 17th, 18th, 19th, 21st, 23rd
We're seeded 4th in the 200 Free Relay. I hope we'll get 2nd based on the 50Fr.
We finished 2nd
In the women's 1m diving, we have 3 of the 8 finalists.
Finals: 2nd, 3rd, 5th
In the men's 3m diving, we have 2 of the 8 finalists. Conor Casey (1m champ) has the highest degree of difficulty. If he hits his dives, that should be good.
RE: WSwim,WDive, MDive PAC-12 championships - BobK - 02-27-2020
Stanford leads after tonight
RE: WSwim,WDive, MDive PAC-12 championships - M T - 02-28-2020
Friday's events:
400 IM - Stanford qualified 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th; (no others)
100 Fly - Stanford qualified 4th, 5th; 18th
200 Fr - Stanford qualified 1st, 8th; 10th;
100 Br - Stanford qualified 1st, 6th; 10th;
100 Bk - Stanford qualified 3rd, 5th, 6th;
3 mtr diving - Stanford qualified 1st, 3rd, 4th;
Impressive results in the prelims. Tonight's finals start in 40 minutes on PAC-12 L.A.
RE: WSwim,WDive, MDive PAC-12 championships - Treefence - 02-28-2020
Team scores after Friday's action:
1. Stanford University 1027 2. University of California- Berk 866.5
3. University of Southern Calif 768 4. University of California - LA 701.5
5. Arizona State University 635.5 6. University OF Arizona 530
7. Utah, University of 422.5 8. Washington State University 265
RE: WSwim,WDive, MDive PAC-12 championships - Hulk01 - 02-29-2020
Perspective on next year:
Our new men's coach has landed perhaps the #1 class, with recruits ranked by Swim Swam:
11 (number one fly), 13 (number one 200 breast), 14, 16, and 19,
plus an immediate NCAA title contender
in Russian Andre Minakov, the 100 fly silver medalist in the most recent World Championships.
On the women's side,
Stanford brings in the most dominant junior woman's swimmer since Ledecky, Regan Smith.
She's ranked first in the 100, 200, and 500 free; the 100 and 200 back; and the 200 fly.
As mentioned, Stanford also has a commitment from Lillie Nordman,
the #6 recruit in the class,
plus a fast riser at #22
who could move up significantly in the rankings.
Texas brings in #3 and #7, Virginia #2, 9, 11, and 13.
Cal's only top 20 recruit currently ranks at #4.
SC is the only other conference school with a ranked recruit (#11).
On the men's side, no other Pac 12 school signed a top 20 recruit.
RE: WSwim,WDive, MDive PAC-12 championships - Madera86 - 02-29-2020
(02-29-2020, 09:42 AM)Hulk01 Wrote: Perspective on next year:
Our new men's coach has landed perhaps the #1 class, with recruits ranked by Swim Swam:
11 (number one fly), 13 (number one 200 breast), 14, 16, and 19,
plus an immediate NCAA title contender
in Russian Andre Minakov, the 100 fly silver medalist in the most recent World Championships.
So we're going international? Awesome. About time. Everyone else has been doing it.
On the women's side,
Stanford brings in the most dominant junior woman's swimmer since Ledecky, Regan Smith.
She's ranked first in the 100, 200, and 500 free; the 100 and 200 back; and the 200 fly.
More awesome news. But Ledecky hasn't been gone for very long. Has she even graduated yet?
As mentioned, Stanford also has a commitment from Lillie Nordman,
the #6 recruit in the class,
plus a fast riser at #22
who could move up significantly in the rankings.
Texas brings in #3 and #7, Virginia #2, 9, 11, and 13.
Cal's only top 20 recruit currently ranks at #4.
SC is the only other conference school with a ranked recruit (#11).
On the men's side, no other Pac 12 school signed a top 20 recruit.
RE: WSwim,WDive, MDive PAC-12 championships - Sakibomb25 - 03-01-2020
(02-29-2020, 09:42 AM)Hulk01 Wrote: Perspective on next year:
Our new men's coach has landed perhaps the #1 class, with recruits ranked by Swim Swam:
11 (number one fly), 13 (number one 200 breast), 14, 16, and 19,
plus an immediate NCAA title contender
in Russian Andre Minakov, the 100 fly silver medalist in the most recent World Championships.
On the women's side,
Stanford brings in the most dominant junior woman's swimmer since Ledecky, Regan Smith.
She's ranked first in the 100, 200, and 500 free; the 100 and 200 back; and the 200 fly.
As mentioned, Stanford also has a commitment from Lillie Nordman,
the #6 recruit in the class,
plus a fast riser at #22
who could move up significantly in the rankings.
Texas brings in #3 and #7, Virginia #2, 9, 11, and 13.
Cal's only top 20 recruit currently ranks at #4.
SC is the only other conference school with a ranked recruit (#11).
On the men's side, no other Pac 12 school signed a top 20 recruit.
Virginia is going to be our biggest competition in the coming years, with this year's No. 1 recruit in speedster Kate Douglas and next year's No. 2 recruit in Alex Walsh. She is as big of a recruit as Smith, not necessarily from a long-course perspective, but from a short-course one. She will be an immediate impact on the NCAA level, just like Smith. And the following year, the Cavaliers bring in Gretchen Walsh, Alex's sister, who is the consensus No. 1 recruit as a junior and also a top freestyle prospect. They will be tough in all relays, along with having several title contenders in Douglas and Walsh squared.
RE: WSwim,WDive, MDive PAC-12 championships - DenverCard - 03-01-2020
A brief recap:
https://swimswam.com/stanford-women-win-4th-straight-pac-12-title-with-only-first-time-champions/
Other than those mentioned in the story, a lot of other swimmers contributed significantly by making the A-finals, including a couple of freshman (Alex Crisera and Emma Wheal) and a number of sophomores.
Re NCAAs, the last couple of years Stanford has had more qualifiers than the number a team can bring. (I believe a team can bring 18 swimmers, with divers each counting as 1/2 of a swimmer.) If memory serves, Hannah Kukurugya qualified both years in multiple events, but was left off the NCAA roster when the divers were added, given that she was much less likely to score points at NCAAs than the divers. This year she's safely on the NCAA team with a 4th place finish in the 400 IM at Pac-12s with a time that stands to score at NCAAs.
On the other hand, last year's Pac-12 winner of the 200 breast, and 16th at NCAAs, Grace Zhao, is right around the cut line for qualifying for NCAAs. Similarly, Megan Byrnes, who got 3rd in the 1650 at NCAAs her freshman year and 4th her sophomore year, is also right around the cut off for qualifying for NCAAs this year. (There is a total number of swimmers/divers who are invited, and it comes out to about 36th place in each event.) Whereas those expected to compete for the A-final at NCAAs often swim Pac-12s unrested, so as to maximize their performance at NCAAs, I strongly doubt that Zhao or Byrnes did not taper for Pac-12s, given that they had not qualified at an early-season meet, as many of the other swimmers had. The cases of Zhao and Byrnes illustrates how competitive the sport is, and how hard it must be to keep your edge in the face of other life interests and demands, the years of swimming day after day, possible nagging injuries or illness, etc. And the falling off in their performance makes it all the more impressive when a Senior like Voss wins for the first time. (Not only that, she's got a freakin' 4.0 in computer science!)
https://pac-12.com/article/2020/02/28/stanfords-voss-named-2020-pac-12-swimming-and-diving-scholar-athlete-year
RE: WSwim,WDive, MDive PAC-12 championships - Sakibomb25 - 03-01-2020
(03-01-2020, 08:29 AM)DenverCard Wrote: A brief recap:
https://swimswam.com/stanford-women-win-4th-straight-pac-12-title-with-only-first-time-champions/
Other than those mentioned in the story, a lot of other swimmers contributed significantly by making the A-finals, including a couple of freshman (Alex Crisera and Emma Wheal) and a number of sophomores.
Re NCAAs, the last couple of years Stanford has had more qualifiers than the number a team can bring. (I believe a team can bring 18 swimmers, with divers each counting as 1/2 of a swimmer.) If memory serves, Hannah Kukurugya qualified both years in multiple events, but was left off the NCAA roster when the divers were added, given that she was much less likely to score points at NCAAs than the divers. This year she's safely on the NCAA team with a 4th place finish in the 400 IM at Pac-12s with a time that stands to score at NCAAs.
On the other hand, last year's Pac-12 winner of the 200 breast, and 16th at NCAAs, Grace Zhao, is right around the cut line for qualifying for NCAAs. Similarly, Megan Byrnes, who got 3rd in the 1650 at NCAAs her freshman year and 4th her sophomore year, is also right around the cut off for qualifying for NCAAs this year. (There is a total number of swimmers/divers who are invited, and it comes out to about 36th place in each event.) Whereas those expected to compete for the A-final at NCAAs often swim Pac-12s unrested, so as to maximize their performance at NCAAs, I strongly doubt that Zhao or Byrnes did not taper for Pac-12s, given that they had not qualified at an early-season meet, as many of the other swimmers had. The cases of Zhao and Byrnes illustrates how competitive the sport is, and how hard it must be to keep your edge in the face of other life interests and demands, the years of swimming day after day, possible nagging injuries or illness, etc. And the falling off in their performance makes it all the more impressive when a Senior like Voss wins for the first time. (Not only that, she's got a freakin' 4.0 in computer science!)
https://pac-12.com/article/2020/02/28/stanfords-voss-named-2020-pac-12-swimming-and-diving-scholar-athlete-year
Kukurugya qualifed and swam in the NCAA's as a freshman, but was left off the NCAA team as a sophomore after qualifying for three events. Junior Katie Glanovich qualified for NCAA's her freshman and sophomore year but was left off the travel roster.
RE: WSwim,WDive, MDive PAC-12 championships - DenverCard - 03-01-2020
Saki:
Thanks for the correction. I recall a general discussion on SwimSwam of the scenario, a la why would you go to a school that had so many good swimmers that this could happen, when at all but maybe a couple of colleges you'd definitely go to NCAAs if you qualified. To which is pointed out a) academics, and b) Don't you want to train among excellence? and c) Who ever anticipates this happening to her? (or him at, say, Cal or Texas).
RE: WSwim,WDive, MDive PAC-12 championships - BostonCard - 03-01-2020
Pretty cool to win without any repeat swimming champions. On to the NCAA’s.
BC
RE: WSwim,WDive, MDive PAC-12 championships - M T - 03-04-2020
The psych sheets are out for Women's NCAA championships.
Stanford has 15 swimmers entered in 31 individual events.
Virginia has 15 swimmers entered in 31 individual events.
Cal has 14 swimmers in 14 individual events.
SwimSwam indicates that if finishes match the psych sheets, Stanford will finish 7th.
RE: WSwim,WDive, MDive PAC-12 championships - BostonCard - 03-05-2020
The psych sheet excludes diving.
BC