Cal Poly Pac-12 Recap

The Cal Poly Mustangs and the rest of the Pac-12 Conference competed at East Los Angeles College Swim Center last Wednesday through Saturday in the 2012 Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships.

For a recap of Cal Poly’s performance on Wednesday, the opening day of the meet, click here.

On Thursday, the Cal Poly squad of freshmen Mackey Hopen and Christian Renfro, sophomore Drew Casier, and junior Omar Dwidar placed eighth in the 200-yard freestyle relay. They posted a time of 1 minute, 23.78 seconds.

On Friday, sophomore distance swimmer Konrad Antoniuk placed 19th in the 400 individual medley with a time of 3:58.38. He was followed closely by teammate Carter Price. The freshman placed 24th with a 4:04.76.

Also placing in Friday night’s bonus finals was sophomore Joseph Wasko, who posted a time of 50.60 in the 100 butterfly to place 24th. Renfro also placed in the 200 freestyle by swimming it in 1:38.21. He earned 18th place.

There was a trio of Mustangs competing in the 100 breaststroke Friday night. Hopen swam in the consolation final and finished 16th with a time of 56.22. In the bonus final, freshman Jimmy Deiparine and Dwidar recorded times of 56.73 and 57.21, respectively.

The 400 medley relay closed out Friday’s finals session. The Mustangs placed eighth by swimming a 3:24.58. The relay was composed of Wasko, Deiparine, freshman Jesse McWhirk, and Renfro.

One of the strongest events of the meet for Cal Poly was the 1,650 freestyle, which took place on Saturday. Antoniuk finished 13th, the highest placing for a a Mustang for an individual event in the meet. His time was 15:35.01. Price placed 20th with a 15:55.20, and was followed closely by teammate Adrian Brynnel, a sophomore. Brynnel posted a 15:56.21. Freshman Cameron Johnson put up a 16:37.91 to finish in 22nd place.

Later Saturday night, Deiparine and freshman Tyler Pickett swam in the bonus heat of the 200 breaststroke. They placed 17th and 21st with times of 2:05.50 and 2:10.49, respectively.

The final event of the meet was the 400 freestyle relay. Dwidar, Hopen, Renfro, and Casier teamed to finish the race in 3:04.55, an eighth place finish.

In the team standings, the Mustangs finished in eighth place with 120 points.

Stanford University won its 31st straight Pac-12 title with 939.5 points. The runner-up was defending national champion UC Berkley, with 808 points. The final team standings are below.

1. Stanford University: 939.5

2. UC Berkeley: 808

3. University of Arizona: 543

4. University of Southern California: 517

5. University of Utah: 258.5

6. UC Santa Barbara: 251.5

7. Arizona State University: 221.5

8. Cal Poly: 120

For complete results for the men’s Pac-12 Swimming and Diving Championship meet, click here.

The 2012 Men’s NCAA Division I Swimming and Diving Championships will take place at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center in Seattle, Wash., March 22-24.

Pac-12 Championships Day 1

The first day of the 2012 Pac-12 Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships took place today. Two events were swum: the 200-yard medley relay, and the 800-yard freestyle relay.

The Cal Poly team of sophomore Joseph Wasko and freshmen Jimmy Deiparine, Jesse WcWhirk, and Mackey Hopen posted a time of 1 minute, 32.20 seconds to place eighth in the 200 medley relay event.

In the 800 freestyle relay, freshman Christian Renfro, sophomores Konrad Antoniuk and Adrian Brynnel, and junior Eddie Huang teamed to swim a time of 6:41.33. They also placed eighth.

The meet will continue tomorrow and run through Saturday.

For live results, click here.

 

Cal Poly Defeats UC Santa Cruz

The Cal Poly Mustang swimming and diving team hosted UC Santa Cruz at the Anderson Aquatic Center yesterday for a dual meet. Both the men and the women came out with dominating victories.

The Mustang men won by a score of 214-70.

The score for the women was even more lopsided: 217-63.

The Mustangs swept the Division III Banana Slugs in every event in the dual meet on both the men’s and women’s sides.

For the men, freshman Jimmy Deiparine won both the 100 and 200-yard breaststrokes. He took the 100 by posting a time of 59.60 seconds. In the 200 he swam a 2:14.05 and won by more than three seconds. He also swam the breaststroke leg on Cal Poly’s winning 200 medley relay.

Sophomore Adrian Brynnel won the 1000 freestyle by nearly 20 seconds, swimming the distance event in a time of 9:39.29. He went on to dominate the 500 freestyle with a time of 4:39.94, about 14 seconds faster than his closest competitor.

Sophomore Konrad Antoniuk was also a double event winner for the Mustangs. He claimed first in the 400 individual medley with a 4:06.82, and took the 200 butterfly by posting a 1:55.17.

For the women, sophomre Rachel Cleak won two of her three events. Cleak won the 100 freestyle and 100 butterfly with times of 52.59 and 58.52, respectively. She was also the runner-up in the 50 freestyle.

Angela Haven also won two of her three swims. The junior claimed the 100 and 200 breaststrokes by posting times of 1:06.42 and 2:21.11, respectively. She got second in the 100 butterfly.

Senior distance swimmer Lacey Buck, swimming in her last meet at the Anderson Aquatic Center for Cal Poly, won both the 500 and 1000 freestyles.

The Mustangs will hit the water again at UC Santa Barbara for a rematch with the rival Gauchos on February 4.

Gold Outshines Green in Annual Cal Poly Meet

Story Headlines

• The Cal Poly Swimming and Diving team had their annual Green and Gold meet this past Saturday
• The Gold team edged out the Green team by winning the final event
• Senior Lacey Buck won three individual events

Members of the Green team and Gold team square off in the men's 200-yard backstroke at the 2011 Green and Gold Meet.

The Cal Poly Swimming and Diving team hosted the annual Green and Gold meet at the Anderson Aquatic Center this past Saturday, a competition that pitted Mustang against Mustang.

The swimming and diving team was split into two teams for the meet, one called the Green team, the other called the Gold team. On Saturday, the Gold team prevailed by a score of 137-124.

“This meet was really all about having fun,” Cal Poly head coach Tom Milich said. “The times were very good for this early in the season.”

The meet was close throughout, but going into the final 200-yard freestyle relay, the Green team needed to win both the men’s and women’s events just to finish with a tie. The Gold team of Andrea Viogt, Rachel Cleak, Jill Jones, and Katrina Anderson clinched the victory by winning the women’s 200 freestyle relay.

One of the top performers for the Gold team was senior distance swimmer Lacey Buck. Buck started her day off with a win in the women’s 200 freestyle, with a time of 1 minute, 54.36 seconds. She went on to win two other events, the women’s 200 butterfly (2:04.63) and women’s 500 freestyle (5:03.83).

Another major contributor to the Gold team’s victory was sophomore Konrad Antoniuk. Antoniuk won the men’s  200 butterfly by nearly three seconds with a time of 1:57.06. He was also the victor in the men’s 500 freestyle, posting a time of 4:38.15. In addition, he swam the backstroke leg in the men’s 200 medley relay.

For the green team, freshman Jimmy Deiparine was one of the top performers. He won the men’s 100 and 200 breaststrokes with times of 58.57 and 2:11.04, respectively. He was also a member of the winning mens’ 200 freestyle relay.

“I was pretty happy. I was pretty close to my personal best times, and that is difficult for me to do early in the season, during training,” Deiparine said.

Another big swim came from sophomore Adrian Brynnel of the Green team. Brynnel won the men’s 200 freestyle by more than two seconds with a very quick time of 1:40.90.

“I had a great 200, which will serve as a good stepping stone for the season,” Brynnel said. “It’s nice to see the work paying off already.”

After battling with each other day, the Cal Poly swim team came back together to warm down.

Overall, the times at the meet were fairly quick for such an early season competition, Milich said.

“Our women’s 200 back and 200 fly were very good, and those were some of our stronger events at conference last year” Milich said. “I also thought the men’s 500 freestyle was good.”

In addition to the swimming events, the meet also featured a diving event. Sophomore Samantha McIntyre of the Green team won the women’s combined one-meter and three-meter diving, while Adams Elliot of the Gold team won the men’s.