Cal Poly Finishes Fourth at MPSF Championships

The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Swimming and Diving Championships concluded this past Saturday, and the Cal Poly Mustangs women’s team finished fourth.

Senior distance swimmer Lacey Buck took the 1,650-yard freestyle title, swimming the event in 16 minutes, 39.53 seconds. Buck won the swim by more than 10 seconds. Sophomore Taylor Riley and junior Taylor Spivey also swam the longest event in the meet, and placed twentieth and twenty-fifth, respectively.

The Mustangs had three finalists in the 200 backstroke. Sophomore Amanda Maffris placed fifth with a 2:00.95. She was closely followed by senior Gloria Benefield and junior Katrina Anderson, who recorded times of 2:01.03 and 2:01.87, respectively.

Sophomore Jill Jones was the lone finalist for the Mustangs in the 100 freestyle. She finished seventh with a time of 51.29. Sophomores Andrea Voigt and Rachel Cleak swam in the consolation finals and placed tenth and eleventh.

In the 200 breaststroke, junior Angela Haven took third with a 2:14.03, a time that earned her a NCAA B-Cut. Senior Kylie France also swam the event and came in tenth.

Another third place finish for Cal Poly came from freshman Belen Enguidanos in the 200 butterfly. Maffris also swam in the finals, and got eighth. Buck competed in the consolation finals of the event and took thirteenth place.

The Mustangs finished off the meet with a fourth place finish in the 400 freestyle relay. Cleak, Jones, and Voigt joined senior Amy Morales to record a time of 3:25.59.

The Mustangs finished fourth in the team standings with 539.5 points. Brigham Young University won the conference title with 732 points. UC Santa Barbara finished second with 699 points, and UC Davis squeaked by Cal Poly to take third with 546 points.

Mustangs Fall to Gauchos

The Mustangs and Gauchos swam against each other for the second time this season.

In the final regular season meet of the 2011-2012 season, the Cal Poly Mustangs swimming and diving teams came up short against the rival UC Santa Barbara Gauchos.

The men lost by a score of 163-124, while the women fell 169-129 in a meet that was held in Santa Barbara on Saturday.

Senior Lacey Buck won both the 1000 and 500-yard freestyle events. She swam the 1000 in 10 minutes, 22.84 seconds, and won the event by more than five seconds. She later won the 500 with a 5:02.74.

Sophomore diver Sami McIntyre won the 1-meter diving event with 262.50 points. She was followed closely by sophomore teammate Meaghan O’Meara, who tallied 237.08 points. McIntyre went on to also win the 3-meter diving event with 239.48 points.

Although they lost the first relay (200 medley), the Cal Poly women finished the day by getting first and second in the 400 freestyle relay. Andrea Voigt, Jill Jones, Amy Morales, and Rachel Cleak teamed to swim a 3:31.79. Teammates Kelsey Engel, Danielle Wong, Vanessa Pollitt, and Padon Sivesind finished second with a 3:39.95.

The 400 freestyle relay was also a strong event for the Mustang men, as they also went 1-2. The “A” team of Omar Dwidar, Mackey Hopen, Matt Jude, and Christian Renfro won with a 3:05.05. Eddie Huang, Drew Casier, Adrian Brynnel, and Jimmy Deiparine comprised the “B” team, which got second with a 3:17.64.

Brynnel, a sophomore, also won the 500 freestyle with a 4:34.89. Fellow distance swimmer and sophomore Konrad Antoniuk won the 1650 freestyle by posting a 15:59.84.

Renfro won the 100 freestyle with a 47.62, which barely beat out the closest Gaucho by about two tenths of a second.

Freshman diver Elliot Adams won the 1-meter event with 257.85 points. He later won the 3-meter event by tallying 273.08 points.

For the men, it was the second loss of the season to the Gauchos. The two teams competed against each other at the Anderson Aquatic Center in early November, and the men lost 167-121.

The women beat UCSB in the first meet, 177.5-117.5, so Saturday marked the their first loss to the Gauchos since early last season.

For complete results of this past Saturday’s Cal Poly vs. UCSB dual meet, click here.

For both the men and women’s squads, dual meet against UCSB was the last competition before their respective conference championships. The women will compete in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championship from February 15-18. The swimmers will be in Los Angeles, while the Divers will travel to Colorado Springs, Colorado.

The men will swim in the Pac-12 Championship. The diving competition is slated to be held in Federal Way, Washington from February 22-25. The swimmers will go to Los Angeles. The swimming portion begins February 29 and concludes on March 3.

Around the Pac-12

Three Pac-12 aquatic juggernauts competed at the McDonald’s Swim Stadium in USC this past weekend. The Trojans hosted the California Golden Bears and Stanford Cardinal.

On Friday, USC swam against the defending national champion Golden Bears while Stanford swam exhibition. USC fell to Cal 165-125.

On Saturday, the Trojans and Cardinal squared off officially, while Cal swam exhibition. The reigning Pac-12 champion Cardinal came out on top by a score of 175-118.

Stanford and Cal will go head-to-head on February 18 in Palo Alto.

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.

Cal Poly Wins Finis Invite

The Cal Poly Mustang swim team competed at the 2011 Finis Collegiate Invitational this past weekend. The Mustangs men beat nine other teams to win the meet, while the women finished first out of eight total teams.

On the men’s side, one of the Mustangs best events was the 500-yard freestyle. Sophomore Adrian Brynnel won the event with a time of 4 minutes, 37.36 seconds. He was followed closely by three of his teammates, as Cal Poly took the top four spots.

Brynnel also won the 1,650 freestyle, posting a time of 15:56.31. As in the 500 freestyle, he beat out sophomore Konrad Antoniuk, who recently competed at the U.S. Winter Nationals.

The Mustangs went 1-2-3-4 in the 200 backstroke, with sophomore Joseph Wasko putting up the winning time of 1:57.76.

The Mustang men also won four of the five relays. They took first in the 200 freestyle relay with a 1:26.89, and the 800 freestyle relay with a 7:04.30. They Mustangs went 1-2 in the 400 freestyle relay and 200 medley relay.

The men won with 2,317.5 points. The runner-up was UC Santa Cruz, with 2,171 points.

The women won by a slightly more comfortable margin. The Mustangs scored 2,760 points, and their closest competitor was also UC Santa Cruz, with 2,462 points.

One of the biggest events for the Mustang women was the 500 freestyle. Senior Lacey Buck won with a 4:54.72, but she was followed by six of her fellow Cal Poly swimmers as the Mustangs occupied the top seven spots.

Buck went on to also win the 1,650 freestyle in 16:46.62.

In the 100 butterfly, the top eight spots was comprised solely of Mustangs. Senior Gloria Benefield led the charge with a 56.48. Benefield also won the 100 and 200 backstrokes.

Another highlight event was the 200 freestyle. Sophomore Andrea Voigt won with a 1:52.97. Nine of the top ten finishers in the event were from Cal Poly.

Cal Poly took the at least the top three places in the 100 and 200 backstrokes, 100 breaststroke, 200 and 400 individual medleys, 100 freestyle, and 200 butterfly.

They also won four relays: the 200 and 400 medleys, and the 400 and 800 freestyles. The relay victories was key to the Mustangs winning the team title.

The Mustangs next swim meet is at San Diego State on December 17.

Finis Invite Day 1 Results

Finis Invite Day 2 Results

Finis Invite Day 3 Results

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.