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.

Cal Poly Men Set to Compete at Pac-12 Championships

The Cal Poly Mustangs and seven other teams will compete in the Men’s Pac-12 Swimming and Diving Championships this week.

The swimmers will travel to East Los Angeles City College. Competition will begin on Wednesday and will conclude on Saturday.

Cal Poly will be sharing the pool with some of the strongest teams in the NCAA: the Arizona Wildcats(1st), Stanford Cardinal (3rd), Southern California Trojans(5th), and California Golden Bears (6th) were all ranked in the top six of Division I teams as of January 25. The Arizona State Wildcats, University of Utah Utes, and UC Santa Barbara Gauchos make up the rest of the conference.

Diver Elliot Adams already competed in the diving portion of the meet this past week in Federal Way. He did three events: the 1-meter, 3-meter, and platform.

For psych sheets for the swim meet, click here.

For live results of the Pac-12 Swimming and Diving Championship, click here.

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.

MPSF Day Three

This past Friday was the third day of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Swimming and Diving championships, and the Cal Poly women’s team continued to tear up the water at East Los Angeles City College.

Senior Kylie France led off the finals session Friday night with a second place finish in the 400-yard individual medley. France finished in 4 minutes, 19.07 seconds, which was just under the NCAA B-Cut. Sophomore Amanda Maffris was also a finalist in the 400 individual medley, and placed fifth with a 4:21.17.

In the 100 butterfly, senior Gloria Benefield finished seventh with a time of 56.31. She also placed fourth in the 100 backstroke with a 56.20. She was followed closely by teammates Katrina Anderson (a junior) and Amy Morales (a senior), who placed sixth and eighth, respectively.

In the 200 freestyle, Cal Poly had two swimmers in the consolation finals. Sophomores Jill Jones and Andrea Voigt finished ninth and eleventh, respectively. In the bonus heat of the event, two more Mustangs, sophomore Danielle Wong and junior Taylor Spivey, also competed.

Junior Angela Haven earned a fifth place finish in the 100 breaststroke, with a time of 1:03.11.

The Mustangs finished off the session with a third place finish in the 200 freestyle relay. Morales and Jones teamed with sophomores Rachel Cleak and Kelsey Engel to post a 1:34.46.

In Colorado Springs, Colo., the Mustang women divers finished off their meet with the 1-meter event. Sophomore Meaghan O’Meara scored 241.5 points to place sixth, and sophomore Sami McIntyre tallied 212.40 points to earn eighth.

The Mustangs finished Friday in third place, with 342.5 points. They trailed Brigham Young University (490.5) and UC Santa Barbara (482).

MPSF Day 2

The Cal Poly women’s swimming and diving team made up a lot of ground in the team standings after their performances yesterday in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championships.

Senior Lacy Buck qualified first in prelims in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4 minutes, 51.83 seconds. In finals she swam a 4:54.27 to finish fifth.

Also scoring in the 500 freestyle was senior Kylie France, who swam the event in 4:57.17.

In the 200 individual medley, junior Katrina Anderson and Angela Haven finished seventh and eighth, respectively. Anderson posted a time of 2:04.93, and Haven finished in 2:05.23. Junior Chrissy Thomas placed tenth in the event with a time of 2:03.96.

Senior Amy Morales was a top eight finisher in the 50 freestyle, and recorded a time of 23.63. Sophomores Jill Jones, Andrea Voigt and Kelsey Engel also scored in the shortest event of the meet.

Cal Poly finished fourth in the 400 medley relay. Haven and Voigt teamed with  senior Gloria Benefield and sophomore Rachel Cleak to post a time of 3:45.62.

Sophomore divers Sami McIntyre and Meaghan O’Meara placed fourth and seventh in the 3-meter diving event, respectively.

After the first day of competition (only the 200 medley relay and 800 freestyle relay were swum on Wednesday, the first day of competition) Cal Poly was in last place out of nine teams. After Thursday’s events, Cal Poly is now in fourth in the team standings, with 167.5 points. They trail UC Santa Barbara (258), Brigham Young University (244.5), and UC Davis (185).

The MPSF Swimming and Diving Championships continues today, and concludes on Saturday.

For live results, click here.

Cal Poly Women Competing at MPSF Championships

The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Swimming and Diving championships kicked off today, and will continue until Saturday.

The Cal Poly women’s swimming team is competing at East Los Angeles City College. The Mustang women divers are in Colorado Springs for their meet.

For live results form the meet, click here.

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.

Local Swimmers Headed to Senior Nationals

Puma swimmer Zachary Stevens prepares for a race at the 2011 Junior Nationals, where he qualified for Olympic Trials. Stevens will be traveling to Atlanta, Ga., to compete in the AT&T winter National Championships.

A number of swimmers from San Luis Obispo will travel to Atlanta, Ga., for the U.S. Senior Nationals swim meet, which is being held this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

The AT&T Winter National Championships, which is usually competed in the short course yards format, is going to be competed in long course meters, due to the fact it is an Olympic year (the Olympic Trials and Olympics are held in long course meters).The venue for the meet is the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center.

Nine Cal Poly Mustangs will be competing in the meet.

Representing the Mustang men is distance swimmer Konrad Antoniuk. Antoniuk, an electrical engineering sophomore, will swim the 1500-meter freestyle and 400 freestyle.

The only other male Cal Poly swimmer is senior Aaron Mckinnon, who is swimming the 200 and 50 freestyles.

Seven Mustang women will also be making the trip. Junior Angela Haven is entered in the most events, with four: the 100 and 200 breaststrokes, 200 individual medley, and 100 butterfly.

Senior Kylie France is also swimming the 200 breaststroke, in addition to the 400 individual medley and 200 butterfly. Joining her in the 200 butterfly will be teammates Gloria Benefield (senior) and Belen Enguidanos (freshman).

Benefield is also slated to swim the 200 backstroke and 100 butterfly. Sophomore Rachel Cleak will join her in the 100 butterfly, while junior Katrina Anderson will swim the 200 backstroke.

Senior Amy Morales is entered in the 100 backstroke and 50 freestyle.

Cal Poly swimmer Konrad Antoniuk will swim the 1500 and 400 freestyles this week in Atlanta.

Two swimmers from the Puma Aquatic swim team will also take to the water in Atlanta. 16-year-old Zachary Stevens will swim the 100 and 200 breaststrokes, while teammate Amelia Schachter, 17, will compete in the 100 breaststroke.

San Luis Obispo Swim Club and former Cal Poly swimmer Zachary Cutts will also swim the 200 breaststroke.

These local talents will be sharing the pool with some of the biggest names in the sport, including Ryan Lochte, Nathan Adrian, Melissa (Missy) Franklin, Elizabeth Beisel, Dana Vollmer, and Kosuke Kitajima.

The Winter Championships is the last major national competition before the 2012 US Olympic team Trials, which will take place in Omaha, Neb., next June and July.

For complete psych sheets, click here.

Cal Poly to Host Mustang Invititational

The Cal Poly Mustang swimming and diving team will host the annual Mustang Invititational this Friday and Saturday at the Anderson Aquatics Center at Cal Poly.

The competition on Friday will begin at noon, while Saturday’s session is slated to start at 10:00 a.m.

UCSB @ Cal Poly: a few video clips