2016 PAC-12 CONFERENCE MEN S SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS

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1 For Immediate Release // Monday, February 29, 2016 Contact // Sean Collins 2016 PAC-12 CONFERENCE MEN S SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS GENERAL INFORMATION WHAT: 2016 Pac-12 Conference Men s Swimming Championships WHEN: Wednesday, March 2 - Saturday, March 5 WHERE: Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center 650 Southwest Campus Drive, Federal Way, WA CHAMPIONSHIPS FIELD: Arizona, Arizona State, California, Stanford, USC and Utah. TICKETS: Tickets are available here. Gates open at 10 a.m. each day. Advanced Ticket Prices (available at pac-12.com/tickets) All Session Pass (March 2-5): Adult: $35.00 Student with ID/Child/Senior (65 and over): $20.00 One Day Pass: Adult: $10.00 Student with ID/Child/Senior (65 and over): $15.00 Onsite Ticket Prices All Session Pass (March 4-7): Adult: $40.00 Student with ID/Child/Senior (65 and over): $20.00 One Day Pass: Adult: $15.00 Student with ID/Child/Senior (65 and over): $10.00 Children 5 and under are admitted free (with an adult). MEDIA CONTACT: The Conference contact for men s swimming and diving is Sean Collins (scollins@pac-12.org). MEET RESULTS: Results and recaps will be posted on the Pac-12 website (pac-12. com/mensswimchamps). Please contact Sean Collins at the Pac- 12 office for more information. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Wed., March 2 6 p.m. Timed Finals 200 Medley Relay 800 Freestyle Relay Thurs., March 3 11 a.m. Preliminaries/Time Standard Trials 500 Freestyle 200 Individual Medley 50 Freestyle 6 p.m. Finals/Time Standard Trials 500 Freestyle 200 Individual Medley 50 Freestyle 200 Freestyle Relay (Timed Finals) Fri., March 4 11 a.m. Preliminaries/Time Standard Trials 400 Individual Medley 100 Butterfly 200 Freestyle 100 Breaststroke 100 Backstroke 6 p.m. Finals/Time Standard Trials 400 Individual Medley 100 Butterfly 200 Freestyle 100 Breaststroke 100 Backstroke 400 Medley Relay (Timed Finals) Sat., March 5 11 a.m. Preliminaries/Time Standard Trials 200 Backstroke 100 Freestyle 200 Breaststroke 200 Butterfly 4 p.m Freestyle* 6 p.m. Finals/Time Standard Trials 1650 Freestyle (fastest heat) 200 Backstroke 100 Freestyle 200 Breaststroke 200 Butterfly 400 Freestyle Relay (Timed Finals) * Tentative start time; all heats except A heat twitter.com/pac12 facebook.com/pac12conference

2 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 Bradley Christensen (Stanford) won the 1-meter event, scoring Collin Pollard (USC) was the platform champion with a score of 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: Tyler Fowler is right behind his teammate in the 1,000 free at No. 7 country with a season-best time of 9: 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: 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 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 Junior Barkley Perry tied the men s 200-yard backstroke record which he set himself at the 2015 Pac-12 Championships at 1: 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: th-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, 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 USC swept Cal and Stanford for the first time since The Trojans victory over Cal was its first since 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 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: He won the event at the Pac-12 Championships in 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 USC USC USC USC USC USC USC USC USC UCLA UCLA USC USC USC USC USC (S)...WASHINGTON (N) USC (S)...WASHINGTON (N) USC (S)...WASHINGTON (N) PAC-12 TEAM CHAMPIONS USC CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA STANFORD STANFORD STANFORD STANFORD STANFORD STANFORD STANFORD STANFORD STANFORD STANFORD STANFORD STANFORD STANFORD STANFORD 1996*... STANFORD STANFORD STANFORD STANFORD STANFORD STANFORD STANFORD STANFORD STANFORD STANFORD STANFORD STANFORD STANFORD STANFORD STANFORD STANFORD STANFORD CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA USC * Due to the 1996 Olympic year, the Pac-10 Swimming Championships took place in the fall of NCAA CHAMPIONS FROM THE PAC USC 1963 USC 1964 USC 1965 USC 1966 USC 1967 STANFORD 1974 USC 1975 USC 1976 USC 1977 USC 1979 CALIFORNIA 1980 CALIFORNIA 1982 UCLA 1985 STANFORD 1986 STANFORD 1987 STANFORD 1992 STANFORD 1993 STANFORD 1994 STANFORD 1998 STANFORD 2008 ARIZONA 2011 CALIFORNIA 2012 CALIFORNIA 2014 CALIFORNIA PAC-12 SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS // March 2,

3 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 representatives 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 PAC-12 SWIMMERS OF THE MONTH NOVEMBER Patrick Park, Arizona State DECEMBER Josh Prenot, California JANUARY Ryan Murphy, California 2015 PAC-12 CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS Men s Swimming: March 4-7, Weyerhauser King County Aquatic Center, Federal Way, Wash. FINAL TEAM STANDINGS 1. USC Stanford California Arizona Arizona State Utah Freestyle 1. Brad Tandy, ARIZ Santo Condorelli, USC Seth Stubblefield, CAL Sam Perry, STAN Fabio Gimondi, CAL Dylan Carter, USC Freestyle 1. Cristian Quintero, USC Santo Condorelli, USC Seth Stubblefield, CAL Nick Soedel, UTAH Ralf Tribuntsov, USC Reed Malone, USC Freestyle 1. Cristian Quintero, USC... 1:32.40 M 2. Long Gutierrez, CAL... 1: Drew Cosgarea, STAN... 1: Reed Malone, USC... 1: Tom Kremer, STAN... 1: Thomas Stephens, STAN... 1: Freestyle 1. Cristian Quintero, USC... 4:11.25 M 2. Reed Malone, USC... 4:11.30 M 3. Bence Kiraly, UTAH... 4: Danny Thomson, STAN... 4: Liam Egan, STAN... 4: Pawel Furtek, USC... 4: Freestyle 1. Danny Thomson, STAN... 14: Pawel Furtek, USC... 14: Ty Fowler, ARIZ... 14: Chris Wieser, ARIZ... 14: Bence Kiraly, UTAH... 15: Ted Singley, USC... 15: Backstroke 1. Ryan Murphy, CAL Ralf Tribuntsov, USC Dave Nolan, STAN Luca Spinazzola, USC Jacob Pebley, CAL Sven Campbell, CAL Ryan Arata, STAN Backstroke 1. Ryan Murphy, CAL... 1:38.34 M 2. Dave Nolan, STAN... 1: Jacob Pebley, CAL... 1: Patrick Conaton, STAN... 1: Drew Cosgarea, STAN... 1: Thane Maudslien, ARIZ... 1:43.07 PAC-12 SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS // March 2,

4 2015 PAC-12 CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS Men s Swimming: March 4-7, Weyerhauser King County Aquatic Center, Federal Way, Wash. 100 Breaststroke 1. Kevin Cordes, ARIZ Chuck Katis, CAL Andrew Malone, USC Connor Hoppe, CAL Steven Stumph, USC Morten Klarskov, USC Breaststroke 1. Steven Stumph, USC... 1: Josh Prenot, CAL... 1: Kevin Cordes, ARIZ... 1: Chuck Katis, CAL... 1: Ridge Altman, USC... 1: Thibaut Capitaine, ASU... 1: Butterfly 1. Seth Stubblefield, CAL Santo Condorelli, USC Ralf Tribuntsov, USC Tadas Duskinas, ASU Michael Domagala, USC Andrew Liang, STAN Butterfly 1. Long Gutierrez, CAl... 1: Adam Hinshaw, CAL... 1: Michael Domagala, USC... 1: Gray Umbach, STAN... 1: Justin Wright, ARIZ... 1: Tom Kremer, STAN... 1: Individual Medley 1. Dave Nolan, STAN...1:40.07 P 2. Josh Prenot, CAL... 1: Ryan Murphy, CAL... 1: Curtis Ogren, STAN... 1: Tom Kremer, STAN... 1: Morten Klarskov, USC... 1: Individual Medley 1. Josh Prenot, CAL... 3:38.83 M 2. Curtis Ogren, STAN... 3: Connor Green, CAL... 3: Michael Meyer, ARIZ... 3: Adam Hinshaw, CAL... 3: Max Williamson, STAn... 3: Freestyle Relay 1. California (Gimondi, Messerschmidt, Murphy, Stubblefield)...1: USC... 1: Stanford... 1: Arizona... 1: Arizona State... 1: Utah... 1: Freestyle Relay 1. USC (Tribuntsov, Condorelli, Malone, Quintero)... 2: Stanford... 2: Arizona... 2: Arizona State... 2: Utah... 2: California...DQ 800 Freestyle Relay 1. USC (Carter, Malone, Domagala, Quintero)... 6: Stanford... 6: California... 6: Utah... 6: Arizona... 6: Arizona State... 6: Medley Relay 1. California (Murphy, Katis, Lynch, Messerschmidt).. 1: USC... 1: Stanford... 1: Arizona... 1: Arizona State... 1: Utah... 1: Medley Relay 1. USC (Tribuntsov, Malone, Condorelli, Quintero)... 3: California... 3: Stanford... 3: Arizona... 3: Arizona State... 3: Utah... 3:12.97 One-Meter Diving 1. Kristian Ipsen, STAN Rafael Quintero, ARIZ Jacob Crayne, UTAH Collin Pollard, USC Bradley Christensen, STAN Dominic Ricotta, ARIZ Three-Meter Diving 1. Kristian Ipsen, STAN M 2. Bradley Christensen, STAN Rafael Quintero, ARIZ Jacob Crayne, UTAH Collin Pollard, USC Dashiell Enos, USC Platform Diving 1. Kristian Ipsen, STAN Rafael Quintero, ARIZ Collin Pollard, USC Jordan Gear, USC Theodore Miclau, STAN Hunter Atha, ASU PAC-12 SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS // March 2,

5 PAC-12 MEN S SWIMMING RECORDS The first time listed is the fastest time posted by a Pac-12 student-athlete in any intercollegiate event (NCAA, Pac-12 Championships, dual meet, etc.). The second time listed is the fastest time posted at the Pac-12 Championships event SWIMMING 50-Yard Free Vladimir Morozov, USC (2013) Brad Tandy, ARIZ (2014) Yard Free Vladimir Morozov, USC (2013) *# Vladimir Morozov, USC (2013) Yard Free Simon Burnett, ARIZ (2006)...1:31.20* Cristian Quintero, USC (2015)...1: Yard Free Jean Basson, ARIZ (2009)...4:08.92 Cristian Quintero, USC (2015)...4: Yard Free Chad La Tourette, STAN (2012)...14:24.35@ Erik Vendt, USC (2003)...14: Yard Back Ryan Murphy, CAL (2015) * Ralf Tribuntsov, USC (2015) Yard Back Ryan Murphy, CAL (2015)... 1:36.77*@# Ryan Murphy, CAL (2015)...1: Yard Breast Kevin Cordes, ARIZ (2014) *@# Kevin Cordes, ARIZ (2014) Yard Breast Kevin Cordes, ARIZ (2014)... 1:48.66*@# Kevin Cordes, ARIZ (2014)...1: Yard Fly Austin Staab, STAN (2009) *@# Austin Staab, STAN (2011) Yard Fly Tom Shields, CAL (2013)...1:39.65 Tom Shields, CAL (2011)...1: Yard IM David Nolan, STAN (2015)... 1:39.38*@# David Nolan, STAN (2015)...1: Yard IM Josh Prenot, CAL (2014)...3:38.58 Josh Prenot, CAL (2015)...3:38.83 RELAYS 200-Yard Free...1:15.13 CAL (2009) (Adrian, Moore, Daniels, Clark)...1:15.54 STAN (2009) (Coville, Staab, D. Dunford, J. Dunford) 400-Yard Free...2:47.06 USC (2015) (Quintero, Condorelli, Tribuntsov, Carter)...2:48.16 CAL (2011) (Moore, Daniels, Shields, Adrian) 800-Yard Free...6:11.64 USC (2015) (Quintero, Carter, Domagala, Malone)...6:12.54 USC (2014) (Carter, Colupaev, Malone, Quintero) 200-Yard Medley...1:22.27 CAL (2013) (Cox, Hoyt, Shields, Stubblefield)...1:23.50 ARIZ (2014) (Friedemann, Cordes, Smith, Tandy) 400-Yard Medley...3:01.60 CAL (2015) (Murphy, Katis, Lynch, Stubblefield)...3:03.30 CAL (2009) (Russell, Dugonjic, Moore, Adrian) DIVING 1-Meter Diving Kristian Ipsen, STAN (2015) Kristian Ipsen, STAN (2015) Meter Diving Kristian Ipsen, STAN (2012) Constantin Blaha (2011) Platform Diving Ben Grado, ARIZ (2012) Riley McCormick, ASU (2010) * NCAA American Record # U.S. Open Record PAC-12 SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS // March 2,

6 Pac-12 Men s Swimming and Diving All-Century Team The Pac-12 All-Century Men s Swimming & Diving team, comprised of 32 members, was announced on Feb. 9 on Pac-12 Sports Report. The Trojans lead the team with 10 selections, followed by Stanford (7), California (5), UCLA (4), Arizona (3.5), Arizona State (2) and Washington (0.5). A panel of 20 coaches, swimmers, administrators and members of the media selected the team consisting of 26 swimmers and six divers, plus a Coach, Swimmer & Diver of the Century. The top four vote-earners in each of the six disciplines made the All-Century Team, with two additional wildcard swimmers selected by a second vote of the remaining 5th, 6th and 7th place finishers. The top two divers in each of the three events also made the All-Century Team. Swimmers and divers could be nominated in more than one event, with three earning roster spots in multiple events. Legendary longtime USC men s swimming head coach Peter Daland was voted the Men s Swimming & Diving Coach of the Century. Daland led the Trojans to nine NCAA team championships during his 35-year tenure. Under Daland from 1958 through 1992, USC also placed second at the NCAA meet 11 times, won 17 league crowns and posted a (.917) dual meet record. A six-time National Coach of the Year, his swimmers captured 93 NCAA and 155 Pac-10 individual and relay titles. USC went undefeated in dual meets in 20 of his seasons. His 1977 team is regarded as the finest collegiate swim team ever. Daland spent more than 45 years coaching at the club and college levels. He coached the U.S. men in the 1972 Olympics as they won nine gold medals and the U.S. women in the 1964 Games as they captured six golds. Daland also won 17 national AAU titles (15 men s at USC and two women s at the Los Angeles Athletic Club). USC finished first or second in the AAU meet a phenomenal 20 times in Daland s 35 years. The Men s Swimming & Diving Swimmer of the Century, Matt Biondi, was with the California Golden Bears from The 11-time Olympic medalist won 12 NCAA and 14 Pac-10 titles, in addition to being a four-time All-American. Biondi set 12 world records during his swimming career, including being the first man to swim a sub-49 second time in the 100 free. He also won an Olympic gold medal on U.S. 400 free relay team while a freshman, and returned to capture gold medals in the 1988 Olympics (50, 100, 400 free; 400 medley; and 800 free relays), and a silver in the 100 fly and a bronze in the 200 free. Biondi returned to the U.S. Olympic team in 1992, winning the silver medal in the 50 free and gold in the 400 free and 400 medley relays. Biondi is a member of the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame and the International Swimming Hall of Fame. Arizona State Sun Devil Joona Puhakka earned the Men s Swimming & Diving Diver of the Century honors. Puhakka was a four-time Pac-12 Diver of the Year, four-time 1m Pac-12 Champion from , four-time 3m Pac-12 Champion ( ), 2003 NCAA 1-Meter Springboard Champion and the 2004 NCAA 3-Meter Springboard Champion. Puhakka competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native Finland and won the bronze medal in the men s 1-meter springboard at the 2003 World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. While competing for Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, he won four NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) championships - two on the 1-meter springboard, and two on the 3-meter springboard. Matt Biondi CAL, (Freestyle Sprints, Butterfly) Nathan Adrian CAL, , (Freestyle Sprints) Tom Jager UCLA, (Freestyle Sprints) Joe Bottom USC, (Freestyle Sprints) Bruce Furniss USC, (Freestyle Sprints) Brian Goodell UCLA, (Freestyle Distance) Mike Burton UCLA, (Freestyle Distance) Ryk Neethling ARIZ, (Freestyle Distance) Rick DeMont WASH, ARIZ (Freestyle Distance) Murray Rose USC, (Freestyle Distance) John Naber USC, (Backstroke) Jeff Rouse STAN, (Backstroke) Lenny Krayzelburg USC, (Backstroke) Peter Rocca CAL, (Backstroke) Kevin Cordes ARIZ, (Breaststroke) John Hencken STAN, (Breaststroke) John Moffett STAN, (Breaststroke) Bill Barrett UCLA, (Breaststroke) Pablo Morales STAN, (Butterfly, Individual Medley) Tom Shields CAL, (Butterfly) Par Arvidsson CAL, (Butterfly) Mike Bruner STAN, (Butterfly) David Wharton USC, (Individual Medley) Steve Furniss USC, (Individual Medley) Erik Vendt USC, (Individual Medley) Tom Wilkens STAN, (Individual Medley) Kristian Ipsen STAN, (1M, 3M, Platform) Hongping Li USC, (1M) Joona Puhakka Arizona State, (3M) Mickey Benedetti Arizona State, (3M) Brian Earley USC, (Platform) Ben Grado Arizona, (Platform) SWIMMER OF THE CENTURY: Matt Biondi California, DIVER OF THE CENTURY: Joona Puhakka Arizona State, COACH OF THE CENTURY: Peter Daland USC, PAC-12 SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS // March 2,