2023 MEN’S PAC-12 SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Wednesday, March 1- Saturday, March 5, 2023
- Weyerhauser King County Aquatic Center – Federal Way, WA
- SCY (25 Yards)
- Defending Champions: Cal (5x)
- Championship Central
- Event Schedule
- Diving Results
- Live Stream
- Live Results
- Fan Guide
- Psych Sheets
- Day 1 Finals Recap
- Day 2 Prelims Recap
- Day 2 Finals Recap
This post contains race videos from day two of the 2023 Men’s Pac-12 Swimming and Diving Championships in Federal Way. The second finals session of the meet featured the 500 free, 200 IM, 50 free, and 200 free relay. All videos in this post come from the Pac-12 Network YouTube channel.
500 FREESTYLE – FINALS
- NCAA Record: 4:06.32, Kieran Smith (Florida) — 2020 SEC Championships
- Pac-12 Record: 4:07.81, Leon Marchand (Arizona State) — 2023 ASU vs. Arizona
- Championship Record: 4:09.49, Trenton Julian (Cal) — 2021 PAC-12 Championships
- 2022 Champion: Preston Forst (Stanford) – 4:12.06
- NCAA ‘A’ Cut: 4:11.40
- 2022 NCAA Invite: 4:14.96
Top 8:
- Gabriel Jett (Cal) – 4:09.66
- Lucas Henveaux (Cal) – 4:11.16
- Julian Hill (ASU) – 4:12.21
- Patrick Callan (Cal) – 4:12.45
- Andrew Gray (ASU) – 4:12.55
- Daniel Matheson (ASU) – 4:13.14
- Preston Forst (STAN) – 4:15.01
- Zalan Sarkany (ASU) – 4:16.48
Following a breakout summer, Cal sophomore Gabriel Jett continues to improve at a rapid pace. Jett took four seconds off his personal best in the 500 free tonight, winning the race convincingly in 4:09.66. Cal grad student Lucas Henveaux, who joined the roster this semester, came in second with a 4:11.16, 0.10 seconds off his prelims time.
200 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY – FINALS
- NCAA Record: 1:37.69, Leon Marchand (Arizona State) — 2022 NCAA Championships
- Pac-12 Record: 1:37.69, Leon Marchand (Arizona State) — 2022 NCAA Championships
Championship Record: 1:39.65, Leon Marchand (Arizona State) — 2022 PAC-12 Championships- 2022 Champion: Leon Marchand (Arizona State) – 1:39.65
- NCAA ‘A’ Cut: 1:41.22
- 2022 NCAA Invite: 1:43.36
Top 8:
- Leon Marchand (ASU) – 1:37.81 (Meet Record)
- Hugo Gonzalez (CAL) – 1:38.72
- Ron Polonsky (STAN) – 1:40.42
- Destin Lasco (CAL) – 1:40.60
- Owen McDonald (ASU) – 1:41.60
- Grant House (ASU) – 1:41.62
- David Schlicht (ASU) – 1:42.33
- Jonny Affeld (STAN) – 1:43.38
Leon Marchand nearly broke his own NCAA Record of 1:37.69, but did shatter the meet record in the 200 IM, which stood at 1:39.65. Notably, Marchand had set the previous meet record last year as a freshman. Also, Cal’s Hugo Gonzalez took a full second off his personal best in the event, coming in second with a 1:38.72.
50 FREESTYLE – FINALS
- NCAA Record: 17.63, Caeleb Dressel (Florida) — 2018 NCAA Championships
- Pac-12 Record: 18.27, Bjorn Seeliger (Cal) — 2022 NCAA Championships
- Championship Record: 18.80, Brad Tandy (Arizona) — 2014 PAC-12 Championships
- 2022 Champion: Bjorn Seeliger (Cal) – 18.84
- NCAA ‘A’ Cut: 18.88
- 2022 NCAA Invite: 19.28
Top 8:
- Jack Dolan (ASU) – 18.86
- Bjorn Seeliger (CAL) – 18.91
- Andrei Minakov (STAN) – 19.07
- Jonny Kulow (ASU) – 19.09
- Jack Alexy (CAL) – 19.13
- Max McCusker (ASU) – 19.14
- Ryan Perham (ARIZ) – 19.32
- Patrick Sammon (ASU) – 19.47
In a photo-finish, Arizona State’s Jack Dolan edged out defending champion Bjorn Seeliger (Cal). Arizona State freshman Jonny Kulow had a massive swim as well, taking fourth in 19.09. Kulow came into the meet with a personal best of 19.46, marking huge improvement for the young ASU swimmer.
200 FREESTYLE RELAY — TIMED FINAL
- NCAA Record: 1:14.08, Auburn – 2009 NCAA Championships
- PAC-12 Record: 1:14.36, Cal — 2021 NCAA Championships
- PAC-12 Championship Record: 1:15.00, Cal — 2022 PAC-12 Championships
- 2022 Champion: Cal — 1:15.00
- NCAA ‘A’ Cut: 1:16.80
Top 6:
- Cal (Seeliger, Alexy, Lasco, Jett) – 1:15.40
- ASU (Dolan, Kulow, McCusker, House) – 1:15.75
- Arizona (Palmer, Ercegovic, Miller, Perham) – 1:15.97
- Stanford – 1:16.24
- Utah – 1:18.02
DQ: USC
It felt like the momentum was in Arizona State’s favor heading into the 200 free relay tonight, but the Golden Bears managed to pull out the victory. In a rematch of the 50 free final, Cal’s Bjorn Seeliger led off in 18.87, beating ASU’s Jack Dolan (19.15) considerably this time around. Cal sophomore Jack Alexy‘s 18.54 on the second leg was also critical to Cal’s victory.
Seeliger was underwater so much further at NCs last year. Not sure why he’s dropping so many kicks, particularly when you see how Crooks is swimming this.
https://youtu.be/T7nH86nJ-W0
can’t wait for seeliger to have top seed in 50 and 100 free in prelims and completely choke yet again lol
It’s one thing to acknowledge that a swimmer has under-performed, but to take joy at a college athlete potentially not swimming well is some real a**hole behavior.
I have a personal vendetta against Seeliger.
He has a personal vendetta against me.
It goes both ways
can hugo participate this year in the ncaa?
he shouldn’t be able to, but unfortunately, he is
Surprisingly, he isn’t the oldest swimmer on Cal’s roster.
He would be the oldest swimmer on Stanford’s roster, Arizona’s roster (though they have at least one swimmer also born in 1999), and USC’s roster, as far as I can tell (can’t find the age of USC’s senior diver). Some of those teams will have swimmers who will be older than him if they use out their final eligibility in future seasons.
He would not be the oldest swimmer on Arizona State or Utah’s rosters.
Nice win in the relay but I still don’t really understand why they had Jett anchor.
I don’t understand why Jett went vertical on his entry into the water
Someone said he slipped before, but he clearly didn’t. Just control the momentum of a relay start that well and that’s what happens when it’s your 500 free guy in that spot.
I think coaches saw that he was swimming well and decided to give him a shot. Daniel Carr had talked about the relay start differences before on a podcast since he had been on several 800 FRs at Pac-12s/NCAAs before transitioning into the sprint relays – the adrenaline is different from someone coming in at 1:32 vs 18.8.
Have you seen his hair? I think it speaks for itself.