Women’s Meet
Cal got off the blocks quickly as three different foursomes swam under 1:42, for a 1-2-3 finish. Rachel Bootsma, Yvette Kong, Farida Osman and Rachael Acker came out on top in 1:41.48. The team of Stephanie Au, Melissa Bates, Sophia Batchelor and Kaylin Bing (1:41.62) and the quartet of Franklin, Marina Garcia, Cindy Tran and Pelton (1:41.99) finished second and third for the Bears.
Freshman Celina Li continued to show off her versatility with a winning swim in the 1000-yard free (10:03.85). Wisconsin’s Aja Van Hout and Cal’s Catherine Breed battled it out for second. Hout split the Bears with a time of 10:05.97 and Breed was 10:06.02.
Cal continued with its streak of victories in the 200 free with Caroline Piehl, 1:49.12. Her teammate Camille Cheng was close behind in 1:49.54 for second.
Leading a 1-2-3 finish in the backstroke (which comes as no surprise), was Bootsma (54.31), Melanie Klaren (54.94) and Au (55.27).
Garcia posted a great time in the 100 breaststroke for the Bears with a final time of 1:01.85. Wisconsin had their hand in at second with Anna Meinholz finishing in 1:03.55.
At this point in the meet, Cal began to exhibition swim all swimmers who did not finish in first. Pelton switched up her events a bit, and swam the 200 fly finishing first in 2:00.69. While she was a exhibition swim, Batchelor finished in 2:00.79. Dana Grindoll for the Badgers finished in 2:02.65 for second.
Wisconsin junior Ivy Martin interrupted the Bears’ run as she prevailed in the 50 (22.53) and 100 (49.86) freestyle races. Freshman Chase Kinney had solid swims with a third place in the 50 and 100, 23.59 and 51.79.
Bing was second in the 50 at 23.25, while Acker was in the 100 at 50.54 for the Bears.
Franklin made her pool appearance individually in the 200 backstroke – where she is the world-record holder, plus the Olympic and World Champion. She finished in 1:55.28. Van Hout was second at 2:02.36 for the Badgers.
Li returned back to the pool to capture the 200 breaststroke (2:18.14). Meinholz finished second again in the breaststroke race, but close behind Li at 2:19.32.
Pelton returned back to the pool in the 500 freestyle with an easy 4:53.51 swim. Caroline Palm was second for the Badgers in 4:59.20. Out of the exhibition swims was another sub-5:00 performance by Klaren at 4:58.08.
Osma and Rebecka Palm battled it out in the 100 butterfly. Even at the turn, Osman had the stronger second half to finished at 55.11 to Palm’s 55.68.
Franklin also won the 200 IM in 2:00.89. Van Hout rounded off her third second place finish of meet here in 2:04.53.
In the concluding race, Pelton, Li, Acker and Franklin came home in a team season-best for the Bears 3:20.99 in the 400 free relay. Notably, Martin led off the Badgers A relay in 49.72.
Men’s Meet
Cal kicked off the men’s meet with a 1-2 finish in the 200 medley relay. Ryan Murphy, who led off in 21.85, Ryan Studebaker, Nick Dillinger and Shayne Fleming finished in 1:29.54. The B relay finished about a second behind in 1:30.79.
Leading the way for the Bear distance group was Jeremy Bagshaw. He finished way ahead of the field in 9:0.45. His teammate Jamey Lyon was second, twenty second behind, at 9:22.87.
In another 1-2 effort for the Bears, Tyler Messerschmidt topped the 200 freestyle in 1:37.79. Trent Williams was second in 1:38.06. Wisconsin’s freshman Brett Pinfold got under 1:40 in 1:39.32.
Jacob Pebley, Tony Cox and Sven Campbell made it a trio effort in the 100 backstroke. Pebley was first in 48.84, Cox second in 50.47 and Campbell in third at 50.48.
Wisconsin’s Drew Teduits DQ’ed – but with the math, he found have finished in 49.44, which would have been second.
Prenot won the 100 breaststroke for Cal, finishing at 55.31. Nick Scafer for Wisconsin got the wall for second, stopping a 1-2-3 sweep from Cal. His final time was 55.92.
But Cal made a sweep of the final two swim event before the first break. In a 1-2-3 finish in the 200 butterfly, Marcin Tarczynski led the way with 1:47.23. Dane Stassi was also under 1:50 at 1:49.58.
Cal “skunked” the 50 freestyle, having the four fastest times in the field. Seth Stubblefield got under :20 at 19.99. Murphy was second in 20.25. Cal’s other two finishers, Jonathan Fiepke and Fleming were both sub :21 at 20.81 and 20.83.
Messerschmidt had the 100 freestyle in 44.06. His teammate Fabio Gimondi was second in 44.75.
Murphy led wire-to-wire in the 200 backstroke with a final time of 1:43.13. His teammate Pebley had second place, over NCAA Champion Tedits, who was third – 1:45.30 to 1:45.76.
Wisconsin had their first win of the meet with Schafer in the 200 breaststroke. After a second place finish in the 100 earlier, he handily won the 200 in 2:01.10. Next best finisher was Studebaker at 2:04.71.
Cal began to exhibition swim their swimmers at this point in the meet. Long Guiterrez had the fastest time overall in the 500 freestyle, 4:31.04, but Nicholas Caldwell finished first for Wisconsin in 4:33.51.
While Cal had the four fastest times in the 100 butterfly – Stubblefield, 47.78, Prenot, 48.36 – Cannon Clifton had the win for Wisconsin. His final time was 50.81.
Teduits had a win individually in the 200 IM. He finished in 1:55.03, but was fourth overall. Cal’s Tarzynski had the fastest time in 1:48.84. Pebley was second in 1:50.90.
While Cal swam 1-2-3 in the 400 freestyle relay, Wisconsin had the final win. Their final time was 3:07.39. Cal’s top team of Messerschmdit, Felming, Gutierrez and Gimondi was 2:59.07.
However, I am still a fan of Cal swimming and looking for a couple more NCAA titles somewhere out in the future. The question is how far in the future. Cal’s class next year looks fantastic.
Here is the response to your comment on the men’s side about UNLV invitational.
what are you saying…
1. Cal men are not going to the UNLV for fall invitational.
2. Cal women are going to the UNLV for fall invitational
3. Guess who else is going to the UNLV for fall invitational?
4. The answer is: Stanford men’s team
unless you also think Stanford is also running out of money. I’ll let you do the honors of calling yourself dumb.
And needless to say, you have yet once again proven that things you say have no basis.
you and your ignorant posts are getting boring.
Did I ever say Cal men are going to UNLV? Your personal attacks are getting old and a good indication of your Cal education level.
Why on earth is Cal heading to UNLV for an invitational? Program running low on money? Their revenue sports are in shambles; it must be bleeding off into the non-revenue side.
Cal may be getting all the hype & hoopla this year but don’t count the Cardinal out just yet! We thrashed the Badgers 201-85 today compared to the Golden Bears score of 163-111 against them yesterday.
Some interesting stats for STANFORD vs. CAL in the national rankings –
200 MR #2 (Cal #23)
200 FR #4 (Cal #13)
50 fr – Schaefer #1 (Cal #33)
100 fly – Lee #6 (Cal #16)
100 br – Haase #12 (Cal #16)
100 fr – Neal #4 (Cal #14 – well Franklin is @ #2 but they’ll put her on the 200 bk @ NCAAs)
It’s going to be a much closer championships in March than what some folks are… Read more »
Stanford swims at Berkeley this Wednesday. Your argument may soon be proven invalid.
I think the women’s are going head to head in Feb. I’m not 100% sure but I thought it was the men’s team that were meeting on wed. for the triple distance meet.
Cal swam eight events as exhibitions after clinching the meet. Stanford swam two. Meehan’s picked up some bad habits on the farm.
McKeever has more leeway than Durden because of 14 vs 9.9 schollies, she can gamble more on diamonds in the rough. Cal’s getting more recruits from bigger clubs (NBAC, Bolles, SwimMAC, Bluefish, Baylor) who already have extremely high floors upon arrival in Berkeley and consequently have much lower ceilings than recruits from smaller schools/clubs who aren’t as polished.
Will really be interesting to see how Farida Osman develops. Similar body type as Pelton (long and lean but not overly tall). She already has high level racing experience (Olympics, Worlds), but even without Folker she’ll have much better coaching and training partners at Cal than she’d ever have had In Egypt.
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Not so impressed with Cal. I’m concerned they won’t smash the Trojans thoroughly this year. A win maybe, but I want more from Cal. Many swimmers going into Cal don’t see the time drops typically from high school through Cal graduation as other programs do.
You can bring the big fish in – but you’ve got to make them all bigger!
hey bub. we all know that you are an $c fan. no need to sound like you are actually “concerned” because Cal won’t smash the Trojans. Instead of being disappointed at Cal for not smashing your team, maybe you should give your team more credit.. Cal has produced Tom Shields, Nathan Adrian, Dana Vollmer, Natalie Coughlin, Anthony Ervin, Caitlin Leverenz, Marcin Tarczynski, Damir Dugonjic, Martin Liivamagi just off the top of my head and MANY OTHERS (21 former/current bears in the 2012 london olympics).
enough said. you can go back to crying about Cal not smashing $c. must be so heartbreaking.
Weirdo!
I think it’s pretty clear that Achilles is referring to McKeever’s team. Times don’t lie and her “unique” process doesn’t work for everyone apparently
it’s actually not clear at all that Achilles is referring to McKeever’s team. He has said this on the other thread about the men’s team. I don’t know much about the women’s team as well as the men’s but really? Times don’t lie? What times are you looking at? Obviously you can’t expect McKeever to make every swimmer an Olympic medalist. What data are you looking at and what team are you comparing with?
Moistspeedo, you might be right. A coach’s strategy doesn’t work for everyone on the team. And that isn’t specific to Cal. That is universal. Some people are going to respond better than others. But do you really think McKeever has done a poor job with… Read more »
Best NCAA time for Maddy Schaefer of Stanford in the 50 free this weekend against Wisconsin.
She has won in 22.37 ahead of Ivy Martin.
It’s like putting a high school football team up against an NFL team and calling it “to be the best you have to compete against the best” when there is no competition.