Lights Go Out, But Stanford Dominates Day Two of Art Adamson Invitational

Lights going out mid session could not stop Stanford and Texas A&M from swimming fast on night two of the Art Adamson Invitational.

Simone Manuel just keeps getting better. Manuel, a freshman, dropped almost a full second from her time in prelims, 1:42.03 in finals compared to 1:43.01 in prelims. She beat her teammate, Lia Neal by almost 2.50 seconds. Neal finished second with a 1:44.52.

Ellen Quirke of Texas A&M was a distant third, finishing in 1:46.25. Another Stanford Cardinal, Grace Carlson, finished fourth with a 1:46.80.

The Stanford women’s 200 medley relay punched a ticket to the NCAA championships as well. Ally Howe (24.67), Sarah Haase (27.13), Janet Hu (22.88), and Manuel (21.31). went 1:35.99. Not only does this relay have potential to get faster, but all Howe and Haase are juniors, and Hu and Manuel are freshman, meaning all four members of the relay will be back next season, too.

This was another race that was never really close. A&M’s A relay was far behind in 1:38.10. LSU finished third in 1:38.87.

Manuel wasn’t the only one with an NCAA A cut time, however. Sarah Henry of Texas A&M swam a 4:04.92 in finals. Improving by almost seven seconds from her prelim time.
Henry was racing the clock by going into the freestyle, and split a 55.17 in her 100 freestyle. Her teammate, Bethany Galat, was second in 4:09.58, but was not much of a factor during the race.

The men’s half of these races was not quite as exciting. Drew Cosgarea won the 200 freestyle for the men in 1:36.35, followed by his teammates, Tom Kremer and Thomas Stephens.

Kremer finished in 1:36.41. Stephens finished in 1:36.46. Sam Perry, Jeff Garnier, and Sean Duggan took sixth, seventh, and eighth for Stanford.

The Cardinal won the men’s 200 medley relay with the team of Dave Nolan (21.29), Christian Brown (24.35), Andrew Liang (20.80), and Sam Perry (19.67). They finished in a time of 1:26.11.

LSU took second in 1:27.98 but was not competitive because of their backstroke and butterfly legs. Logan Rysemus’ 22.52 split on the backstroke was not enough to keep up with Nolan. Although Marco Gonzalez did split a 19.64 as the Tigers anchor.

Max Williamson won the 400 IM for the Cardinal. Williamson was just under a second away from the NCAA A cut. Williamson touched in 3:43.36.

Curtis Ogren was second for the Stanford in 3:51.26. Their teammate Danny Thompson was third in 3:52.47.

The Stanford women got another A cut in the 800 free relay. Julia Anderson, Maddy Schaefer, Lia Neal, and Simone Manuel touched at 7:01.22. Not one member of the relay was split over 1:47, and Manuel anchored with a 1:42.96.

Texas A&M’s A relay did not have the speed to keep up, as right from the get go Stanford jumped out to a lead of over a second and a half. Anderson led off with 1:46.39, giving Stanford the lead over A&M’s Sarah Gibson, who touched in 1:48.00 for the lead of split.

Meredith Oliver, Ellen Quirke, and Henry touched in 7:09.32, an NCAA B cut.

Stanford paced the field on the men’s side as well. Dave Nolan, Thomas Stephens, Drew Cosgarea, and Tom Kremer also ran away with the field, touching in 6:26.77. All four swimmers were under 1:38.

The A relay was followed by Stanford’s C relay, who touched in 6:33.64, and the B relay in 6:33.67.

Full results are available here.

Team scores through day two:

Men:

1. Stanford: 1107
2. LSU: 410
3. Texas A&M: 306
4. Grand Canyon: 302
5. Arizona State: 270
6. SMU: 194
7. TCU: 181

Women:

1. Texas A&M: 836.5
2. Stanford: 733.5
3. LSU: 306
4. Boise State: 256
5. Arizona State:173
6. SMU:150
7. Grand Canyon: 53
8. TCU: 38

Women’s 100 fly finals:

Hu added some time from her prelim swim but still won the event in 52:27. LSUs Amber Carter wasn’t far behind, however. Carter finished in 52.33.

Brittany Aoyama was first after prelims, 52.06, but added time as well and finished in 52.40. Lindsey Engel was fifth for Stanford in 52.59.

Men’s 100 fly finals:

Gray Umbach dropped .31 hundredths to win the 100 fly in 46.99. Connor Black was 47.34 for second, and Andrew Liang rounded out the all Stanford top three in 47.49.

Logan Rysemus was fourth for LSU in 47.95. Frank Greeff was fifth for LSU in 48.36.

Women’s 100 breast finals:

Another Stanford swimmer narrowly missed an A cut in the 100 breast. Stanford’s Heidi Poppe was 59.21, just .09 seconds from the cut time of 59.21.

Her teammate, Sarah Haase, was also just off the a cut time. Haase finished an even tenth of a second behind Poppe in 59.31.

Sycerika McMahon, an Olympian from Ireland,  finished third in 1:00.45 for A&M.

Men’s 100 breast finals:

Arizona State’s school record older in the 100 and 200 breaststroke, Thibaut Capitan, won the breast in 53.97, beating Silas Dejean of LSU and a pair of Grand Canyon swimmers.

Thibaut was ahead of Dejean by just a hair, 25.41 to 24.59, and was able to hold him off, as Dejean faded over the second 50 to finish in 54.30.

Grand Canyon’s Mantas Auruskevicius and Youssef El Kamash touched in third and fourth in 54.53 and 54.58, respectively.

Women’s 100 back finals:

Hu scored her second victory of the session with her 100 backstroke performance. Hu added .04 to from her prelim times but still finished in 52.22.

Howe touched second for Stanford in 52.53.  Beryl Gastaldello finished in third for Texas A&M, touching in 53.12.

The top three finishers all added time from their time in prelims.

Men’s 100 back finals:

Nolan won another event for the Cardinal. Nolan added time from prelims as well, but it did not make a difference, as he swam to a 47.32 finish. TCU senior  Cooper Robinson finished second with a 48.20.

Liang finished third for Stanford with 48.27.