FEDERAL WAY, Wash. – The Arizona State women's swim team set two new school records while men's diving earned another podium finish on day two of the 2017 Pac-12 Diving and Women's Swim Championships.
At the end of day two, Stanford (546) remains in the lead followed by Cal (490) and Arizona (376) in the top three. USC (351) and UCLA (336) sit in fourth and fifth just ahead of the Sun Devils in sixth (274). Utah (165), Washington State (148), and Oregon State (130) comprise spots seven through nine.
Another full day of competition awaits the competitors on Friday with prelims in the 400 IM, 100 fly, 200 free, 100 breast, and 100 back starting at 11:30 am MT/10:30 am PT followed by women's 3 mtr prelims at 1:15 pm MT/12:15 pm PT and men's platform prelims at 4:15 pm MT/3:15 pm PT. Men's platform dives start the evening's finals at 5:45 pm MT/4:45 pm PT followed by the swim finals at 7 pm MT/6 pm PT in the 400 IM, 100 fly, 200 free, 100 breast, 100 back, women's 3 mtr dive, and 400 medley relay.
Full details of the week's championships can be found HERE.
SWIM
In the first prelim of the day, Kat Simonovic (7th), Kendall Dawson (11th), and Bentley Hulshof (20th) all swam personal bests in the 500 free to advance to the evening's finals.
Chloe Isleta (12th) and Marlies Ross (14th) then earned top-15 finishes in the 200 IM to make the B-final before Alysha Bush (B) and Claire Fisch and Ingibjorg Jonsdottir (C) swam fast enough times to earn finals spots in the 50 free. Ross and Isleta each earned B-cuts in the 200 IM finals for fourth and seventh on ASU's all-time list, finishing 11th and 13th overall while all three Sun Devils also earned B-cuts in the 50 free.
"We had a fantastic night of swimming," said head swimming coach Bob Bowman.
Simonovic improved upon her personal best by three seconds, setting a new Arizona State record with a sixth-place finish in the 500 free (4:40.53). Dawson earned an impressive 10th place finish in the same event and now sits in fourth on ASU's all-time list. Simonovic, Dawson, and Hulshof's times in the finals were all good for NCAA B-cuts.
"Kat was very tough in setting the ASU record in the 500 free while Kendall and Bentley both made good time drops in the finals. Our 200 IM'ers both made improvements as did our sprinters."
Bush, Jonsdottir, Fisch, and Simonovic continued rewriting the pages of Sun Devil history with a new school record in the 200 free relay (1:29.41), improving upon the 2008 record by 12 seconds.
"The 200 free relay broke another school record which means we are making real progress. I'm excited for tomorrow."
DIVING
Starting off on a high note where he left off Wednesday, freshman Youssef Selim topped the 3 meter prelims (377.20) while Heikki Makikallio (6th) also advanced to his second consecutive finals event of the meet.
"Youssef was very solid in the prelim and Heikki did enough to make it to tonight's final," said head diving coach Mark Bradshaw.
The Sun Devils added another podium finish as Heikki Makikallio finished third in the 3 meter finals while Youssef Selim was sixth. Makikallio's 372.50 and Selim's 363.15 was the third highest personal score of the season for each diver.
"I was very proud of Heikki for earning a podium finish after struggling with one dive in particular in the 1 meter [on Wednesday]. Youssef is the young guy coming in and getting his first experience and I'm proud of him too. They just had one dive each that cost them."
Rebecca Deacon in her first Pac-12 championships and Mara Aiacoboae started off women's diving with a 10th and 12th place finish in the 1 meter prelims, but just missed the top-eight cut to advance to Thursday evening's finals.
"This was the first time in a long time we didn't have a finalist in an event. Our program demands that we're a little better than that, but I think we're going to rebound."
Bradshaw continued, looking forward to the remainder of competition, "Our two better events for the women are tomorrow and Saturday and Heikki's best event is tomorrow in the platform, so we look for big things tomorrow. Hopefully tomorrow or Saturday, we can get a champion in there; that's what we're looking for."
At the end of day two, Stanford (546) remains in the lead followed by Cal (490) and Arizona (376) in the top three. USC (351) and UCLA (336) sit in fourth and fifth just ahead of the Sun Devils in sixth (274). Utah (165), Washington State (148), and Oregon State (130) comprise spots seven through nine.
Another full day of competition awaits the competitors on Friday with prelims in the 400 IM, 100 fly, 200 free, 100 breast, and 100 back starting at 11:30 am MT/10:30 am PT followed by women's 3 mtr prelims at 1:15 pm MT/12:15 pm PT and men's platform prelims at 4:15 pm MT/3:15 pm PT. Men's platform dives start the evening's finals at 5:45 pm MT/4:45 pm PT followed by the swim finals at 7 pm MT/6 pm PT in the 400 IM, 100 fly, 200 free, 100 breast, 100 back, women's 3 mtr dive, and 400 medley relay.
Full details of the week's championships can be found HERE.
SWIM
In the first prelim of the day, Kat Simonovic (7th), Kendall Dawson (11th), and Bentley Hulshof (20th) all swam personal bests in the 500 free to advance to the evening's finals.
Chloe Isleta (12th) and Marlies Ross (14th) then earned top-15 finishes in the 200 IM to make the B-final before Alysha Bush (B) and Claire Fisch and Ingibjorg Jonsdottir (C) swam fast enough times to earn finals spots in the 50 free. Ross and Isleta each earned B-cuts in the 200 IM finals for fourth and seventh on ASU's all-time list, finishing 11th and 13th overall while all three Sun Devils also earned B-cuts in the 50 free.
"We had a fantastic night of swimming," said head swimming coach Bob Bowman.
Simonovic improved upon her personal best by three seconds, setting a new Arizona State record with a sixth-place finish in the 500 free (4:40.53). Dawson earned an impressive 10th place finish in the same event and now sits in fourth on ASU's all-time list. Simonovic, Dawson, and Hulshof's times in the finals were all good for NCAA B-cuts.
"Kat was very tough in setting the ASU record in the 500 free while Kendall and Bentley both made good time drops in the finals. Our 200 IM'ers both made improvements as did our sprinters."
Bush, Jonsdottir, Fisch, and Simonovic continued rewriting the pages of Sun Devil history with a new school record in the 200 free relay (1:29.41), improving upon the 2008 record by 12 seconds.
"The 200 free relay broke another school record which means we are making real progress. I'm excited for tomorrow."
DIVING
Starting off on a high note where he left off Wednesday, freshman Youssef Selim topped the 3 meter prelims (377.20) while Heikki Makikallio (6th) also advanced to his second consecutive finals event of the meet.
"Youssef was very solid in the prelim and Heikki did enough to make it to tonight's final," said head diving coach Mark Bradshaw.
The Sun Devils added another podium finish as Heikki Makikallio finished third in the 3 meter finals while Youssef Selim was sixth. Makikallio's 372.50 and Selim's 363.15 was the third highest personal score of the season for each diver.
"I was very proud of Heikki for earning a podium finish after struggling with one dive in particular in the 1 meter [on Wednesday]. Youssef is the young guy coming in and getting his first experience and I'm proud of him too. They just had one dive each that cost them."
Rebecca Deacon in her first Pac-12 championships and Mara Aiacoboae started off women's diving with a 10th and 12th place finish in the 1 meter prelims, but just missed the top-eight cut to advance to Thursday evening's finals.
"This was the first time in a long time we didn't have a finalist in an event. Our program demands that we're a little better than that, but I think we're going to rebound."
Bradshaw continued, looking forward to the remainder of competition, "Our two better events for the women are tomorrow and Saturday and Heikki's best event is tomorrow in the platform, so we look for big things tomorrow. Hopefully tomorrow or Saturday, we can get a champion in there; that's what we're looking for."