TEMPE, Ariz. -- Despite strong performances by the divers and four individual swim wins throughout the day, the Sun Devils fell to the No. 1 Cal men's team, 178-118, and the No. 4 Cal women's team, 190-110.
"Since I've been here, this has been our best men and women's meet against Cal," said head coach Bob Bowman. "I thought we had good energy throughout the meet."
David Hoffer and Youssef Selim took the top two spots in both the 1M and 3M dives, with Hoffer taking first in 3M and Selim taking first in 1M. On the women's side, Ashley McCool placed first in the 1M and second in the 3M, while Frida Kaellgren earned points for ASU with the second spot in the 1M and fourth in 3M.
The Sun Devil youth shined in the meet as well, with 13 different freshmen contributing points in the competition. Three of those instances came in the men's 200 fly, an event in which the Sun Devils sent four freshmen to the block. They were highlighted by Khalil Fonder, Liam Bresette and Lana Berry who all put up five points on the afternoon. Fonder continues to impress in his first year in Tempe, posting five podium finishes so far this season including a first place finish in the 100 fly at USC.
Emma Nordin (1000 free), Silja Kansakoski (100 breast), Nora Deleske (200 breast) and Grant House (200 IM) earned individual victories for the Sun Devils. In her win, Nordin swam a personal best of 9:59.85, eclipsing her previous record of 10:07.73 set in last year's dual meet at Cal. The 1000 free was also the Devils' only sweep of the day - Nordin was followed on the board by Kendall Dawson and Caitlyn Wilson taking second and third place respectively.
The Sun Devils have a quick turnaround as they return to the pool tomorrow, hosting No. 7/3 Stanford.
"We want to come back tomorrow to put together a meet at a better level then we had today," Bowman said. "Typically when teams swim back-to-back the second one is not very good, so our goal is to swim as fast or better than we did today."
Tomorrow's meet will also be Senior Day for nine graduating Sun Devils. The seniors will be honored on the pool deck at Mona Plummer Aquatic Center at 11:40 a.m. and the meet will begin at 12 p.m. The meet is free and open to the public and will be broadcast on the ASU Live Stream.