Katie Drabot Powers Stanford Swimming to Sweep of Arizona State

No. 5 Stanford swimming won all but two events in a 183-93 Pac-12 women’s dual meet win against Arizona State on Friday at Avery Aquatic Center.

The Cardinal (3-0, 2-0 Pac-12) won 14-of-16 events in its first dual meet since Oct. 23. Katie Drabot led Stanford with three wins while Alexandra Crisera and Carolina Sculti won two apiece. Stanford, the three-time national defending champion, has captured 33 consecutive dual meets.

To start the afternoon, the 200-yard medley relay team of Erin Voss, Allie Raab, Lucie Nordmann and Lauren Green finished first with a time of 1:40.74.

Senior Drabot won the 1000-yard freestyle with the eighth-fastest in the NCAA this season (9:42.09), also winning the 200-yard butterfly (1:54.47) and the 100-yard butterfly (53.20).

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The Cardinal swept the podium in the 200 free with Morgan Tankersley (1:47.87), Katie Glavinovich (1:48.22), and Brooke Forde (1:48.43) finishing one-two-three. Glavinovich also placed first in the 500 free with a time of 4:46.37. Allie Szekely (1:59.91) and Glavinovich (2:01.65) placed first and second, respectively, in the 200-yard IM.

On the diving side of the competition, the Cardinal took the top three spots in both events, led by Sculti who scored 304.35 in the one-meter and 341.70 in the three-meter.

Crisera won her first event, the 100-yard backstroke (53.55), when she placed one-two with Voss (53.72). Crisera followed it up by winning the 200 back (1:54.53) later in the meet.

Sophomore Raab placed first in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:01.26 and classmate Zoe Bartel placed first in the 200 breast (2:14.51).

The 400-yard freestyle relay team Green, Raab, Ashley Volpenhein, and Anya Goeders also came away with the win (3:22.33) to end the day.

In the men’s meet, No. 19 Stanford swimming claimed a 152-131 win over No. 13 Arizona State on Friday afternoon at Avery Aquatic Center.

The Cardinal (2-0-0, 1-0-0 Pac-12) won less than half of the 16 events but registered a pair of one-two-three finishes in the breaststroke events with Grant Shoults winning a pair of swims. Stanford was neck-and-neck with the Sun Devils (3-1-0, 2-1-0) for most of the day before pulling ahead in the final portion of the meet.

Stanford swimming’s team of Benjamin Ho, Hank Poppe, Will Macmillan and Mason Gonzalez (1:27.66) started the day with a second-place finish in the 200-yard medley relay.

Johannes Calloni (9:10.04) out-touched Benjamin Olszewski by 0.15 seconds to win the 1,000-yard freestyle, ahead of third-place Matthew Hirschberger (9:18.08).

Shoults (1:36.33) registered his first win of the day in the 200-yard freestyle before Ho (47.92) placed second in the 100-yard backstroke.

Poppe (54.57) led a podium sweep in the 100-yard breaststroke, beating out teammates Brennan Pastorek (55.19) and Daniel Roy (55.54) for the win. Alex Liang (1:46.96) was Stanford’s fastest swimmer in the 200-yard butterfly and Gonzalez (20.59) led the Cardinal with fourth place in the 50-yard freestyle.

On the diving side of the competition, Conor Casey (391.65) won the 1-meter springboard with Ethan Foster (273.90) in third place. On the 3-meter springboard, Noah Vigran (400.05) was Stanford’s highest scorer, ahead of Casey (354.38) in third and Foster (286.50) in fourth.

After a 15-minute break, Macmillan (44.19) placed second in the 100-yard freestyle and Calloni (1:45.68) touched second in the 200-yard backstroke.

Roy (1:57.59) won the 200-yard breaststroke ahead of teammates Poppe (2:00.71) and Cook (2:00.88), who finished second and third, respectively.

Shoults (4:22.73) capped an impressive showing by winning the 500-yard freestyle with Murphy (4:29.94) placing third. Liang (48.10) finished second in the 100-yard butterfly, ahead of teammate Macmillan (48.25) in third, before Stanford claimed the top three spots in the final individual swim of the day.

Pastorek (1:49.45) led the way while Ho (1:51.48) finished second and Roy (1:51.51) was third. Stanford’s team of Gonzalez, Tarvestad, Shoults and Macmillan (2:57.50) finished third in the 400-yard freestyle to wrap up the meet.

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