Stanford Swimming Sweeps Arizona Behind Macmillan, Shoults

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Stanford swimming improved to 2-0 in Pac-12 dual meet action with a 166-94 men’s win over Arizona on Saturday at Avery Aquatic Center. The women also won.

Will Macmillan won four events, including three individual swims, to lead No. 19-ranked Cardinal (3-0-0, 2-0-0 Pac-12) to its second upset in as many days over the No. 10-ranked Wildcats (5-2-0, 2-2-0).

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To start the meet, Stanford swimming’s team of Benjamin Ho, Hank Poppe, Macmillan and Mason Gonzalez (1:27.97) came from behind to win the 200-yard medley relay – a disqualification by Arizona gave Stanford the top two spots in the race.

Grant Shoults (9:01.53) then won the 1000-yard freestyle, followed by a win from Macmillan (1:37.42) in the 200-yard freestyle.

Ho (48.27) continued his strong showing with a win in the 100-yard backstroke before Stanford swept the top three places in the 100-yard breaststroke. Poppe (54.66) touched first ahead of teammates Pastorek (55.07) and Daniel Roy (55.16), who finished second and third, respectively.

Alex Liang (1:47.34) won the 200-yard butterfly before Gonzalez (20.24) outsprinted the Wildcats to win the 50-yard freestyle.

After a 15-minute break, Macmillan (45.01) came from behind to win the 100-yard freestyle before another pair of podium sweeps by Stanford. Johannes Calloni (1:44.82), Glen Cowand (1:48.45) and Ho (1:49.29) took the top three spots in the 200-yard backstroke before Roy (1:56.23), Pastorek (1:59.89) and Jon Cook (2:01.04) owned the three fastest times in the 200-yard breaststroke.

Macmillan (48.30) won his third individual event of the day, the 100-yard butterfly, Murphy (4:29.86) led Stanford with second place in the 500-yard freestyle and Liang (3:55.41) was the Cardinal’s fastest swimmer in the 400-yard individual medley.

Stanford’s team of Neel Roy, David Madej, Calloni and Murphy (3:00.85) wrapped up the meet with a second-place finish in the 400-yard freestyle relay.

In the diving portion of the competition, Conor Casey (309.60) finished second on the 1-meter springboard while Ethan Foster (247.95) placed fifth. On the 3-meter springboard, Foster (284.25) led Stanford with third place, followed by Noah Vigran (275.00) and Casey (265.63) in fifth and sixth place, respectively.

In the women’s meet, No. 5 Stanford swimming won all 16 of its events in a 192-72 Pac-12 women’s dual meet win against Arizona on Saturday at Avery Aquatic Center.

The Cardinal (4-0, 3-0 Pac-12) picked up right where it left off after defeating Arizona State on Friday.

In the first race of the day, Stanford got off to a strong start when the 200-yard medley relay team of Erin Voss, Allie Raab, Emma Wheal, and Lauren Pitzer (1:39.77) placed first, followed in second by Lucie Nordmann, Grace Zhao, Katie Drabot, and Ashley Volpenhein (1:41.75).

Stanford finished first in the next six races before the first break. Morgan Tankersley (9:59.85) won the 1000-yard freestyle, Raab (1:47.42) took the top spot in the 200 free, Alex Crisera (53.24) finished first in the 100-yard backstroke, Zoe Bartel (1:02.49) won the 100-yard breaststroke, Drabot (1:55.23) placed first in the 200-yard butterfly, and Anya Goeders (22.93) earned first in the 50 free.

Over on the diving side, Carolina Sculti (296.63) and Daria Lenz (283.65) went one-two in one-meter diving. The Cardinal also swept the podium in the three-meter, led by Lenz (331.73), Sculti (318.98) and Mia Paulsen (252.75).

The Cardinal continued its success by winning its remaining races. In the 100 free, Crisera (49.94), Goeders (50.18), Nordmann (51.18) and Brooke Stenstrom (51.75) took the top four spots.

In the 200-yard backstroke, Voss finished first with a time of 1:53.76. Drabot won the 500 free (4:46.36) and Wheal (54.67) finished first in the 100 fly.

Stanford swimming swept the 200-yard breaststroke with Raab (2:12.79), Zhao (2:14.27) and Szekely (2:15.88) finishing one-two-three, respectively. The Cardinal also swept the 400-yard IM. Forde (4:07.93) led the pack, followed by Szekely (4:09.01) and Kukurugya (4:15.34).

The 400-yard freestyle relay team of Volpenhein, Tankersley, Green and Drabot secured the sixteenth win of the day by placing first with a time of 3:23.31.

— The above press release was posted by Swimming World in conjunction with Stanford swimming. For press releases and advertising inquiries please contact Advertising@SwimmingWorld.com.

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