Massive 12 Championships, Night time 1: Arizona State Seeks Repeat Sweep
The primary season of the reconfigured Massive 12 Convention belonged to Arizona State. The Solar Devils gained each the lads’s and girls’s titles on the meet, and so they’ve positioned themselves because the favorites once more this season.
The hunt begins Tuesday evening on the Greensboro Aquatic Middle, the place the Solar Devils have an opportunity to begin the meet with a 4-for-4 relay efficiency. The boys’s crew is the highest seed in each relays, whereas the ladies lead by a large margin within the 800 free however are .04 behind in-state and former Pac-12 rival Arizona within the 200 medley relay.
The convention additionally introduced on Tuesday that it’s going to return to the GAC for the 2027 championships on the identical week, the third time and third straight yr that the Massive 12 Championships have been hosted by a impartial web site.
All of the motion from Night time 1:
Girls’s 200 medley relay
The College of Arizona, whose solely relay win final yr got here within the 200 freestyle relay, confirmed its dash chops from the get-go, defending its prime seed with a time of 1:35.54 to open the meet with a win.
The quartet of Lila Lillie (24.21), Eleni Gewalt (26.64), Patricija Kondraskaite (23.40) and Julia Wozniak (21.29) improved their seed time by half second to get the win. It’s additionally the one NCAA qualification reduce of the meet.
Arizona State completed second in 1:36.10, .01 off the automated time and a provisional reduce. Miriam Sheehan, Ginger McMahon, Julia Ullmann and Albane Cachot comprised that crew, Cachot bringing it house in 21.30. Cincinnati was third in 1:36.84, 4 tenths off the provisional commonplace. Kansas was a distant fourth.
Males’s 200 medley relay
The ASU males have been slower than their seed time however nonetheless practically 4 seconds quicker than the sector to coast to the victory. Adam Chaney (20.45), Andy Dobrzanski (23.20), Ilya Kharun (18.89) and Tommy Palmer (18.42) led the best way in 1:20:96.
That could be a meet file, downing the 1:21.16 that Arizona State used to win final yr on the best way to completed fourth at NCAAs. Arizona State (with Jonny Kulow on the anchor as an alternative of Palmer) set the convention file at 1:20.56 at December’s CSCAA twin meet problem with a time that’s .01 of the varsity file from the 2024 postseason.
Second was Arizona in 1:24.83, 1.62 seconds slower than their in-season greatest. Duncan Henderson, Tavner Knowledge, Haakon Naughton and Taylor Luck comprised the squad. TCU edged BYU by a tenth for fourth in 1:25.06.
Girls’s crew diving
Utah gained ladies’s crew diving with a mixed rating of 312.55 factors, simply .30 up on TCU. Houston will get a lift after a DQ within the 200 medley relay by ending third. Arizona was fourth, Arizona State sixth.
Girls’s 800 freestyle relay
Males’s 800 freestyle relay
Males’s crew diving
