Pac-12 Males’s Championships: Arizona State Units NCAA Report in 200 Medley Relay (Video)
The ultimate Pac-12 Championships are right here, as the boys will take the convention’s bows on the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Middle beginning Wednesday. It might be a championship swansong, within the remaining convention championships earlier than the league’s remnants are despatched to the 4 corners of the school sports activities world subsequent season, a second battle this season between potential NCAA championship contenders in Cal and Arizona State.
And boy did it begin with a bang.
Arizona State set an NCAA file within the 200 medley relay proper out of the gates, the foursome of Jack Dolan, Leon Marchand, Ilya Kharun and Jonny Kulow going 1:20.55 to take down the file set by NC State at NCAAs final yr.
It’s fairly the beginning for a four-day meet, which runs via Saturday.
200 Medley Relay
It’s an NCAA file proper out of the gate. The splits in 2023:
Kacper Stokowski 20.36 – Mason Hunter 22.95 – Nyls Korstanje 19.15 – David Curtiss 18.21
The splits Wednesday:
Jack Dolan 20.30 – Leon Marchand 22.71 – Ilya Kharun 19.30 – Jonny Kulow 18.24
The scary half is that Marchand was sooner final yr, at 22.27 at NCAAs, because the Solar Devils went 1:21.07. So there’s extra meat left on the bone possibly? That earlier time had been the Pac-12 file, and the Solar Devils had been a couple of second sooner than their meet file from final yr.
NCAA RECORD 🤯@ASUSwimDive begin the meet with a 1:20.55 200 medley relay! pic.twitter.com/vZGG0BxaYv
— Pac-12 Community (@Pac12Network) March 7, 2024
Three groups are headed to NCAAs. Arizona booked an A reduce of 1:22.90, Tommy Palmer splitting 18.33 off the tip. Stanford was third in 1:23.14, Rafael Gu’s 19.97 on fly an enormous one. Cal was fourth, although they fielded a largely B squad with an A reduce already in hand.
800 free relay
