No. 10 Stanford completed its sweep of the Arizona schools on the road with a 134-96 win in Saturday's Pac-12 Conference dual meet at Arizona State. The Cardinal (5-0) won nine of 13 events to bring its weekend mark to 18 wins in 27 events.
Sean Duggan, a junior biomechanical engineering major, was a double winner in the 50- and 100-yard freestyle and helped his team score in the 400-yard medley relay. Drew Cosgarea led off the Cardinal's winning 400-yard freestyle relay team and picked up second place in the 500-yard freestyle.
Duggan won the 50-yard freestyle in 20.72 and the 100-yard freestyle in 45.14. Duggan had top-10 times in the NCAA in both events last season.
Liam Egan won the 1,000-yard freestyle with a time of 9:16.42 and Tom Kremer won the 200-yard freestyle in 1:38.37 to give the Cardinal three consecutive wins to start the meet. Duggan then won the 50-yard freestyle before Gray Umbach won the 200-yard individual medley to make it five wins in five events.
Stanford wasn't finished. Kristian Ipsen and Bradley Christensen went 1-2 in the 1-meter diving, Andrew Liang won the 200-yard butterfly, Duggan won the 100-yard freestyle and David Nolan dominated the 200-yard backstroke by 2.39 seconds to make it nine consecutive event victories for the Cardinal to start the dual meet.
Jan Kutnik of Arizona State broke the streak with a win in the next event -- the 500-yard freestyle -- but Stanford had the meet under control and cruised the rest of the way to the victory.
The Cardinal has two weeks until its next competition, a Feb. 7 home dual meet against No. 18 USC. The meet will start at 12 p.m. (PT) at Avery Aquatic Center.
Freshman Janet Hu led the way with two individual victories as the No. 3 Stanford women’s swimming and diving team captured its second win in as many days in Arizona. The Cardinal topped host Arizona State, 131-100, to stay unbeaten against Pac-12 opponents.
Stanford (5-1, 4-0 Pac-12) used six different swimmers to win seven individual events, while also taking the 400-yard freestyle relay to open the meet. Five of the six Cardinal to win were underclassmen, including four freshmen.
Sophomore Lia Neal got things started for Stanford with a win in the 200-yard freestyle, after ASU’s Anna Olasz took the 1,000-yard freestyle over sophomore Tara Halsted. Stanford took four of the top six spots in the 200, including a 1-2 finish from Neal and classmate Nicole Stafford with 1:49.15 and 1:49.86 finishes, respectively.
Neal’s win sparked a run of seven straight swimming wins by the Cardinal. Stanford went 1-2-3 in the next two events to start to pull away from the Sun Devils, behind wins from Hu in the 50-yard freestyle (23.15) and freshman Simone Manuel in the 200-yard IM (2:01.72). Junior mechanical engineering major Julia Ama and senior management science and engineering major Katie Olsen were behind Hu, while sophomore Grace Carlson and freshman Lindsey Engel trailed Manuel.
Manuel, a standout newcomer from Sugar Land, Texas, was given a lighter load than Friday, when she won the 50-, 100-, and 200-yard freestyle events against Arizona.
Stanford continued claiming the top spot with victories from freshman Ally Howe (200-yard butterfly, 2:00.44), Engel (100-yard freestyle, 51.14) and Hu (200-yard backstroke, 1:57.57). Hu’s mark was good for an NCAA B-cut, before junior biology major Allison Brown took the 500-yard freestyle in 4:52.30.
A pair of Arizona State divers split No. 1 ranks in the diving events. Junior human biology major Kelly Markle led Stanford divers with second-place finishes in the 1- and 3-meter.
Stanford is back at Avery Aquatic Center Friday and Saturday against No. 13 UCLA and No. 12 USC. Friday’s matchup against the Bruins starts at 2 p.m. PT, while Saturday’s meeting with the Trojans is slated to begin at noon PT.
