Andy Dobrzanski Pool Record Leads Arizona State Sweep of Big 12 West Championships
Andy Dobrzanski set a pool record in the men’s 100 breaststroke for Arizona State, which hosted the inaugural Big 12 West Championships.
Dobrzanski went 51.00 on Friday, the first day of the competition. That trims .01 off the Mona Plummer Aquatic Center pool mark set by Leon Marchand. Arizona State won the team competition in both the men’s and women’s races by decisive margins, with Arizona second in both.
Big 12 West Team Standings
Women’s
- Arizona State 1443.5
- Arizona 1272.5
- Kansas 1041
- Utah 926
- BYU 861
Men’s
- Arizona State 961
- Arizona 856
- Utah 739
- BYU 730
Dobrzanski also won the 200 breast in 1:50.95, his winning margin nearly four seconds over the field. He swam on winning quartet in the 400 medley relay, with Adam Chaney, Filip Senc-Samardzic and Jonny Kulow in 3:01.84.
Chaney won the 100 backstroke in 44.68 and the 200 back in 1:41.46. His 42.09 led off the winning Sun Devil quartet in the 400 free relay, joining 41s from Remi Fabiani, Tommy Palmer and Kulow to finish in 2:45.94.
Kulow won the 100 free in 41.60 ahead of Fabiani’s 41.71. Kulow anchored the winning 200 medley relay. Fabiani won the 200 free in 1:32.86.
Ilya Kharun went 18.62 to edge Palmer’s 18.98 to win the 50 free. Kharun also claimed the 200 fly in 1:39.30 and the 100 fly in 44.39. Lucien Vergnes won the 200 individual medley.
The only men’s win among the swimming events for a non-ASU swimmer was Utah’s Strahinja Maslo, who won the 400 IM in in 3:50.59. Arizona’s Luke Hernandez swept the diving events on the men’s side.
The women’s meet was scored with a convoluted set of locked, timed finals with one leader per team. Which meant that, for instance, Deniz Ertan was the official winner of the 500 free despite Alexa Reyna swimming a faster time of 4:44.12, that left her officially scoring in sixth place. The same happened in the 1,650 freestyle, with Ertan the “winner” in 16:18.92 despite Reyna swimming faster in “sixth” place in 16:18.07.
Overthought meet inanity aside, Arizona State shined. Julia Ullmann won the 200 fly in 1:57.04 with teammate Sonia Vaishnani the only other swimmers to break two minutes. Ullman won the 100 fly in 51.83 with Mariam Sheehan second. Ullman swam fly on the winning 200 medley relay that went 1:36.69 with Sheehan, Lucie Vazquez and Albane Cachot.
Cachot, in her second collegiate meet, won the 200 free in 1:45.63 and the 100 free in 48.32. She was third in the 50 free in 22.44. She anchored the winning 200 medley relay by going 22.15, and she swam 48.07 off the end of the winning 400 free relay that went 3:15.07 (with Jordan Gerber, Grace Lindberg and Gerda Szilagyi).
Vaishnani won the 400 IM in 4:12.56, four-second up on second-place Ertan. Vaishanani was also second in the 200 back in 2:11.29 and third in the 200 breast. Vaishnani also had the fastest time in the 200 IM at 1:58.87, with “winner” Gerber going 1:59.56.
Arizona’s sprinters performed well. Riley Botton won the 50 free in 22.18, with Julia Wozniak second in 22.25. Wozniak was second to Cachot in the 100 free in 48.36. Arizona won the 200 free relay (Botton, Patricija Kondraskaite, Charlie Millard and Wozniak’s 21.52) in 1:28.76.
Kelsey Wasikowski won the 200 breast in 2:10.95 for the Wildcats. Kayman Neal claimed the 200 back in 1:54.43, and Eleni Gewalt’s 59.86 won the 100 breast. Arizona won the 400 medley relay in 3:33.30, besting ASU by a half-second. Julia Smurzynska, Gewalt, Neal and Wozniak comprised the quartet.
