Feb. 24, 2010

Feb. 24 Results in PDF Format

LONG BEACH, Calif. - Fifth-ranked California posted its fastest times of the season in the 200-yard medley relay and 800-yard freestyle relay and stands in fourth place after the first day of the Pac-10 Women's Swimming Championships on Wednesday at the Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool. The defending conference and NCAA champions, the Golden Bears have 108 points and trails third-place Stanford (112 points) as well as co-first place teams Arizona and USC (116 each).

Cal's foursome of junior Sara Isakovic, junior Erica Dagg, sophomore Liv Jensen and junior Hannah Wilson posted an automatic NCAA qualifying time of 7:01.16 in the 800-yard freestyle relay. It was the second race of the night for Jensen. The Cal quartet of sophomore Colleen Fotsch, freshman Caitlin Leverenz, junior Amanda Sims and Jensen swam an NCAA consideration time of 1:38.08 to finish third in the 200-yard medley relay.

"We got off to a solid start tonight," Cal head coach Teri McKeever said. "We had some new people in new positions compared to last year, and I think they're doing a nice job with that. Everybody got to swim tonight and both relays are going to get invited to NCAAs; that was the goal. I thought Liv Jensen did a really, really nice job. We just have to get ready for tomorrow and see what happens."

Jensen swam a split of 21.75 to anchor the 200-medley relay and had a split of 1:44.75 in the 800-free relay.

Arizona swam the nation's fastest 200-medley relay - an automatic NCAA qualifying time of 1:37.00 - to win the first event of the meet. Stanford was the runner-up with an NCAA consideration or B time of 1:37.86.

USC snapped Cal's six-year win streak in the 800-free relay at the conference meet, taking the race with an NCAA automatic qualifying-6:59.48, which is also the second fastest time in the nation. Stanford was second in the 800-free relay with an automatic NCAA qualifying time of 7:00.45.

The conference meet will continue on Thursday with the 500 freestyle, 200-individual medley, 50 freestyle and 200-freestyle relay. The diving portion of the Pac-10 Championships also begins on Thursday with the one-meter springboard.

Pac-10 Women's Swimming Championships
Feb. 24 in Long Beach, Calif.

Standings

Team	          Points
1. Arizona	  116
1. USC	           116
3. Stanford	  112
4. California	  108
5. Oregon State	  96
5. UCLA	           96
7. Washington State  90
8. Arizona State	  50

800-Yard Freestyle Relay
3. Cal (Sara Isakovic, Erica Dagg, Liv Jensen, Hannah Wilson) 7:01.16^.

^NCAA automatic qualifying time
*NCAA B qualifying time