Stanford males’s swimming opens season with sweep in Stockton

Stanford males’s swimming opened its season with dominant victories on the PAC Invite in Stockton, California this previous weekend, beating out the University of California (UC) Santa Barbara, University of the Pacific and Seattle University in each occasion on the primary day.

Stanford additionally posted the primary and second quickest occasions within the 200-yard medley relay. The quartet of sophomore Finn Harland (backstroke), seniors Zhier Fan (breaststroke) and Rafael Gu (butterfly) and junior Jonathan Tan (freestyle) gained with a time of 1:26.87 — greater than two seconds forward of Stanford’s B group and virtually six seconds sooner than Seattle, the quickest non-Stanford group. 

Stanford saved a clear slate in its relays with wins within the 200-yard and 800-yard freestyle relays. Freshman Jason Zhao ’28 led the 200-yard relay with the quickest lead-off break up of 20.83.

After their relay, Tan and Gu went head-to-head in each the 50-yard freestyle and the 100-yard butterfly. Tan out-touched Gu in freestyle, ending first with a time of 19.80 to beat out Gu’s 19.93. In the 100-yard butterfly later within the afternoon, Gu fired again to prime Tan, profitable in 47.33 to Tan’s 47.83. 

Junior Henry McFadden, coming off competing on the 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, was the only real Stanford swimmer to win a number of particular person occasions. In the 500-yard freestyle, he swam to first with a time of 4:28.60. Senior Liam Custer (4:32.01) and freshman Connor Jones (4:36.19) additionally positioned within the occasion’s prime three. Later within the afternoon, McFadden gained the 200-yard freestyle in 1:38.36.

Six Cardinal swimmers completed forward of some other faculty’s swimmers within the 200-yard particular person medley, with junior Gibson Holmes main the way in which in 1:49.42. 

Freshman Ray Liu burst onto the scene in Stockton, profitable the 400-yard particular person medley in 3:56.44 over Holmes, a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) qualifier within the occasion final yr. Liu was the one newcomer on the Stanford group to win a person occasion. 

In the 100 breaststroke, sophomores Daniel Li and Abram Mueller and senior Zhier Fan led the pack, with Li profitable the occasion in a time of 53.54. Fan was second in 54.25, and Mueller was third in 55.72.

The 100 backstroke confirmed one other 1-2-3 end from Stanford’s group, with senior Hayden Kwan, sophomore Finn Harland and Liu all touching inside 0.30 seconds of one another. Kwan gained the occasion in 49.40. 

After the primary day of competitors, Stanford led the standings with 800 factors, greater than 300 factors forward of second-place University of California, Santa Barbara (479.5). Pacific (360.5) and Seattle (305) completed in third and fourth place, respectively. 

Stanford didn’t compete on the second day of the meet, which featured the 100-yard freestyle, 1,650-yard freestyle, all 200-yard stroke occasions (butterfly, backstroke and breaststroke) and the 400-yard medley and freestyle relays. 

The Cardinal will compete of their first residence meet at 2 p.m. on Oct. 24 at Avery Aquatic Center in opposition to Arizona State and Cal.

Full outcomes from the primary day of competitors may be discovered here.