Cal Enjoys Strong Showing In Triple Distance Meet

Bears earned 12 first-place finishes

MSWIM11/7/2025 4:36 PM | By: Cal Athletics

Bears Earned 12 First-Place Finishes

BERKELEY – The No. 4 California males’s swimming & diving crew had a powerful displaying on the annual Triple Distance Meet towards No. 8 Stanford on Friday afternoon at Spieker Aquatics Complex. The Golden Bears received 12 of the 20 occasions within the distinctive competitors towards the Cardinal.
 
A non-team-scoring meet, the Triple Distance Meet splits swimmers into occasion teams (butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, dash freestyle, distance free and particular person medley) and requires swims at three totally different distances inside the occasion: 50, 100 and 200 yards within the fly, breast, again and dash free; 200, 500, 1,000 within the distance free; and 100, 200 and 400 within the IM.
 
Yamato Okadome was the lone Bear to brush his occasions after touching first within the 50-yard (23.46), 100-yard (50.89) and 200-yard (1:52.20) breaststroke, whereas setting a pool report within the 50 and 100 breaststroke.
 
Nathan Wiffen and Samuel Quarles each fell simply shy of sweeping the gap freestyle and butterfly occasions, respectively. Wiffen secured first-place finishes within the 500-yard freestyle (4:20.15) and 1000-yard freestyle (8:53.62), whereas inserting second within the 200-yard freestyle (1:39.33) behind Humberto Najera (1:37.67). Quarles earned first-place finishes within the 50-yard butterfly (21.12) and 100-yard butterfly (46.58), whereas taking fourth within the 200-yard butterfly (1:47.28).
 
Keaton Jones touched first within the 200-yard backstroke (1:40.30) with the fourth-fastest time within the nation this season, whereas inserting second within the 50-yard backstroke (22.33) and 100-yard backstroke (47.31). Casper Puggaard clinched the primary win of his collegiate profession after ending first within the 100-yard particular person medley (1:37.67), whereas taking second within the 400-yard particular person medley (3:46.06) and third within the 200-yard particular person medley (1:49.57).
 
The males’s and ladies’s swimming groups teamed as much as win each relay occasions. In the combined 200-yard medley relay, Cal’s A-group of Evan Petty, Yamato Okadome, Annie Jia and Sydney Griscavage touched first in a time of 1:29.24. In the combined 200-yard freestyle relay, Cal’s A-group of Nans Mazellier, Lucca Battaglini, Mary-Ambre Moluh and Mia West positioned first with a time of 1:22.23
 
NEXT UP
Cal will return to the pool for the four-day Minnesota Invitational from Dec. 3-6, on the Jean Okay. Freeman Aquatic Center in Minneapolis.
 
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