No. 2/18 Swim and Dive hosts Inaugural Big 12 West Showdown beginning Friday

TEMPE  – In its ultimate dwelling meet of the season, No. 2/18 Sun Devil Swim and Dive will host 5 Big 12 groups for the Big 12 West Showdown, welcoming Arizona, BYU, Kansas and Utah beginning at 10 a.m. MST Friday and concluding at 11 a.m. MST Saturday at Mona Plummer Aquatic Center with stay outcomes on Meet Mobile. 

Houston might be internet hosting the Big 12 East Showdown this weekend that includes West Virginia, Iowa State, TCU and Cincinnati, giving groups a preview of how they stack up in opposition to convention foes forward of the Big 12 Swim and Dive Championships, that are slated for February 24-28 in Greensboro, North Carolina.

The meet is cut up into three classes which is able to start on Friday at 10 a.m., that includes the 200 medley relay, 100 fly, 400 IM, 200 free, 100 breast and the 200 free relay. The evening session will begin at 5 p.m., highlighting the 100 again, 200 breast, 500 free, 50 free and the 400 medley relay. 

Saturday’s session will begin at 10 a.m. with the B and C finals of the 1650 free, then shift to the 200 IM, adopted by the 100 free, 200 fly, 200 again, the A ultimate of the 1650 free, then end with the 400 free relay. 

Diving for the three classes will function ladies’s 3m and males’s 1m Friday morning, after which the group diving occasion beginning at 4 p.m. On Saturday, ladies’s 1m and males’s 3m will happen at 11 a.m.

The Sun Devil males proceed to have the quickest occasions within the nation within the 50 free (Ilya Kharun, 18.40), the 200 free (Remi Rabiani, 1:31.23), the 200 again (JT Ewing, 1:39.00), and the 100 fly (Kharun, 43.38). ASU boasts the quickest 200 free relay at 1:13.72 and the 400 medley relay at 2:59.87.

In their twin meet victory over Grand Canyon, junior Grace Lindberg swam private bests within the 200 free (1:45.43) and within the 400 IM (4:14.26) to earn Big 12 Women’s Swimmer of the Week. Freshman Albane Cachot made her Sun Devil debut and gained three particular person occasions in opposition to GCU. She swam the eighth quickest 50 free in program historical past in 22.43, then gained the 100 free in 49.11 and the 200 free in 1:46.38. 

In the newest CSCAA rankings, Arizona State is the top-ranked Big 12 group in each males’s and girls’s polls. The males are ranked No. 2 within the nation and the ladies have held regular at No. 18 within the nation. Arizona is ranked No. 17 on the lads’s aspect and No. 24 in ladies’s swimming, as each Arizona faculties are the one Big 12 groups ranked. 

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