Men's Swim Closes Pac-12 Championships with Six Personal Bests

Saturday, March 5

Federal Way, WA

TBD

University of Utah

Pac-12 Men's Swimming Championships

Men's Swim Closes Pac-12 Championships with Six Personal Bests

3/5/2022 11:01 PM | Men's Swimming & Diving

1650 Free Finals Results 200 Back Finals Results 100 Free Finals Results 200 Breast Finals Results 200 Fly Finals Results 400 Free Relay Results

The Utes wrap up four days of competition on Saturday night.

FEDERAL WAY, Wash.- Men's swimming closed out the Pac-12 Championships on Saturday night with another strong showing in the pool recording six new personal-bests and three season-best performances.

Starting off the night in the 1650 free, Dylan Becker finished in 18th in a season-best time of 15:31.16. Jackson Cunningham followed right behind touching in 15:33.01 for 19th as Micah Ginoza (15:46.24) and Nick Becker (15:50.75) rounded out the competing Utes.

Ryan Garstang recorded another personal-best, this time coming in the 200 back where touched in 1:44.81 in the prelims and followed that up with a 1:46.59 for the 18th overall finish. Preston Planells took home 18th in a season-best time of 1:45.68, as McOmber just edged out a new personal-record of 1:46.54 in the prelims and swam even faster in the finals to post a new PR of 1:45.78, good for 20th.

Cunningham also posted a personal-best in the prelims of the 200 back in 1:46.98 and Holden Ellsworth touched in a season-best time of 1:47.85.

Finn O'Haimhirgin earned an NCAA B time and new personal-best in the 100 free, finishing with a time of 43.20 in the prelims. He followed with a 43.13 to better the record he just set in the finals and secured 18th overall.

Jaek Horner, coming off two record setting performances, earned a top-20 finish in the 200-breast touching in an NCAA B cut of 1:57.86 (18th).

Ben Waterman and Marko Kovacic led the Utes in the 200 fly each finishing in the top-20. Waterman took home 17th in 1:45.16 (NCAA B) as Kovacic earned 20th and recorded a new personal-best of 1:46.03 (NCAA B), topping his previous by just over three seconds.

Noah Carlson finished in 1:48.67 and Sam Lucas set a new personal-best of 1:50.70.

In the final event of the night, the Utah 'A' relay team of Andrei Ungur, Horner, Waterman and Carlson finished the 400 free relay in 2:56.18.

Final Team Standings

1.	California	853.5
2.	Stanford	760
3.	Arizona State	652
4.	USC	449
5.	Arizona	423.5
6.	Utah	264

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