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2024 Pac-12 Women's Swimming & Diving (M/W) Championships

Feb. 28-March 2, 2024 | Federal Way, WA

Stage is Set for 2024 Pac-12 Women's Swimming and Diving (M/W) Championships

Feb 27, 2024
Drake Lee

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FEDERAL WAY, Wash. – The stage is set for the 2024 Pac-12 Women’s Swimming and Men’s & Women’s Diving Championships, taking place this week, Feb. 28 - March 2, at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way, Wash.

Measured by national championships, national awards and Olympics success, the Pac-12 Conference has one of the most impressive legacies in collegiate swimming, standing second in the nation in members that have won a team NCAA title with five (California, Arizona, Stanford, UCLA and USC). 

For the first time in program history, No. 4 USC went undefeated, going 9-0 to secure the most wins in Pac-12 history. The Trojans are looking to capture their second Pac-12 Championship and first since 2016, entering the week with student-athletes that own 10 of the 18 top times and three of the six diving scores in the conference this season. Sweeping the top times in all five relays, the short distance freestyle events and the breaststroke events, the fourth-ranked Trojans collected 863.25 points in the regular season. Freshman Minna Abraham, sophomore Justina Kozan and  senior Kaitlyn Dobler all find themselves as holders of NCAA DI top-5 times while seven swimmers helped the Trojans to three top-5 NCAA DI relays. 

Despite the absence of 14-time Pac-12 Champion Torri Huske, No. 5 STANFORD eyes its fourth consecutive and 26th overall Pac-12 title. Winning six of the last seven Pac-12 titles, the Cardinal are entering the competition atop of the league and fifth in the nation with 864.65 total points. Owning the other half of the freestyle event times (500 Free, 1650 Free), and ruining a freestyle sweep for the Trojans, is senior Aurora Roghair, who collected four top-5 NCAA DI times this season and is looking to defend her 2023 Pac-12 Championship title in the 1650 free. Roghair is backed by a team with the likes of Lucy Bell, Lillie Nordmann and Caroline Bricker who have all swam top-5 times in their respective events.

No. 7 CALIFORNIA, the only other program to win a Pac-12 Championship in the last seven years, is looking for its first win since 2021 after finishing in the top-3 in the years since. Being the only other program to sweep multiple individual events in the conference this season, the Golden Bears are poised for another high finish at the Championships. Leading DI swimmers in the 200 Back is Isabelle Stadden, who also captured a top-3 NCAA DI time in the 100 back this season to complete the Bears' sweep over the backstroke events. Rachel Klinker and Mia Kragh are responsible for California’s capture of the league's top times in the Butterfly events. Leah Polonsky tops things off after sweeping the 2023 Individual Medley events, swimming the Conference’s fastest time in the 200 IM this season. 

No. 21 ARIZONA STATE comes in as the league's final ranked program, finishing fourth in the Pac-12 with 830.95 points. The Sun Devils spent the entire season in the CSCAA rankings and are looking to capture their first ever Pac-12 title. After becoming the first Sun Devil since 1995 to win two titles, senior Lindsay Looney returns to try to defend her titles.   

USC, Stanford and UTAH sit at the top of the Pac-12 men's diving leaderboard, with the six best scores of the season in each event being divided between the three. Two-time All-American Cardinal, Jack Ryan, looks to earn his first Pac-12 Diving title after achieving the league's highest regular season scores in the 1 Meter and 3 Meter. 

After becoming the first Trojan to win multiple titles in a single Championship since 2006, Laurent Gosselin-Paradis is favored to win his second consecutive Platform title after scoring a conference-high 419.45 early in the season. 

On the women's diving side, USC's Nike Agunbiade, who last year became the first Trojan to win a Platform title since 2015, finished the regular season with the highest score of this season in the event (280.55). Utah’s Holly Waxman, Emilia Nilsson Garip and Elias Petersen topped the Utes' diving squad with top scores in the women’s 1 Meter and 3 Meter and top-3 scores in five of the events.