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

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

California holds on to first place after day three of Pac-12 Championships

Mar 1, 2024

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FEDERAL WAY, Wash. – Day three of the 2024 Pac-12 Women’s Swimming and Men’s & Women’s Diving Championships highlighted short distance individual races, the finish of the Men’s Diving Championship and the continuation of the women's diving.  

California held firm atop the leaderboard after securing three podium finishes on the night to help increase their lead to over 100 points.

Stanford surpassed USC in the standings, rising to second after seven podium finishes on the night, including a first-place finish in the 400 IM. 

The men’s diving competition concluded with Laurent Gosselin-Paradis’s third career Pac-12 Championship title while Cardinal men’s diver Jack Ryan walked away with the Men’s Diver of the Meet honor.

Men’s Platform:

  • For the second year in a row, USC’s Laurent Gosselin-Paradis topped the podium in the Men’s Platform diving event. 
  • Scoring a 405.75, the sophomore earned the highest score in the country this season on the platform and became just the sixth athlete to win two in a row and the first since 2011 (Riley McCormick, ASU). 
  • Arizona Sophomore Gage DuBois saw his second podium finish of his career after taking third in the 1 Meter. In just his third Championship event, DuBois scored a 370.70.
  • In his first ever Championship podium finish, Cal’s Joshua Thai rounded out third with 351 points. 

400 IM

  • Sweeping the Individual Medley events was Stanford freshman Caroline Bricker, securing her second ever Pac-12 title. Going 4:02.32 in the final, Bricker swam the fourth-fastest time in the country this season.
  • Stanford has now won the last seven titles and 14 overall in the 400 IM and has swept the IM events in nine of the 14 Championships.
  • Swimming into second with a new UCLA program record was junior Paige Maceachern finishing in a close 4:03.47. The runner-up finish was her second in a row in the event.
  • Golden Bear Leah Polonsky landed in her third podium finish of the Championship, swimming a 4:05.11.

100 Fly:

  • With her first individual Pac-12 Championship title, Golden Bear Mia Kragh swam the fastest California Championship time since 2007, touching in at 50.89. 
  • Cardinal teammates Gigi Johnson (51.17) and Lilli Nordmann (51.58) finished just milliseconds away from each other, both earning NCAA B Standard times. 

200 Free:

  • Going two-for-two in her first Pac-12 Championships was USC freshman Minna Abraham who swam an NCAA A Standard time of 1:42.42 to take home the win. 
  • For the second time of the night, a Cardinal duo took the second and third place spots. Kayla Wilson earned her third podium finish of the Championship taking second (1:43.24), while her teammate Aurora Roghair swam a 1:43.48 to secure third.

100 Breast:

  • Becoming only the seventh person in Pac-12 history to win four titles in a row, USC Trojan Kaitlyn Dobler took home first in the 100 Breast (57.51). She is now the second woman to win four consecutive 100 Breast titles. 
  • Dobler set both the overall Pac-12 and Pac-12 Championship record in her last two appearances. Tonight she missed both records by just one second with her time tied for fourth in the country this season.
  • Breaking a program record she set just four hours prior in the prelims (1:00.02), Washington State Cougar Emily Lundgren took home second finishing with 59.45 on the clock. The silver was just her second career podium finish and first this year. 
  • Tying for fourth all-time in Cal Bear history was graduate student Hanna Brunzell who finished third in her first Pac-12 Championship.

100 Back:

  • After three runner-up finishes in a row in the 100 Backstroke, California senior Isabel Stadden took first in the event with a top-5 time in the country (50.39). The senior was just .13 seconds from setting a new personal record.
  • After seeing the podium in two relay events this Championship, Caroline Famous swam her way to her first individual podium finish. The senior swam an NCAA B Standard 50.90 to secure second. 
  • Stanford’s Natalie Mannion takes home third in the final individual event of day three (52.38).

Women’s 3 Meter:

  • After becoming the first Utah women’s diver to win a Pac-12 title, Freshman Emilia Nilsson Garip continued to make history by sweeping the springboard events. 
  • Along with first, Garip took home the Utes highest scoring platform dive in program history, topping a record held since 2014 by 49 points.  
  • UCLA’s Eden Chang moved up a spot after finishing third in the 2023 Pac-12 Championships. Her score of 322.30 earned her UCLA’s first women’s diving podium finish. 
  • Arizona Junior Brooke Earley made her way on to the podium for the first time of the Championship after scoring a 312.15 and taking third. 

400 Medley Relay:

  • For the first time since 2009, the USC Trojans took home first in the 400 Medley Relay.
  • Caroline FamousKaitlyn Dobler, Anicka Delgado and Minna Abraham swam a 3:27.28 to capture their second Pac-12 relay win of the Championship. 
  • With a No. 7 time in the country and Golden Bear history, Isabelle StaddenHannah BrunzellMia Kragh and Leah Polonsky took home a close second in 3:28.05.
  • Stanford’s Natalie Mannion, Lucy Thomas, Gigi Johnson and Lillie Nordmann closed out day three of the Championships with a 3:31.64 third place finish. 

Men’s Diver of the Meet: 

  • Stanford’s Jack Ryan earned Men’s Diver of the meet after taking home his first two Pac-12 Championship titles in the 1 meter and 3 meter.

Women's Team Scores:

California - 964

Stanford - 849.5

USC - 824

UCLA - 754

Arizona State - 643.5

Utah - 407.5

Arizona - 395

Washington State - 306.5