I made the trek over to the Farm this afternoon to watch our Bears take on their Card counterparts on a beautiful autumn afternoon. Small crowd @ 100 spectators evenly split in their rooting interests. 2 pm start meant I had a 2 hour plus commute back to the East Bay after the meet.
Disappointed not to see Seliskar, Sand and Norman (as well as Song, Young,Daughtry and Takahashi) as I enjoy tracking individual times year on year. But the smaller Cal squad was more than up to the task as they dominated across the board save for distant free, where Norman's absence was keenly felt.
6'9" frosh star Reece Whitley was the Bear swimmer of the meet as he won all three breast competitions and swam on the winning 200 medley team. It would have been fun watching Seli dual with Reece, as they have the top two times in the 200 this year (1:55.87 and 1:56.81) . Stanford frosh Dan Roy, who visited Cal before committing to the Cards swam a nice 1:58.54 that ranks 6th so far this year.
Zheng Quah swept the fly individual completion and also swam a free leg on the winning 200 free relay team but without any real competition (last year he had to compete against Justin Lynch and the Cards Andrew Liang) Quah's winning times were slower than his times last year.
Bryce Mefford had a fast 1:43.79 B cut time in the 200 back, which currently ranks # 2 this year. Bryce finished 4th at NCAAs in this event last March and will be expected to dual with Texas aces Austin Katz and John Shebat this year.
Pawel Sendyk (who apparently sports a 3.7 in Computer Sciences) continues to have a terrific early season with impressive winning times in both the 50 and 100 over teammates Ryan Hoffer and Michael Jensen.
It looks like junior former distance freestyler Shane Forker is now working with the sprint group as he competed in the 50/100/200 sprints, and finished 3rd in the 200 free, ahead of Hoffer, Sendyk and Biondi.
Disappointed not to see Seliskar, Sand and Norman (as well as Song, Young,Daughtry and Takahashi) as I enjoy tracking individual times year on year. But the smaller Cal squad was more than up to the task as they dominated across the board save for distant free, where Norman's absence was keenly felt.
6'9" frosh star Reece Whitley was the Bear swimmer of the meet as he won all three breast competitions and swam on the winning 200 medley team. It would have been fun watching Seli dual with Reece, as they have the top two times in the 200 this year (1:55.87 and 1:56.81) . Stanford frosh Dan Roy, who visited Cal before committing to the Cards swam a nice 1:58.54 that ranks 6th so far this year.
Zheng Quah swept the fly individual completion and also swam a free leg on the winning 200 free relay team but without any real competition (last year he had to compete against Justin Lynch and the Cards Andrew Liang) Quah's winning times were slower than his times last year.
Bryce Mefford had a fast 1:43.79 B cut time in the 200 back, which currently ranks # 2 this year. Bryce finished 4th at NCAAs in this event last March and will be expected to dual with Texas aces Austin Katz and John Shebat this year.
Pawel Sendyk (who apparently sports a 3.7 in Computer Sciences) continues to have a terrific early season with impressive winning times in both the 50 and 100 over teammates Ryan Hoffer and Michael Jensen.
It looks like junior former distance freestyler Shane Forker is now working with the sprint group as he competed in the 50/100/200 sprints, and finished 3rd in the 200 free, ahead of Hoffer, Sendyk and Biondi.