A Cardinal Century
• The 2014-15 season marked the 100th on The Farm for the Stanford men’s swimming and diving team. The storied program has produced eight NCAA titles, 62 conference crowns, more than 100 All-Americans, dozens of Olympians and nine world record holders.
Top-10 Streak Continues
• For the 35th consecutive season, Stanford finished in the top-10 of the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships. The Cardinal walked away from Iowa's Campus Recreation and Wellness Center Natatorium with 209 points for sixth place to end the three-day event.
No Limits for Nolan
• David Nolan broke the Stanford, Pac-12, NCAA and American records in the 200 IM with a blistering time of 1:40.07 at the Pac-12 Conference Championships, which broke the 2009 NCAA record of Florida’s Bradley Ally (1:40.49) and the 2007 American mark set by Lochte (1:40.08). Nolan became the only swimmer in Pac-12 history to sweep the 200 IM in all four years of his collegiate career.
• Proving that record books don’t stand a chance when he’s in the pool, Nolan and his dogged determination during the NCAA Championships smashed every existing record thoroughly, and astonished the swimming world with a 1:39.38 in the 200 IM, becoming the first man ever to swim a sub-1:40 time in the event.
• Because being one of the best swimmers in the world isn’t enough, Nolan left Stanford with a degree in biomechanical engineering and a minor in computer science, three school records, nine Pac-12 titles and nearly two dozen.
Records Reset
• Drew Cosgarea, Thomas Stephens, David Nolan and Tom Kremer clocked in with a school-record 6:14.83 and third-place finish in the 800-yard freestyle relay, a record that stood since 2009.
• Nolan went on to finish second in the 100-yard backstroke with a program-best 44.78 in the finals to better volunteer assistant coach Eugene Godsoe’s benchmark of 44.93 achieved in 2010. Nolan matched Godsoe’s time in the morning session when he touched first in the prelims. Beyond the school record set at the NCAA Championships, Nolan’s individual effort moved him into a tie for seventh on the event’s all-time list.
Second at League Meet
• The Pac-12 Conference Championships came down to the wire, and USC won the 400-yard freestyle relay finale to claim the title over Stanford and the six-team field. Stanford held the lead heading into the final day of action and received a gold finish from Danny Thomson in the 1,650-yard freestyle, but the Trojans scored 287 points in the final session for its first title since 1979. It was the first Pac-12 meet in 36 years won by a school other than Stanford or Cal. USC’s eight-point win over Stanford was the closest in the Pac-12 showdown since the Cardinal beat Cal by the same margin in 1999.
Ogren Owns 400 IM
• Curtis Ogren set a Stanford record in the 400-yard individual medley at the Pac-12 Conference Championships. Ogren went 3:41.23 in the prelims, and took second with an NCAA A-cut 3:41.32 during the evening session. The previous record of 3:42.76 held by Markus Rogan stood since 2002.
How Sweep It Is
• Once again, Kristian Ipsen etched his name into the Stanford record books. The All-American diver was first in all three events at the Pac-12 Conference Championships. Ipsen became the Cardinal’s fourth platform diving champion at the Pac-12 meet and only the second Stanford performer ever to sweep all three events at the showdown, joining that elite company with Matt Frawley (1988).
Ipsen’s Again
• Kristian Ipsen was voted Pac-12 Conference Men’s Diver of the Year, and Patrick Jeffrey was selected by the league as its Men’s Diving Coach of the Year. It was the third straight honor for Ipsen, who went on to pick up two top-three finishes at the NCAA Championships, placing third in the 1- and 3-meter events. A 12-time All-American in diving, Ipsen finished his career at Stanford with three NCAA titles and three runner-up finishes at the national meet.
• Jeffrey, Stanford’s first-year head diving coach, oversaw a Cardinal squad that achieved a second-place finish at the Pac-12 Championships and sixth-place showing at the NCAA Championships. Along with Ipsen’s three titles at Pac-12 Championships, the Cardinal also took second in the 3-meter behind Bradley Christiansen and ninth by Tarek Abdelghany. Christiansen also recorded a fifth-place finish in the 1-meter and an eighth-place finish in the platform, while Abdelghany finished 10th in the 1-meter and 13th in the platform.
Regular Season Reflection
• Stanford went 5-2 in regular-season dual meets with wins over Hawaii, Wisconsin, Pacific, Arizona and Arizona State. The lone setbacks came to USC and Cal.
Stanford Cruises Past Field
• Stanford boat raced the field at the three-day Art Adamson Invitational hosted by Texas A&M, wrapping up the event with 1,523 points for the top billing. The Cardinal, which led wire-to-wire, earned nearly 1,000 more points than LSU (573), which finished second among the seven-team field.
It’s All Academic
• Stanford was named a Scholar All-America Team by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America. The Cardinal ranked 18th nationally with a 3.36 team grade-point average, the best of any team in the Pac-12 Conference. Stanford also boasted the highest GPA of any program that finished in the top-10 of the NCAA Championships. Even more, 15 Cardinal student-athletes were named to the CSCAA’s Scholar All-America team. That accolade was dealt to Bradley Christensen, Christian Brown, David Nolan, Gray Umbach, Jeff Garnier, Liam Egan, Max Williamson, Ryan Arata, Thomas Stephens, Christopher Pickard (honorable mention), Daniel Le (honorable mention), James Yoder (honorable mention), Justin Buck (honorable mention), Sean Duggan (honorable mention) and Tarek Abdelghany (honorable mention).
Best In the Pac-12
• Nineteen student-athletes earned academic recognition from the Pac-12 Conference. Stanford placed seven student-athletes on the first team, the most of any league program. The Cardinal added five second-team performers and seven honorable mention selections. Mechanical engineering major Ryan Arata had a league-best 4.02 grade-point average.
Gaughran to Hall of Fame
• Former Stanford swimming and water polo head coach Jim Gaughran was enshrined into the International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) as an Honor Coach. Gaughran joined five other coaches from the illustrious Stanford program into the Hall of Fame -- Skip Kenney, George Haines, Richard Quick, and the husband and wife team of Ernst and Greta Brandsten. His Stanford men’s swimming team won one NCAA title and compiled a dual-meet record of 129-47-1. He coached 15 NCAA champions with four winning relay teams.