STANFORD, CALIF. – No. 5 Stanford upset No. 2 Cal 193-104 on Senior Day at Avery Aquatic Center to improve to 7-0 overall and 6-0 in the Pac-12. Stanford won 12-of-16 events against the Golden Bears.
The Cardinal has now won 37 consecutive dual meets, and remains undefeated heading into Pac-12 Championships.
Before the meet began, Stanford honored its five seniors, Megan Byrnes, Katie Drabot, Brooke Stenstrom, Allie Szekely, and Erin Voss.
The Cardinal won the first six events of the day. To start the meet, Stanford's team of Alex Crisera, Allie Raab, Amalie Fackenthal and Lauren Green won the 200-yard medley relay with a time of 1:38.69.
Byrnes (9:35.15), Morgan Tankersley (9:54.15) and Brooke Forde (10:01.32) swept the podium in the 1000-yard freestyle, followed by Lauren Pitzer (1:47.50) claiming first in the 200-yard freestyle by 0.008 seconds, and Crisera (52.70) winning the 100-yard backstroke.
Raab (1:00.67), Grace Zhao (1:02.10), and Zoe Bartel (1:02.18) swept the podium in the 100-yard breaststroke, and Drabot (1:55.79) and Szekely (1:55.99) finished first and second, respectively, in the 200-yard butterfly.
Over in the diving well, Carolina Sculti finished first in both the 3-meter (352.50) and 1-meter (315.15), while Mia Paulsen placed second in the 3-meter (350.18) and third in the 1-meter (297.23).
In the 50-yard freestyle, Anya Goeders finished second with a time of 22.37 and Fackenthal (49.16) claimed second in the 100-yard freestyle. Drabot (53.23) also finished second in the 100-yard butterfly.
The Cardinal took the top spots in the 200-yard backstroke, 200-yard breaststroke and 500-yard freestyle. Voss (1:53.15), Szekely (1:53.84) and Crisera (1:54.24) swept the 200 back, Bartel (2:13.36), Forde (2:13.75) and Zhao (2:14.25) swept the 200 breast, and Pitzer (4:45.37), Katie Glavinovich (4:48.90) and Tankersley (4:49.26) swept the 500 free.
Szekely capped of her Senior Day with a win of her own, finishing first in the 200-yard IM with a time of 1:56.80.
In the last race of the day, Stanford's 200-yard freestyle relay team of Fackenthal, Green, Emma Wheal, and Goeders finished second with a time of 1:29.83, just 0.37 seconds out of first place.
Stanford returns to action when it travels to Seattle for the Pac-12 Championships, February 26-29.
