University Southern California Trojans
Men's Swimming, Diving Take Third At Pac-10s
March 04, 2000 | Men's Swimming & Diving
March 4, 2000
LOS ANGELES - Led by a pair of titles and school records by junior Ryosuke Imai, the USC men's swimming and diving team, for the second consecutive season, finished third at the Pacific-10 Championships on Saturday (March 4) in Federal Way, Wash.
Stanford won the title with 974 points, followed by California (762) and USC (699.5).
Imai won the 200y breaststroke on Saturday in a school-record winning time of 1:56.58. He won the 100y breaststroke on Friday in 53.83, also a USC record. Imai broke Ray Looze's 1990 mark of 1:57.59 in the 200y breast and broke teammate Slawek Richter's 1999 time of 54.44 in the 100y breast. A year ago as a sophomore, Imai finished seventh and 11th, respectively in those two events. Richter was third in the 100y breast (54.11, under his record time from last year) and seventh in the 200y breast (1:59.39).
Freshman Erik Vendt and sophomore Mark Warkentin finished second (15:07.51) and fourth (15:11.09) respectively in the 1650y free while sophomore Joel Everman was seventh (15:14.50). Junior Leonardo Costa took third in the 200y back (1:44.65) and sophomore Nick Kaschik was fifth in the event in 1:46.15.
Junior Gabe Woodward was fourth in the 100y free in 43.81. He was also fourth last year in the event.
Junior Philippe Demers, the defending Pac-10 champion in the 200y fly, took fourth this year in 1:45.48. Freshman Mike Gausman was fifth (1:46.08) and senior Bret Awbrey was seventh (1:46.89), marking the third straight year he finalled in the event.
The 400y free relay team of Woodward, freshman Jeff Lee, Awbrey and Costa was third in 2:57.25.
Finalists from Friday's action include Vendt (second, 3:48.00), Warkentin (fourth, 3:48.41), Tamas Kerekjarto (sixth, 3:50.11) and Kaschik (eighth, 3:54.59) in the 400y IM, freshman Dave Ringe in the 100y fly (49.58), Lee (fourth, 1:36.40) and Awbrey (sixth, 1:37.05) in the 200y free and Costa in the 100y back (48.15).
Next up for the men are the NCAA Championships on March 23-25 in Minneapolis, Minn.
