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Senior Riley Scott enters her final Pac-12 Championships as a two-time winner.
Photo by: Hali Helfgott
No. 15 USC Set For 2019 Pac-12 Championships
February 26, 2019 | Women's Swimming & Diving, Features
Louise Hansson, Riley Scott, Maggie Aroesty all return as defending champions.
The No. 15 USC women's swimming and diving team, with eight top 3 conference finishes in the last nine years, is set for the 2019 Pac-12 Women's Swimming and Diving Championships, Wednesday through Saturday (Feb. 27-March 2), at the Weyerhauser King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way, Wash. Additionally, the Pac-12 will host the men's diving championships concurrently with the women's competition.
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The hotly competitive Pac-12s features six teams in the top 25 including No. 1 Stanford, No. 6 California, No. 10 Arizona, No. 15 USC, No. 18 Arizona State and No. 25 UCLA as well as Oregon State, Washington State and Utah. The Trojans finished their final dual meet season at 7-2 overall, 5-2 in the Pac-12.
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CHAMPIONSHIPS SCHEDULE
Swimming events begin on Wednesday (Feb. 27) with timed finals of the 200y medley and 800y free relays that start at 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday prelims (Feb. 28-March 1) begin at 10:30 a.m. while Saturday's prelims start at 11 a.m. Finals for the final three nights are at 6 p.m. Thursday's schedule features the 500y free, 200y IM, 50y free, and 200y free relay. Friday features the 400y IM, 100y fly, 200y free, 100y breast, 100y back and 400y medley relay. Saturday's finale includes a timed final of the 1650y free, 200y back, 100y free, 200y breast, 200y fly and the 400y free relay.
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Men's 1-meter prelims will start Wednesday (Feb. 21) at 2 p.m. with the final in between the relays Wednesday night. The men's 3-meter prelims are set for 12 p.m. Thursday after prelims to be followed by the women's 1-meter prelims and finals that begin at 1:50 p.m. The men's 3-meter final will begin before the final relay that night. The women's 3-meter prelims will go off Friday at 12:15 p.m. while men's platform prelims and then finals will begin at 3 p.m. Friday. The women's 3-meter final will be held before the final relay Friday night. Women's platform prelims will close Saturday's prelims and the women's platform final will follow the 200y fly final Saturday night.
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BROADCAST INFO
TV coverage of Day 3 of the Pac-12 Championships will air on Friday (March 1) at 6:30 p.m. PT on Pac-12 Los Angeles and Pac-12 Washington. Day 4 coverage is on Saturday (March 2) at 6:30 p.m. PT on Pac-12 Network.
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Links to live results will be available here and at Pac-12.com. Click here for the Pac-12 Record Book.
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USC'S PAC-12 SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIP NOTES
USC won its first-ever Pac-12 title in 2016 with a program-record 1481 points as all 21 swimmers and six divers eligible to score that year did so. USC's previous best Pac-12 finish was second, something it did six times, most recently in 2013 when it scored a then-program best 1418.5 points and lost by 21 to Stanford in the closest finish in conference history. While USC hadn't won a Pac-12 title before 2016, it did win four conference titles during the WCAA era, its last coming in 1985. USC is coming off a fourth-place finish in 2018 after eight straight top 3 finishes … USC has won at least two Pac-12 individual titles (including diving) in 11 straight years and in 17 of the past 18 seasons and has won at least one title in 24 of the past 25 seasons … USC won three individual titles in 2018. Then-sophomore Louise Hansson successfully defended her crown in the 100y fly, breaking her school record (which she earlier equaled with a top-seed prelim swim of 50.39) with a 50.17 to win her second straight Pac-12 title, breaking Janet Hu's Pac-12 meet record (50.38). A year after winning the 200y breast in 2017, then-junior Riley Scott won her first title in the 100y breast in 2018. She won the Trojans' sixth 100y breast title, powering home in 58.81, hitting the wall 0.23 ahead of ASU's Silja Kanasakoski. Then freshman Maggie Aroesty won a title in her first meet, capturing the 200y breast in a PR 2:06.85, passing teammate Scott as well as Stanford's Brooke Forde and ASU's Silja Kansakoski over the final 25 yards. Scott hit the wall second in 2:07.29 for her sixth top two finish in her Pac-12 Championships career. The title was USC's third in the last four years in the event and the eighth overall for the Trojans.
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The Trojans enter this year's meet with the top seed in seven races, including the 800y free relay. Hansson owns the top times in the 200y IM (1:55.49), 100y fly (49.80), 100y back (51.43) and the 200y fly (1:51.52). Riley Scott leads the Pac-12 in both breaststroke events with a 59.99 in the 100 and a 2:08.13 in the 200.
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Troy has five conference relay titles, claiming the 800y free relay in 2003, 2010 and 2016 and taking the 400y medley relay in 2006 and 2009.
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USC's 29 Pac-12 women's diving titles (12 on 1-meter, 12 on 3-meter, five on platform) are second most in conference history (behind only Stanford) and most have come under the direction of 20th-year diving head coach Hongping Li. Senior Madi Witt and juniors Carly Souza and Naomi Gowlett – all conference finalists – lead the strong contingent of women's divers while Caleb Dixon and Brad Dalrymple lead the men. Henry Fusaro, a defending Pac-12 champ, is out for the season with an injury suffered earlier this year.
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FAST TIMES
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Three women's swimmers will further bolster USC's spring efforts, led by junior transfer Courtney Caldwell (although she's battling injuries right now), who was an All-American sprinter at North Carolina state before joining the Trojans. Also competing this semester is Australian sophomore freestyler and butterflyer Jemma Schlicht as well as New Zealand freshman sprinter Laticia Transom, who has been competing in Australia.
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TEAM OUTLOOK
The USC women features an upperclassmen-laden squad with 12 seniors and 10 juniors, led by defending junior NCAA 100y fly champion and Trojan co-captain Louise Hansson. Her co-captain is senior Lily Dubroff.
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Hansson was a three-time All-American as a 2018 sophomore, her season highlighted by capturing USC's first national title in the 100y fly with the second-fastest time ever (49.80) at the 2018 NCAA Championships. She complemented the win with a career-best third in the 200y fly while leading USC's 200y medley relay to seventh.
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Senior Maddie Wright is USC's other returning individual All-American from last season after reaching the 200y fly for the second year in a row. Â Other All-Americans returning include fellow 200y medley relay finalists sophomore Marta Ciesla and senior Riley Scott.
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Additionally, redshirt junior All-Americans Kirsten Vose and Hanni Leach are also back after missing last season due to injuries. Vose was an NCAA individual finalist in the 200y breast and 200y IM as a freshman and a two-time All-American in the 400y free relay while Leach earned All-American honors as part of USC's 2017 200y and 400y medley relays.
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Scott (100y breast) and sophomore Maggie Aroesty (200y breast) return as the defending Pac-12 champions in the breaststroke and both were NCAA B final first-place finishers in each distance as well.
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USC returns four veteran divers, led by three-time NCAA participant senior Madi Witt and multiple Pac-12 finalist junior Naomi Gowlett.
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USC Head Coach Dave Salo, in his 13th year directing the Trojans, also has a host of newcomers who figure to lend immediate dual meet and postseason scoring, including Isa Odgers and Makenna Turner and some mid-year additions.
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The hotly competitive Pac-12s features six teams in the top 25 including No. 1 Stanford, No. 6 California, No. 10 Arizona, No. 15 USC, No. 18 Arizona State and No. 25 UCLA as well as Oregon State, Washington State and Utah. The Trojans finished their final dual meet season at 7-2 overall, 5-2 in the Pac-12.
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CHAMPIONSHIPS SCHEDULE
Swimming events begin on Wednesday (Feb. 27) with timed finals of the 200y medley and 800y free relays that start at 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday prelims (Feb. 28-March 1) begin at 10:30 a.m. while Saturday's prelims start at 11 a.m. Finals for the final three nights are at 6 p.m. Thursday's schedule features the 500y free, 200y IM, 50y free, and 200y free relay. Friday features the 400y IM, 100y fly, 200y free, 100y breast, 100y back and 400y medley relay. Saturday's finale includes a timed final of the 1650y free, 200y back, 100y free, 200y breast, 200y fly and the 400y free relay.
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Men's 1-meter prelims will start Wednesday (Feb. 21) at 2 p.m. with the final in between the relays Wednesday night. The men's 3-meter prelims are set for 12 p.m. Thursday after prelims to be followed by the women's 1-meter prelims and finals that begin at 1:50 p.m. The men's 3-meter final will begin before the final relay that night. The women's 3-meter prelims will go off Friday at 12:15 p.m. while men's platform prelims and then finals will begin at 3 p.m. Friday. The women's 3-meter final will be held before the final relay Friday night. Women's platform prelims will close Saturday's prelims and the women's platform final will follow the 200y fly final Saturday night.
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BROADCAST INFO
TV coverage of Day 3 of the Pac-12 Championships will air on Friday (March 1) at 6:30 p.m. PT on Pac-12 Los Angeles and Pac-12 Washington. Day 4 coverage is on Saturday (March 2) at 6:30 p.m. PT on Pac-12 Network.
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Links to live results will be available here and at Pac-12.com. Click here for the Pac-12 Record Book.
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USC'S PAC-12 SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIP NOTES
USC won its first-ever Pac-12 title in 2016 with a program-record 1481 points as all 21 swimmers and six divers eligible to score that year did so. USC's previous best Pac-12 finish was second, something it did six times, most recently in 2013 when it scored a then-program best 1418.5 points and lost by 21 to Stanford in the closest finish in conference history. While USC hadn't won a Pac-12 title before 2016, it did win four conference titles during the WCAA era, its last coming in 1985. USC is coming off a fourth-place finish in 2018 after eight straight top 3 finishes … USC has won at least two Pac-12 individual titles (including diving) in 11 straight years and in 17 of the past 18 seasons and has won at least one title in 24 of the past 25 seasons … USC won three individual titles in 2018. Then-sophomore Louise Hansson successfully defended her crown in the 100y fly, breaking her school record (which she earlier equaled with a top-seed prelim swim of 50.39) with a 50.17 to win her second straight Pac-12 title, breaking Janet Hu's Pac-12 meet record (50.38). A year after winning the 200y breast in 2017, then-junior Riley Scott won her first title in the 100y breast in 2018. She won the Trojans' sixth 100y breast title, powering home in 58.81, hitting the wall 0.23 ahead of ASU's Silja Kanasakoski. Then freshman Maggie Aroesty won a title in her first meet, capturing the 200y breast in a PR 2:06.85, passing teammate Scott as well as Stanford's Brooke Forde and ASU's Silja Kansakoski over the final 25 yards. Scott hit the wall second in 2:07.29 for her sixth top two finish in her Pac-12 Championships career. The title was USC's third in the last four years in the event and the eighth overall for the Trojans.
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The Trojans enter this year's meet with the top seed in seven races, including the 800y free relay. Hansson owns the top times in the 200y IM (1:55.49), 100y fly (49.80), 100y back (51.43) and the 200y fly (1:51.52). Riley Scott leads the Pac-12 in both breaststroke events with a 59.99 in the 100 and a 2:08.13 in the 200.
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Troy has five conference relay titles, claiming the 800y free relay in 2003, 2010 and 2016 and taking the 400y medley relay in 2006 and 2009.
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USC's 29 Pac-12 women's diving titles (12 on 1-meter, 12 on 3-meter, five on platform) are second most in conference history (behind only Stanford) and most have come under the direction of 20th-year diving head coach Hongping Li. Senior Madi Witt and juniors Carly Souza and Naomi Gowlett – all conference finalists – lead the strong contingent of women's divers while Caleb Dixon and Brad Dalrymple lead the men. Henry Fusaro, a defending Pac-12 champ, is out for the season with an injury suffered earlier this year.
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FAST TIMES
USC's fall semester of swimming netted a slew of NCAA A and B cuts and spots in the nation's top 25 list.
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Junior Louise Hansson leads her squad with an impressive eight times among the NCAA's top 25 fastest times, including the nation's leading times in the 200y fly (1:51.52) and second leading in the 100y fly (49.80, matching her NCAA winning time last season). Both are NCAA A cuts, as is her 1:42.56 in the 200y free. She also has B times in the 50y (22.10) and 100y free (47.88), the 100y (51.43) and 200y back (1:53.10) and the 200y IM (1:55.49).
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Senior Maddie Wright has the USC women's other A cut, a 1:52.48 in the 200y fly, good for third best in the nation. She also owns NCAA B cuts in the 500y free (4:43.90, USC's top time this year) and in the 100y fly (52.37).
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Senior Riley Scott also has four B times in the 200y (1:58.97) and 400y IM (4:12.15) and the 100y (59.55) and 200y breast (2:08.13), the latter two times both among the nation's top 20.
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Many Trojans have posted multiple B times including senior Elizabeth Stinson in the 500y (4:45.55) and 1650y free (16:21.52), junior Kirsten Vose in the 100y free (48.90) and 100y (1:00.33) and 200y breast (2:11.74), junior Tatum Wade in the 100y (48.65) and 200y free (1:44.37), 200y IM (1:56.56) and 200y back (1:57.19), sophomore Maggie Aroesty in the 100y (1:00.31) and 200y breast (2:08.93) and the 200y IM (1:59.09), sophomore Marta Ciesla in the 50y (21.85) and 100y free (47.89), sophomore Caitlin Tycz in the 100y (52.21) and 200y fly (1:54.89), junior Catherine Sanchez in the 100y (52.49) and 200y fly (1:55.57), freshman Isa Odgers in the 100y (1:01.32) and 200y breast (2:11.45) and the 200y IM (1:59.17) and 400y IM (4:15.55) and freshman Makenna Turner in the 100y (53.68) and 200y fly (1:57.38).
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USC's 800y free relay of Hansson, Wade, Vose and Wright own the nation's sixth fastest time (6:56.33), the 400y free relay of Hansson, Wade, Vose and Ciesla is also sixth best in the country (3:11.96) and Troy's 400y medley relay of Hansson, Scott, Tycz and Ciesla is ranked 10th (3:31.15).
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Junior Louise Hansson leads her squad with an impressive eight times among the NCAA's top 25 fastest times, including the nation's leading times in the 200y fly (1:51.52) and second leading in the 100y fly (49.80, matching her NCAA winning time last season). Both are NCAA A cuts, as is her 1:42.56 in the 200y free. She also has B times in the 50y (22.10) and 100y free (47.88), the 100y (51.43) and 200y back (1:53.10) and the 200y IM (1:55.49).
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Senior Maddie Wright has the USC women's other A cut, a 1:52.48 in the 200y fly, good for third best in the nation. She also owns NCAA B cuts in the 500y free (4:43.90, USC's top time this year) and in the 100y fly (52.37).
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Senior Riley Scott also has four B times in the 200y (1:58.97) and 400y IM (4:12.15) and the 100y (59.55) and 200y breast (2:08.13), the latter two times both among the nation's top 20.
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Many Trojans have posted multiple B times including senior Elizabeth Stinson in the 500y (4:45.55) and 1650y free (16:21.52), junior Kirsten Vose in the 100y free (48.90) and 100y (1:00.33) and 200y breast (2:11.74), junior Tatum Wade in the 100y (48.65) and 200y free (1:44.37), 200y IM (1:56.56) and 200y back (1:57.19), sophomore Maggie Aroesty in the 100y (1:00.31) and 200y breast (2:08.93) and the 200y IM (1:59.09), sophomore Marta Ciesla in the 50y (21.85) and 100y free (47.89), sophomore Caitlin Tycz in the 100y (52.21) and 200y fly (1:54.89), junior Catherine Sanchez in the 100y (52.49) and 200y fly (1:55.57), freshman Isa Odgers in the 100y (1:01.32) and 200y breast (2:11.45) and the 200y IM (1:59.17) and 400y IM (4:15.55) and freshman Makenna Turner in the 100y (53.68) and 200y fly (1:57.38).
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USC's 800y free relay of Hansson, Wade, Vose and Wright own the nation's sixth fastest time (6:56.33), the 400y free relay of Hansson, Wade, Vose and Ciesla is also sixth best in the country (3:11.96) and Troy's 400y medley relay of Hansson, Scott, Tycz and Ciesla is ranked 10th (3:31.15).
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The Trojans finished second at the 2018 SMU Classic, posting a combined five individual A heat victories. Louise Hansson swept the 100y (51.84) and 200y (1:53.10) back while Riley Scott took the 100y breast (1:59.55) and 200y IM (1:59.52). Marta Ciesla won the 50y free (22.18).
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The Trojans won three individual races as well as a relay in the 2018 Texas Invitational. Louise Hansson won a pair of races, taking the 100y fly in 49.80, matching her NCAA-title-winning time from last year while capturing the 200y fly in 1:51.52, both NCAA-leading times. Maddie Wright was second behind Hansson in the 200y fly (1:52.48) and fourth in the 100y fly (52.38) … USC went 1-2 in the women's 200y breast as Maggie Aroesty hit the wall first in 2:08.93 with Riley Scott right behind in 2:09.01, Scott (59.99) and Aroesty (1:00.31) went 2-3 in the 100y breast as well … USC's women's 800y free relay of Hansson, Tatum Wade, Kirsten Vose and Wright won in 6:56.33 … Marta Ciesla was second in the 50y (22.03) and 100y free (47.89) … Wade (1:56.77) and Vose (157.91) went 2-3 in the 200y IM. Wade was also third in the 200y free (1:44.37) and seventh in the 100y free (48.65) while Vose was fourth in the 100y breast (1:00.33). Caitlin Tycz (1:55.35) and Catherine Sanchez (1:55.57) went 4-5 in the 200y fly.
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Three women's swimmers will further bolster USC's spring efforts, led by junior transfer Courtney Caldwell (although she's battling injuries right now), who was an All-American sprinter at North Carolina state before joining the Trojans. Also competing this semester is Australian sophomore freestyler and butterflyer Jemma Schlicht as well as New Zealand freshman sprinter Laticia Transom, who has been competing in Australia.
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TEAM OUTLOOK
The USC women features an upperclassmen-laden squad with 12 seniors and 10 juniors, led by defending junior NCAA 100y fly champion and Trojan co-captain Louise Hansson. Her co-captain is senior Lily Dubroff.
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Hansson was a three-time All-American as a 2018 sophomore, her season highlighted by capturing USC's first national title in the 100y fly with the second-fastest time ever (49.80) at the 2018 NCAA Championships. She complemented the win with a career-best third in the 200y fly while leading USC's 200y medley relay to seventh.
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Senior Maddie Wright is USC's other returning individual All-American from last season after reaching the 200y fly for the second year in a row. Â Other All-Americans returning include fellow 200y medley relay finalists sophomore Marta Ciesla and senior Riley Scott.
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Additionally, redshirt junior All-Americans Kirsten Vose and Hanni Leach are also back after missing last season due to injuries. Vose was an NCAA individual finalist in the 200y breast and 200y IM as a freshman and a two-time All-American in the 400y free relay while Leach earned All-American honors as part of USC's 2017 200y and 400y medley relays.
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Scott (100y breast) and sophomore Maggie Aroesty (200y breast) return as the defending Pac-12 champions in the breaststroke and both were NCAA B final first-place finishers in each distance as well.
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USC returns four veteran divers, led by three-time NCAA participant senior Madi Witt and multiple Pac-12 finalist junior Naomi Gowlett.
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USC Head Coach Dave Salo, in his 13th year directing the Trojans, also has a host of newcomers who figure to lend immediate dual meet and postseason scoring, including Isa Odgers and Makenna Turner and some mid-year additions.
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