Justin Wright Highlights Final Day of Pac-12 Championships

Saturday, March 4

Federal Way, Wash.

7:30 PM

University of Arizona

Pac-12 Men's Swimming Championships - Finals

COMPLETE RESULTS

Justin Wright Highlights Final Day of Pac-12 Championships

03/04/2017 | Men's Swimming & Diving

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By: Arizona Athletics

FEDERAL WAY, Wash. – Men's swimming and diving closed out the Pac-12 Championships in fifth place with a total score of 360. Stanford took the Pac-12 team title (784) followed by California (767) and USC (657). The Cats tallied 17 NCAA 'B' cuts on day 4, 16 individual and one relay.

Sophomore Justin Wright led the men on the final day with a third-place finish in the 200 fly. Wright won the prelim with a time of 1:41.91, then finished third in the final with 1:41.88. Both were season-best times, the latter only 12-hundredths away from his school record set last year.

In the B final of the 200 fly, junior Nick Thorne was runner-up with 1:44.46 while freshman Brendan Meyer was fourth with 1:44.59. Sophomore Mathias Oh won the C final of the event (1:45.47) followed by junior Riccardo Maestri (1:46.45).

Arizona notched its second-best finish on the day in the 400 free relay. The team of Chatham Dobbs, Jorge Iga, Parks Jones and Thorne took fifth for a season-best time of 2:52.79 and an NCAA 'A' cut.

To start of the finals, freshman Jerad Kaskawal finished eighth in the 1,650 free (5:20.07) followed by junior Chris Wieser (15:21.63).

In the A final of the 200 back, senior Thane Maudslien finished eighth with 1:43.33. Freshman Thomas Anderson was runner-up in the B final (1:43.83) while sophomore Matt Lujan was eighth (1:46.16). In the C final, freshman Steven Medvedev placed second with 1:46.21.

Freshman Iga then finished eighth in the 100 free with 43.42 after posting a season-best 43.08 in the prelims. In the B final, sophomore Jones took fifth with 43.71.

In the B final of the 200 breast, sophomore Matt Salerno notched fifth place with 1:56.70. Senior Gage Crosby won the C final (1:58.29) followed by sophomore Blair Bish (1:58.34). Redshirt freshman Will Wihanto took sixth in the C final with a season-best 2:01.09.

Up Next: Arizona diving travels to Flagstaff for the NCAA Zone E Championships starting on Monday, Mar. 6 and continuing through Wednesday, March 8.

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