Destin Lasco, Gabriel Jett Among Winners as Cal and Stanford Men Contest Triple Distance Meet

Gabriel Jett -- Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick

Destin Lasco, Gabriel Jett Among Winners as Cal and Stanford Men Contest Triple Distance Meet

The men’s teams of Bay Area rivals Cal and Stanford met for the first time this season in the annual Triple Distance Meet, where swimmers raced 50, 100 and 200 yards of each stroke event, plus 100, 200 and 400 yards of IM and 200, 500 and 1000 freestyle. The meet is unscored, but a pair of returning standouts for the defending national-champion Bears came out on top.

Destin Lasco, who won the NCAA title in the 200-yard backstroke last year and placed second in the 200 IM, finished on top in the IM category with a combined time of 6:26.89, more than five seconds ahead of Stanford’s Ron Polonsky (6:31.99). The highlight for Lasco was a 1:45.73 in the 200 IM as he won all three medley races. Meanwhile, teammate Gabriel Jett, the U.S. national champion in the 200-meter butterfly, raced backstroke at the meet and won with a combined time of 2:52.18, almost three seconds ahead of the field. Jett was also fastest in all three distances, with times of 46.89 in the 100 back and 1:43.30 in the 200 back.

Also for Cal, Robin Hansson won the 200 free (1:36.37) on his way to the fastest overall time in the 50-100-200 free combo (2:40.56), while Stanford’s Luke Maurer was second in 2:40.83. Cal’s Bjorn Seeliger only had the seventh-fastest combined time, but it was no surprise to see him leading the way in the 50 free (19.76) and 100 free (43.57).

Stanford’s Jonathan Affeld had the top times in the 50 fly (21.87) and 200 fly (1:47.07) as he edged out Cal’s Dare Rose for the overall butterfly title, 2:57.55 to 2:57.87, while the duo of Ethan Deng (3:17.49) and Zhier Fan (3:18.54) led the way in breaststroke for the Cardinal. Stanford’s Preston Forst was the winner in the combined version of the longer freestyle races with an overall time of 15:25.40. Forst was first in the 500 free (4:29.26) and 1000 free (9:17.23).

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