Isabelle Stadden Wins Three Times as Cal Sets Four Pool Records at UC San Diego

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Isabelle Stadden Wins Three Times as Cal Sets Four Pool Records at UC San Diego

Isabelle Stadden led California to setting four pool records in a comfortable 170-92 victory over UC San Diego on Friday night.

Stadden led the way by winning the 200 individual medley in 2:02.32, downing a four-year-old record at Canyonview Aquatic Center. She led off the 400 medley relay, which set a pool record in 3:47.60. Joining here were Jade Neser, Mia Kragh and Eloise Riley.

Rachel Klinker’s time of 1:58.81 in the 200 butterfly downed a pool record, as did the 200 freestyle relay squad of Ella Mazurek, Riley, Emily Gantriis and Emma Davidson in 1:32.47. Klinker trimmed nearly four seconds off the record, owned by Grand Canyon’s Hannah Kastigar since 2015. Runner-up Leah Polonsky (1:59.04) was also well under the old record.

The same held true in the 200 IM, with Polonsky second and Ayla Spitz third. All three were under the old mark, Stadden’s time just .18 better than Polonsky.

Stadden also won the 200 free in 1:50.58. She was second to Gantriis in the 100 free by .03. Gantriis won both of the sprint races by tiny margins – going 23.43 in the 50 to edge Riley by .06 seconds, and 50.95 in the 100 to edge Stadden by .03.

Spitz won the 100 backstroke, in a 1-2 with Jessica Davis. Spitz also won the 500 free, with Klinker second. Anika McEnroe won the 200 back, and Kragh claimed the 100 fly.

UC San Diego set a pair of pool records in their home water. It started with Juli Arzave, who won the 1,000 freestyle in 10:08.32. That trims three seconds off the mark, held since 2020 by UCLA’s Stephanie Su. The senior Arzave holds the Tritons program record in the event (9:53.53) dating to 2019.

Katja Pavicevic took down a long-held pool record in the 100 breast, going 1:02.14. That undercuts Rosanna Delurgio’s record of 1:02.97, which had stood since 2006. Pavicevic also was within seven tenths of her school record, from last spring. (Runner-up Neser and Cal’s Alicia Henry were also under the old mark.) Pavicevic won the 200 breast as well, missing Klara Thormalm’s pool record from 2018 by .05 seconds.

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