Cougar Swimming Heads to Bay Area For Pair of Meets

October 18, 2016 | Swimming

By: Washington State Athletics

Washington State vs. No. 8 Stanford
Thursday, Oct. 20, 2 p.m. | Avery Aquatic Center | Stanford, Calif.

Washington State vs. No. 9 California
Friday, Oct. 21, 4 p.m. | Spieker Aquatics Complex | Berkley, Calif.

THIS WEEK
The Washington State University swim team travels to Stanford, Calif. to face the No. 8 Stanford Cardinal on Thursday, Oct. 20 at 2 p.m. at the Avery Aquatic Center...the Cougars then travel to Berkley, Calif. to face the No. 9 California Golden Bears on Friday, Oct. 21 at 4 p.m. at the Spieker Aquatics Complex.

COVERAGE
Fans can follow the Cougars as they take on Stanford via live stream found at http://pac-12.com/live/stanford-university...live stats for the meet against California can be found at www.calbears.com.

IMPRESSIVE START FOR FRESHMEN
Freshmen Angela Mavrantza and Ryan Falk began their WSU careers in impressive fashion against USC...Mavrantza, a native of Athens, Greece, notched her first career victory by out-touching USC's Kelsey Kafka to claim the top spot in the 100 breast with a time of 1:04.54…Mavrantza added a second-place finish in the 200 breast with a time of 2:21.23…Falk started her WSU career strong with a second-place finish in the 1000 free, clocking a time of 10:24.08, and later added another second-place finish in the 500 free touching in 5:02.37.

LAST TIME IN THE POOL
Washington State opened the season against the defending Pac-12 Champions, No. 6 Southern California, with a 161-96 defeat at Gibb Pool…Jasmine Margetts impressed in the 200 fly, finishing second with a time of 2.03.96, while also touching second in the 200 back at 2:03.52…Margetts finished third in the 200 IM with a 2:08.10, en route to team-high 17 points…junior Hannah Bruggman recorded a second-place finish in the 50 free with a time of 23.94, touching the wall in of Haley Rose Love (24.12)…senior Elise Locke placed third in the 100 fly with a time of 56.95, followed by a third place finish in the 100 free by Bruggman with a time of 52.60…in the 400 free relay, the team of Bruggman, Love, Hailey Johnson and Falk finished the meet third in a tightly contested race that saw USC use a late push to steal a win.

HEAD COACH TOM JAGER TO THE PAC-12 MEN'S ALL-CENTURY TEAM
Washington State University Swimming Head Coach Tom Jager was named to the Pac-12 Men's Swimming Olympic Sports All-Century Team...Jager was inducted for his excellence in freestyle sprints in Pac-12 Swimming at UCLA in 1984-87...he earned five individual NCAA championships and one relay championship...individually, Jager won two NCAA titles in the 100-yard freestyle in the 1983 and 1984, two in the 50-yard freestyle in 1984 and 1985 and one in the 100-yard backstroke in 1985...in 1984, he was named the Pac-10 Swimmer of the Year and later earned two Olympic Gold Medals as a member of relay teams...a panel of 20 coaches, swimmers, administrators and members of the media selected the team consisting of 26 swimmers and six divers, plus a Coach, and Swimmer & Diver of the Century...after college, Jager added two more Olympic Gold medals from relays and a silver medal in the 50-meter freestyle in the 1988 Olympic Games...he closed out his Olympic career in 1992 with a gold medal in the 4x100 freestyle relay and a bronze medal in the 50-meter freestyle.

LAST SEASON
The Cougars finished last year seventh in a tightly contested Pac-12...WSU notched eight dual meet victories last season, including wins over Arizona State, Oregon State, Nebraska and Utah...the Cougars won six-straight dual meets to close out the season for the second-consecutive year...Washington State earned 65 individual wins during the course of the season...WSU broke four school records last season, across four events and recorded 33 WSU top-10 performances.

COMING UP
Washington State will return home to race against UCLA on Saturday, Oct. 29 at 11 a.m. at Gibb Pool.