National champion and record-holder
Frank Applebaum of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges earned Athlete of the Year honors while Chapman University's
Jake Randazzo garnered Diver of the Year recognition at the 2024 SCIAC Men's Swimming & Diving Championship.
Applebaum was the sole three-event individual champion and made the All-Conference team on the maximum four relays. He re-set his own 100-yard Butterfly meet record and broke the oldest SCIAC record on the books in the 200 IM, in addition to winning his trademark event, the 200 Fly, and three relays while finishing runner-up in a fourth. He ranks third nationally in the 200 IM and sixth in the 100 Fly.
Randazzo won the 3-meter diving competition and was runner-up on the 1m board. He totaled scores of 575.85 and 520.85, including a 3m round high of 72.6 points and high dive score of 24.0 that netted another 67.2 points.
Pomona-Pitzer Colleges'
Kyle Huang was named the Newcomer of the Year after winning the 400 IM and finishing runner-up to Applebaum in the 200 Fly. He also contributed on the second-place 400 Medley Relay.
Caltech's
Andrew Pasco was presented with the Character Award in recognition of his impressive academic and athletic achievements. The two-time team captain and 4.0-GPA mechanical engineering major has served as his House President, a BETA Technologies intern, Research Assistant with the Daraio Group and as a 3D Modeler and PoC Development team member. He is also a member of the Caltech Racing as well as the Air and Outer Space club. He holds the program record in the 400 IM and appears on the all-time Top 10 lists in 10 events.
Juliet Suess and the Chapman Panthers were named Coaching Staff of the Year after leading the program to its best-ever finish of third place at the championship meet. An unprecedented 11 All-Conference performances, including four relays and five NCAA 'B' cuts, fueled an improvement from 345 to 507 points. Chapman ended the year having set a combined 38 men's and women's program records, 137 top 10 times and 114 personal records.
Anderson Breazeale joined teammate Applebaum as one of five seven-event All-Conference performers, along with Pomona-Pitzer's
Larry Yu and
Adrian Clement as well as Chapman's
Cole Kershner. The Sagehens'
Isaac Pan also earned All-Conference status in the maximum three individual events.
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Athlete
of the Year |
Diver
of the Year |
Newcomer
of the Year |
Character
Award |
Coaching
Staff of the Year |
| Frank Applebaum |
Jake Randazzo |
Kyle Huang |
Andrew Pasco |
Juliet Suess |
| CMS |
Chapman |
Pomona-Pitzer |
Caltech |
Chapman |
| Men's 50-Yard Freestyle |
| Name |
Time |
Institution |
| 1. Cole Kershner |
20.45 |
Chapman |
| 2. Adrian Clement |
20.51 |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 3. Casey Jacobs |
20.54 |
Pomona-Pitzer |
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| Men's 100-Yard Freestyle |
| Name |
Time |
Institution |
| 1. Tag Curwen |
44.76 |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 2. Adrian Clement |
45.21 |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 3. Cole Kershner |
45.26 |
Chapman |
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| Men's 200-Yard Freestyle |
| Name |
Time |
Institution |
| 1. Tag Curwen |
1:37.65 |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 2. Anderson Breazeale |
1:38.03 |
CMS |
| 3. Adrian Clement |
1:39.09 |
Pomona-Pitzer |
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| Men's 500-Yard Freestyle |
| Name |
Time |
Institution |
| 1. Anderson Breazeale |
4:24.75 |
CMS |
| 2. Lucas Lang |
4:26.29 |
CMS |
| 3. Cole Weiderman |
4:30.17 |
Cal Lutheran |
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| Men's 1650-Yard Freestyle |
| Name |
Time |
Institution |
| 1. Lucas Lang |
15:26.81 |
CMS |
| 2. Cole Weiderman |
15:32.87 |
Cal Lutheran |
| 3. Thomas Langlois |
15:43.50 |
Whittier |
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| Men's 200-Yard IM |
| Name |
Time |
Institution |
| 1. Frank Applebaum |
1:46.38 |
CMS |
| 2. Larry Yu |
1:46.79 |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 3. Isaac Pan |
1:48.96 |
Pomona-Pitzer |
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| Men's 400-Yard IM |
| Name |
Time |
Institution |
| 1. Kyle Huang |
3:55.33 |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 2. Isaac Pan |
3:57.91 |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 3. Henrik Barck |
3:58.45 |
CMS |
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| Men's 100-Yard Butterfly |
| Name |
Time |
Institution |
| 1. Frank Applebaum |
47.55 |
CMS |
| 2. Cole Kershner |
48.88 |
Chapman |
| 3. Marcel Liu |
48.92 |
Caltech |
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| Men's 200-Yard Butterfly |
| Name |
Time |
Institution |
| 1. Frank Applebaum |
1:45.75 |
CMS |
| 2. Kyle Huang |
1:49.39 |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 3. Gordon Kenny |
1:49.62 |
Pomona-Pitzer |
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| Men's 100-Yard Breaststroke |
| Name |
Time |
Institution |
| 1. Evan Deedy |
55.11 |
CMS |
| 2. Ted Hwang |
55.45 |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 3. Lincoln Hall |
55.63 |
Cal Lutheran |
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| Men's 200-Yard Breaststroke |
| Name |
Time |
Institution |
| 1. Larry Yu |
1:59.90 |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 2. Evan Deedy |
2:00.63 |
CMS |
| 3. Isaac Pan |
2:01.12 |
Pomona-Pitzer |
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| Men's 100-Yard Backstroke |
| Name |
Time |
Institution |
| 1. Larry Yu |
49.08 |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 2. Jeremy Tan |
49.95 |
CMS |
| 3. Dylan Krueger |
50.18 |
CMS |
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| Men's 200-Yard Backstroke |
| Name |
Time |
Institution |
| 1. Anderson Breazeale |
1:47.54 |
CMS |
| 2. Henrik Barck |
1:49.30 |
CMS |
| 3. Jeremy Tan |
1:50.11 |
CMS |
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| Men's 200-Yard Medley Relay |
| Name |
Time |
Institution |
| 1. Anderson Breazeale, Evan Deedy, Frank Applebaum, Dylan Krueger |
1:28.94 |
CMS |
| 2. Larry Yu, Jack Hoppe, Casey Jacobs, Adrian Clement |
1:29.23 |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 3. Riley Coleman, Maxim Polovinkin, Trent Calloway, Cole Kershner |
1:30.28 |
Chapman |
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| Men's 400-Yard Medley Relay |
| Name |
Time |
Institution |
| 1. Anderson Breazeale, Evan Deedy, Frank Applebaum, Dylan Krueger |
3:16.28 |
CMS |
| 2. Larry Yu, Jack Hoppe, Kyle Huang, Tag Curwen |
3:18.31 |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 3. Riley Coleman, George Sholton, Cole Kershner, Trent Calloway |
3:21.71 |
Chapman |
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| Men's 200-Yard Freestyle Relay |
| Name |
Time |
Institution |
| 1. Jeremy Tan, Dylan Krueger, Theodore Johnson, Frank Applebaum |
1:20.81 |
CMS |
| 2. Casey Jacobs, Adrian Clement, Ted Hwang, Matteen Harandi |
1:21.34 |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 3. Cole Kershner, Simon Jacobs, Maxim Polovinkin, Riley Coleman |
1:21.46 |
Chapman |
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| Men's 400-Yard Freestyle Relay |
| Name |
Time |
Institution |
| 1. Adrian Clement, Larry Yu, Ian Connor, Tag Curwen |
2:57.52 |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 2. Anderson Breazeale, Dylan Krueger, Spencer Merodio, Frank Applebaum |
3:00.34 |
CMS |
| 3. Simon Jacobs, Riley Coleman, Trent Calloway, Cole Kershner |
3:01.40 |
Chapman |
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| Men's 800-Yard Freestyle Relay |
| Name |
Time |
Institution |
| 1. Tag Curwen, Adrian Clement, Joe Dienstag, Larry Yu |
6:36.41 |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 2. Anderson Breazeale, Thayer Breazeale, Spencer Merodio, Lucas Lang |
6:36.85 |
CMS |
| 3. Zachary Pestrikov, Leo Yang, Simon Hu, Naci Keskin |
6:46.96 |
Caltech |
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| Men's 1-Meter Diving |
| Name |
Score |
Institution |
| 1. Cyrus Gaylord |
529.65 |
CMS |
| 2. Jake Randazzo |
520.85 |
Chapman |
| 3. Reid Omilian |
506.00 |
Chapman |
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| Men's 3-Meter Diving |
| Name |
Score |
Institution |
| 1. Jake Randazzo |
575.85 |
Chapman |
| 2. Reid Omilian |
560.10 |
Chapman |
| 3. Cyrus Gaylord |
518.90 |
CMS |
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