The 2012 AT&T Winter Nationals continued in Austin Friday, and Arizona's sprint relays continued the success they established yesterday.
Women's 200 Medley Relay
Arizona sprinters came out on top again Friday evening when they opened the night with a victory in the 200 medley relay. The team of Lauren Smart, Ellyn Baumgardner, Megan Lafferty, and Margo Geer swam a 1:36.46 to break Cal's meet record set in 2010. USC finished second in a 1:37.41 with a particularly strong middle 100–Kasey Carlson‘s 26.73 and Kendyl Stewart‘s 23.14 were both faster than Arizona's breast and fly legs, but Geer outsplit the Trojan anchor by a full second with a huge 21.43.
Men's 200 Medley Relay
Arizona men pulled off a sweep in this relay, their A and B teams taking first and second. The A team, which also recorded a meet record of 1:24.84, consisted of Mitchell Friedemann, Kevin Cordes, Giles Smith and Nicholas Popov. Friedemann's 21.37 on the leadoff gave Cordes, defending NCAA champion, clean water going into the breaststroke split, and his 23.77 kept them in the lead. But a 23.64 out of B breaststroker Carl Mickelson kept the second relay in the hunt–and ahead of USC's third place team, which finished in a time of 1:26.77, just behind the 1:26.58 from Arizona's B.