Cal senior swimmer Tom Shields (Edison) captured the 200-yard butterfly in 1 minute, 41.23 seconds to help the Golden Bears capture the Pac-12 men’s title at Federal Way, Wash., ending Stanford’s legendary 31-year streak of winning the conference titles.
Cal scored 825 points to outdistance runner-up Stanford at 800. USC took third with 638.5.
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Cal senior swimmer Tom Shields (Edison) won the 100-yard butterfly (44.92 seconds) and the 100 backstroke (46.12) and gave his team the lead for good in the third leg of the 400 medley relay to help the Golden Bears open a 583-520 lead against Stanford at the Pac-12 swim championships in Federal Way, Wash. on Tuesday.
The meet concludes on Wednesday, and it could be a huge victory for the Shields and his teammates.
Stanford has captured 31 consecutive conference titles.
Former Edison swimmer Tom Shields, pictured far left, edged Ryan Lochte for the silver medal in the 100-meter butterfly at the FINA short-course World Championships in Istanbul, Turkey on Thursday.
The Cal senior out-touched Lochte by five one-hundredths of a second to finish in 49.54, about three-quarter of a second behind winner Chad Le Clos of South Africa.
Le Clos tied for the silver behind Michael Phelps in the 100-meter fly at the London Games earlier this year but edged Phelps for gold in the 200 fly final.
A few swim teams in Orange County can take in pride in Shields.
Recent Valencia graduate Katherine Pierce, pictured left at May’s CIF-SS finals, set meet records in the 100-yard breaststroke and 100 individual medley at the Orange County Swim Conference Summer League Championships at El Toro on Tuesday.
Racing for Swim Team of Placentia, the 18-year-old lowered her own records in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1 minute, 6.37 seconds and the 100 IM with a 1:01.44. Both times were set in the 15-18 age-group.
Hank Rivers, an 8-year-old with Long Beach Shore, sliced almost half-a-second off Olympian great Jason Lezak’s 1984 record in the 50-yard freestyle in the 7-8 age-group with a 29.64. Lezak, the former Irvine High standout and four-time Olympian, held the record with a 30.03.
The Ladera Ranch Liquids and Estancia High-based Splash finished first-second in the combined team scores.
Please send swimming news to Dan Albano at dalbano@ocregister.com
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