GREENSBORO, N.C. – California graduate student Lucas Henveaux set the school and ACC record in the 500-yard freestyle on Wednesday night, winning the first individual ACC championship in program history and helping the Golden Bears extend their lead in the team standings after the second day of the 2025 ACC Championship.

Henveaux, who set the Spieker Aquatics Complex record in the 500 free earlier this season, is now the fastest man ever to swim the event at Cal after reeling off a blistering 4:08.83 on Wednesday to eclipse the previous program highwater mark of 4:09.49 set by Trenton Julian in 2021. He also surpassed Stanford's Anton Ipsen, who set the previous ACC record in the 500 free with a time of 4:09.13 in 2018.

"We've been training absolutely great up in Berkeley," Henveaux told the ACC Network. "That distance crew is growing and we are training really hard. We have our eyes set on March. I'm really stoked with this result."

Senior Jack Alexy recorded a pair of runner-up finishes Wednesday. He was edged in the 50 freestyle by North Carolina State's Quintin McCarty and finished second with a time of 18.74 and also teamed with Luca Battaglini, Bjorn Seeliger and Destin Lasco to finish as the runner-up in the 200 free relay with a time of 1:15.10 – the seventh-fastest mark ever at Cal in the event.

The Bears had three of the top four finishers in the 500 free, with senior Gabriel Jett taking second in a time of 4:10.27 and graduate student Tyler Kopp cracking Cal's all-time top-10 with a 4:12.46 that is good for seventh in program history.

Cal also amassed points with two A-finalists in the 200 individual medley as Lasco placed sixth at 1:42.80 and freshman Mewen Tomac was eighth at 1:43.29.

Graduate student Bjorn Seeliger finished eighth in the 50 free with a mark of 19.43.

The Bears head into the third day of the ACC Championship in first place in the team standings with 457 points. Stanford stands in second with 402 points. Thursday's schedule includes the 400 individual medley, 100 butterfly and 200 freestyle.


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