GREENSBORO, N.C. – The No. 3 California men's swimming & diving team dominated the 200-yard freestyle event Thursday to help extend its overall team lead at the 2025 ACC Championship at the Greensboro Aquatic Center.

Six different Golden Bears scored points in the event, led by a third-place finish by graduate student Lucas Henveaux, who registered the eighth-fastest time in the event ever at Cal (1:32.04). Senior Trent Frandson joined Henveaux in the A-final and placed sixth with a mark of 1:32.80.

Freshman Nans Mazellier qualified for the B-final during preliminaries and then ended up reeling off the seventh-fastest time ever at Cal in the event, winning in a time of 1:32.00. Senior Robin Hanson placed 11^th (1:33.05), senior Jack Alexy was 12^th (1:33.08) and sophomore Keaton Jones won the bonus final to place 17^th (1:32.97).

The Bears scored 110.5 points alone in the 200 free.

Graduate student Dare Rose also reached the podium with a third-place finish in the 100 butterfly (44.55) and fellow graduate student Tyler Kopp won the B-final of the 400 individual medley (3:40.97).

Sophomore Humberto Najera was third in the B-final of the 400 IM (3:41.87).

After three days of the 2025 ACC Championship, Cal has a firm lead with 633.5 points. Stanford is in second place with 565 points while North Carolina is third with 517 points.

Friday is a busy day at the meet with the 200 butterfly, 100 backstroke, 100 breaststroke, platform diving and the 400 medley relay. The Bears have four of the top eight seeds in the 100 backstroke and two of the top 6 in the 100 breaststroke.


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