Slideshow Liam Egan won a pair of events for Stanford in Friday's Pac-12 meet at Utah. Photo by Hector Garcia-Molina/Stanford Athletics. Paly grad Andrew Liang swam a leg of the 200 medley relay and scored points in other events Friday. Photo by Hector Garcia-Molina/Stanford Athletics. Previous Next

Palo Alto grad Alex Liang was one of several freshmen to win events and the third-ranked Stanford men's swimming and diving team successfully opened it season with a 141.5-95.5 Pac-12 Conference victory at Utah on Friday.

Liang swam to victory in the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 1:51.75, ahead of Benjamin Ho (1:52.23). Brad Zdroik (1:50.89) finished second in the 200-yard butterfly with Liang (1:51.01) finishing third.

"Today was a good challenge for our guys," Cardinal coach Ted Knapp said. "They performed very well under tough circumstances, traveling to 5,000 feet and racing in the same day. Special recognition goes to the four freshman who won events in their first competition."

Andrew Liang helped get the meet off to a good start, swimming a leg of the 200 medley relay that finished 1:30.35. He was joined by Ho, Cole Cogswell and Brennan Pastorek.

Freshmen Johannes Calloni (9:22.54) and Matthew Hirschberger (9:34.47) followed it up with a one-two finish in the 1,000-yard freestyle, and Curtis Ogren (9:34.78) rounded out the podium.