By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
Cal Golden Bears vs. Pacific Tigers (Men Only)
Thursday, January 29, 2026 Spieker Aquatics Center, Berkeley, California Short Course Yards (25 yards), Dual Meet Complete Results Final Score: Cal Men 205 – Pacific Men 54The Cal men celebrated nine seniors on Thursday in their last home dual meet, and penultimate dual meet of the season, with a dominating win over the University of the Pacific.
Cal Seniors Celebrated:
Matthew Chai Colby Hatton Luca Gissendaner Hank Rivers Tommy Roder Joshua Thai Evan Petty Eduardo Moraes (Grad Student) Nathan Wiffen (Grad Student)Most of the class (barring a few transfers) were part of two NCAA title winning teams in 2022 and 2023. They also saw the transition of Cal from Pac-12 to ACC, where last year they won the title in their first season in the new conference.
It was a sign of the transition marked by the graduation of this class that in spite of winning all 14 events at the meet, the only individual win by a graduating swimmer came from Eduardo Moraes, who is a graduate transfer from Michigan.
He came away with wins in the 1000 free (8:54.09). The Brazilian-born swimmer is primarily more of a middle distance competitor, racing in the 200 and 500 free at last year’s NCAA Championships. He does dabble in the 1650 free, though, including at last year’s Big Ten meet, where he finished 21st. He also stretches up to the 800 free at big national meets in Brazil, which is probably the most comparable event to the 1000.
This swim was his first encapsulated 1000 yard free since a January Michigan-Ohio State dual meet last year when he swam 9:18. His previous bests were 9:08.6s, which he achieved both in a tri meet last season for Michigan and en route to his Big Ten Championship Meet performance in the mile.
He has not raced a 1650 yet this season.
That was his only individual swim of the meet, though he swam a leg on a 200 free relay as well. Cal’s Irish distance ace and fellow one-year grad student Nathaniel Wiffen didn’t swim the 1000 free at this meet, instead finishing 3rd in the 200 back in 1:47.67.
The rest of the meet’s wins went to undergrads, including 22-year-old sophomore Zachary Tan. He won all three events that he swam on the day. That included a sweep of the individual breaststroke races, winning the 100 in 52.14 and the 200 in 1:55.07. Those times both approached his lifetime bests (52.07 & 1:54.86) from the Minnesota Invitational in December.
He also swam the breaststroke leg of Cal’s winning 200 medley relay, with Cal building relays to create intra-squad competition.
Freshman Ryan Erisman, fresh off a big performance at the Pro Swim Series stop in Austin, also picked up a pair of individual event wins. First he topped the 200 free in 1:33.28, winning by around three seconds over his Cal classmates Kenneth Barnicle (1:36.21) and Norvy Clontz (1:36.51).
That’s a new lifetime best for him, knocking about six-tenths off his time from the team’s October tri meet with Stanford and Arizona State.
He then came back later in the day to win the 200 backstroke in 1:45.03, a best time by 2.7 seconds in what is a secondary event for him.
In a lopsided meet, the Cal men put up a surprising number of best times. Others included a 45.69 in the 100 yard butterfly from Danish-born freshman Casper Puggaard, followed by a 46.65 from American-born freshman Jack Brown. For Puggaard, that improved his previous best by about half-a-second, and for Brown, that improved his previous best by about a tenth.
Pacific’s men picked up a few best times too from their young core. Sophomore Nate Rasmussen swam a best time of 20.31 in the 50 free to finish in 4th place. That’s the best time by a Pacific swimmer this season and ranks him 7th all-time in program history. He also posted a 43.46 in the 100 free.
The Cal men wrap up their regular season on Friday against arch rivals Stanford at Stanford, before going into a couple of weeks of training ahead of the ACC Championships. Pacific men concluded their regular season with this meet and will compete at the MPSF Championships from February 25-28.
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