The men won three more conference titles, starting with Joe Wertz (Richland, Wash.) in the 200 backstroke, defeating Vicente Andrade of Cal Baptist by just 8/100ths of a second with a school-record time of 1:49.30. James Gilmore (Eugene, Ore.) finished in fifth place with a time of 1:53.14.
Bryson Chiu (Carmel, Ind.) capped off his career with another conference title, this time winning the 200 breaststroke convincingly with a season-best time of 2:01.97. James White (El Cajon, Calif.) picked up a third place finish with a time of 2:07.01, Chris Lynch (Melbourne, Australia) earned a seventh place finish with a time of 2:09.23, and Andrew Miron (Billings, Mont.) finished 14th overall with a time of 2:14.43.
In the 200 butterfly, Garrett Nugent (Valencia, Calif.) and Eric Pedack (Snohomish, Wash.) finished 1-2, with Nugent winning the conference title with a time of 1:51.87, just 6/100ths of a second ahead of Pedack. The men finished off the meet with a second-place finish in the 400 freestyle relay, as Jordan Anderson (Newberg, Ore.), Chris Fulton (Snohomish, Wash.), Jeff Tibbals (Moscow, Idaho), and Murray Longbotham (Mercer Island, Wash.) combined to post a time of 3:01.38, breaking the old school record by a second and a half.
Alexis Morehouse (Vancouver, Wash.) picked up the women's team's lone conference title of the night in the 200 breaststroke, finishing the race in 2:18.53, just 9/100ths of a second off her own school record. Morehouse joined Elizabeth Hanohano (Honolulu, Hawaii), Kelsey Henan (Billings, Mont.), and Hayley Cobb (Irvine, Calif.) for a third place finish in the 400 freestyle relay in 3:30.80, breaking the previous school record by over three seconds.
Marina Pomar-Enders (Mill Creek, Wash.) broke two school records in the same event, the 1650 freestyle. She finished in second place in 17:20.86, cutting over 17 seconds off the previous record in the mile. She also set a new school record for the 1000 freestyle, swimming the first 1000 yards in 10:29.82, which qualifies as a record-setting time by over six seconds. Also in the 1650 freestyle, Casey Hoffman (Burien, Wash.) finished in 14th place with a time of 18:06.40.
In other events, Rachel Leighter (Eugene, Ore.) finished in third place in the 200 backstroke with a time of 2:03.23, a new school record by over four seconds. Hanohano was the team's top finisher in the 100 freestyle, finishing in fifth place in 51.38 seconds, a second and a half lower than the previous school record. Henan also reached the "A" final of that event, placing eighth in 53.82 seconds.
In the women's 200 butterfly, Shelby Remillard (Colorado Springs, Colo.) finished in fourth place with a time of 2:08.12 in the finals after submitting a time of 2:06.98 in the preliminaries. Megan Kelley (Las Vegas, Nev.) also qualified for the top final in that event, finishing in eighth place overall with a time of 2:11.32 in the night session.
Andrew Martinez (Concord, Calif.) finished in eighth place in the men's 1650 freestyle with a time of 16:41.54. In the 100 freestyle, Anderson took second place with a school-record time of 44.95 seconds, followed by Tibbals in fifth place in 46.06 seconds and Fulton in sixth place with a time of 46.19 seconds.
Before scoring 1,362.5 points to finish behind only UC San Diego, the previous best PCSC performance for the men came in 2007, when they totaled 1,101.5 points for a third place finish. The women earned 987.5 points over the past four days, almost 200 points more than the previous best conference performance of 808 points in 2005 that landed the team in seventh place.
The PCSC Championships served as the final collegiate meet in the careers of Chiu, Kaci Dudley (Murrieta, Calif.), Fulton, Ben Guthrie (Berkeley, Calif.), Hanohano, and Miron. As for the rest of the Seattle University swim team, they will return next season as the program continues the transition to full Division I status.