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Bears face toughest preseason foe in Wisconsin

The Cal men’s swimming team will use Saturday’s duel with Wisconsin, a top-25 team in last year’s final poll, as a tune-up for the fast approaching Pac-12 season. The Badgers are Cal’s most formidable opponents so far this fall season. As the competitive swimming season kicks off Nov. 30, Cal Read More…

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Freshmen shine over upperclassmen in midweek meet

Coming into the last turn of the 200 breast race, Cal freshman Josh Prenot was behind senior teammate Trevor Hoyt by only an arm’s length. With a powerful push off the wall followed by long dolphin dives underwater, Prenot overtook Hoyt in the last 25 yards and won his first Read More…

Tarczynski edges teammate Hamilton to win invitational

For the first four races in this weekend’s Cal Poly invite,  teammates Marcin Tarczynski and Will Hamilton matched each other stroke for stroke. Separated by only half a second heading into the last event, Cal men’s swimming team’s Tarczynski prevailed over sophomore Hamilton in the individual medley. Tarczynksi was crowned Read More…

Cal start fall season with eight new players

The Cal men’s swimming team’s biggest competition this weekend will be itself. Due to Cal’s stacked talent, the swimmers will largely compete against each another in the first invite meet this season against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo on Sept. 21 to 22. The event will be hosted at Anderson Read More…

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Young Bears aim high for NCAA threepeat

Twelve freshmen in, eight seniors out, and all eyes on Cal men’s swimming team are back on another championship. But it’s a long way in between springs. Cal enters the fall season off one of the program’s most illustrious years. Beginning in March, the Bears seized their second consecutive NCAA Read More…

Tom Shields of the NCAA champion Cal mens swim team (left) was named Pac-12 Swimmer of the Year, as was Caitlin Leverenz (left), who led the womens team to an NCAA title as well.

Pool monopoly: Cal swimming sweeps medals in London

If Cal was a nation, it would have placed third in this summer’s Olympic swimming medal count. The pool is definitely Bear territory. The London 2012 Summer Olympics brought together more than 10,000 athletes competing in 302 events across a little over two weeks. Cal athletes represented 18 separate nations, from China to Brazil to Iceland. Read More…

The Cal mens swim team clinched its second consecutive NCAA title –  and its fourth in school history – on March 24.

Back to back

After its starting lineup was gutted last year, the Cal men's swim team entered the 2011-2012 season as the national underdog. But the Bears stole their second consecutive NCAA title.

On a bright Berkeley afternoon in late September, coach David Durden started preparing the Cal men’s swim team for the unfamiliar role of the underdog. Six months had passed since the team’s biggest win in 31 years. One of the most talented classes in college swimming history had gone, leaving Read More…