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…
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…
With limited meets in the fall, the Cal men’s swim team’s first home meet of the year will be invaluable to determine player progression and lineups. On Wednesday at 1 p.m., the Bears will host their first dual meet of the year against Pacific at Spieker Aquatics Complex. Rather than Read More…
Men’s swimming The women’s swimming team might have a couple of stars, but the men’s swimming team has a more balanced team from top to bottom. The national champions have revamped with the No. 2 recruiting class in the nation. Tom Shields is the unanimous leader on this team full Read More…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Cal men’s swimming and diving team won its second consecutive NCAA championship on Saturday. The Bears clinched the team title after teammates Will Hamilton and Tom Shields finished 1-2 in the 200 fly on Saturday. Cal outlasted second-place Texas, 535.5-491. The Bears won six events and scored points in each Read More…