It has been more than 47 days since the Cal men’s swimming team last competed. But when the Bears hit the pool at Spieker Aquatics Center this weekend, it will be for their last two home meets of the season. In No. 1 Arizona, the Bears will face their greatest Read More…
The Cal men’s swim team will be over 2,000 miles from Berkeley this weekend, its four-day trip to Georgia as far as any Bear will travel this season. So it makes sense that No. 6 Cal will be making the most out of its trip. Current and former Bear swimmers Read More…
The rain at Spieker Aquatics Center is relentless. As the Cal men’s swim team finishes its practice, the players and coaches stream towards the exit. After over an hour in the pool, the swimmers clearly prefer pool water to rainwater. It’s odd how water from the sky affects these swimmers Read More…
Stanford’s Chad La Tourette is a world-class long-distance swimmer. An NCAA champion in the 1650 free and an All-American in all three years on the Cardinal squad, the senior also finished sixth at last year’s NCAA Championships in the 500 free. At Wednesday’s Triple-Distance Meet between Cal and Stanford, La Read More…
After three events in the 2011-12 season, the Cal men’s swimming team has yet to face true competition from swimmers they don’t see in practice every day. At the Cal Poly “King of the Pool” meet in September, Bear swimmers swept the top 15 spots on the leaderboard. In the Read More…
On the eve of being honored for the accomplishments of last year’s national championship, the Cal men’s swimming team didn’t appear fazed at all. The Bears defeated Pac-12 newcomer Utah, 158-119, on Friday in the first conference dual meet of the season, turning in a variety of solid performances on Read More…
On both sides of Haas Pavilion’s towering main entryway, two identical banners have recently been unfurled. “Cal National Championship Week,” the signs proclaim in bold tri-colored font. Each sign shows 18 pictures — one for each team or individual that won an NCAA title for Cal sports last year. Seven Read More…
If Hawaii presented a test for the Cal men’s swimming team in their first dual meet of the season Thursday, you might say the Bears passed not just with flying colors, but an entire rainbow of them. Cal swimmers — young and old, short-course and long-course —produced the fastest times Read More…
On Oct. 9, 2009, the Cal men’s swimming team opened the season against Hawaii with a 156-139 win. The narrow victory was the closest of the Bears’ five dual meet wins on the year, and Cal would go on to finish No. 2 at the NCAA championships, just missing out Read More…
How does a defending national champion enter the season as an underdog? The 2010-11 Cal men’s swim team capped one of the most spectacular seasons in the program’s history with a national championship, holding off Texas to win the Bears’ first team title since 1980. After finishing second to the Read More…