The Cal women’s swim team sent a 10-member squad to the Fresno State Bulldog Invitational over the weekend to get some early season racing practice, and coaches were pleased with the results, even though the Bears finished last out of four teams. The No.3 Bears, with 591 points, finished behind Read More…
Last year, Cal women’s swimming entered its season opener fresh off of Missy Franklin’s verbal commitment. Now Franklin is in Berkeley as the Bears look forward to this weekend’s season opener against Oregon State. Read More…
Missile Missy has landed. As Cal women’s swimming enters the fall season, the Bears will welcome four-time Olympic gold medalist Missy Franklin and seven other freshmen to the team. Franklin is fresh off a record- setting performance at the 2013 World Championships in Barcelona. With six gold medals, she set Read More…
18-year-old swimming phenom Missy Franklin is quickly taking over as the face of Team USA after superstar Michael Phelps retired last year. The future Cal women’s swimmer, who burst onto the international swimming scene after posting four gold-medal wins at the 2012 London Olympics, recently garnered the title of most Read More…
At the beginning of the season, the Cal women’s swimming team displayed an incredible amount of potential to defend its national championship title for the third year in a row. Despite losing eight seniors to start the season, such as multiple-NCAA winner Liv Jensen and Olympic silver medalist Sara Isakovic, Read More…
In 1975, 14-year old Mark Tran was forced out from his childhood home in Phnom Penh by the Khmer Rouge. The Khmer Rouge forced him, his mother and four of his nine siblings out of their family home in the Cambodian capital under the false pretense that the Americans were Read More…
After the second day concluded at the NCAA Championship meet on March 22, the Cal women’s swimming team found themselves on the opposite end of a familiar situation. In 2011 and 2012, the Bears held a slim lead over the Bulldogs at the end of the second day and went Read More…
Heading into the NCAA championships at Indianapolis from Thursday to Saturday, Cal women’s swimming is facing an intriguing problem. The Bears have the talent to claim their fourth national championship in five years, but they may suffer from having too many of their stars competing against each other. Cal has Read More…
Though No. 2 Cal finished third in the Pac-12 championships on Saturday, the Bears sent a message that the freshman class will be a threat for many more years. Freshman Elizabeth Pelton led the Bears in the effort to defend their Pac-12 title by setting an American record in the 200 back for the title. Earlier in the competition, Pelton defeated teammate Caitlin Leverenz by two hundredths of a second in the 200 IM. Read More…
After dropping to No. 7 earlier this month, the Cal women’s swimming team is back to a No. 2 ranking in time for the most important stretch of the season. In the last few weeks, the top five has been experiencing some shifts. In Cal’s final dual meet against No. Read More…