It’s official: gold medalist and all-around swimming phenom Missy Franklin committed to Cal on Saturday, Oct. 20. The 17 year-old broke onto the national radar at the 2012 London Olympics this past summer. She won a total of five medals, four of which were gold. She swept the 100 and 200 Read More…
Cal women’s swimming dove right into the Early Bird Invitational at Fresno State this Friday and Saturday, absolutely manhandling the competition by a tremendous margin. The Bears scored 505.5 points in front of the hosts Fresno State, which notched 217 points, and San Jose State, with 80.5 points. “With the 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…
After coming off back to back NCAA titles, the Cal’s women’s swimming team started the season off with a splash after sweeping the top 14 places in the Cal Poly Queen of the Pool meet this weekend in San Luis Obispo, Calif. Freshman Rachel Bootsma was crowned Queen of the Read More…
Cal women’s swimming head coach Teri McKeever aims to lead Cal’s revamped team – with a total of eight new freshmen — to another NCAA championship this year. The first meet of the 2012-2013 season will begin in San Luis Obispo from Sept. 21 to 23 for the Cal Poly 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…
In sports, winning one championship makes a team historic. Having consecutive titles is what turns mere teams into dynasties. With its second NCAA Championship in a row — and its third in four years — the Cal women’s swimming team is on the verge of becoming the next swimming dynasty. This past Read More…
Before 2009, the Cal women’s swimming team had never won a national championship. Four years later, the Bears find themselves holding three of the past four trophies. Cal won its second national championship in a row at the James E. Martin Aquatics Complex on Saturday. After three days of competition Read More…
The Cal women’s swimming and diving team repeated as national champions on Saturday in Auburn, Ala. The Bears finished with 412.5 points at Auburn’s James E. Martin Aquatic Center, well ahead of second-place Georgia (366) and third-place USC (325.5). Stanford and Arizona finished in fourth and fifth, respectively, in the tournament that Read More…
In June 2008, a high school junior stepped up to the diving block by lane two in Omaha, Neb., and dove into the pool. Two and a half minutes later, she looked up at the scoreboard and saw her third-place finish. Caitlin Leverenz raced one of her fastest 200m breaststrokes Read More…
