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…
Winning three national championships in four years is no easy feat. This week, the No. 1 Cal women’s swimming team will attempt to do just that when it heads to Auburn, Ala., for the NCAA Championship. The Bears, who finished the regular season with a heartbreaking loss at Stanford, recently Read More…
For all of its excellent play and mental toughness throughout the regular season, the No. 1 Cal women’s swim team has never been in this kind of situation. The squad lost its first dual meet of the season to rival Stanford and looks to rebound at the Pac-12 Championships beginning Read More…
The last dual meet of a perfect season for the Cal women’s swim team was anything but perfect. The No. 1 Bears (7-1, 7-1 in the Pac-12) lost their first dual meet of the season to the No. 8 Cardinal, 174-126, at the Big Meet Saturday at the Avery Aquatic Read More…
In a season filled with many memories of last year’s NCAA championship-winning Cal women’s swim team, none are stronger than this: a thrilling, 155-145 victory against rival Stanford in the Big Meet to close out the regular season. This time, the No. 1 Bears travel to Palo Alto to take Read More…
For the first time all season, the Cal women’s swimming team was losing. No. 3 USC had just won the first two events of the meet on Friday in Los Angeles when senior Liv Jensen unexpectedly won the 200 yard freestyle. She set a pace that her teammates would follow Read More…
Senior Colleen Fotsch remembers defeating USC at home last year, but amid the great memory is the realization that she has never beaten the Trojans in USC’s home pool. Two years ago, when the meet was away, Fotsch and the Bears lost a closely contested matchup, 153-147. Almost exactly one Read More…
In perhaps its strongest weekend of the year, the Cal women’s swim team shut down No. 5 Arizona and No. 24 Arizona State in its final home meets of the season. It was the last time the eight seniors on the team would compete at the Spieker Aquatics Complex, and they were Read More…