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…
This weekend, the No. 2 Cal women’s swim team will play its last home meet of the season, which the squad hopes to finish in similar fashion to how it ended last year: with a National Championship. The Bears have not competed in over a month and are immediately thrust Read More…
Caitlin Leverenz broke a school record in the 400-yard Individual Medley with a time of 4:00.59. She broke another in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 59.20. Overall, the Bears saw five NCAA A qualifying times and 19 NCAA B qualifying times. But despite how fast they swam or how Read More…
Coming off of their first invitational win of the fall season, the defending NCAA champion Bears are 3-0 in conference dual meets and possess a perfect record thus far. Perfect records, however, are only determined at the end of the season, and for No. 2 Cal to claim such a Read More…
