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…
The Cal women’s swimming team trailed Stanford for the majority of the weekend but came back to fly by the Cardinal and claim the title at the Arena Invitational. The Bears started the third and final day of the meet in Long Beach trailing No. 7 Stanford by 17.5 points but finished the day on top Read More…
While football will fight to bring home the axe this weekend, Cal women’s swimming will battle for the golden goggles. Ok, so those do not actually exist. But the bragging rights at stake when any Bear faces any Stanford team sure do. And the rivalry is even fierier when such Read More…
The meet was billed as Cal women’s swimming vs. Washington State. In reality, it was more of a Cal vs. Cal meet as most races featured Bears battling their teammates for the wins. With Cal swimmers sweeping most races, the Bears routed the Cougars with a 160 to 89 final Read More…
The Cal women’s swimming team took full advantage of two opportunities to defeat Oregon State this weekend. The No. 1 Bears won all 14 events on Friday to sweep the Beavers, 168-85, at the Dixon Recreation Center, their home in Corvallis, Ore. Cal then won 13 of 14 events against Read More…
In its Pac-12 season opener this weekend, the Cal women’s swimming team is slated to take on Oregon State — twice. The No. 1 Bears will swim against the Beavers on Friday in Corvallis, Ore., and again on Saturday on the Nike Campus in Beaverton, Ore. Both are identical dual Read More…
Cal women’s swimming team didn’t win the last event at the 2011 NCAA Championships in Texas last March. But a third place finish in the 400-yard freestyle relay was enough to clinch Cal’s second NCAA title in three years. The Bears collected a school-record 424 points to edge out second-place Georgia Read More…
Fresh off the heels of its second NCAA team title in three years, the Cal women’s swimming team dominated Cal Poly in its first meet of the year in San Luis Obispo, Calif., this weekend. Junior Caitlin Leverenz swam the lowest combined time of 4:45.12 in five 100-yard events on Friday Read More…