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…
All in all, the past year has been an exceptionally successful season for Cal athletics. Over the past five weeks, Daily Cal sports have put together a top-10 list of all Cal’s 27 varsity sports based on the performance from last season. No. 10: Men’s gymnastics “The rankings can be 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…
Best Teams: Men’s and Women’s Swim Winning one championship is a big deal. Winning back-to-back championships is an even bigger deal. But when the Cal men’s and women’s swim teams each won their second straight NCAA championships, it cemented Cal’s standing as the best place in sports to be a 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…
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 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…