Alisa Steel

Behind the hidden curtains of Cal women’s swim and dive, McKeever allegedly turned a competitive atmosphere into a haunting one, changing the tides of many people’s hopeful collegiate swim careers.

Behind the trophies and national titles stands, perhaps, a different narrative for Cal swimmers.

In the final series of the season, the Bears will face off against the Bruins. But this competition begs one question: Does Cal know what it’s up against?

So what is living away from home really like? A trial-and-error process. And I definitely made more errors than anything else.

Just as the Bears caught a clean break in their losing streak, sending San Jose State back into their dugout, No. 14 Arizona State chilled Cal’s hot bats.

The Bears haven't fought hard enough. This pattern has emerged as a trend in Bear territory: against Oregon, Oregon State, Utah and now Miami, the Bears have lost at least two out of three games.

Though there was not a decisive sweep of either team, Cal proved dominant against Stanford in two of the three games.

Bay Area rival Stanford will be traveling to Berkeley with the hopes of putting the Bears back into hibernation.

Since the DeMarini Invitational, Cal has yet to conquer three straight games in a row. Cal has not yet gained the urge to sweep its competition clean with an undefeated series.

In what has been blowouts by the Ducks in years past, the Bears held onto their basic techniques and defeated Oregon once for the first time since 2019.