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It’s easy to always say that the swimmers’ experiences have been vital, but it’s also clear that Durden’s experience in coaching world-class athletes has played a huge part in the team’s success this season and in all the years past.
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Along with Cal defending its Pac-12 Championship title, Seliskar also won Pac-12 Swimmer of the Meet for the second year in a row.
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While the conference may be strong, the Bears haven’t had much trouble with any of their opponents so far this season. Most recently, they handily defeated the Cardinal and before that, the Trojans — the two highest ranked teams behind them.
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All team members seemed to play their parts in Cal’s win over Stanford. Performing well as a team, with everyone stepping up and contributing, is more important than having a few individual talents when it comes to winning NCAAs.
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Durden, an assistant for the United States at the 2016 Olympics, helped lead a group that featured six Cal swimmers who combined for eight gold and 11 total medals in Rio de Janeiro.
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For the fourth straight year, the No. 2 Cal men’s swim and dive team finished as the runner-up at the NCAA Championships, just behind Texas, which claimed its fourth consecutive national title Saturday.
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For three years running, Cal has finished runner-up in collegiate men’s swimming and diving’s biggest stage, where the lights shine the brightest and the crowd roars the loudest.
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The Bears compiled 971 points, more than 200 points ahead of runner-up No. 1 Cardinal, which finished with 769. No. 9 USC finished third with 549.33 points.
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The team to beat at this meet is the two-time defending Pac-12 champion No. 1 Stanford (6-0, 4-0), which climbed to the top of the ladder after edging out No. 2 Cal (5-1, 4-1) to finish its season undefeated.
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Cal (5-1, 4-1) has not been down this late in a meet all year — there was never pressure in the last few events because the Bears had always pulled away from their opponent by then.
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