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Top-ranked California travels to Stanford on Saturday for its final dual meet of 2021 during a COVID-impacted, abbreviated season. The Golden Bears will see the Cardinal for the third time in three months as the teams squared off in back-to-back non-scoring competitions in November. Since the turn of the New Year, Cal hosted USC and UCLA in a pair of two-day meets that spanned Jan. 29-31 in Berkeley. Over that weekend, the Bears posted 11 dual-meet and 11 Spieker Aquatics Complex records - and registered one school record when Ema Rajic lowered her own mark to 58.79 in the 100 breast. Isabel Ivey, who set a pair of individual pool and dual-meet records and played a role in four relay marks, was named Pac-12 Swimmer of the Week for her performance.
Breaking records, Cal women’s swim dominates in joint double meet
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They came, they swam, they conquered.
The Cal women’s swim and dive team made up for a shortened season in this past weekend’s joint meet against USC and UCLA, setting a slew of pool records and personal bests. This is not beginner’s luck the Bears are proving that nothing can stop them from going for gold, not even a pandemic.
This past weekend, Cal posted 11 school dual-meet records and 11 pool records. Typically, meets are two hours of racing. In this special joint meet, the Bears raced both USC and UCLA twice. Styled after the Pac-12 championship meet, this arduous weekend opened and closed with the Bears on top.