While Cal has been dominant, Stanford will most definitely be swimming its hardest throughout the meet, so the Bears will need to hold strong in the areas they know they will score points.
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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.