As it has done for the last 10 years, Cal will be traveling to San Luis Obispo for the Queen of the Pool competition at Cal Poly. The 2019 version of the event gets underway at 10 a.m. Friday and features each swimmer taking part in 100-yard races in free, fly, back and breast events, plus a 100-yard individual medley. The person with the lowest combined time will be crowned queen. 

Senior Abbey Weitzeil comes in as the defending champion after winning four events last September - the 100 back, 100 breast, 100 free and 100 IM. Only Sarah Darcel, now a junior for the Bears, broke her run with a victory in the 100 fly.

LOOKING BACK AT 2019: Cal earned a national runner-up finish at the NCAA Championships last March in Austin, Texas, as the Golden Bears claimed four event titles and head coach Teri McKeever was named the CSCAA National Coach of the Year. Abbey Weitzeil lowered her own American record in the 50-yard free, winning in 21.02 seconds, and the Bears captured three relay crowns – the 200 and 400 free relays and the 400 medley relay. At the Pac-12 Championships, Cal swept all five relays and won nine of 18 swimming events, including four individual races - Weitzeil in the 50, 100 and 200 free and Amy Bilquist in the 100 back. McKeever was voted Pac-12 Coach of the Year, while Weitzeil earned Pac-12 Swimmer of the Year honors. In the classroom, Cal was named a CSCAA Scholar All-America team for the 18th consecutive semester, and 18 Bears were chosen for the Pac-12 All-Academic team.

DANA VOLLMER INTO CAL HALL OF FAME: Dana Vollmer will become the latest Cal swimmer to earn induction into the Cal Athletic Hall of Fame when she is formally enshrined Friday, Nov. 8. The recently retired star led the Bears to their first NCAA team championship in 2009 when she was named the CSCAA National Swimmer of the Year and the Pac-12 Swimmer of the Year and was the recipient of the Honda Sports Award as the top female collegiate swimmer. She captured individual NCAA titles in the 100 fly (2007), 100 free (2009), 200 free (2009) and was a part of five winning relays over the course of her Cal career. Vollmer is a three-time Olympian (2004, 2012, 2016) who earned seven medals (5 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze), including gold in the 100-meter fly in 2012 and bronze in the 100-meter fly in 2016. She set a world record in the 100 fly at the 2012 Olympics, becoming the first woman to swim in the event in under 56 seconds. Overall, she set a world record six times during her career and owns 35 international medals.