The No. 5 California women's swimming & diving team is back at Spieker Aquatics Complex on Friday to host No. 3 Stanford in a triple distance meet. The first race is set for 1 p.m. PT.

The meet requires each swimmer to compete in three distances of the same stroke, with individuals racing the 50, 100 and 200-yard iteration of each event. Distance freestylers will race the 200, 500 and 1,000 while individual medley specialists will swim the 100, 200 and 400 versions of the event. There will also be relay events.

The Golden Bears are coming off a solid outing in their tri-meet with No. 3 Stanford and No. 18 ASU where they defeated the Sun Devils 233-107 but fell to the Cardinal 190.5-147.5. Cal won eight total events in the two-day meet, all of which were won by underclassmen.

Meet Information
Friday, Nov. 7
Cal vs. No. 3 Stanford | 1 P.M. PT | Spieker Aquatics Complex | Berkeley, Calif.
Live Stream: ACCNX
Live Results: Meet Mobile
 

Weinstein Named ACC Swimmer Of The Week
Freshman Claire Weinstein earned her first ACC Swimmer of the Week award on Oct. 28 after a phenomenal weekend in Cal's tri-meet with No. 3 Stanford and No. 18 Arizona State. The freshman won two individual races and helped her relay teams to a first-place finish and two second-place finishes.

Weinstein took gold in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:42.52, which was the seventh-fastest time in Cal history and the third-fastest in the country this season. She followed that up by winning the 500-yard freestyle with the fifth-fastest time in the nation this season at 4:39.23. Both marks are NCAA qualifying times. Weinstein added a third NCAA qualifying time by taking fourth in the 100-yard freestyle at 48.33.

Weinstein helped Cal turn in the top time in the nation this year in the 800-yard freestyle as she, Mia West, Teagan O'Dell and Ella Cosgrove won the event with an NCAA qualifying time of 6:55.18. Weinstein's split of 1:42.90 was the fastest on the team.

The Las Vegas native found the podium twice more as she also led her team to a second-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle relay (1:28.36) with the fifth-fastest time in the NCAA this season and in the 400-yard freestyle relay (3:13.08) with the third-fastest time.

Returners
Cal returns a handful of difference-makers this season like sophomore Mary-Ambre Moluh, a 2024 Paris Olympian for Team France, who etched her name into the program's top 10 lists six different times as a freshman last year including the fastest 100 backstroke time in Cal history at 49.68. Her countryman, senior Lilou Ressencourt, also returns after a stellar 2024-25 in which she broke into the program's  top 10 in both the 100 and 200 butterfly. Abby Herscu is in her senior season and leads the breaststroke group after qualifying for the A Final at the 2025 NCAA Championships. She owns the third-best time by a Bear at 2:07.60.

New Faces
In addition to those familiar faces, a strong group of newcomers have joined the roster, including the top recruiting class the sport has ever seen, according to SwimSwam. Cal is bringing in three of the top five and five of the top 20 recruits in the country, headlined by U.S. National Team members Teagan O'Dell and Weinstein, who are ranked second and third, respectively, by SwimSwam. O'Dell comes to Berkeley with times that would already qualify for the NCAA A final in the 200 IM, 200 backstroke and 200 freestyle, and holds the top times in her class in four different events. Weinstein is coming off of a silver-medal finish at the 2024 Paris Olympics as the first leg of the 800 freestyle relay team and has a diverse skill set, being competitive in freestyle races of all distances.

Fifth-ranked recruit Annie Jia joins the Bears with impressive times in the 100 butterfly and 100 freestyle, and 12th-ranked Elle Scott comes as the fastest 100 breaststroker in the class. Ella Cosgrove, who is ranked 18th, shows promise in the 200 and 500 freestyle.

Coming in at No. 5
The Bears began the season with their highest preseason ranking since 2019 at No. 5 in the CSCAA poll.

2024-25 Recap
The Bears had their best season in three years, placing eighth at the 2025 NCAA Championships. Cal accrued 16 All-American certificates at the meet and set a school record in the 200-yard medley relay. Senior Leah Polonsky had a memorable meet with two top-five finishes, and her 38 total points scored was the third most by a Cal women's swimmer at NCAAs in the past 10 years. In its first season competing in the ACC - arguably the top conference in the nation - Cal placed fourth in the team standings of the conference meet and produced five All-ACC performers. Senior Isabelle Stadden closed out a brilliant career with another strong season, including setting Spieker Aquatics Complex records in both the 100 backstroke and 200 backstroke.

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