BERKELEY. – The No. 5 California women's swimming & diving team has a solid outing in its triple distance meet against No. 3 Stanford on Friday at Spieker Aquatics Complex in Berkeley.
 
The unique meet required 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 raced the 200, 500 and 1,000 while individual medley specialists swam the 100, 200 and 400 versions of the event. To make things even more unique, the meet ended with mixed relays as the men's and women's rosters teamed up in the 200-yard medley and freestyle.
 
The Golden Bears had great showing in the butterfly events winning all three distances and adding two second-place finishes as well.
 
Junior Lilou Ressencourt got the day started on a high note winning the 200-yard butterfly by a wide margin. She touched the wall at 1:53.24 which was just under four seconds faster than the fastest Cardinal and just 0.13 shy of a new personal record. Freshman Annie Jia (51.23, 23.46) followed with wins in the 100-yard and 50-yard races with Ressencourt (52.06, 23.82) right behind her both times. Both 100-yard times are NCAA qualifiers.
 
Ressencourt's French National Team teammate, sophomore Mary-Ambre Moluh, had a tremendous day in the freestyle events with two wins and a second-place finish. She took gold in the 100-yard and 50-yard races with NCAA-qualifying times of 47.98 and 22.07 and took silver in the 200-yard event at 1:45.56.
 
Sophomore Mia West dazzled in the three different IM iterations taking second-place in each one behind only Olympic champion Torri Huske of Stanford. West clocked the fifth-fastest time in Cal history in the 400-yard race finishing at 4:04.91 and added another NCAA qualifying time in the 200-yard race at 1:55.30. She capped off the day with a swift 52.67 in the 100-yard race, narrowly missing first place by 0.03 seconds.
 
Cal ended the day with its two 'A' relay teams sweeping the two mixed events. Evan Petty (backstroke), Yamato Okadome (breaststroke), Jia (butterfly), and Sydney Griscavage (freestyle) won the 200-yard medley relay with a time of 1:29.24. The 200-yaard freestyle team of Nans Mazellier, Lucca Battaglini, Moluh, and West came in at 1:22.23, which was over a second faster than Stanford's best team.
 
Cal will now look ahead to its final meet of 2025, the Minnesota Invitational, which takes place from Dec. 3-6 in Minneapolis.