2022-23 Women's Swimming & Diving Roster

Sarah DiMeco

  • Position Free/Fly
  • Height 5-10
  • Class Senior
  • Last School(s) Skyline HS
  • Hometown Sammamish, Wash.
  • Major Media Studies

Biography

California
  • Ranks among Cal's all-time top 10 in the 1000 free (4th, 9:43.60) and 1650 free (4th, 16:06.45) with both times coming in 2021
  • Set the Spieker Aquatics Center pool record with her 1650 time of 16:13.97 in a dual meet vs. UCLA on Jan. 31, 2021
  • Led the Bears in both the 1000 free (9:56.78) and 1650 free (16:16.47) during the 2021-22 season
  • At the 2022 NCAA Championships, finished 48th in the 500 free (4:46.90), 43rd in the 400 IM (4:16.02) and 39th in the 1650 free (16:28.55)
  • Scored for the Bears in three individual events at the 2022 Pac-12 meet, taking 14th in the 500 free (4:47.41), 11th in the 400 IM (4:15.85) and eighth in the 1650 free (16:21.45)
  • Placed among the top 6 in three events at the 2021 Pac-12 Championships, including a runner-up finish in the 1650 free (16:06.45). Also sixth in both the 500 free (PR 4:41.91) and 400 IM (PR 4:12.67)
  • Finished 18th in the 1650 free (16:13.75) at the 2021 NCAA meet, while also taking 32nd in the 500 free (4:46.36) and 40th in the 400 IM (4:17.25)
  • At the 2020 Pac-12 meet, finished fifth in the 1650 free (16:12.89), 15th in the 500 free (4:43.22) and 14th in the 400 IM (4:16.48)
  • Qualified for the 2020 NCAA Championships in the 1650 free
  • Named to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll in 2021 and 2022
High School
  • A multi-time All-American and Scholastic All-American, who entered her freshman year having qualified for the 2020 Olympic Trials in the 800m free
  • A four-time All-State King County selection
  • Helped her high school team to a pair of state titles
  • The 2016 state champion in the 200 free and a two-time winner in the 500 free
  • Swam for the Issaquah Swim Team and was named Swimmer of the Year for 2017-18
 
Personal
  • Media studies major
  • Born Dec. 28, 2001
  • Parents are Tom and Helen DiMeco
  • Mother, Helen, swam at Washington, while her aunt and uncle, Susan and Tyler Mayfield, swam at Stanford
  • Graduated high school with more than 100 hours of community service

Historical Player Information

  • 2019-20Freshman

    Free/Fly
    5'10"
  • 2020-21Sophomore

    Free/Fly
    5'10"
  • 2021-22Junior

    Free/Fly
    5'10"
  • 2022-23Senior

    Free/Fly
    5'10"