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2022-23 Men's Swimming & Diving Roster
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Preston Niayesh
- Events:
- Breast
- Height/Weight:
- 6-0 / 160
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Visalia, Calif.
- High School:
- El Diamante HS
- Major:
- Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Accolades
At Cal
2021-22 (Jr.)
High School / Club
Personal
- NCAA team championship (2022)
- Pac-12 team championship (2020, 2021, 2022)
- Golden Bear Achievement Award (2021)
- 2x Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll (2021, 2022)
At Cal
2021-22 (Jr.)
- Junior member of Cal's 2022 NCAA & Pac-12 championship team
- Swam season-best times in 100 breast (56.24) at #6 Stanford (Feb. 19) & 200 breast (2:05.51) at UC San Diego (Feb. 4)
- Swam season-best times of 57.46 (100 breast) & 2:07.83 (200 breast)
- Recipient of the Golden Bear Achievement Award for maintaining the team's highest GPA for the 2020-21 season
- Earned a spot on the 2021 Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll
- Swam Cal's eighth-fastest 100 breast & 200 breast times at the Pac-12 Championships
- Season-best 100 breast of 55.99
- Season-best 200 breast of 2:03.73
High School / Club
- Graduated from El Diamante High School (Visalia, Calif.) as the 2019 class' Valedictorian
- CIF Central Section record holder (2017-present)
- 18th-place finish in 100 breast at 2018 CIF State Championships
- Played one year of basketball for El Diamante
- Four-year Jazz Band lead guitarist
Personal
- Born on Nov. 5, 2000 in San Francisco, Calif.
- Son of Mitch & Noell Niayesh
- Has two siblings, Athena & Priscilla
- Postgraduate career goals include starting his own tech firm & obtaining a Ph.D in Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning
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