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MEN'S Swimming & Diving Assistant Athletic Director, Communications (Men’s Swimming & Diving contact): Ben Enos Phone: (510) 643-1741 • Email: [email protected] WEBSITE: CALBEARS.COM • FACEBOOK: FACEBOOK.COM/CALMENSSWIMMINGANDDIVING • TWITTER: @CALATHLETICS SCHEDULE CALIFORNIA Cal vs. Pacific Pacific Overall: 0-0 • Pac-12: 0-0 GOLDEN BEARS Date Friday, Oct. 7 TIGERS Time 1 p.m. DATE OPPONENT TIME/RESULT Venue Spieker Aquatics 10/7 Pacific TBA Complex 10/23-24 at Pacific Invitational 7 p.m. Location Berkeley, Calif. 10/24 at Pacific Invitational 10 a.m. 11/2 Triple Dist. at Stanford 2 p.m. 11/17-19 Texas Diving Invitational All Day The Cal men’s swimming and diving team kicks off its 2016-17 season with 12/2-4 at Georgia Fall Invite All Day the first dual of the fall when Pacific visits Spieker Aquatics Complex on Friday 1/14-15 Cal Invitational All Day 1/20 at Arizona 1 p.m. afternoon. 1/21 at Arizona State TBA After an incredible summer that saw Cal swimming leave an unforgettable mark 2/3 USC TBA on the 2016 Rio Olympics, the Bears return a pair of swimmers that participated 2/18 Stanford TBA in the Summer Games. Senior Ryan Murphy, who won three gold medals and set 3/1-4 Pac-12 Championships All Day 3/5 Pac-12 Invitational TBA a world record in the 100-meter backstroke, returns for the Bears as does Long 3/22-25 NCAA Chamnpionships All Day Gutierrez, who competed for Mexico. Both are part of a five-man senior class that includes Hunter Cobleigh, Jonathan Fiepke and Dillon Williams this season. Home meet in BOLD at Spieker Aquatics The Bears also return a wealth of talent that made an impact in the postseason Complex Pac-12 Championships - Federal Way, Wash. in 2016. Pac-12 Newcomer/Freshman of the Year Andrew Seliskar is back for his NCAA Championships - Indianapolis, Ind. sophomore season, as are Pac-12 individual champions Justin Lynch and Connor All times listed PT and subject to change Hoppe. Pacific also opens its 2016-17 season Friday and the Tigers are in their fifth QUICK FACTS season under head coach Peter Richardson. COACHING STAFF Head Coach ............David Durden (10th year) BEAR NECESSITIES CAL'S TOP STORYLINES Assoc. HC ..................Yuri Suguiyama (5th year) : Diving Coach .............. Derek Starks (1st year) • A SUMMER TO REMEMBER straight season in the top two under head coach David Durden. Ryan Murphy won both UNIVERSITY INFORMATION What began at U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha carried the 100 and 200-yard backstroke for the third Name ..................................... California or Cal right through the 2016 Rio Olympics as Cal men’s consecutive year and was named the CSCAA co- Location .................................. Berkeley, Calif. swimmers made an unforgettable impact on the National Swimmer of the Year along with former Nickname .................................. Golden Bears world’s biggest stage. Cal swimmers brought home high school teammates Caeleb Dressel of Colors ...................... Blue (282) & Gold (123) 11 medals as Nathan Adrian (two gold, two bronze), Florida and Joe Schooling of Texas. Josh Prenot Conference ........................................... Pac-12 Ryan Murphy (three gold), Anthony Ervin (two capped a phenomenal college career with his Chancellor ................................Nicholas Dirks gold), Tom Shields (one gold) and Josh Prenot (one first NCAA title, outdueling Texas’ Will Licon to Director of Athletics ...................Mike Williams silver) combined with Jacob Pebley, Damir Dugonjic win the 400 individual medley. 2016 NCAA Finish ...................................... 2nd (Slovenia), Long Gutierrez (Mexico) and coaches 2015 Pac-12 Finish ..................................... 3rd David Durden and Yuri Suguiyama (United States) to make up one of the most memorable groups of • 7 STRAIGHT YEARS AMONG NCAA TOP 2 PROGRAM HISTORY Cal Olympians in history. After placing second at the 2016 NCAA NCAA Team Championships .............................5 Championships, Cal carries a remarkable run 1979, 1980, 2011, 2012, 2014 of success with it into the 2016-17 season. NCAA Individual/Relay Champions ............... 84 • WORLD RECORD HOLDER Head coach David Durden’s squad has finished Pac-12 Team Championships ...........................4 Ryan Murphy didn’t return to Berkeley with just first or second in the nation in each of the last 1980, 1981, 2013, 2014 medals, he also brought with him a piece of seven seasons and has never placed lower than Pac-12 Individual/Relay Champions ........... 168 swimming history. By swimming the leadoff leg of fourth in his nine seasons as coach. During that Pac-12 Swimmers of the Year ..........................9 the 400-meter medley relay in 51.85 seconds, he broke Aaron Peirsol’s world record of 51.94 in the run, the Bears own three NCAA championships 100 backstroke that Peirsol set in 2009. Murphy (2011, 2012, 2014) and two Pac-12 titles is the seventh Cal men’s swimmer in history to set (2013, 2014). a world record and the first to do it since Nathan Adrian helped the United States’ 400-meter • PAC-12 PROWESS freestyle relay team do it at the 2008 Olympics. Even with several top swimmers competing at another event, Cal left a major mark on the • STAYING CONSISTENT 2016 Pac-12 Championships. Then-freshman By finishing second at the 2016 NCAA Andrew Seliskar was named Swimmer of the Championships, the Bears ensured their seventh- Meet after winning six titles during the meet. 5 NCAA Team Championships • 4 Pac-12 Team Championships • 47 Olympic Medals • 84 NCAA Individual/Relay Champions 2016-17 CALIFORNIA MEN'S Swimming &Diving Cal vs. Pacific The McLean, Va. native won individual titles in the • NEW FACES 200 IM, 400 IM and 200 fly while also helping the Head coach David Durden welcomes 11 new Cal-Pacific order of Events Bears win the 400 free, 800 free and 400 medley swimmers along with freshman diver Connor relays. Connor Hoppe (100 breast) and Justin Lynch Callahan in 2016-17. Transfer Matthew Josa joins 200-yard medley relay (100 fly) added individual championships while the Bears after earning Division II NCAA Swimmer 1000-yard freestyle Kyle Coan, Long Gutierrez and Trent Williams all of the Year honors in 2015 and, after taking 2016 200-yard freestyle contributed to relay victories. off to train for Olympic Trials, he posted the fastest 100-yard backstroke prelim time and made the final of the 100 butterfly. 100-yard breaststroke • NEW FACILITY ON THE WAY And, he isn’t the only impact newcomer to join 200-yard butterfly In June of 2015, Cal broke ground on the new the Bears, with Karl Arvidsson, Spencer Farrar, 50-yard freestyle California Aquatic Center that will sit at the corner Shane Forker, Ivan Grigorishin, Michael Jensen, 15-minute break of Bancroft Way and Fulton Street in Berkeley. The ‘Aukai Lileikis, Pawel Sendyk, Andy Song, Jack Xie 100-yard freestyle 52-meter training pool will include a bulkhead, and Ethan Young all adding plenty of talent to an 200-yard backstroke diving tower, locker rooms and team room. It will already-deep squad. 200-yard breaststroke serve as a practice facility for Cal’s men’s and 500-yard freestyle women’s swimming teams as well as it’s men’s and 100-yard butterfly women’s water polo teams. All four of Cal’s aquatics 10-minute break programs have shared Spieker Aquatics Complex 200-yard individual medley since 1996, when the unviersity added women’s 400-yard free relay water polo as an intercollegiate sport. The project, SCORING which was 100 percent funded by private donors, is Individual events: 9, 4, 3, 2, 1 (maximum 3 scheduled to be completed in the fall of 2016. scorers per team) • WELCOME ABOARD Relays: 11, 4, 2 (maximum 2 scorers per Derek Starks joins the Golden Bears this season team) to helm Cal’s diving program. A graduate of the University of Miami, Starks has coached the past Pronunciation Guide three seasons at UNLV and spent six years as the Kyle Coan Co - aan National and International Team Director with Hunter Cobleigh Cob - lee Mission Viejo Nadadores Diving. Named the 2006 Jonathan Fiepke Fip - key ACC Diver of the Year, Starks led the UNLV men’s Ivan Grigorishin Gree-go-ree-shin diving team to break every school record. Matthew Josa Joe-sa ‘Aukai Lileikis Ow-Ky Lil-A-kis Roster Connor Hoppe Hop-E Ryan Kao Kay-O Name Event(s) Yr. Ht. Wt. Hometown (High School/Last School) Jack Xie Zhee Karl Arvidsson Breast/IM Fr. 6-1 180 Woodside, Calif. (Woodside) Connor Callahan Diving Fr. 5-6 163 Cary, N.C. (Panther Creek) Kyle Coan Free/Fly So. 5-11 165 Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. (Los Osos) Hunter Cobleigh Breast Jr. 6-2 180 Thousand Oaks, Calif. (Westlake) Spencer Farrar Free So. 6-3 185 Malibu, Calif. (UCLA) Jonathan Fiepke Free Jr. 6-5 210 West Des Moines, Iowa (Dowling Catholic) Shane Forker Free Fr. 6-2 170 Laguna Niguel, Calif. (Dana Hills) Connor Green Back/IM So. 6-2 180 Sciuate, Mass. (Boston College HS) Ivan Grigorishin Free/Fly Fr. 5-10 170 Zaporozhye, Ukraine (Moscow No. 57) Long Gutierrez Free/Fly Jr. 6-1 190 Cottonwod, Utah (Brighton) Connor Hoppe Breast So. 6-6 220 Merced, Calif. (Golden Valley) Michael Jensen Free/Fly Fr. 6-3 205 Upper Dublin, Pa. (Upper Dublin) Matthew Josa Fly/Free/Back/IM Jr. 6-4 200 Charlotte, N.C. (Queens University) Ryan Kao Free So. 6-1 185 La Palma, Calif. (Kennedy) ‘Aukai Lileikis Free/IM Fr. 6-3 206 Maunalua, Hawai’i (Punahou School) Justin Lynch Free/Fly So. 6-1 175 Vallejo, Calif. (Visions in Education) Ryan Murphy Back/Free/IM Jr. 6-3 200 Ponte Vedra, Fla. (The Bolles School) Nick Norman Free Fr. 6-2 176 San Juan Capistrano, Calif.