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SCHEDULE CALIFORNIA Cal at Stanford Stanford Overall: 1-0 • Pac-12: 0-0 GOLDEN BEARS Triple Distance Meet CARDINAL Date Wednesday, Nov. 2 DATE OPPONENT TIME/RESULT Time 2 p.m. 10/7 Pacific 172-52 Venue Avery Aquatic Center 10/24 at Pacific Invitational n/a Location Stanford, Calif. 11/2 Triple Dist. at Stanford 2 p.m. 11/17-19 Texas Diving Invitational All Day 12/2-4 at Georgia Fall Invite All Day The Cal men’s swimming team takes a mid-week trip to Stanford to compete in 1/14-15 Cal Invitational All Day the two teams’ annual Triple Distance Meet at Avery Aquatic Center. The Triple 1/20 at Arizona 1 p.m. 1/21 at Arizona State TBA Distance format, which started as a modified practice between the two schools, 2/3 USC TBA features individual swimmers competing in three different distances of one event. 2/18 Stanford TBA In most events, swimmers compete at distances of 50, 100 and 200 yards while 3/1-4 Pac-12 Championships All Day distance freestylers will compete in the 200, 500 and 1,000. The meet will be 3/5 Pac-12 Invitational TBA 3/22-25 NCAA Championships All Day streamed live at GoStanford.com as well as on Twitter. Wednesday’s trip to Stanford will be Cal’s third competition of the fall and first Home meet in BOLD at Spieker Aquatics with a nearly full squad in the pool. The Bears defeated Pacific in their sea- Complex son-opening dual meet and took a smaller group to Stockton to compete in the Pac-12 Championships - Federal Way, Wash. NCAA Championships - Indianapolis, Ind. final day of the Pacific Invitational. Cal will wrap up an incredible 2016 calendar All times listed PT and subject to change year on Dec. 2-4 when it competes at the Georgia Fall Invitational. Stanford got its fall season started at the Pacific Invitational and enjoyed plenty QUICK FACTS of success. Sam Perry (100 free), Maxwell Williamson (200 breast) and True COACHING STAFF Sweetser (500, 1,650 free) each won events for the Cardinal. Head Coach...... David Durden (10th year) Assoc. HC...... Yuri Suguiyama (5th year) BEAR NECESSITIES CAL'S TOP STORYLINES Diving Coach...... Derek Starks (1st year) : UNIVERSITY INFORMATION • LAST TIME OUT • WORLD RECORD HOLDER Name...... California or Cal A small but motivated bunch of Bears took the trip didn’t return to Berkeley with Location...... Berkeley, Calif. to Stockton to compete in the Pacific Invitational just medals, he also brought with him a piece Nickname...... Golden Bears and several came home with wins under their belts. of swimming history. By swimming the leadoff Colors...... Blue (282) & Gold (123) Michael Thomas, Connor Hoppe, Justin Lynch and leg of the 400-meter medley relay in 51.85 Conference...... Pac-12 ‘Aukai Lileikis teamed up to win the 400 medley seconds, he broke ’s world record Chancellor...... Nicholas Dirks relay and the team of Lynch, Pawel Sendyk, Dillon of 51.94 in the 100 backstroke that Peirsol Director of Athletics...... Mike Williams Williams and Hoppe closed the day by winning the set in 2009. Murphy is the seventh Cal men’s 2016 NCAA Finish...... 2nd 200 free relay. Lynch won the 100 fly and took swimmer in history to set a world record and 2015 Pac-12 Finish...... 3rd second in the 200 breast while Thomas continued the first to do it since helped the a strong start to the season by winning the 200 fly United States’ 400-meter freestyle relay team PROGRAM HISTORY and placing second in the 200 IM. Senior Hunter do it at the 2008 Olympics. NCAA Team Championships...... 5 Cobleigh almost earned a win of his own, taking 1979, 1980, 2011, 2012, 2014 second in the 200 breast. NCAA Individual/Relay Champions...... 84 • STAYING CONSISTENT Pac-12 Team Championships...... 4 By finishing second at the 2016 NCAA 1980, 1981, 2013, 2014 • A SUMMER TO REMEMBER Championships, the Bears ensured their Pac-12 Individual/Relay Champions...... 168 What began at U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha carried seventh-straight season in the top two under Pac-12 Swimmers of the Year...... 9 right through the 2016 Rio Olympics as Cal men’s head coach David Durden. Ryan Murphy won swimmers made an unforgettable impact on the both the 100 and 200-yard backstroke for the world’s biggest stage. Cal swimmers brought home third consecutive year and was named the 11 medals as Nathan Adrian (two gold, two bronze), CSCAA co-National Swimmer of the Year along Ryan Murphy (three gold), Anthony Ervin (two with former high school teammates Caeleb gold), Tom Shields (one gold) and Josh Prenot (one Dressel of Florida and Joe Schooling of Texas. silver) combined with Jacob Pebley, Damir Dugonjic Josh Prenot capped a phenomenal college (Slovenia), Long Gutierrez (Mexico) and coaches career with his first NCAA title, outdueling Texas’ David Durden and Yuri Suguiyama (United States) to win the 400 individual medley. to make up one of the most memorable groups of Cal Olympians in history. • 7 STRAIGHT YEARS AMONG NCAA TOP 2 After placing second at the 2016 NCAA 5 NCAA Team Championships • 4 Pac-12 Team Championships • 47 Olympic Medals • 84 NCAA Individual/Relay Champions 2016-17 CALIFORNIA MEN'S Swimming &Diving Stanford Triple Distance Championships, Cal carries a remarkable run of • WELCOME ABOARD success with it into the 2016-17 season. Head Derek Starks joins the Golden Bears this season 2016-17 Awards coach David Durden’s squad has finished first to helm Cal’s diving program. A graduate of the Michael Jensen: CollegeSwimming.com Na- or second in the nation in each of the last seven University of Miami, Starks has coached the past tional Swimmer of the Week (Oct. 12) seasons and has never placed lower than fourth three seasons at UNLV and spent six years as the in his nine seasons as coach. During that run, National and International Team Director with Nick Norman: CollegeSwimming.com Pac-12 the Bears own three NCAA championships (2011, Mission Viejo Nadadores Diving. Named the 2006 Swimmer of the Week (Oct. 12) 2012, 2014) and two Pac-12 titles (2013, 2014). ACC Diver of the Year, Starks led the UNLV men’s diving team to break every school record. David Durden: ASCA National Coach of the • PAC-12 PROWESS Year (2016); Coach of the Meet, 2016 U.S. Even with several top swimmers competing at • NEW FACES Olympic Trials another event, Cal left a major mark on the 2016 Head coach David Durden welcomes 11 new Pac-12 Championships. Then-freshman Andrew swimmers along with freshman diver Connor Pronunciation Guide Seliskar was named Swimmer of the Meet after Callahan in 2016-17. Transfer Matthew Josa joins Kyle Coan Co - aan winning six titles during the meet. The McLean, Va. the Bears after earning Division II NCAA Swimmer Hunter Cobleigh Cob - lee native won individual titles in the 200 IM, 400 IM of the Year honors in 2015 and, after taking 2016 Jonathan Fiepke Fip - key and 200 fly while also helping the Bears win the off to train for Olympic Trials, he posted the fastest Ivan Grigorishin Gree-go-ree-shin 400 free, 800 free and 400 medley relays. Connor prelim time and made the final of the 100 butterfly. Matthew Josa Joe-sah Hoppe (100 breast) and Justin Lynch (100 fly) added And, he isn’t the only impact newcomer to join the ‘Aukai Lileikis Ow-Ky Lil-A-kis individual titles while Kyle Coan, Long Gutierrez and Bears, with Karl Arvidsson, Spencer Farrar, Shane Connor Hoppe Hop-E Trent Williams all contributed to relay victories. Forker, Ivan Grigorishin, Michael Jensen, ‘Aukai Ryan Kao Kay-O Lileikis, Pawel Sendyk, Andy Song, Jack Xie and Jack Xie Zhee • NEW FACILITY A REALITY Ethan Young all adding plenty of talent. The