The Stanford men’s swimming & diving program has released its official 2014-2015 schedule, which includes two meetings with defending NCAA Champions California.
The first of those meetings happens on November 15th, which would appear to be the Triple Distance meet it runs against Cal each year. The unique format meet offers three distances in each event category (50, 100, 200 fly; 100, 200, 400 IM, etc.) with athletes competing against each other to claim a category. The second, and more traditional, Cal dual will close the Cardinal’s regular season on February 21.
Also notable is that the men will be heading to College Station, TX for the Art Adamson Invitational this winter. The Stanford women made the meet their mid-season focus meet last year, but the men elected to stay closer to home and compete at the UNLV Invite instead. The Art Adamson Invite is hosted by Texas A&M and runs from November 20th to November 22nd.
Other than that major trip, the Stanford men hardly travel at all this season. 5 of their 7 regular season duals are at home, not counting their alumni meet, which is also hosted at Stanford. The Cardinal men will also travel to Tuscon to dual Arizona in January and will take on Cal on the road for that final dual meet.
The full schedule is below, or you can check it out on Stanford’s website here.
| Date | Opponent | |
| Sat,
Oct 18
|
Hawai’i | |
| Fri,
Oct 24
|
Alumni Meet | |
| Wed,
Nov 05
|
California | |
| Sat,
Nov 08
|
Wisconsin | |
| Thu,
Nov 20
|
Art Adamson Invitational | |
| Fri,
Nov 21
|
Art Adamson Invitational | |
| Sat,
Nov 22
|
Art Adamson Invitational | |
| Sat,
Jan 10
|
Pacific | |
| Fri,
Jan 23
|
Arizona | |
| Sat,
Feb 07
|
USC | |
| Sat,
Feb 21
|
California |
Texas Invite coincides with Dead Week at Stanford. Not gonna happen.
Another very curious schedule by the Cardinal. Although a good move to trade out their winter invitational from the mediocre UNLV invite to the better Art Adamason Invitational, IMO an even better choice would have been the Texas Invite in early Dec.
I can understand a team like Hawaii early in the schedule but why Pacific one day after the AA Invite?
Also, this will be the 3rd season that Stanford men haven’t swum Utah, after Utah visited Palo Alto in Oct 2011 for their inaugral PAC 12 season. How does the PAC 12 conference allow this, especially when there are so few PAC 12 men’s swim prorgrams to begin with?
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I don’t know of their academic schedule but the first weekend in December isn’t conducive for school…being away the weekend right before finals might not work for every school.
Agree with who knows. Not much of a schedule.
Thanks Jared for the article. Stanford facing tough teams in USC, Arizona and Cal. Then the Texas Invite followed later with the rigorous PAC 12 Championships.
As a Cal fan I wish we could see Michigan, Auburn and/or Texas Florida come on a home and away dual meet basis in Palo Alto and Berkeley. Indiana was here last season, but the way they are recruiting, they would fare better than they did last Spring and make for great dual meets.
Stanford swim programs have always had top notch recruitment classes. With Nolan going into his last year on the “Farm”, we could see an improvement for them in the NCAA’s.
Kind of a boring season…