Cal Women Announce 2025-2026 Schedule, Staying In State For All Dual Meets

Anya Pelshaw
by Anya Pelshaw 7

September 23rd, 2025 ACC, College, News

Cal women’s swimming and diving has announced their 2025-2026 competition schedule. The program will stay out west for all of their dual meets.

The team will open its season in a two day meet at San Diego from October 10-11. The team will then travel to Stanford on Friday, October 24th for a tri-meet featuring Stanford and Arizona State. That Saturday, October 25th, they will host Arizona State and Stanford for the 2nd day of competition. The team’s only meet in November is the Triple Distance meet as they host Stanford Friday, November 7th at 11 am.

Their first trip out of California will be to Minneapolis for the Minnesota Invite from December 3-6. The Minnesota Invite is the most notably midseason meet that takes place after the Thanksgiving holiday.

The 2026 calendar year kicks off with a dual meet at USC on Friday, January 16th. The team will stay in the LA area and travel to UCLA the next day with competition on January 17th. The team’s final dual meet is at home against Stanford on January 30th.

The post season kicks off with the ACC Championships that are being held at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia. The team will host a Last Chance meet from February 27-28th. The Zone E Diving Championships will be held in Arizona at Northern Arizona from March 9-11 before the 2026 NCAA Championships conclude the season in Atlanta from March 18-21st.

The Cal women finished 4th at the 2025 ACC Championships and went on to finish 8th at the 2025 NCAA Championships. The team welcomed the #1 ranked recruiting class for this fall. Highlighting the class is #2 ranked Teagan O’Dell and #3 Claire Weinstein.

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Swimfan27
8 months ago

They said screw the ATLANTIC coast conference lol

Unknown Swammer
8 months ago

4 meets against Stanford?

WaterAce
Reply to  Unknown Swammer
8 months ago

Good ol rivalry between the nerds

Bad Man
Reply to  Unknown Swammer
8 months ago

Gotta get those ACC meets in somehow.

SwimmerTX
Reply to  Unknown Swammer
8 months ago

Technically 5 if you’re including the UCSD meet.

Spieker Pool Lap Swimmer
8 months ago

R.I.P. Cal Poly King/Queen of the Pool

Admin
Reply to  Spieker Pool Lap Swimmer
8 months ago

Ugh. That just hit me. That was such a great way to open the season.

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Anya Pelshaw

Anya has been with SwimSwam since June 2021 as both a writer and social media coordinator. She was in attendance at the 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026 Women's NCAA Championships writing and doing social media for SwimSwam. She also attended 2023 US Summer Nationals as well as the 2024 …

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