Sophomore Shooting Star Mia West Clocks 21st PB This Season With 1:53.32 2Fly Against Stanford

Cal vs. Stanford (Women Only)

• January 31, 2026
• Spieker Aquatic Center, Berkeley, California
• Short Course Yards (25 yards), *Suited* Dual Meet
• Results on Meet Mobile: “Stanford vs CAL Women’s Dual Meet”
• Team Scores
  • #2 Stanford def. #6 Cal, 154-145

What’s better than setting one best time during a competition season? Well, how about setting 21 of them? That’s exactly what Cal sophomore Mia West has done this collegiate season.

Since the first dual meet of the season back in October, the Canadian shooting star has clocked lifetime bests during 21 separate races and has lowered her top times in 12 different events.

Over the course of the seven meets that West competed in this season, she posted a new personal best time in almost every single one of her individual races, with the exception of the 50 free at the Triton Invitational, the 100 free at the Minnesota Invite and the 100 fly at the most recent Cal vs. Stanford dual meet, as well as a handful of relay leadoff swims.

West wrapped up the regular season of the 2025-2026 college competition period at the women-only dual meet against Stanford last weekend, posting the latest in this long string of lifetime best performances.

West won the 200 fly in 1:53.32, knocking over half a second off of her previous best time (1:53.94) from the Minnesota Invite in December. Her swim was also fast enough to narrowly edge out Stanford’s Caroline Bricker, the 2025 ACC runner-up in this event, by just .03.

West’s performance in the 200 fly on Saturday bumped her up the national collegiate rankings as well, marking the 12th-fastest time in the NCAA so far this season.

To compare just how far she has come in this event since last season, West’s new best time of 1:53.32 would have been good enough for 5th-place at the 2025 ACC Championships. At last year’s conference championship, she qualified 17th for the ‘C’ final with a personal best time of 1:57.61, only to finish 20th overall.

The 200 fly is hardly the only event in which West has taken dramatic strides over the past few months, with this season turning out to be an incredible breakthrough year for her.

West progressively lowered her best time in the 100 free over the course of the season, culminating in her most recent lifetime best of 47.22 just last weekend against Stanford. Coming into this season, her best time stood at 49.51.

Similarly, West chopped over three seconds off her time in the 200 free, going from 1:45.17 at the 2025 ACC Championships to 1:41.74 at the USC vs. Cal dual meet in January.

The versatile competitor should now have plenty of events to choose from heading into the championship season, as this season also saw West set best times in the 50 free (22.14), 500 free (4:39.75), 100 back (50.78), 100 fly (51.12), 200 IM (1:54.77) and 400 IM (4:04.91).

With just two weeks to go until the 2026 ACC Championships kick off, it will be exciting to see if West can maintain her hot streak during the championship season and continue to turn in top times in her races.