Jacob Soderlund

2025 College Swimming Previews: #2 Cal Men Aiming To Get Back On Top

After being dethroned by ASU in 2024, the Cal Golden Bears are looking to get back on top and win another NCAA title, led by Lasco’s return for a 5th year.

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2024 Men’s Pac-12 Champs Fan Guide: Arizona State Poised to Conclude Pac-12 Era With Title

The Arizona State Sun Devils snapped a Cal 5-year win streak at last year’s Pac-12 Championships, beating the Golden Bears by 78.5 points.

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#1 Arizona State vs. #2 Cal – Dual Meet Live Recap

The matchup between the #1 Arizona State men and #2 Cal men is expected to be one of the fastest dual meets of all-time.

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2023 Minnesota Invitational: Day 4 Finals Live Recap

Lasco is the #3 200 backstroker all-time, having been as fast as 1:35.87 in his career.

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2023 Minnesota Invitational: Day 4 Prelims Live Recap

After a stellar 100 back last night in which she posted a huge personal best, Cal’s Isabelle Stadden could have something great in store in the 200 back today

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2023 Minnesota Invitational – Day 3 Finals Live Recap

Day 3 of the Minnesota Invite will feature finals of the 100 fly, 400 IM, 200 free, 100 breast, 100 back, and 400 medley relay.

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2023 Minnesota Invitational: Day 3 Prelims Live Recap

This morning’s session will feature prelims of the 100 fly, 400 IM, 200 free, 100 breast, and 100 back.

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Maurer Sweeps Distance Free Events As Stanford Wins 10 Events vs Cal; Lasco Sweeps IMs

Rex Maurer won the triple distance of the 200, 500, and 1000 freestyles. Although the meet was unscored, Stanford won 10 events (Cal won 9).

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2024 College Swimming Previews: #1 Cal Men Battling Losses In Bid For Three-Peat

This won’t come as a surprise, but Cal’s outlook for the 2023-2024 season is very good.

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Stadden, Lasco Repeat as Queen & King of the Pool in Cal’s Pentathlon at Cal Poly

Stadden won the 100 butterfly (53.99), 100 back (52.81), 100 free (50.65) and 100 IM (56.47) to finish with a total time of 4:38.61 across five events.

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Watch: Leon Marchand Blazes 1:47.67 200 Breast For New NCAA and U.S Open Records

Leon Marchand set his second NCAA record in two days with a blistering 1:47.67 in the 200 breast to take down Will Licon’s record from 2017.

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2023 Men’s Pac-12 Swimming & Diving Championships: Day 4 Prelims Live Recap

Day 4 is typically Cal’s best day of a championship meet: they’ll need to be firing on all cylinders if they have a hope of catching ASU in the team race.

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2023 Men’s PAC-12 Swimming and Diving Championships: Day 3 Finals Live Recap

After he set the NCAA record at a January dual, all eyes will be on Leon Marchand in the 400 IM during Day 3 of finals at the 2023 Men’s PAC-12 Champs.

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2023 Men’s Pac-12 Swimming and Diving Championships: Day 3 Prelims Live Recap

This morning, we’ll see preliminary heats of the 400 IM, 100 fly, 200 free, 100 breast, and 100 back.

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Gabriel Jett Rips 21.9/46.8/1:43 Backstroke PBs At Cal-Stanford Tri-Distance Meet

In #1 Cal’s victory against #7 Stanford at the triple-distance meet, Gabriel Jett experimented with a discipline that he doesn’t typically race and set PBs.

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