STANFORD, Calif. - No 3 Stanford women's swimming returns to Berkeley this weekend, squaring off against No. 5 California in a Triple Distance Meet on Friday at the Spieker Aquatics Complex.
A non-team-scoring meet, the Triple Distance Meet splits swimmers into event groups (butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, sprint freestyle, distance freestyle and individual medley) and requires swims at three different distances within the event: 50, 100 and 200 yards in the fly, breast, back and sprint free; 200, 500, 1,000 in the distance free; 100, 200 and 400 in the IM.
Friday's meet will be streamed live on ACC Network Extra, while fans can also follow along with the action on MeetMobile.
LAST TIME OUT » No. 3 Stanford women's swimming & diving rolled to a pair of victories, winning 13 of 19 event titles in a two-day double dual against Arizona State and No. 5 California. Caroline Bricker highlighted the weekend with event titles for Stanford, touching the wall first in the 200 fly (1:52.83) and 400 IM (4:04.30) on Friday, before adding a 200 breast event title with a 2:09.18 swim on Saturday. Torri Huske collected a pair of race wins, highlighted by a personal-best 51.62 in the 100 back to break into the Stanford Top 10 in the event. Huske also added a victory in the 100 fly with a 51.05 mark. Lucy Bell also added a Stanford Top-10 time, beating her previous lifetime best in the 100 breast, touching the wall first with a 58.29 time. Bell remains the program's second-fastest swimmer of all time in the event.
SEASON OPENER IN SAN DIEGO » No. 3 Stanford women’s swimming opened the 2025-26 campaign with a second-place finish at the UCSD Triton Invitational, totaling 898.5 points across the two-day meet. The Cardinal trailed only No. 5 California, which won the meet with 1,202 points, while UC San Diego (619.5), Hawai‘i (517) and UC Santa Barbara (454) rounded out the field. Torri Huske led the way for Stanford with three individual victories, winning the 50 free in 22.06 seconds on Friday before adding titles in the 200 free (1:44.45) and 100 free (48.34) on Saturday.
2024 REVISITED » Stanford finished second at the NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships with 417 points, earning three individual NCAA champions and a relay national title, extending the Cardinal’s 43-year streak as the only program in NCAA history to never finish outside the top ten at a national meet. Lucy Bell (200 breast), Caroline Bricker (400 IM), and Torri Huske (200 IM) each earned individual titles, while the quartet of Bricker, Aurora Roghair, Lillie Nordmann, and Kayla Wilson combined to win the 800 Free crown. Stanford made a strong debut at the ACC Championships in 2025, winning three individual titles and a relay crown in the nation’s most competitive conference.
KEY RETURNERS » The Cardinal head into the 2025-26 campaign with another strong veteran core, returning nine of its 13 All-Americans from a season ago. The group of Lucy Bell, Caroline Bricker, Torri Huske, Gigi Johnson, Anna Lemkin, Natalie Mannion, Lucy Thomas, Emily Thompson, and Kayla Wilson accounted for 29 total NCAA podium finishes, including each of the three individual titles and one-half of Stanford's championship-winning relay.
NEW CARDINAL » Stanford also welcomes seven new student-athletes to The Farm this season, as Alana Berlin, Ellie Cole, Ella Detter, Molly Gray, Ella Jablonski, Annam Olasewere, and Addie Robillard make up the latest Cardinal freshman class. The incoming group ranked second in SwimSwam's final Class of 2025 recruiting rankings, bringing immense national and international experience both in the pool and the diving tower.
A NEW ERA BEGINS » The 2025-26 season begins a new era for the Cardinal women's swimming & diving program, as Chris Lindauer was named the eighth Paul A. Violich Director of Women’s Swimming earlier this summer. Lindauer arrives to The Farm with a proven track record of elevating programs to new heights, coaching 10 individual national champions, 46 women’s NCAA All-Americans and 49 men’s NCAA All-Americans during his 15-year coaching career. He also brings an Olympic-level coaching pedigree, mentoring a pair of gold medalists and 13 Olympic qualifiers, in addition to serving on the USA National Team coaching staff from 2018-20. Joining his coaching staff is 2020 Olympic bronze medalist and former Florida assistant Annie Lazor, along with Marcus Guttman, who made the leap to to the coaching staff after spending two seasons as Director of Operations.