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Maya Geringer recorded the second-fastet time ever at Cal in the 1,000-yard freestyle.
Cal Closes Out Regular Season In Dual Meet Against Cardinal
STANFORD – The No. 8 California women’s swimming & diving team posted some of the nation’s top times this season in a 180-119 dual meet loss at No. 3 Stanford that closed out the regular season.
Graduate student Maya Geringer continued to establish herself as one of the program’s top distance freestylers in history in the short time she has been in Berkeley, shaving over seven seconds off her previous best time in the 1,000-yard freestyle for a 9:31.13. That is the second-best mark ever in the event at Cal and the fifth-fastest in the nation this season. Geringer also already has posted the program’s second-best time ever in the 1,650 free earlier this season (15:53.92).
Fellow graduate student Lilou Ressencourt added her name to the Golden Bears’ all-time top-10 list as well with a torrid 1:53.12 in the 200 butterfly – the fifth-best time ever in the event at Cal and eighth in the country this season.
Senior Leah Polonsky also has an impressive performance in the 200 free, touching the wall in 1:42.88 for the ninth-fastest time in the nation this year.
Freshman Mary-Ambre Moluh reeled off a career-best time of 21.57 in the 50 free to remain fifth all-time at Cal and seventh in the country this season in the event.
Fifth-year senior Isabelle Stadden swept the 100 and 200 backstroke events and the Bears’ 200 medley relay team of Stadden (backstroke), Polonsky (breaststroke), senior McKenna Stone (butterfly) and Moluh (freestyle) equaled its top time this season of 1:34.24. That’s the third-fastest mark in the nation this season and fifth all-time at Cal.
Cal now turns its attention to its first-ever ACC Championships, which are slated for Feb. 18-22 in Greensboro, N.C.
