Cal Swimming Honors Seniors; Abbey Weitzeil Sprints to Pool Record of 21.7 in the 50 free

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Senior Abbey Weitzeil smashed the pool record in the 50-yard freestyle as the Cal swimming & diving team closed out its home schedule with a 192.5-97.5 women’s victory over Arizona State Saturday at Spieker Aquatics Complex.

Weitzeil hit the wall in 21.73 seconds in the 50 free to lower her own Cal dual-meet and pool mark of 21.92 set last year. The result gave her two pool records in as many days after she covered the 100 free in 47.79 vs. Arizona on Friday.

“To be honest, I’m not really sure what the records were before I swam,” Weitzeil said. “I kind of just go for racing. I have my own personal best times in my head, so having the pool record and to leave my mark like that is pretty cool.”

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In addition to her 50 free, Weitzeil cruised to a convincing win in the 200 free with a time of 1:44.88, while she also anchored both the 200 medley relay and 400 free relay to victories.

Sophomore Isabel Ivey had a big afternoon herself with first-place finishes in the 100 back (53.21), 100 free (50.00) and 100 fly (53.00). Sophomore Ema Rajic also won twice, taking both the 100 breast (1:03.00) and the 200 breast (2:16.71).

Cal’s other individual swimming winner was sophomore Alicia Wilson, who claimed the 400 individual medley with an impressive 4:13.89 for a nearly nine-second gap over runner-up and teammate Sarah Darcel (4:22.37).

For the second day in a row, Briana Thai earned wins in both diving events – 1-meter (250.95) and 3-meter (269.48).

The Bears wrapped up the day when an all-senior squad of Aislinn Light, Keaton Blovad, Maddie Murphy and Weitzeil captured the 400 free relay in 3:20.29. Weitzeil’s 46.98 split brought the foursome back from two seconds down over the final 100 yards.

The meet marked the final home appearance for Cal swimming’s six seniors – Light, Blovad, Murphy and Weitzeil, as well as Alexa Buckley and Courtney Mykkanen.

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