While the Big Ten and ACC conferences are squaring off against each other, two of the elite Pac-12 teams will face one of the elite Big 12 teams for dual meets.<\/p>\n
On Friday, the No. 1 Stanford women will host No. 4 Texas for one of the biggest inter-conference showdowns of the season.<\/p>\n
Then on Saturday, Texas will face No. 2 Cal.<\/p>\n
It will be an exciting trip for the Longhorns. Claire Adams<\/strong> could go head-to-head with Stanford freshman Taylor Ruck<\/strong>, then have to face Cal\u2019s Amy Bilquist<\/strong> in the backstroke the next day.<\/p>\n In the butterfly, Texas senior Remedy Rule<\/strong> could face Stanford\u2019s Ella Eastin<\/strong>, then Cal\u2019s Katie<\/strong> McLaughlin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Who knows? The possible head-to-head showdowns are endless with many exciting options for each event.<\/p>\n The Cardinal are coming off of a record-setting performance in their last dual meet at Washington State.<\/p>\n Freshman Zoe Bartel<\/strong>\u00a0won the 100-yard breaststroke with a facility record time of 1:02.46. That broke a seven-year-old record set by USC’s Kasey Carlson in 2011.<\/p>\n Another freshman, Taylor Ruck<\/strong>, captured Stanford’s second pool record of the day. Ruck raced to a finish of 23.04 in the 50 freestyle, which broke the old mark set by Bilquist in 2015.<\/p>\n Junior Erin Voss<\/strong> set the pool standard\u00a0in the 200 backstroke at 1:56.58. That beat out a swim by Cal’s Elizabeth Pelton<\/strong> in 2015 by about a half second.<\/p>\n Cal is also coming off of a record-setting performance at Washington State.<\/p>\n On Saturday, the Golden Bears started things off with a pool mark in the 200-yard medley relay as the foursome of Sophie Krivokapic-Zhou, Ema Rajic, Abbey Weitzeil<\/strong> and Alicia Wilson <\/strong>touched in 1:42.51 to lower the record by 0.01 seconds. Weitzeil also put her name in the record book individually with her time of 49.42 in the 100 free later in the meet.<\/p>\n On Friday, USC hosts Fresno State and Pacific, while Washington State hosts Wyoming.<\/p>\n On Saturday, UCLA will host UC-San Diego and UC-Santa Barbara. On Friday-Sunday, USC will host a diving invitational that UCLA is scheduled to participate in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While the Big Ten and ACC conferences are squaring off against each other, two of the elite Pac-12 teams will face one of the elite Big 12 teams for dual<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3915,"featured_media":300876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[31769,28929,60609,28932,34417,26463,56805,26238,2535,32614],"class_list":["post-336431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-college","tag-abbey-weitzeil","tag-amy-bilquist","tag-cal-swimming","tag-claire-adams","tag-ella-eastin","tag-katie-mclaughlin","tag-pac-12-swimming","tag-remedy-rule","tag-stanford-swimming","tag-taylor-ruck"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n