Season Opener in San Diego – Stanford Cardinal

STANFORD, Calif. – The No. 3 Stanford ladies’s swimmers kick off the 2025-26 marketing campaign in San Diego, hitting the pool for the Triton Invitational on Oct. 10-11 on the Canyonview Aquatic Center. 

Hosted by UC San Diego, the two-day meet options 5 ladies’s packages, together with No. 5 California, Hawai‘i and UC Santa Barbara.

The meet will likely be cut up into three periods, as followers can comply with alongside stay on MeetMobile. The session schedule is as follows:
 
Session 1 Schedule (Friday, 2 p.m)
200 Medley Relay
500 Free
100 Back
200 IM
50 Free
200 Fly
 
Session 2 Schedule (Saturday, 10 a.m.)
400 IM
100 Fly
200 Free
100 Breast
200 Back
 
Session 3 Schedule (Saturday, 1 p.m)
1650 Free
100 Free
200 Breast
200 Free Relay

2024 REVISITED » Stanford completed second on the NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships with 417 factors, incomes three particular person NCAA champions and a relay nationwide title, extending the Cardinal’s 43-year streak as the one program in NCAA historical past to by no means end outdoors the highest ten at a nationwide meet. Lucy Bell (200 breast), Caroline Bricker (400 IM), and Torri Huske (200 IM) every earned particular person titles, whereas the quartet of Bricker, Aurora Roghair, Lillie Nordmann, and Kayla Wilson mixed to win the 800 Free crown. Stanford made a robust debut on the ACC Championships in 2025, successful three particular person titles and a relay crown within the nation’s best convention.

KEY RETURNERS » The Cardinal head into the 2025-26 marketing campaign with one other robust veteran core, returning 9 of its 13 All-Americans from a season in the past. 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 whole NCAA podium finishes, together with every of the three particular person titles and one-half of Stanford’s championship-winning relay.

NEW CARDINAL » Stanford additionally 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 newest Cardinal freshman class. The incoming group ranked second in SwimSwam’s ultimate Class of 2025 recruiting rankings, bringing immense nationwide and worldwide expertise each within the pool and the diving tower.

A NEW ERA BEGINS » The 2025-26 season begins a brand new period for the Cardinal ladies’s swimming & diving program, as Chris Lindauer was named the eighth Paul A. Violich Director of Women’s Swimming earlier this summer season. Lindauer arrives to The Farm with a confirmed monitor document of elevating packages to new heights, teaching 10 particular person nationwide champions, 46 ladies’s NCAA All-Americans and 49 males’s NCAA All-Americans throughout his 15-year teaching profession. He additionally brings an Olympic-level teaching pedigree, mentoring a pair of gold medalists and 13 Olympic qualifiers, along with serving on the USA National Team teaching workers from 2018-20. Joining his teaching workers is 2020 Olympic bronze medalist and former Florida assistant Annie Lazor, together with Marcus Guttman, who made the leap to to the teaching workers after spending two seasons as Director of Operations.