Cardinal Divers Headvert to Texas Invite – Stanford Cardinal

STANFORD, Calif. – Four Stanford divers head to Austin for a midseason check this weekend on the Texas Diving Invitational on November 13-15. 

Ellie Cole, Molly Gray, Anna Lemkin, and Emile Moore are registered to compete within the three-day meet at Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center. The eight-team area consists of host Texas, Arizona, Miami, North Texas, Stanford, TCU, Texas A&M, and Utah.

Women’s competitors begins with the 3-meter on Thursday, adopted by the 1-meter on Friday and platform dives on Saturday. Fans can observe alongside to reside outcomes of the Texas Diving Invitational here.

LAST TIME OUT » No. 3 Stanford swimming & diving had a powerful displaying in Friday’s Triple Distance meet, profitable 12 of 20 races towards No. 5 California within the non-scoring competitors. Torri Huske swept the IM occasions on the afternoon, highlighted by a lifetime-best within the 400 IM (4:04.21) to present her a Stanford Top 10 time in a outstanding ten totally different occasions. Lucy Bell additionally improved her career-best within the 100 breast with a 58.27, shaving two-hundredths off her earlier mark to inch nearer to this system report within the occasion. The Cardinal went 1-2-3 in every of the backstroke occasions, with Levenia Sim attending to the wall first in each the 50 again (24.61) and 100 again (52.67) races. Caroline Bricker tabbed a race win within the 200 again, posting a time of 1:54.60. Bailey O’Regan earned her first two race wins of the yr in distance freestyle, posting a 4:48.44 within the 500 free and a 9:49.73 time within the 1000 free. Gigi Johnson rounded out the race winners for Stanford, besting the dash group within the 200 free with a race-winning time of 1:44.35. 

BEAT CAL IN BERKELEY » No. 3 Stanford girls’s swimming & diving rolled to a pair of victories, profitable 13 of 19 occasion titles in a two-day double twin towards Arizona State and No. 5 California. Caroline Bricker highlighted the weekend with occasion titles for Stanford, touching the wall first within the 200 fly (1:52.83) and 400 IM (4:04.30) on Friday, earlier than including a 200 breast occasion title with a 2:09.18 swim on Saturday. Torri Huske collected a pair of race wins, highlighted by a personal-best 51.62 within the 100 again to interrupt into the Stanford Top 10 within the occasion. Huske additionally added a victory within the 100 fly with a 51.05 mark. Lucy Bell additionally added a Stanford Top-10 time, beating her earlier lifetime greatest within the 100 breast, touching the wall first with a 58.29 time. Bell stays this system’s second-fastest swimmer of all time within the occasion.

SEASON OPENER IN SAN DIEGO » No. 3 Stanford girls’s swimming opened the 2025-26 marketing campaign with a second-place end on the UCSD Triton Invitational, totaling 898.5 factors throughout the two-day meet. The Cardinal trailed solely No. 5 California, which gained the meet with 1,202 factors, whereas UC San Diego (619.5), Hawai‘i (517) and UC Santa Barbara (454) rounded out the sector. Torri Huske led the best way for Stanford with three particular person victories, profitable the 50 free in 22.06 seconds on Friday earlier than including titles within the 200 free (1:44.45) and 100 free (48.34) on Saturday.

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 powerful debut on the ACC Championships in 2025, profitable 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 sturdy 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 remaining 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 girls’s swimming & diving program, as Chris Lindauer was named the eighth Paul A. Violich Director of Women’s Swimming earlier this summer time. Lindauer arrives to The Farm with a confirmed monitor report of elevating packages to new heights, teaching 10 particular person nationwide champions, 46 girls’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.