Bears Announce 2026-27 Schedule – California Golden Bears Athletics

The California males’s and girls’s swimming & diving groups are slated for 13 regular-season meets throughout the 2026-27 season, together with 4 College Swimming League matches, as Cal joined the CSL for its inaugural season. The girls’s group may have extra two meets from the boys to start January.

Both applications will open the season Oct. 2 of their first CSL match. The Bears will compete in a second CSL match Oct. 16-17 earlier than competing within the CSL Wild Card and Championship meets Nov. 5-6 in Indianapolis.

The fall portion of Cal’s schedule options meets versus UC San Diego, Saint Mary’s, and a diving tri-meet with Stanford and NC State. Both males’s and girls’s diving groups will partake within the Trojan Diving Invitational earlier than the Bears head east for the UGA Midseason Invitational. The girls’s program will open spring competitors towards UC Davis and UCLA. Cal then will face USC and Stanford once more within the spring, together with internet hosting the Cal Invite earlier than heading into postseason competitors. 

The ACC Championships will happen in Greensboro, N.C., Feb. 16-20. The 2027 NCAA Championships will happen in Austin, Texas, the ladies’s championship going from March 17 by means of March 20, and the boys’s to comply with, March 24-27.

Cal returns a number of standouts for the 2026-27 season, together with Yamato Okadome, who received particular person titles within the 100 and 200 breaststroke occasions on the 2026 NCAA Championships, and Claire Weinstein, who received the five hundred freestyle to interrupt this system document and declare the Bears’ first particular person title in seven years. The girls’s program provides the highest recruit within the nation in Rylee Erisman and the ninth-ranked recruit in Kelsey Zhang. The males add an affect switch in Michel Arkhangelskiy from Florida State and a robust freshman class.

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