Caitlin Leverenz

Davis Tarwater and Caitlin Leverenz capture gold medals – 2012 NC Charlotte UltraSwim Davis Tarwater and Caitlin Leverenz captured gold medals of the Men’s 100m butterfly and Women’s 400m Individual Medley (IM) respectively at the 2012 NC Charlotte UltraSwim. With his epic start, Tarwater remained one stroke ahead of his closest challenger on the finishing end and stepped on the podium for gold medal by clocking a time of 52.87 seconds. He was followed by Tyler McGill, who remained just 0.11...Read Full Story

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Day two finals of the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships kicked off with an outstanding record breaking swim by California Berkeley. The relay of Cindy Tran, Caitlin Leverenz, Colleen Fotsch, and Liv Jensen, who won the 200 medley relay last year, won again tonight. The relay beat their NCAA and American record set last year at NCAAs with a time of 1:34.24. Their previous record was 1:35.03. Berkeley took the lead immediately, with Tran swimming a 23.44 in the back. Arizona’s Margo Geer...Read Full Story

200 BREASTSTROKE Cal junior Caitlin Leverenz has slowly been climbing the NCAA and World ranks over the course of the past three years. After a rough freshman season, she finished third in this event last year, and looks every bit the winner this year. Last year, Leverenz’ best was a 2:06.23. She’s already cut nearly a second off of that time to go 2:05.49, making her second-fastest of all time behind Rebecca Soni‘s 2:04.75. Breeja Larson of TAMU has far more speed than Leverenz, but they...Read Full Story

Stanford starts off the 2012 NCAA swimming and diving championships with a great upset in the 200 free relay. The amazing quartet of Samantha Woodward, Madeline Schaefer, Andrea Murez, and Elizabeth Webb just squeaked past the reigning champions, California Berkeley, in the last 25 yards of the race. Webb anchored the relay with an impressive split of 21.19, helping Stanford to their first win of the weekend with a final time of 1:26.85. Their time beat Berkeley’s pool record of 1:27.11 that...Read Full Story

The third and final night of the 2012 Women’s NCAA Championships saw some great races from the first half of tonight’s events. Starting right off the bat with the women’s 1650 free. It took 22 years (exactly, set 3/17/90) but the oldest record in the NCAA books finally went down tonight. North Carolina’s Stephanie Peacock was even born when Janet Evans set the mark at 15:39.14 but it would be the 19-year old lower Evans legendary mark to 15:38.79. Even more impressive is that Peacock just...Read Full Story

Cal Berkeley was untouchable tonight. The fast swims started in the first event with Caitlin Leverenz just missing the NCAA record in the 400 I.M. and the Bear’s finishing the meet with a new NCAA and Pac-12 record in the 400 medley relay. It will be hard for the other schools to catch Cal at this point, as they end the night with close to a 100 point lead. 400 I.M. It was an absolute perfect swim by Cal Berkeley’s Caitlin Leverenz as she swam her way to a 3:58.46. Just missing Julia Smit’s...Read Full Story

After swimming two great IM’s to win long course National Titles on the first two days of Winter Nationals in Atlanta, Cal’s Caitlin Leverenz took the 72-mile trip East to Athens to join her Cal teammates at day 2 of the Georgia Invitational. The hectic travel...Read Full Story

There were more collegiate superstars on parade today at the Arena Invite in Long Beach, California. Most notably was Cal’s Caitlin Leverenz, who won the women’s 200 IM in a shocking 1:55.66. That’s the best time in the nation so … Continue reading →Read Full Story

Women’s Meet Caitlin Leverenz failed to match her 200 IM Automatic qualifying time on her follow-up 400 swim on Friday, but that doesn’t mean that her swim wasn’t spectacular. She marked a 4:05.67 (missing the A-cut by just .02), but … Continue reading →Read Full Story