Stanford Athletics

STANFORD, Calif. - Stanford women's swimming and diving capped another memorable season with an unbeaten dual meet record, a third straight Pac-12 championship and its third consecutive NCAA championship.

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Tree-Peat National Champions

» Stanford was the first school to win three straight NCAA women's swimming titles since Auburn did so from 2002-04. Stanford last won three in a row during a five-year run from 1992-96.
» Stanford has won 12 national titles and 11 NCAA championships, both are the most all-time.
» Stanford's 22 NCAA qualifiers (18 swimmers, four divers) were the most in the nation.
» The Cardinal had 18 different All-Americans combine for 51 All-America honors, two individual national championships and one relay title.
» Stanford finished with 456.5 points and earned its 39th straight top-eight finish (every year the NCAA has sponsored a championship meet), including 15 top-five showings in the last 16 years. Cal was second with 419 points and Michigan was third with 314.
» Cardinal freshmen combined to score 127 points, which was the most of any class (any school) at the NCAA meet. At her first NCAA Championships, Ruck led all Stanford athletes with seven All-America honors. » Senior Ella Eastin became the first woman in NCAA history to win four straight national titles in the 400-yard individual medley. Only one man has accomplished the feat, USC's David Wharton from 1988-91.
» Sophomore Brooke Forde highlighted Stanford's second day at the NCAA Championships with a national title in the 500-yard freestyle. She finished with the fifth-fastest time in NCAA history, 4:31.34, to earn her first individual national title. It is the second-fastest time in school history behind only Katie Ledecky (4:24.06). 
» Forde and Eastin were also members of Stanford's national champion 800 free relay on opening night. Joined by junior Katie Drabot and freshman Taylor Ruck, Stanford won in 6:47.22. It marked the seventh consecutive NCAA relay title for Stanford, which swept all five in 2018 and won the final relay in 2017.  
» Stanford had 13 different individual scorers on the final day, including Eastin and Ruck, who each earned silver medals. Ruck set a school record in the 200 backstroke with a second-place finish of 1:47.59. She is the first Stanford swimmer to break 1:48 in the event as she topped the previous record by -- set by Eastin earlier this year -- by more than a second. 
» A full day-by-day NCAA recap is here. 

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Pac-12 Champions

» Stanford is the first school to win three consecutive Pac-12 Conference titles since Arizona from 2006-08. The Wildcats and Cardinal are the only programs to three-peat as Stanford also did so as champions of the first 13 conference meets (1987-99). 
» Stanford won six individual events by four individuals -- Ella Eastin (500 free, 200 back, 400 IM), Mia Paulsen (platform), Leah Stevens (1650 free) and Grace Zhao (200 breast). 
» Eastin finished her career with nine individual Pac-12 titles, which is tied for fourth-most in conference history.
» The top-ranked Cardinal's 1,775 points were the third-most ever scored at the Pac-12 Championships – just 1.5 points shy of last year's national title team and 29 points fewer than Stanford's 1992 national championship team that famously featured several Olympians, including Summer Sanders and Jenny Thompson.
» Cal finished as the runner-up with 1,352 points. The 423-point difference is the largest margin of victory at this meet since Stanford outscored runner-up UCLA by 599.5 points in 1996. 
» Stanford has won four titles under Meehan, and has never finished lower than second in his seven seasons. The Cardinal also extended its streak to 10 straight seasons in the top two at the conference meet (six titles, four runner-up finishes). Overall, this is Stanford's 22nd conference title, most all-time.

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