STANFORD, Calif. - Just over a week remains before the Stanford women's swimming and diving season gets under way for the Cardinal as the Pac-12 officially unveiled the complete 2016-17 schedule. Stanford will host two meets in the Fall, and two in the spring, and will be featured on the Pac-12 Networks twice.
Stanford begins its season at Oregon State on Oct. 14, and will host its first home meet on Oct. 20 against Washington State. The team will also welcome back many of the program's former swimmers for the annual Alumni Meet on Oct. 21. The fall season concludes with Texas at home on Nov. 12 followed by the Ohio State Invitational (Nov. 18-20) and Winter Nationals (Nov. 30-Dec. 3).
Pac-12 competition resumes at Arizona on Jan. 21. The Cardinal then host UCLA and USC on back-to-back days at Avery Aquatic Center (Jan. 27-28) before wrapping up the regular season at Cal on Feb. 11. The final two meets will be broadcast on Pac-12 Networks.
There is free admission to all Stanford home meets at Avery Aquatic Center.
The Cardinal was 7-0 in dual meets last season and finished second at the NCAA Championships -- a meet that came down to the final event. Stanford returns seven of its 10 All-Americans from last season, including five of six individual national champions. In addition, Olympians Simone Manuel and Kassidy Cook return to the team after redshirting the 2015-16 campaign. Manuel was a seven-time All-America honoree as a freshman for the Cardinal in 2014-15. She won four medals (two gold, two silver) at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio, and became the first African-American woman to medal in an Olympic event. Cook garnered All-America accolades in the 1-and-3-meter in 2015, and finished 13th at the Olympics.
Stanford also finished with the top-ranked recruiting class which includes Katie Drabot, Allie Szekely, Erin Voss and Megan Byrnes. Standout Katie Ledecky will also join this class after deferring her freshman year for the Olympics, where she won five medals (four gold, one silver).