This Swimmer’s Life: Andie Taylor
Besides swimming competitively at a top-ranked school, Andie has plans for medical school at some point in the future. For the number of commitments tugging at her attention, Andie is remarkably calm and collected.
Besides swimming competitively at a top-ranked school, Andie has plans for medical school at some point in the future. For the number of commitments tugging at her attention, Andie is remarkably calm and collected.
As most students on The Farm take their last finals of the winter quarter, the women’s swimming and diving squad will be engaged in a battle of its own for an NCAA title—a title that has proved elusive as of late. The best collegiate swimmers in the nation will square off against each other in Indianapolis with the national championship at stake in a three-day affair from March 21st to the 23rd. In the thirty years in which the sport has been played at the national level, Stanford has claimed the most national championships of any team with eight. However, its last title came 15 years ago in 1998 at the tail end of an era of dominance that saw it claim six national titles in seven years.
An enormously successful regular season for the women’s swimming and diving team ended on a low note on Saturday afternoon at Berkeley. The team, needing… Continue Reading »
The women’s swimming and diving team can go into the midseason break feeling confident after taking second at the three-day Ohio State Invitational last weekend. The men’s divers will also be encouraged by their accomplishments in Columbus, Ohio, highlighted by sophomore Kristian Ipsen’s sweep of the 1-meter and 3-meter diving competitions.
The Stanford men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams got a rare chance to compete together on Friday, with both teams taking on the University of Wisconsin. On the men’s side, it was the first dual meet of the season and a great opportunity to match up against another ranked program in No. 25 Wisconsin.
The Stanford women’s swimming and diving team opened up its winter schedule on Saturday with a convincing 143-105 victory over Pacific (5-2) at Avery Aquatic Center. The No. 1 Cardinal (4-0) won every event over the Tigers.