CBU diver honored California Baptist University diver Evan Honer has been named the Ticketsmarter Western Athletic Conference Diver of the Week for the week of Oct. 13-18. Honer competed at the Lancer Diving Invitational hosted by CBU. He won the three-meter diving competition and finished second in the one-meter competition. CBU men’s and women’s swim […]
Category: Swimming & Diving
Athletic cancellations persist in uncertain spring season
This COVID-19 season has been a bizarre experience for most sports team, but the most prominent uncertainty is in competition cancellations. California Baptist University’s swimming team has had six cancelled meets this season, not counting ones pushed back or postponed. Most of those meets were scheduled for the fall season. “It’s a completely different season,” […]
Lancer athletes continue practicing with precautions
California Baptist University’s fall athletic seasons are postponed to best protect student athletics from the rapid spread of COVID-19. However, the athletic programs have adjusted practice routines to keep the athletes ready for when their seasons resume. Teams at CBU are trying their best to practice with the mindset that regular season will happen until […]
Students adapt training due to Olympics postponement
The 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo was the most anticipated sports event of the year, and several student-athletes at California Baptist University had been preparing for the event. Unfortunately, the International Olympic Committee and Japanese organizers decided March 28 to postpone the Olympics as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, forcing athletes to extend […]
Robert Jordan | Banner | Lisa Siregar enjoys the win with California Baptist University's swim team.
Sports feature: Lisa Siregar
Lisa Siregar, assistant coach of men’s and women’s swim and dive, draws upon more than 20 years of experience as a former head swim coach for Indonesia’s national team. Before she joined California Baptist University in 2002, Siregar was a two-time Olympic head coach at the 1996 Games in Atlanta and the 2000 Games in […]
Swim and dive teams find areas to improve heading to championship title
California Baptist University’s men and women’s swim and dive teams lost their last dual meet Feb.1 in a nail biter against the University of California, San Diego at the Lancer Aquatics Center. Both the men’s and women’s teams showed impressive swims, losing by a close margin. The men lost with a score of 141-154 and […]
Madeline Wiese makes Lancer athletic history
After logging top-three scores in California Baptist University’s program history and being named Western Athletic Conference diver of the week Jan. 14, Madeline Wiese, sophomore marketing major, is switching her focus from swimming to diving and has be- come a strong new addition to the women’s dive team. Wiese is one of only three athletes […]
Swimmers’ Olympic hopes alive
Sprint a set. Repeat. Work on technique. Repeat. Lift weights. Repeat. Keep a srict diet. Repeat. This never-ending cycle is just words on paper for most of us, but for a swimmer who is training to get times to compete in the U.S. Olympic Trials, it is everyday life. Whether they have been training their […]
CBU’s Evan Honer wins diving awards
Having been named WAC diver of the week three times this season, Evan Honer, freshman business administration major and diver for the men’s swim and dive team at California Baptist University, has won multiple diving events and broke the 3-meter board dive record Jan. 10 in a dual meet against Claremont Mudd-Scripps. Currently, in Honer’s […]
Lancers making a splash
California Baptist University’s men’s and women’s swimming and diving team’s season is in full swing with four meets already in the books. The men and women have had similar schedules with both team’s first official meet at the Malibu Invite on Oct. 12. The men finished second and the women in third place. The following […]