CSUB SWIMMING & DIVING

Made us proud! 🤩 Vili Sivec wrapped up his collegiate career with one final swim at the NCAA Championships this morning! The Roadrunner senior tied a bow on one of the most storied careers in Bakersfield's DI era representing us on the national stage! #RunnersOnTheRise

One more go 👌🏼 Day 3⃣ = 200 Butterfly ⌚️ 7 a.m. (PT) Prelims / 3 p.m. (PT) Finals 📺 ESPN+ 📈 GoRunners.com/Live #RunnersOnTheRise

🏆🏊‍♂️ MS&D | @CSUB_SwimDive's Vili Sivec and Juan Esteban Ramirez Tamayo of @HawaiiSwimDive Represent League Well in NCAA’s #𝗢𝗻𝗹𝘆𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗕𝗼𝗹𝗱 x #NCAASwimDive bigwest.org/news/2026/3/26…

Scenes from this morning's prelim swim! 📸@mooreshots

Swimming in a stacked field that featured multiple Olympic medalists, Vili Sivec represented CSUB well with a 36th-place finish in the 100 Fly (46.01) at the NCAA Championships this morning! #RunnersOnTheRise

Go get 'em, Vili! 👌🏼 Day 1⃣ = 100 Butterfly ⌚️ 7 a.m. (PT) Prelims / 3 p.m. (PT) Finals 📺 ESPN+ 📈 GoRunners.com/Live #RunnersOnTheRise @CSUBAthletics

Soon 👀 #RunnersOnTheRise

Congratulations to CSUB divers Anderson Laing and Alma Smith for representing the Roadrunners well this week at the NCAA Zone E Diving Championships! We're proud of the historic seasons you both produced! #RunnersOnTheRise

Diving among the best this week! 👌🏼 📈GoRunners.com/Live #RunnersOnTheRise @CSUBAthletics

Watch the full video here: youtu.be/UPiNebgoXT4 #𝗢𝗻𝗹𝘆𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗕𝗼𝗹𝗱 x #NCAASwimDive

🔵 𝗖𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 🟡: On the Fly with Vili Sivec #𝗢𝗻𝗹𝘆𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗕𝗼𝗹𝗱 x #NCAASwimDive bigwest.org/news/2026/2/24…

A few of our favorite 📸from the Big West championships 😍 #RunnersOnTheRise

Legacy etched in stone 😤 Senior Vili Sivec wraps up his final Conference meet with 2 more Gold Medals, bringing his career total to an astounding 11 Conference medals! Job's not finished. Watch for Vili at NCAAs next month! #RunnersOnTheRise

In the final swims of the meet, Bakersfield's men posted the second-fastest time in program history in the 400 Free Relay! The `Runner women came up just a shade outside of the Top 5 in a solid finish to an overall great meet! #RunnersOnTheRise

The CSUB duo of Alma Smith and Anderson Laing once again earned a pair of All-Conference honors on the Platform tonight! #RunnersOnTheRise

Twice as Nice 🥇🥇

Total Domination 👌🏼 Vili Sivec is now a Back 2 Back 2 Back Champion in the 200 Fly as well! He DOMINATED the field, winning by almost 3 whole seconds, while earning his second NCAA Qualifying mark and crushing his own CSUB record! #RunnersOnTheRise

Reed Lucero SMOKES the B-final with the 5th-fastest swim of all 200 Breaststroke finals tonight! That moves him into 2nd all-time for the `Runners, less than a second off the program record! #RunnersOnTheRise

She's coming for that record! Freshman Addison Cerney picks up her first All-Conference honor with a huge swim in the 200 Back finals! Her time is now just 0.20 seconds off the CSUB record! #RunnersOnTheRise

👏🏽He's a Freshman!👏🏽 Karsten Eichler earned silver in tonight's 1650 Free final with a MASSIVE 12-second time drop off his PB! That puts him in the CSUB Top 5 in both the Mile and 1000 Free, bumping two `Runner greats who had been on those lists for 26 & 31 years, respectively!