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I have a kal friend who was rubbing their Pac-12 championship in my face...I have a feeling said friend doesn't understand training cycles and peaking at the right time lol.

I'm not sure I understand the rubbing in part.  Stanford won both the PAC-12 and National championships for women's swimming and diving.
Maybe they were talking about the men.

Without counting up the individual swims, my impression is that the top Cal swimmers had a higher percentage of personal bests than the Stanford swimmers.  

Stanford had more swimmers & divers invited to nationals than any other school.  While 18 swimmers were invited for a total of 51 races, team size limits meant that Stanford sent 16 swimmers & 4 divers.  Two swimmers that were invited for NCAA nationals were unable to fit in the roster. (I think that's the same number as last year.)  (Cal only had 12 swimmers qualify.)  Stanford's other two qualifiers were sophomores Katie Glavinovich and Hannah Kukurugya, who each qualified in three events.  Last year, Hannah Kukurugya was invited in 2 events (qualified in 3) and went to nationals, while Katie Glavinovich was invited in 1 event and didn't go, presumably because of team size limits.  Ouch... two years in a row...

(The invitation process is complicated;  the time of the slowest invited swimmer would be between the NCAA "A" and "B" times.  Each swimmer that is invited for an individual event is qualified to swim any other event for which she has a B time.)

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I have a kal friend who was rubbing their Pac-12 championship in my face...I have a feeling said friend doesn't understand training cycles and peaking at the right time lol.

I'm not sure I understand the rubbing in part.  Stanford won both the PAC-12 and National championships for women's swimming and diving.
Maybe they were talking about the men.

Without counting up the individual swims, my impression is that the top Cal swimmers had a higher percentage of personal bests than the Stanford swimmers.  

Stanford had more swimmers & divers invited to nationals than any other school.  While 18 swimmers were invited for a total of 51 races, team size limits meant that Stanford sent 16 swimmers & 4 divers.  Two swimmers that were invited for NCAA nationals were unable to fit in the roster. (I think that's the same number as last year.)  (Cal only had 12 swimmers qualify.)  Stanford's other two qualifiers were sophomores Katie Glavinovich and Hannah Kukurugya, who each qualified in three events.  Last year, Hannah Kukurugya was invited in 2 events (qualified in 3) and went to nationals, while Katie Glavinovich was invited in 1 event and didn't go, presumably because of team size limits.  Ouch... two years in a row...

(The invitation process is complicated;  the time of the slowest invited swimmer would be between the NCAA "A" and "B" times.  Each swimmer that is invited for an individual event is qualified to swim any other event for which she has a B time.)