{"id":125628,"date":"2026-01-08T20:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/125628\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T20:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:50:08","slug":"pacific-opens-2026-at-cal-state-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/125628\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Opens 2026 at Cal State Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 BAKERSFIELD, Calif. \u2013\u00a0The Pacific swim and dive program begins the new calendar year on the road, facing Cal State Bakersfield on Friday at noon from the John S. Hillman Memorial Aquatic Center.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers are set to take on their first of five meets away from the Eberhardt Aquatics Center during the second half of the season, beginning with a trip down south to clash with the Roadrunners.<\/p>\n<p>Pacific stands with a 3-1 record on the women&#8217;s side with wins over Cal State East Bay, Fresno Pacific and UC Santa Cruz. The Pacific men are 1-1 with their lone victory over the Firebirds.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers have been led by the standout performers of senior <a href=\"https:\/\/pacifictigers.com\/sports\/mens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/mattia-giurgevich\/5884\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5884\" target=\"_blank\">Mattia Giurgevich<\/a> and sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/pacifictigers.com\/sports\/mens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/nate-rasmussen\/5888\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5888\" target=\"_blank\">Nate Rasmussen<\/a> on the men&#8217;s side and sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/pacifictigers.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/christina-agiomamitou\/5890\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5890\" target=\"_blank\">Christina Agiomamitou<\/a> and senior <a href=\"https:\/\/pacifictigers.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/katie-honey\/4974\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4974\" target=\"_blank\">Katie Honey<\/a> on the women&#8217;s side. Rasmussen has been named Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Men&#8217;s Athlete of the Week twice so far this season, continuing to impress in his second-year campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Honey currently ranks sixth in the conference in scoring with 725.15 points to her name. Agiomamitou is also listed among the top 25 women&#8217;s swimmers in the MPSF, according to Swimcloud.<\/p>\n<p>On the diving side, junior <a href=\"https:\/\/pacifictigers.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/lexxi-chavez\/5902\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5902\" target=\"_blank\">Lexxi Chavez<\/a> looks to start the new year on a high note, facing her former team to ring in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers and Roadrunners meet for a fifth consecutive season in the pool. Last year, Pacific hosted CSUB in Stockton and earned a 177-85 victory on the men&#8217;s side and a 156-106 win on the women&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s meet will not be broadcasted live on any platforms. The meet is scheduled to begin at noon.<\/p>\n<p>Stay Social<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFor all the latest on Pacific Swimming and Diving, be sure to follow the team on X (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uopswimanddive\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@uopswimanddive<\/a>), Instagram\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pacific_swim_dive\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(@pacific_swim_dive<\/a>) and &#8220;like&#8221; the team&#8217;s official Facebook page (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uopswimanddive\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Swimming and Diving<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>#PacificProud<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; BAKERSFIELD, Calif. \u2013\u00a0The Pacific swim and dive program begins the new calendar year on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-125628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}