{"id":148786,"date":"2026-01-25T08:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T08:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/148786\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T08:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T08:41:11","slug":"gauchos-make-it-three-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/148786\/","title":{"rendered":"Gauchos Make it Three Straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 CLAREMONT, CA \u2013 The UC Santa Barbara Gauchos Men&#8217;s and Women&#8217;s swim teams were both victorious today in the dual meet at Claremont McKenna College. The Women&#8217;s score finished:UCSB 185, Claremont McKenna: 76. The Men&#8217;s team secured the win over Claremont 167-93.<br \/>\nHow It Happened<br \/>\nThe Blue and Gold set the tone early on the road today; both the Men&#8217;s and Women&#8217;s 200 Yard Medley relay teams took first and second place to start the day. <a href=\"https:\/\/ucsbgauchos.com\/sports\/mens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/aneesh-veeravatnam\/7477\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7477\" target=\"_blank\">Aneesh Veeravatnam<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ucsbgauchos.com\/sports\/mens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/trent-stegina\/7476\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7476\" target=\"_blank\">Trent Stegina<\/a>, Bryden Thienlenhaus, and <a href=\"https:\/\/ucsbgauchos.com\/sports\/mens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/mason-wendler\/7470\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7470\" target=\"_blank\">Mason Wendler<\/a> posted a first-place time of 1:30.08. <a href=\"https:\/\/ucsbgauchos.com\/sports\/mens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/lucas-hubbard\/7475\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7475\" target=\"_blank\">Lucas Hubbard<\/a>, Michael Peterson, <a href=\"https:\/\/ucsbgauchos.com\/sports\/mens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/zachary-tamusaitis\/7467\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7467\" target=\"_blank\">Zachary Tamusaitis<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/ucsbgauchos.com\/sports\/mens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/elek-zettle\/7471\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7471\" target=\"_blank\">Elek Zettle<\/a> were right behind them, clinching the one-two punch (1:30.57). CoCo Quill, Miranda Steven Stevenson, <a href=\"https:\/\/ucsbgauchos.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/caitlin-brown\/7713\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7713\" target=\"_blank\">Caitlin Brown<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/ucsbgauchos.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/alexi-zuckerman\/7712\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7712\" target=\"_blank\">Alexi Zuckerman<\/a> (1:42.23) followed up the Men&#8217;s win with a win of their own. <a href=\"https:\/\/ucsbgauchos.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/makena-leacox\/7704\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7704\" target=\"_blank\">Makena Leacox<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ucsbgauchos.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/morgan-hoppe\/7716\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7716\" target=\"_blank\">Morgan Hoppe<\/a>, Greta Callison, and <a href=\"https:\/\/ucsbgauchos.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/eugenie-lanilis\/7703\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7703\" target=\"_blank\">Eugenie Lanilis<\/a> finished second (1:42.63) to continue the Gauchos hot start.<br \/>\nThe Gaucho domination is best described as consistent, as they have extended their dual-meet win streak to three straight. On the road today, the Blue and Gold rattled off 22 straight first-place finishes.<br \/>\nA Look Ahead<br \/>\nUC Santa Barbara will head back to the coast to host the UCSB Invitational next week. Fresno Pacific and Westmont will be in town to take on the Gauchos. (Jan 30 and Jan 31.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; CLAREMONT, CA \u2013 The UC Santa Barbara Gauchos Men&#8217;s and Women&#8217;s swim teams were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-148786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148786","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=148786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}