Freshman Claire Weinstein of the No. 5 California women's swimming & diving team was named the ACC Swimmer of the Week, the conference announced Tuesday.
 
Due to her international success as an Olympic medalist for Team USA, Weinstein's collegiate career has been highly anticipated, and this past weekend it lived up to the hype when Weinstein helped the Golden Bears to a great outing in their Tri-Meet with No. 3 Stanford and No. 18 Arizona State. The freshman won two individual races and helped her relay teams to a first-place finish and two second-place finishes.
 
Weinstein took gold in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:42.52, which was the seventh-fastest time in Cal history and the third-fastest in the country this week. She followed that up by winning the 500-yard freestyle with the fifth-fastest time in the nation this week at 4:39.23. Both marks are NCAA qualifying times. Weinstein added a third NCAA qualifying time by taking fourth in the 100-yard freestyle at 48.33.
 
Weinstein helped Cal turn in the top time in the nation this year in the 800-yard freestyle as she, Mia West, Teagan O'Dell and Ella Cosgrove won the event with an NCAA qualifying time of 6:55.18. Weinstein's split of 1:42.90 was the fastest on the team.
 
The Las Vegas native found the podium twice more as she also led her team to a second-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle relay (1:28.36) with the fifth-fastest time in the NCAA this week and in the 400-yard freestyle relay (3:13.08) with the third-fastest time.