2024-25 Women's Swimming & Diving Roster

Stephanie Akakabota

  • Position Free
  • Height 5-7
  • Class Senior
  • Last School(s) Seminole HS
  • Hometown Lake Mary, Fla.
  • Major Mechanical Engineering

Biography

California
  • Swam the freestyle leg of Cal's 200 medley relay team that won the 2024 Pac-12 championship in a meet record time of 1:33.89
  • Same 200 medley relay time placed fourth at the 2024 NCAA Championships
  • Owns the 10th-fastest 50 freestyle time ever at Cal at 22.02
  • Placed eighth in the 50 free at the 2023 Pac-12 Championships
  • Prelim 50 free time of 22.33 at Pac-12 Championships was second-best on team during 2022-23 season
  • Posted season bests of 23.04 in the 50 free and 51.99 in the 100 free at the 2022 Pac-12 Championships
  • Her 50 free time ranked eighth fastest on the team in 2021-22
  • Earned 2023 CSCAA Scholar All-America Second Team honors
  • Two-time member of the Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll

High School
  • Won the 50m and 100m at the 2019 Florida LCM Seniors meet
  • A two-time USA Swimming Scholastic All-American
  • As Seminole HS, placed second in the state meet in the 50 free as a senior and third as a junior after taking 10th as a sophomore
  • An International Baccalaureate student
  • Began swimming competitively in high school
  • Top times: 50 free – 22.81; 100 free – 51.72
  • Competed at the U.S. Olympic Trials in the 50m free in 2021
Personal
  • Mechanical engineering major with a goal to be a robotics engineer
  • Born Nov. 13, 2003
  • Parents are Tony and Boianie Akakabota
  • Plans for a career in engineering
  • Has been playing the piano since age 5, and has performed at Carnegie Hall

Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22Freshman

    Free
    5'7"
  • 2022-23Sophomore

    Free
    5'7"
  • 2023-24Junior

    Free
    5'7"
  • 2024-25Senior

    Free
    5'7"