Cal Athletics: 2008 Summer Olympians - Lauren Boyle

The University of California will be well represented at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with a record 39 athletes and coaches from 14 different countries having qualified for the Games, as of July 9.

Boyle qualified for the New Zealand Olympic team in the 800-meter freestyle relay at her country's trials in late March. During her collegiate season in 2008, she broke her own Cal record in the 1650-yard free with a time of 16:01.80 at the NCAA championships, where she finished fifth. Boyle initially set the mark of 16:03.51 when she won the event at the Pac-10 meet, snapping a record that had stood for 20 years. Her 1650 victory was Cal's first in the event since Sarah Anderson claimed the title in 1989. Boyle also placed fourth in the 500 free at Pac-10s (4:45.37). She represented New Zealand at the 2005 World Championships and placed eighth in the 800-meter free relay.

To help Golden Bear fans follow the Cal delegation this summer, Cal Athletics has built a special website at http://www.CalBears.com/Olympics, complete with bio information, schedules, results, feature stories and the history of the Bears at the Games. In addition, there is a sortable database of all Cal Olympic results.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Cal
• Athletics
• UC
• Berkeley
• Golden
• Bears
• Summer
• Olympics
• Lauren
• Boyle
• yt:quality=high

[richardchenca]

Did she compete in the 800? Wikipedia doesn't have her results there. Looks like she had a good time in her leg of the 4x200.

[calisverycool]

go bears