SANTA CLARA — Maya DiRado didn’t feel like sticking around until Sunday at the George F. Haines International Swim Center in Santa Clara. Her work in the pool was done after competing in three events over two days on the final stop for the 2016 Arena Pro Swim Series, one last tune-up prior to the U.S. Olympic trials at the end of the month in Omaha, Neb.

“I was just talking to my coach, this week is going to be pretty intense and hard still, and then we’ll start to come down before trials,” DiRado said. “So there’s a little bit more work to do.”

DiRado, 23, won a pair of NCAA individual medley titles as a senior at Stanford in 2014, but at this meet chose to work on only three of her strokes. On Friday, she took third in the 200-meter freestyle and fourth in the 100 butterfly.

She closed out her racing Saturday evening with the 100 backstroke, finishing third with a personal-best time of 1:00.36.

“In every event that I swam, it was a PB,” DiRado said.

No one was catching Australian Emily Seebohm, who holds the fastest time in the world this year in the 100 back and broke a 2008 meet record set by Natalie Coughlin by nearly half a second in 58.96.

“I was a little out of element in the 100 backstroke,” DiRado said. “She is pretty awesome in that race and that’s not something that I do a lot. But it’s fun, it’s like no pressure in that race, and I think she’s got great medal hopes in Rio.”

DiRado thought she might retire after her time at Stanford. But two years after graduating, she’s getting ready to compete in her third Olympic trials, with the focus on 200 and 400 IM, plus the 200 back.

“It was a transition for sure, from going from the college team to kind of being on my own and having to motivate myself,” said DiRado, who lives in Redwood City and still trains at Stanford. “But once you get through that, it’s actually pretty great. I have the same practice schedule as them, mostly, but I don’t have classes in between. So there’s a lot of naps and a lot of massages and I have a lot of free time to go visit my niece and my sister. So it’s a pretty leisurely lifestyle that I get to live right now.”

Stanford freshman Ella Eastin, who set an American record in the 200-yard IM at the NCAA championships, also competed in the 200 free and 100 fly on Friday, finishing eighth and ninth, respectively.

“Yesterday was fine,” Eastin said. “It wasn’t anything to write home about, but nothing to sulk over, either. Went a best time (in the 200 free) and broke two minutes twice. Had the 100 fly almost right afterwards, so it wasn’t too bad. I would have liked to have gone faster, but I’m in a good place. Body was tired, but not super out of breath or anything, so I think it’s a good sign in terms of how good a shape I’m in.”

To conclude her swims, Eastin was the runner-up in the 200 butterfly on Saturday in 2:10.38, which was barely a quarter of a second off her personal best.

“I’m pleased with this weekend and it’s kind of a check-the-box thing,” Eastin said. “And now we can move on and focus on three weeks from now.”

While most of her teammates were also busy with finals week, Eastin was done with her major projects and papers. That meant the 19-year-old could finally make up some of the sleep debt that she was owed.

“I’m done with everything and tomorrow is going to be my first Sunday that I don’t have to do work all year,” Eastin said. “So I’m going to sleep in and enjoy it.”

One of the storylines to follow at the U.S. trials and beyond is Natalie Coughlin’s pursuit of sole possession for most Olympic medals by a female swimmer at Rio. The 33-year-old owns 12 medals, which ties her with fellow Americans Jenny Thompson and Dara Torres.

“That’s something that everyone else has kind of placed upon me,” Coughlin said. “And I think it would be a huge honor and it would definitely be a huge achievement, but I’m just swimming because I like to do it. I really like the training, I love racing and I love pushing myself on a daily basis. And if that happens, that would be amazing, but it’s not the outward goal.”

Her focus for the trials is the 100 back and 100 free, but on Saturday she swam the 50 free, out-touching Stanford teammates Simone Manuel and Lia Neal by one-hundredth of a second to claim fourth in 25.19. Australian Emma McKeon won the event in 24.85.

“We’re in that weird type of taper where everything is starting to come together, but not exactly yet,” Coughlin said. “So this is all just kind of like a progress report on the way to trials, and there were a lot of good things in that. My stroke looks really good, body position is really good, my legs are strong. I just don’t have the pop that I will hopefully have in 3½ weeks.”

Nathan Adrian, a fellow Cal graduate, certainly displayed some “pop” by breaking his own meet record in the men’s 50 free, with his time of 21.68 ranking fourth-best in the world.

His focus for Omaha is on the 100 free.

“I think trials is a great experience,” Adrian said. “You know, it’s funny. I have a lot of foreign swimmer friends who are jealous of Team USA people because they get to go to trials, and they’re even considering taking a little bit of time away from their training camps to watch. That’s how big of a deal U.S. Olympic team trials has become.

“And even some of the Australian guys, they were looking at the crowd today and they were like, ‘Dude, what? This is the crowd you guys get for a Grand Prix meet? That’s cool.’ That’s coming from a place where swimming is one of their national sports, so I think that’s been really exciting for us. And USA Swimming has done a good job, and Olympic trials is going to be an amazing show.”

Three more meet records were broken Saturday:

Cal senior Josh Prenot, fresh off Friday’s win in the men’s 100 breast, dropped more than five seconds off his top time in the morning prelims to set a new mark in the 200 breast at 2:09.44;

Australian Jessica Ashwood was two-tenths of a second off her third-fastest time in the world at 4:03.91, cruising to victory in the women’s 400 free;