ST. MARY'S CITY, Md. - The Gallaudet University women's team finished out the 2025 Atlantic East Conference swimming championships here Sunday evening at The Aquatics Center at the Michael P. O'Brien Athletics & Recreation Center on the campus of St. Mary's College of Maryland.
The final day of the competition began this morning with preliminary events in which GU swam for qualification in the finals that evening. A placement of 16th and above qualifies a swimmer for the final competition.
Day four began with the 200-yard backstroke. First year
Thea Wrenn (Anchorage, Alaska) finished the race in ninth place out of 10 swimmers with a time of three minutes and 10.62 seconds.
As the only Bison in the 200-yard breaststroke, first year
Eliza Peterson (Snellville, Ga.) came in 13th place with a time of 4:24.22.
Together, junior
Sam Michaelson (Southwick, Mass.) and senior
Jaelynn King (Springfield, Pa.) completed the 200-yard butterfly. Michaelson secured a seventh-place finish in 3:42.23 while King pulled up in ninth place (4:08.78).
Pulling through for the Bison and ending the meet on a high note was Michaelson in the 1,650-yard freestyle. Michaelson finished in 10th place (27:07.92) out of 13 swimmers and just one minute behind ninth-place finisher Alyssa Reinhart of Cedar Crest College (25:56.97). First years
Alecia Miller (Litchfield, Ill.) and
Joy Watkins (Hockley, Texas) also tackled the lengthy event, placing 12th and 13th place with times of 30:45.63 and 31:45.54, respectively.
Gallaudet concluded the meet in sixth place out of six teams with 203 total points. The GU swimmers gave it their all this championship weekend, most of them attending an AEC swimming championship for the first time and many achieving personal best times since the start of the season.
St. Mary's College of Maryland took home the championship with an astounding 841 points. Marymount (Va.) University secured second with 565 points as Marywood University remained in third (451). Just behind Marywood, Immaculata University stayed steady in fourth place with 420 points. Leaving it all in the pool, Cedar Crest College leaned on its reserves to surpass GU in a last-ditch effort. Cedar Crest took fifth with 238 points sending Gallaudet home in sixth place with 203 points.
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This concludes the 2024-25 season for the Gallaudet University women's swimming team.
