Hickman Receives #HLSD Girls’s Swimmer of the Week Award

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Freshman Charisse Hickman earns her first #HLSD Swimmer of the Week award after her performances towards No. 10 Michigan and Pitt.

The league introduced Hickman because the #HLSD Women’s Swimmer of the Week on Wednesday for the week of November 5-11. She joins fellow freshman Lydia Soldatke in receiving the award for the 2025-26 season.

During the tri-meet, Hickman competed in 4 occasions. Competing on the Oakland “B” crew within the 200 medley relay, she helped her group to an eighth-place end (1:46.98). Hickman swam the breaststroke leg of the relay, reaching the quickest break up of all groups at 22.35, ending over 5 seconds forward of the next-best break up.

In the person breaststroke occasions, Hickman was the highest Golden Grizzly competitor. In the 100 breast, she positioned seventh with a time of 1:05.72. She excelled additional within the 200 breast, incomes a fourth-place end. With her time of two:18.82, the freshman outperformed all swimmers from Pitt and was only a second shy or much less behind the highest three swimmers from Michigan. Hickman’s remaining occasion was the 200 IM, the place she positioned fifth total (2:10.19).

The ladies’s crew returns on Nov. 20, the place Hickman and her teammates will face the Eastern Michigan Eagles in a women-only meet at residence on the OU Aquatic Center.

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