O’Donoghue provides 200 free All-America to NCAA Championships haul

INDIANAPOLIS – Continuing to construct on her popularity as one of many nation’s prime rookies, Rowan O’Donoghue of the Twentieth-ranked Salisbury University girls’s swimming crew added a second All-America title to her 2026 NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships haul after Day 2 within the water on Thursday on the IU Natatorium.
 
O’Donoghue (Fr. – Newark, Del.) secured Second-Team All-America laurels within the 200-yard freestyle, making it a pair of Second-Team nods after profitable the identical honor in Wednesday’s 500 free. She tied for ninth within the morning prelims with a time of 1:50.74, simply 16 hundredths of a second again of the First-Team cutline. In the night’s finals, O’Donoghue swam the gap in 1:50.27, good for eleventh place general.
 
A second All-America flip for O’Donoghue highlighted a day that noticed Salisbury put opponents in three occasions. Addi Wood additionally raced within the 200 free, inserting forty eighth in 1:58.41. In the 100 butterfly, Libby Miyashita (56.81) and Lily Griffin (57.02) slotted thirty ninth and forty first, respectively. SU additionally had a crew within the 200 free relay that was disqualified after an early take-off.
 
With O’Donoghue including six factors to the Sea Gulls’ whole for the meet, Salisbury hits the midway level of the championship meet tied for Twenty eighth-place positioning on the energy of seven factors.
 
The Sea Gulls prepared for Day 3 on the NCAA Championships – that includes the 200 medley relay, 100 breaststroke, 200 fly, and 800 free relay – on Friday. Prelims are locked in for 10 a.m., adopted by finals at 6 p.m.
 

Salisbury University is a proud member of NCAA Division III with major membership within the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference, together with affiliate membership within the New Jersey Athletic Conference (soccer, males’s & girls’s swimming), Coastal Lacrosse Conference (males’s lacrosse), State University of New York Athletic Conference (area hockey), and Colonial Women’s Golf Conference (girls’s golf). With over 500 student-athletes in 23 varsity sports activities, SU is acknowledged as one of many nation’s best intercollegiate athletics applications no matter division, that includes devoted coaches and employees that foster excellence on and off the sector. The Sea Gulls have received a mixed 23 crew nationwide championships, 24 particular person nationwide championships, and 207 convention championships, and have produced 54 Academic All-Americans.

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