Gettysburg rounds out championship with All-America honors

THE FACTS
Gettysburg finishes twenty ninth
What: NCAA Div. III girls’s swimming championship
When: Wednesday-Saturday, Mar. 18-21
Where: Indianapolis, Ind.

THE SKINNY STORY

Mia Morreale (Short Hills, N.J./Millburn) turned Gettysburg’s highest particular person finisher at a nationwide championship occasion in 18 years to assert All-America honors and lead the Bullets on the 2026 NCAA Div. III girls’s swimming and diving championship.

WEDNESDAY RECAP:

• Lanie McKenzie (Wilmington, Del./Charter School of Wilmington) and Mia Morreale (Short Hills, N.J./Millburn) opened the week within the 200 IM. McKenzie positioned twenty sixth with a time of two:05.60 whereas Morreale was thirty fourth with a time of two:06.65.

• The 400 medley relay of McKenzie, Maya Knoller (Bernardsville, N.J./Newark Academy), Morgan Puckett (Healdsburg, Calif./Cardinal Newman) and Delaney Reck (Pawcatuck, Conn./Stonington) positioned twenty third with a time of three:53.92.

THURSDAY MORNING RECAP

• The 200 free relay group of Delaney Reck, Valerie Lawton (Yardley, Pa./Pennsbury), Mia Morreale and Maya Knoller simply missed a spot within the finals, inserting seventeenth with a time of 1:33.85. The mark ranks second in program historical past.

FRIDAY RECAP

• The 200 medley relay of Lanie McKenzie, Maya Knoller, Morgan Puckett and Valerie Lawton completed twentieth with a time of 1:44.05, which ranks fourth in program historical past.

• Mia Morreale gained her warmth of the 100 backstroke with a program-record time of 55.96 seconds however positioned nineteenth total within the subject. McKenzie positioned forty second total with a time of 57.27 seconds.

• The 800 free relay of Lawton, McKenzie, Morreale and Puckett posted a time of seven:42.36 for the No. 6 time in program historical past, ending twenty first within the occasion.

SATURDAY MORNING RECAP

• Mia Morreale certified fourth within the 200 backstroke to make her first closing, lacking her personal program document by 0.07. She posted a time of 1:59.70 to earn a spot within the championship closing. Lanie McKenzie positioned forty first in the identical occasion with a time of two:07.88.

• Morreale and McKenzie bookended the 400 free relay, becoming a member of Delaney Reck and Valerie Lawton to complete thirteenth with a program-record time of three:25.47 to assert a spot within the comfort closing.

SATURDAY NIGHT RECAP

• Morreale had a robust near her 200 backstroke, ending sixth within the championship closing to develop into the Bullets’ first first-team All-American since Keira Heath in 2008, who was fifth within the 1650 free, and the primary within the 200 backstroke since Lynn Cassidy was fifth in 1992. Morreale touched with a time of two:00.86.

• The 400 free relay added a gaggle All-America honor to spherical out the week. Reck, Morreale, McKenzie, and Lawton mixed to submit a time of three:27.57 to complete fifteenth.