College swimming: Bennies’ Haley Zelen finishes 2nd in 100 butterfly at D-III nationals

INDIANAPOLIS — College of St. Benedict junior Haley Zelen closed out a powerful week on the NCAA Division III nationwide meet with a Thirty third-place end within the 100-yard freestyle on Saturday, March 21, on the Indiana University Natatorium. She posted a time of 51.35 seconds within the occasion, simply shy of her school-record/season-best mark of fifty.79 seconds. But the spotlight of the championships for her got here on Thursday, March 19, when she earned All-American honors within the 100 butterfly.

Zelen positioned second general with a school-record time of 53.88 seconds, marking the best all-time end by a Bennies swimmer. She additionally turned this system’s first All-American since Katie Kuhlman, who positioned sixth within the 100 breaststroke in 2002.

Zelen additionally made historical past alongside her mom, Deanne Siverson Zelen, forming the primary mother-daughter All-American tandem in program historical past. She is the 14th All-American in CSB swimming and diving historical past.

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Haley additionally competed within the 50 freestyle earlier within the week, inserting thirty fifth with a time of 23.62 seconds.

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With the runner-up end within the 100 butterfly, Zelen recorded 17 group factors, which positioned CSB in a tie for twenty ninth as a group.

The nationwide meet capped a historic 2025-26 season for Zelen. She set 4 particular person faculty information and contributed to 4 record-setting relay groups. Individually, she established program bests within the 100 butterfly, 50 freestyle (23.07 seconds), 100 freestyle and 100 IM (59.76 seconds), whereas additionally rating second all-time within the 100 breaststroke (1:05.16).

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