Bergstrom and Moehn earn All-American at NCAA girls’s swimming and diving championships to proceed Quaker distance legacy

A historic finish to a historic season. 

Last week, senior distance freestyle specialists Sydney Bergstrom and Anna Moehn competed on the 2026 NCAA Division I girls’s swimming and diving championships at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. In the 1650-yard freestyle, Bergstrom touched the wall in Twelfth whereas Moehn was simply behind in sixteenth to say second-team All-American honors on the last meet of their collegiate swimming careers. 

This is Bergstrom’s second look on the nationwide stage. The Swarthmore, Pa. native made spectacular strides this season to enhance to a Twelfth-place end with a time of 16:04.94 within the mile after ending in thirty sixth final yr. 

To get to NCAAs, Bergstrom dropped over 5 seconds for a career-best within the occasion to say the crown within the 1650 free at this yr’s Ivy League championships, with Moehn finishing the 1-2 punch. Moehn additionally went on to shine at NCAAs — bettering her twenty first end from 2025 to sixteenth in her third look on the championships. 

With their top-16 finishes, the 2 be a part of an elite group of now 4 swimmers in program historical past to earn All-American honors — the opposite two being their former teammates and fellow distance freestyle specialists: Anna Kalandadze and Catherine Buroker. 

“I feel like [Moehn and I] both have been in this together for so long, and so it was really nice that our last mile ever, we were able to achieve something like that,” Bergstrom mentioned. 

The Quakers have a wealthy legacy of distance freestyle dominance. This is the seventh-straight season that no less than one distance freestyle swimmer donning the Red and Blue has competed at NCAAs. 

The legacy goes again past latest reminiscence. 2018 College graduate Virginia Burns claimed four-straight Ivy League championships within the 500-yard free, and 2014 College graduate and 7-time Ivy League particular person champion Shelby Fortin was named to Penn Athletics Hall of Fame for her profitable versatility in all of the freestyle occasions. 

Coach Mike Schnur has ceaselessly advised tales about Burns and Fortin to Moehn and Bergstrom. Now, the 2 seniors etch their names in historical past, leaving tales to be handed all the way down to the following technology.

“To keep contributing to this legacy, I hope it inspires other people as it did to me when I first came here,” Bergstrom mentioned, “I’m really proud to have been able to do that, especially in my last season.” 

It’s been fairly a journey additionally for Moehn, who didn’t expect to swim any distance freestyle when she got here to Penn. She now leaves Sheerr Pool having medaled at Ivies within the 500 and 1650 free each season.  

There’s lots of historical past, particularly within the Georgia Tech pool, for the Quakers. 2016 Wharton graduate Chris Swanson claimed Penn swimming and diving’s first NCAA title in 2016 within the 1650 free. 

The journey to the nationwide championships is rarely straightforward. Bergstrom and Moehn swam with out coaches throughout their first week of NCAA preparation as the lads’s workforce competed at Ivies, and the remainder of the workforce both accomplished their season or was competing on the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships. 

For the remainder of their coaching, which included spring break, the NCAA coaching group grew to incorporate sophomore breaststroke specialist Watson Nguyen and junior particular person medley specialist Peter Whittington, who’re set to compete on the males’s version of the championships this week. 

Bergstrom and Moehn’s standout performances formally conclude Penn girls’s swimming and diving’s season. To shut out the common season, the ladies set 16 new pool and 5 program information in a triumphant return to Sheer Pool. At Ivies in February, the workforce raced to second place — the best end in program historical past.