Celeste Hollis Named HCAC Women’s Swim and Dive Athlete of the Year

The Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (HCAC) introduced the winners of the 2026 males’s and girls’s swimming and diving Athletes of the Year awards on Friday, with Franklin junior Celeste Hollis (Granger, Ind.) incomes recognition on the ladies’s aspect.
 
The award seems at a swimmer or diver’s whole physique of labor over the course of a season, together with any postseason appearances. Hollis took house the respect for the second 12 months in a row, as she was named Co-Athlete of the Year for the 2024-25 season together with teammate Kat Lundy.

Hollis was one in every of solely two HCAC swimmers to qualify for the 2026 NCAA Division III Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships. She competed within the 50 freestyle, 100 butterfly, and 200 butterfly, inserting 18th within the 100 fly. Her efficiency on the HCAC Championships noticed her claiming two particular person gold medals (100 butterfly and 200 butterfly), plus 4 extra titles as a part of Franklin’s 200 freestyle, 200 medley, 400 medley, and 400 freestyle relay groups. Her 100 fly time of 55.25 was additionally a meet and open document within the HCAC.

Hollis left her mark within the Franklin document books, setting new information within the 100 fly, 200 fly and 50 free this season whereas additionally teaming with Lundy, Avery Tomlinson and Petal Sloan to interrupt the varsity mark within the 400 medley relay.