Swimming Summer Competitions Recap – Rutgers College Athletics

PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Rutgers‘ swimmers continued to work over the summer time in perfecting their craft and enhancing their instances. During the summer time, various Scarlet Knights made strides with robust performances throughout summer time competitions.

Anna Vlachou excelled in May through the Greek National Swimming Championships. Vlachou set a pair of Greek nationwide data for U-23, doing so within the 50 Butterfly with a time of 26.31 and a 55.03 within the 100 Freestyle. Vlachou gained the gold medal within the butterfly, swimming the European Championship A Cut. That certified her for the European Championships, the place she compete in August in Freestyle and Butterfly occasions. Vlachou was not too long ago named a Big Ten Swimmer to Watch as she enters her senior 12 months and is the college report holder in each the 100 Fly and the 100 Free.

Rising sophomore Emilianna Gonzalez additionally excelled at a high-level meet this summer time, the place she competed on the USA Swimming Speedo Junior National Championships, in motion alongside incoming freshmen Journei Webster and Grace Sorensen. In the 50 Freestyle, Gonzalez had a bronze medal efficiency, incomes her spot on the rostrum with a third-place end within the A Final. Gonzalez, who entered the race as the highest seed with the quickest prelim time, swam a 25.51 at night time to earn the bronze. Gonzalez was simply .13 off of first place and simply .01 seconds behind second place. Webster additionally made the B Finals within the occasion, ending 15^th.  Gonzalez had a robust freshman marketing campaign ‘On the Banks’ as a Finalist within the Big Ten Championships within the 50 Free and was named the Big Ten Swimmer and Freshman of the Week after the meet at Princeton.

Incoming freshman Florence Robitaille competed for her nation this summer time, as she was chosen to the Team Canada Squad for the Junior Pan Pacific Championships. She competed in 4 occasions, making three finals

appearances, highlighted by the 200 Backstroke, the place she was the quickest Canadian swimmer within the occasion, reaching the A Final and inserting sixth general.

Rutgers additionally had eight swimmers in competitors on the 2026 USA Swimming Summer Speedo Sectionals occasion in Ohio. Rutgers had 5 top-10 performances throughout the competitors, together with two A Finals appearances by staff captains Ellie Schinsky (fourth in 200 Butterfly) and Ana Hazlehurst (fifth in 400 IM). Returners Tayla Smith, Casey Zentz, Ava Jurkiewicz and Brooke Thompson had been additionally in competitors on the occasion alongside newcomers Alexis Mesina and Mia Boccio.

Building off the summer time competitions, RU swimmer proceed to follow forward of the upcoming 2026-27 season, which begins with the primary meet RU hosts on October 9-10. Integrating skilled returners with a proficient group of newcomers, the Scarlet Knights are poised for a profitable season.

“I’ve been here for a while now and I think that this is the most excited I have been for a season,” captain and fifth 12 months Ellie Schinsky defined. “And not just for me, but for the team as a whole. We have a lot of very talented freshmen that are starting their career at Rutgers. We’re looking forward to showing up and showing out and show everyone that we’re here, we’re going to make it known.”