Women’s Swimming Earns Second All-American Efficiency – LSU

ATLANTA – The LSU girls’s swimming program concluded the second day of the 2026 NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships on the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta, Georgia, by attaining All-American standing in a relay for the second time in as many days.

The 200-free relay squad, consisting of Michaela de Villiers, Avery Littlefield, Zoe Carlos-Broc, and Megan Barnes, put collectively a time of 1:27.65 to complete Eleventh. The Eleventh-place end earns the squad Honorable Mention All-American honors. It is the Tigers’ second All-American efficiency of the meet, already surpassing final yr’s complete on the ladies’s swimming facet.

A pair of Tigers recorded their first particular person NCAA Championships look Thursday morning. Sophomore Avery Littlefield swam within the 100-fly, and freshman Martina Bukvic swam within the 100-breast. Both girls, together with Giulia Zambelli, made their NCAA Championships debut in Wednesday’s relays. 

To start the morning prelims session, Sofia Sartori recorded a time of 51.72 within the 100-fly, ending tied for twenty second. Littlefield posted a time of 53.23 to complete in forty fourth.

Barnes clocked a time of 1:46.19 within the 200-free. It slotted her in thirty eighth place total for the occasion.

In the 100-breast, Bukvic completed twenty fifth, touching the wall with a time of 59.69.

None of the Tigers posted instances that certified for the finals within the afternoon.

At the conclusion of day two, the Tigers’ level complete sits at 26, transferring the workforce up into sixteenth place total. Virginia nonetheless leads the meet total with 249 factors.

The Friday session will characteristic prelims at 9 a.m. CT for the 100-back, 200-breast, 500-free, 50-free, 400-medley relay, and 3m diving. The finals session for these occasions will start at 5 p.m. CT. The Tigers can have opponents in every of those occasions besides the 3m diving.

Live stats could be adopted on the MeetMobile app, and stay protection of the meet might be on SEC Network+.

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