Overall Career Honors
- 3x Overall CSCAA All-American
- 2x First Team - 2023 & 2024 (400 IM)
- 1x Second Team - 2024 (200 IM)
- 5x All-RMAC
- 4x First Team
- 2023 (200 IM & 400 IM)
- 2024 (200 IM & 400 IM)
- 1x Second Team - 2024 (500 Free)
- RMAC All-Academic First Team (2023-24)
- First Team CSCAA Scholar All-American (2023)
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2023-24 (Junior @ Colorado Mesa): Competed in 11 meets, including the NCAA and RMAC Championships… Earned a pair of CSCAA All-America honors at the national meet in Geneva, Ohio, placing seventh in the 400 IM and 10
th in the 200 IM… Earned first team honors in the 400 IM with a time of 4:21.20 after setting a personal-best time of 4:18.67 in the prelims… That time ranks third in program history… Earned second team honors in the 200 IM with a time of 2:02.31… Also placed 20
th in the 200 Back with a personal best time of 2:01.54 and 34
th in the 500 Free (5:00.59)… Set a 100 Fly personal best time of 58.76 during her 400 IM prelim time… Earned two silver medals and First Team All-RMAC honors at the conference meet while also picking up another Second Team All-RMAC honor… Placed second in both individual medleys behind teammate Benedict Nagy setting a personal-best and national qualifying time of 2:01.35 (altitude-adjusted) in the 200 to rank fourth in program history… Also had a then personal-best of 4:21.19 in the 400… Also set a personal-best of 4:55.11 (converted) to take fourth and a second team all-conference honor in the 500 Free… Ranks fourth in CMU history with that time… Also placed fifth in the 1650 Free with a personal-best of 17:26.52 (converted)… Accounted for 63 team points in her four individual events, sixth most in the meet… Helped the Mavs win the “B” heats of the 400 and 800 Free Relays as well… Had a personal best 1000 Free extracted split time of 10:37.94 during the 1650 Free at the BYU/Air Force meet… Set a personal best and NCAA qualifying time of 2:02.31 (converted) in the 200 Back at the TYR/CMU Invitational… Voted on to the RMAC All-Academic First Team… Named as a CSCAA First Team Scholar All-American… Ended the season ranked amongst the RMAC’s top 10 in five different championship events, standing second in both the 200 and 400 IM, fifth in the 500 Free as well as seventh in the 200 Back & 1650 Free.
Summer 2023: Placed second in both the 200 and 400-meter individual medley while taking third in the 400 free at the Colorado State Championships, setting long course personal-bests of 2:23.59 (200 IM), 5:08.52 (400 IM) and 4:32.41 (400 Free).
2022-23 (Sophomore @ Colorado Mesa): Competed in all 11 meets, including the RMAC and NCAA Division II National Championships… Earned a First Team CSCAA All-America honor in the 400 IM, placing sixth… Also finished 17
th in both the 200 IM and 500 free, setting a season-best time of 4:59.25 in the latter… Had claimed the silver medal and First Team All-RMAC honors in both individual medleys at the RMAC Championships finishing only behind teammate Lily Borgenheimer… Set NCAA qualifying and season-best times of 2:03.57 and 4:20.67 to do so… Also finished sixth in both the 500 free and 200 fly at the RMAC Championships… Had a NCAA qualifying time of 5:00.19 in the 500 free prelims while setting a personal-best of 2:09.66 in the 200 fly… Scored 60 team points in her four individual events at the conference meet, ninth most of any women’s swimmer in the entire meet… Also helped the Mavs win the “B” heat of the 800 free relay… Was selected as a First Team CSCAA Scholar All-American.
2021-22 (Freshman @ Carson-Newman): Swam in ten meets for the Carson-Newman College Eagles, including the Bluegrass Mountain Conference Championships… Finished 17
th in the 1000 free with a season-best time of 10:58.81… Also reached the consolation “C” finals in the 200 and 500 free, finishing 19
th and 23
rd, respectively… Went on to post personal-best times of 1:53.61 (200 free) and 2:08.82 (200 IM) at the Royal Open… Set a season-best time of 5:09.28 in a time trial at the Tennessee Invitational… Also had a 400 IM season-best of 4:39.42 there.
Prep: 2021 graduate of Palmer Ridge High School.
Club: Swam for the Pikes Peak Athletics… Coached by George Heidinger… Finished sixth in the 1500 free at the 2019 Colorado Senior Long Course Championships after recording the same finish in the 800 at the 2018 meet… Placed seventh in the 1650 free at the 2018 Colorado Senior Short Course Championships. Was fifth in the 400 free at the Senior Long Course State Championships before departing for Carson-Newman… Placed third in the 400 IM and sixth in the 200 IM at the Lone Course Championships in July, 2022.
Personal: Is majoring in political science… Daughter of Pat and Chris Bains… Has five siblings, including four older siblings who have all competed in NCAA Division II swimming.
Why I Chose CMU: “I chose CMU because I wanted to go to a school that provides both great academic opportunities and also a swim team that has a good work ethic and team environment. I found that CMU offered both of these, and even exceeded expectations concerning the swim team. I am very excited to be surrounded by athletes who are all working towards becoming both better athletes and people overall. While I am not sure exactly what career I want to do for the rest of my life, I know that whatever I do, I want to be able to continue learning and growing after graduating. Being a little bit of a nerd, having the ability to continue to learn is extremely important to me. And while I may not know exactly what that looks like yet, I am excited to find out these next few years at CMU.”
