GREENSBORO, N.C. – A quartet of individual SCAC All-American performances highlighted the final day of competition at the 2024 NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships at the Greensboro Aquatic Center in Greensboro, North Carolina. NCAA Championship Site | Men's Results | Women's Results
Trinity first year Amy Benson closed out her first NCAA Championships in style, earning All-American honors in the 100-yard freestyle finishing eighth with a time of 51.33. She is the first women’s swimmer to turn in a top-eight finish in the event at the national championships since 2017. Benson finished the week with a pair of individual All-American performances, earning Honorable Mention All-American accolades in the 50-yard freestyle finishing 11th on Wednesday. Trinity senior Emma Hagan closed out her remarkable individual career finishing 58th in the event with a time of 52.81.
Austin College senior Sammi Thiele closed out her career in style collecting her third individual All-American honor of the meet, finishing seventh in the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 2:02.55. Thiele qualified fifth for the evening’s final swim with an SCAC open record time of 1:59.67. In all Thiele finishes a historic week with three individual top eight swim and All-American honors also taking home fourth in the 200-yard IM and third in the 100-yard backstroke. She is just the sixth swimmer in SCAC history to earn multiple individual top-eight All-American honors in a career and her three honors are good enough for a tie for third all-time in league history.
Trinity sophomore Neely Burns put an exclamation point on the end of her NCAA Championships, finishing fifth in the 200-yard breaststroke with an SCAC open record time of 2:15.28. It marked the third individual All-American performance of the week for Burns, highlighted by her National Championship in the 400-yard IM on Thursday and her sixth-place finish in the 200-yard IM on Wednesday. Historically, her All-American honor in the 200-yard breaststroke was her sixth individual top-eight finish, the most in SCAC women’s swimming history.
In the relay events, Trinity’s women’s 400-freestyle relay squad of Benson, Burns, Caroline Myers and Kyla Foxhoven finished tied for 19th with a time of 3:29.76.
On the men’s side, Trinity senior Michael Kohl became the first men’s swimmer since 2015 to secure multiple All-American honors in the same championship after finishing 16th in the 100-yard freestyle to earn Honorable Mention accolades. Kohl, who earlier this week finished seventh in the 100-yard butterfly, turned in a 100-yard free time of 44.94. Kohl closes out his historic career with four individual All-American honors, tied for fourth most in SCAC history. DePauw’s John Cook leads all SCAC male swimmers with eight career individual All-American swims.
Trinity senior Nathan Early closed out his successful week, finishing 25th in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 45.24. Early earned Honorable Mention All-American honors in the 200-yard freestyle, finishing 12th on Thursday.
For the meet, SCAC student-athletes collected one national championship, seven individual All-American honors and three relay teams received All-American recognition.
In the team standings, the Trinity women finished 12th overall with 88 total points, while Austin College finished 20th with 43 points. It marked the first time in SCAC women’s swimming history two teams have finished in the top-20 of the final standings and Trinity’s 12th-place finish marks the highest women’s finish since DePauw took home ninth in 2009. On the men’s side, Trinity finished 32nd with 18 total points.
