Grant Combs Student Assistant | Northern Michigan University Athletics Website
Grant Combs Student Assistant | Northern Michigan University Athletics Website
The Northern Michigan University (NMU) women's swim and dive team concluded their participation in the 2025 NCAA National Championships on Saturday. The team secured two All-American honors during the event.
Anika Wright earned a first team All-America honor by finishing 8th in the 1650 freestyle. Additionally, Mia Strazny received a second team All-America accolade for her 16th place finish in the 200 backstroke.
Overall, NMU's Wildcats placed 16th out of 39 teams with a total of 66 points. Nova Southeastern emerged as champions with 475 points, followed by Drury with 463 points and Colorado Mesa with 376 points.
In the morning preliminaries, both Strazny and Camilla Carbone competed in the 200 backstroke. Strazny swam in heat four, placing fourth in her heat with a time of 2:00.16 and finishing 15th overall to qualify for the consolation finals. Carbone competed in heat two, recording a time of 2:02.88 and finishing fifth in her heat and 29th overall.
During the same session, Wright and Annika Geyer participated in the time trials for the 1650 freestyle. Wright secured first place in her heat and finished eighth overall with a time of 16:55.29, earning her first team All-America recognition. Geyer completed her respective heat seventh with a time of 17:24.47, ending up at position number twenty-seven overall.
In the evening finals session, Strazny swam lane one during the consolation finals of the 200 backstroke, securing eighth place within that heat with a final time of two minutes and one point sixty-one seconds to earn second team All-America status.
The NMU team's day concluded with their performance in the women's relay race over four hundred meters freestyle where Wright (53 point eighty), Geyer (53 point thirteen), Strazny (53 point zero seven), alongside Carbone (54 point seventy-eight) collectively achieved fourth placement within their assigned heat; they closed out twentieth overall tallying an aggregate timing reading at three minutes thirty-four seconds seventy-eight milliseconds.
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