CARLISLE, Pa. – The Shippensburg University women's swimming team garnered nine total individual scoring performances and a pair of new all-time top ten performances on the final day of competition at the 2024 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Championships, finishing in sixth place after competition wrapped at the Keystone Aquatic Center.
 
Freshman Jazz Barry delivered another Top 10 performance in school history in the evening session, swimming the 100-yard freestyle in the pre-consolation 'C' final. Barry took 18th overall with a time of 52.52, lowering her personal best by .34 seconds. She entered the top ten in the event, debuting in fifth.
 
Senior Alyssa Tomb and freshman Charlee Shaw both reached the championship 'A' final of the 200-yard breaststroke, with Tomb taking fifth overall with a time of 2:24.11. For Tomb, it becomes her fourth straight scoring performance in the event, with all four placing in the Top 12 each year (8th in 2023, 12th in 2022, 8th in 2021).
 
Shaw swam a 2:26.57 in the morning to qualify eighth for the evening and entered the top ten in the event at tenth. Her eighth-place finish at night saw her drop more time to go 2:26.00, moving her into ninth in school history. Both times were improvements to her personal best, which came at the 2023 F&M Invitational.
 
Juniors Gracie Wetzel and Emily Newton also competed in finals in the 200-yard breaststroke, with Wetzel competing in the consolation 'B' final and Newton in the 'C' final. Wetzel placed 16th overall and Newton placed 22nd, her third straight 22nd place finish. Wetzel delivered a personal best with a morning swim of 2:29.48, bettering her previous best by over a second set back in 2022 at Gettysburg.
 
Senior Allie Keeling had a strong 1,650-yard freestyle in the morning, swimming a 17:44.85 that placed her second going into the fastest heat at night, and placing eighth overall in the event. It is Keeling's third straight scoring performance, taking 10th last year and 12th in 2022.
 
Three Raiders made finals in the 200-yard backstroke, with senior Marissa Bittner competing in the 'A' final and placing eighth overall with a time of 2:08.55. Senior Michaela Hersh swam the 'B' final with an 11th overall finish with a 2:06.54, and sophomore Makennah Fickett swam the 'C' final with a 21st place finish and a 2:09.93.
 
The quartet of freshman Michelle Kubiak, Barry, junior Lauren Croll, and Tomb ended the meet with an 11th place finish in the 400-yard freestyle relay in a time 3:37.63.
 
Overall, the Raiders compiled 16 total personal bests, and nine total top ten performances in school history. Bittner broke the school record in the 100-yard backstroke, Barry totaled three top ten performances and achieved a NCAA provisional 'B' cut in the 100-yard breaststroke.
 
Barry will now await selection for the NCAA National Championships, held March 13-16 at Geneva, Ohio.
 
1650 Free
8. Allie Keeling 17:44.85
28. Carol Fabian 19:51.84
 
100 Free
18. Jazz Barry 52.58 (53.49p) [#5 all-time at SU] [PR]
31. Michelle Kubiak 54.48
41. Sammy Taylor 55.43
 
200 Back
8. Marissa Bittner 2:08.55 (2:06.91p)
11. Michaela Hersh 2:06.54 (2:08.13p)
21. Makennah Fickett 2:09.93 (2:11.28p)
25. Caroline Schweigert 2:13.65
 
200 Breast
5. Alyssa Tomb 2:24.11 (2:24.06p)
8. Charlee Shaw 2:26.00 (2:26.57p) [#9 all-time at SU] [PR]
16. Gracie Wetzel 2:31.50 (2:29.48p) [PR]
22. Emily Newton 2:30.81 (2:31.03p)
26. Lauren Croll 2:33.58
30. Lexington Wagner 2:34.51 [PR]
32. Jenna Ober 2:35.28 [PR]
 
400 Free Relay
11. Michelle Kubiak, Jazz Barry, Lauren Croll, Alyssa Tomb 3:37.63