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Shippensburg University Athletics

2012-13 Women's Swimming Roster

Julia Brownrigg

  • Position IM/Back
  • Height 5-5
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Mechanicsburg
  • Major Undeclared
  • Highschool Cumberland Valley

Biography

PSAC Individual Competition
9-Time PSAC Place-Winner
2010 –
100 Back (5th), 200 Back (7th), 200 IM (8th)
2011 – 200 Back (12th), 100 Back (13th), 200 IM (16th)
2012 – 200 Back (4th), 200 IM (7th), 400 IM (8th)

PSAC Relay Competition
2012 PSAC Champion (800 Free)
11-Time PSAC Place-Winner
3-Time All-PSAC
2010 –
400 Free (5th), 200 Medley (7th), 400 Medley (8th), 200 Free (8th)
2011 – 200 Free (3rd), 400 Free (7th), 200 Medley (8th), 400 Medley (10th)
2012 – 800 Free (1st), 200 Free (2nd), 400 Free (4th)

NCAA Relay Competition
2011 –
800 Free (13th), 400 Free (16th)
2012 – 800 Free (10th), 400 Free (13th), 200 Free (16th)

Top Performances
100 Back:
57.75
200 Back: 2:05.18
200 IM: 2:09.34
400 IM: 4:36.18

2011-12 (Junior): Solidified her status as one of the best swimmers in the PSAC during her third season with the Raiders…contributed to three Top-4 relays at the conference championships, including a title in the 800 freestyle relay for the first time in over 12 years…helped the 200 freestyle relay finish second and the 400 freestyle relay finish fourth…earned NCAA honorable mention All-America honors with three Top-16 finishes at the national championships…contributed to the 800 freestyle relay that set a school record… part of the 400-yard freestyle relay team that earned an honorable mention All-America performance (13th) at the NCAA Championships with the second-fastest time in school history (3:29.84)…member of 200-yard freestyle relay team that also earned honorable mention All-America…recorded three individual PSAC place-winning performances…impressed with a fourth-place finish in the 200 backstroke…broke through with outstanding efforts in the individual medley, placing seventh in the 200 and eighth in the 400…improved her career PRs in the 200 backstroke and both individual medley events…was the team’s leading swimmer in both backstroke and individual medley events.

2010-11 (Sophomore): Maintained her status as one of the most important swimmers on the Raider squad…scored three times as an individual at the PSAC Championships…placed 12th in the 200-yard backstroke, 13th in the 100-yard backstroke and 16th in the 200-yard individual medley…posted SU’s fastest time of the season in the 100-yard backstroke at the Patriot Invitational and the 200-yard individual medley at the conference meet…her qualifying time of 2:10.40 in the 200-yard individual medley is the third-fastest in SU history…contributed to the 200-yard freestyle relay that placed third, the 400-yard freestyle relay that placed seventh, the 200-yard medley relay that placed eighth and the 400-yard medley relay that placed 10th at the PSAC meet… swam the third leg of the 200-yard freestyle relay squad that broke the school record in a time trial at the PSAC meet with a time of 1:35.28…earned honorable mention All-America honors at the NCAA Championships with a 13th-place finish on the 800-yard freestyle relay squad and a 16th-place finish on the 400-yard freestyle relay squad…individually competed in the 100 and 200-yard backstroke as well as the 200-yard individual medley at the NCAA Championships.

2009-10 (Freshman): Thrived for the Raider swim team as an integral contributor during her debut season…immediately became SU’s best backstroke swimmer in both flights…broke Kim Magnanelli’s five-year-old school record in the 100-yard backstroke…established a new SU record of 57.75 during a medley relay split at the PSAC Championships…reached the finals in three events at the PSAC Championships and placed highly in each, including a fifth-place finish in the 100-yard backstroke (58.96), a seventh-place finish in the 200-yard backstroke (2:07.82) and an eighth-place finish in the 200-yard IM (2:12.89)…contributed to four of SU’s five relays at the PSAC meet, including a fifth-place effort with the 400-yard freestyle unit…competed at the NCAA National Championships in the backstroke…named a PSAC Women’s Swimmer of the Week in late November following her school-record performance…posted the team’s second-fastest time of the season in the 200-yard IM during a PSAC relay split.

Cumberland Valley High School: Earned four letters for head coach Kristen Grieble… named team captain her senior year… named a member of national team… also competed for the West Shore YMCA club team.

Personal: Full name is Julia Marie Brownrigg…is the daughter of Geoff and Karen Brownrigg…majoring in marketing.