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Liberty Swimming & Diving Heads to ECU
1/16/2025 10:45:00 AM | Women's Swimming & Diving
Liberty will open the 2025 portion of its swimming & diving schedule this weekend at East Carolina, taking on the Pirates at Minges Natatorium.
This weekend's meet will be a two-day contest, beginning at 5 p.m. on Friday. The two teams will begin day two at 1 p.m., Saturday.
Liberty will be facing a future conference opponent in East Carolina, as Liberty, James Madison and Marshall will join the American Athletic Conference as affiliate members in women's swimming & diving beginning on July 1, 2025.
How to Follow the Lady Flames
Live results will be available through the MeetMobile App.
Liberty's ASUN Athletes of the Week This Season
Swimmer of the Week Aly Bozzuto (Oct. 17, Nov. 13)
Diver of the Week Mary Herndon (Oct. 17)
Co-Diver of the Week Maddie Freece (Oct. 24)
Diver of the Week Chloe LaCount (Nov. 27)
Team Notes
The Lady Flames will close out their dual-meet schedule with a two-day duel meet against Campbell and UNC Asheville on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 at Liberty Natatorium.
This weekend's meet will be a two-day contest, beginning at 5 p.m. on Friday. The two teams will begin day two at 1 p.m., Saturday.
Liberty will be facing a future conference opponent in East Carolina, as Liberty, James Madison and Marshall will join the American Athletic Conference as affiliate members in women's swimming & diving beginning on July 1, 2025.
How to Follow the Lady Flames
Live results will be available through the MeetMobile App.
Liberty's ASUN Athletes of the Week This Season
Swimmer of the Week Aly Bozzuto (Oct. 17, Nov. 13)
Diver of the Week Mary Herndon (Oct. 17)
Co-Diver of the Week Maddie Freece (Oct. 24)
Diver of the Week Chloe LaCount (Nov. 27)
Team Notes
- The Lady Flames won the 2024 TYR '85 Invite, the first midseason invitational that Liberty has won in program history.
- Liberty set program records in both the 200 breaststroke (Aly Bozzuto – 2:11.28) and 400 freestyle relay (3:16.97).
- At the TYR '85 Invite, Chloe LaCount earned NCAA Zone Diving scores in both one-meter (276.45) and three-meter (283.65) diving. Kamryn Cannings swam NCAA B cut times in the 100 fly (52.32) and 200 fly (1:58.31), while Aly Bozzuto turned in B cuts in the 100 breaststroke (1:00.37) and 200 breaststroke (2:11.28). Sydney Stricklin earned NCAA B standard times in the 100 free (48.94) and 100 backstroke (53.31), while Malia Francis' 1:56.74 met the B standard in the 200 backstroke.
- Liberty (5-2) defeated longtime opponent Campbell, 156-100, on Nov. 9 in Buies Creek, N.C. That meet saw nine different Lady Flames earn event victories. A total of four Lady Flames (Layne Jones – 100 back; Emily Harstad – 200 fly; Sadie Stricklin – 200 back; Kaycee Cannings – 500 free) all picked up their first wins of the season at Campbell.
- Twice on Nov. 9, Liberty had back-to-back races won by sisters. Sydney Stricklin won the 100 free before her sister Sadie claimed to 200 back in the very next race. Kaycee (500 free) and Kamryn (100 fly) Cannings posted wins in back-to-back races as well.
- Freshman Aly Bozzuto won both the 50 free and 200 breaststroke at Campbell. She has won every event in which she has been entered in dual meets, both individual and relay.
- Liberty won its sixth straight conference championship and seventh in program history, claiming the 2024 ASUN Swimming & Diving Championships. For the meet, Liberty earned 48 A Finals, 26 podium finishes and seven event victories.
- Kamryn Cannings was named Co-Most Outstanding Freshman of the 2024 ASUN Championships, winning both the 100 fly and 200 fly and placing second in the 100 free. Cannings and Sydney Stricklin (2022) are current Lady Flames who have been named Most Outstanding Freshman during their careers.
- Cannings competed in the 2024 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships, placing 19th in the 100 fly in the fastest time (51.45) by any freshman in the event.
- Maddie Freece was named Most Outstanding Diver of the 2024 ASUN Championships, her third career conference most outstanding diver award. She won three-meter diving at the ASUN Championships, while finishing as runner-up on one-meter.
- Freece was one out of six Liberty divers to be selected to compete at the 2024 NCAA Zone Diving Championships. She was joined in qualifying by Mary Herndon, Shannon Icard, Chloe LaCount, Caroline Stamps and Meagan Tuohy. All but Tuohy return this season.
- Liberty had two swimmers compete in the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, with Heather Gardner swimming in the 100-meter breaststroke and current Lady Flame Malia Francis placing 38th in the 200-meter backstroke. Additionally, Kamryn Cannings competed in the Canada Olympic Trials.
- 15th-year Head Coach Jake Shellenberger has led the Lady Flames from the program's inception. He has posted a 133-40 dual-meet record, being named CCSA Women's Swimming Coach of the Year six times (2012, 2014, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024).
- Six Lady Flames received CSCAA Individual Scholar All-America honors last season, in Kamryn Cannings (first team), Mary Herndon (second team), Shannon Icard (second team), Grace Isaacs, Genna Joyce (second team) and Caroline Stamps (second team).
- A total of 12 current Lady Flames have posted conference podium finishes in their career, led by seven from Maddie Freece. Sydney Stricklin (4), Shelby Kahn (4), Kamryn Cannings (3), Grace Isaacs (3), Kate Baker (1), Malia Francis (1), Isabelle Gomez (1), Mary Herndon (1), Shannon Icard (1), Caroline Stamps (1) and Eden Troxell (1) have all podiumed as well.
- Liberty is 2-0 all-time against East Carolina in swimming & diving. The Lady Flames defeated the Pirates in a tri meet on Oct. 22-23, 2021 which also featured Penn State. The last meeting between these two teams was Jan. 7, 2023, a 156-144 Liberty win at ECU.
- The Pirates are 7-1 in dual meets this season and finished fourth at the 2024 American Swimming & Diving Championships.
- Liberty is 45-5 all-time in dual meets contested in North Carolina.
The Lady Flames will close out their dual-meet schedule with a two-day duel meet against Campbell and UNC Asheville on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 at Liberty Natatorium.
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