Liberty Leads, Records Fall on Day 1 at ASUN Championships

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Liberty, seeking its seventh straight conference title, leads the field after day one of the 2025 ASUN Swimming & Diving Championships, held at Allan Jones Aquatic Center in Knoxville, Tenn.

The Lady Flames hold a 40-point lead over Florida Gulf Coast (238-198), with Queens in third place (168).

This year's ASUN Swimming & Diving Championships feature just A and B Finals.

Team Standings
1. Liberty – 238
2. FGCU – 198
3. Queens - 168
4. UNC Asheville – 103
5. North Florida - 48
6. Bellarmine - 30
7. Gardner-Webb - 24

Liberty A Finalists

200 medley relay – 2^nd place in 1:37.84 (Sydney Stricklin (25.16), Aly Bozzuto (26.83), Kamryn Cannings (23.09), Natalie Colarossi (22.76))
Jr. Eden Troxell – 500 freestyle (3^rd place in 4:53.91 – qualified in 4:57.04)
Sr. Shelby Kahn – 500 freestyle (4^th place in 4:54.08 – qualified in 4:54.88)
Fr. Layne Jones – 500 freestyle (8^th place in 4:58.15 – qualified in 4:57.04)
Sr. Sydney Stricklin – 200 IM (2^nd place in 1:57.50 – qualified in 1:59.26)
Sr. Kate Baker – 200 IM (5^th place in 2:00.80 – qualified in 2:01.13)
Sr. Grace Isaacs – 200 IM (8^th place in 2:02.03 – qualified in 2:02.66)
So. Kamryn Cannings – 50 freestyle (1^st place in 22.07 - qualified in 22.25)
Fr. Aly Bozzuto – 50 freestyle (2^nd place in 22.09 - qualified in 22.48)
So. Shannon Icard - Three-meter diving (6) (1^st place in 267.25 - qualified in 255.25)
Sr. Maddie Freece – Three-meter diving (6) (2^nd place in 255.80 - qualified in 225.55)
So. Chloe LaCount - Three-meter diving (6) (6^th place in 233.95 - qualified in 246.10)

Notable

Liberty posted 12 top-eight finishes on Wednesday evening, including seven podium finishes and two event victories. The Lady Flames set two new program records, earning three NCAA B cuts and one NCAA Zone-qualifying score.
In the first event of the night, just 0.43 separated first place (Maddie Foster of Queens, 4:53.65) and fourth place (Liberty's Shelby Kahn, 4:54.08). FGCU's Emma Bjornholdt chased down the pack to finish second in 4:53.87, just ahead of Liberty's Eden Troxell (4:53.91), who picked up her second career podium finish.
In a lightning-quick 200 IM with two B cuts, both Queens' Abigail Zboran (1:56.06) and Liberty's Sydney Stricklin (1:57.50) smashed the previous conference record of 1:58.29, held by FGCU's Fanny Teijonsalo since 2016.
The Lady Flames took 1-2 in the 50 free, both in NCAA B cut time. Kamryn Cannings won in a program-record 22.07, followed by teammate Aly Bozzuto in 22.09. Each of the first four finishers swam B cuts, as Queens' Ryley Heck went 22.25 and FGCU's Libby Russum, 22.33.
Sophomore Shannon Icard earned her first career individual conference title, winning the one-meter diving with an NCAA Zone-qualifying score of 267.25. Maddie Freece claimed her eighth career conference podium finish with her second-place score of 255.80. Freece edged FGCU's Bailey Betzer, who scored 255.65 for third.
Grace Shaw, who was diagnosed with and overcame cancer within the last year, swam a lifetime-best 4:56.02 in 500 free qualifying this morning. She competed as an exhibition swimmer and posted the fourth fastest time of any swimmer in the 500 prelims.
The Lady Flames finished the session by placing second in the 200 medley relay. Just 0.29 separated first-place FGCU (1:37.58) from third-place Queens (1:37.87), with Liberty finishing second with 1:37.84.

Historically Speaking

This is the fifth time that Liberty has competed at a conference championship meet at Tennessee's Allan Jones Aquatic Center. The Lady Flames claimed their first (2014), third (2020) and sixth (2023) CCSA Championship titles and first ASUN Championship (2024) crown at this facility. Every time their conference meet has been held in Knoxville, the Lady Flames have won.
Stricklin (1:57.50) broke Mikayla Herich's 200 IM program record of 1:59.34, which was set at the 2020 CCSA Championships, also in Knoxville. Kate Baker's 2:00.80 is good for sixth on the program's all-time top 10 list, while Malia Francis is now 10^th with her 2:02.49 from tonight's B Final.
Cannings (22.07) and Bozzuto (22.09) both broke the oldest remaining record in the program's record book. Brye Ravettine (22.19) held the 50 free record all the way from Feb. 16, 2012 until it was broken tonight.
The Lady Flames' 200 medley relay time of 1:37.84 is good for second in program history, just 0.04 off of the program record of 1:37.80, which was set at the 2014 CCSA Championships, also held at Allan Jones Aquatic Center.

Up Next
Tomorrow's action on day two of the 2025 ASUN Swimming & Diving Championships begins at 10 a.m. with exhibition heats of the 200 freestyle relay. Thursday's program will also feature the 100 butterfly, 400 IM, 200 freestyle, three-meter diving and 400 medley relay.

Schedule

Liberty Leads, Records Fall on Day 1 at ASUN Championships

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Chloe LaCount

Grace Shaw

Sydney Stricklin

Eden Troxell

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