Saturday, February 22
Knoxville, Tenn.
10:00 AM/6:00 PM Finals
Liberty University
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ASUN Swimming & Diving Championships
7-Peat! Lady Flames Earn ASUN Championship
2/22/2025 8:59:00 PM | Women's Swimming & Diving
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The Liberty swimming & diving team captured its seventh conference championship in a row, earning the 2025 Atlantic Sun Women's Swimming & Diving Championship, which finished on Saturday at Allan Jones Aquatic Center.
The Lady Flames earned their eighth conference title in program history, with the first one coming in 2014 and the last seven in succession. Liberty has now won its conference championship meet every time it has been held at Allan Jones Aquatic Center (2014 - CCSA, 2020 - CCSA, 2023 - CCSA, 2024 – ASUN, 2025 - ASUN).
Liberty won with 858.5 points, defeating second-place FGCU (690) by 168.5 points. Queens finished third with 644.5.
Team Standings
1. Liberty – 858.5
2. FGCU – 690
3. Queens – 644.5
4. UNC Asheville – 459
5. North Florida – 273
6. Gardner-Webb - 221
7. Bellarmine - 199
Liberty A Finalists
Liberty's qualified divers (Maddie Freece, Shannon Icard, Chloe LaCount) will compete in the NCAA Zone Diving Championships, March 10-12 in Piscataway, N.J.
Selections for the 2025 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships will be made in early March.
The Lady Flames earned their eighth conference title in program history, with the first one coming in 2014 and the last seven in succession. Liberty has now won its conference championship meet every time it has been held at Allan Jones Aquatic Center (2014 - CCSA, 2020 - CCSA, 2023 - CCSA, 2024 – ASUN, 2025 - ASUN).
Liberty won with 858.5 points, defeating second-place FGCU (690) by 168.5 points. Queens finished third with 644.5.
Team Standings
1. Liberty – 858.5
2. FGCU – 690
3. Queens – 644.5
4. UNC Asheville – 459
5. North Florida – 273
6. Gardner-Webb - 221
7. Bellarmine - 199
Liberty A Finalists
- Jr. Eden Troxell – 1650 freestyle (1st place in 16:43.88)
- Jr. Isabelle Gomez – 1650 freestyle (2nd place in 16:55.79)
- So. Kamryn Cannings – 100 freestyle (1st place in 48.45 - qualified in 49.08)
- Sr. Sydney Stricklin – 100 freestyle (3rd place in 49.27 – qualified in 49.41)
- R-So. Malia Francis – 200 backstroke (t-1st place in 1:54.87 - qualified in 1:55.50)
- Fr. Layne Jones – 200 backstroke (5th place in 1:59.80 – qualified in 1:59.84)
- Fr. Sadie Stricklin – 200 backstroke (8th place in 2:01.37 - qualified in 2:00.35)
- Fr. Aly Bozzuto – 200 breaststroke (1st place in 2:11.52 – qualified in 2:13.03)
- Sr. Grace Isaacs – 200 breaststroke (3rd place in 2:15.52 – qualified in 2:18.06)
- 400 freestyle relay – 1st place in 3:15.31 (Aly Bozzuto (49.03), Shelby Kahn (49.65), Sydney Stricklin (48.80), Kamryn Cannings (47.83))
- Liberty posted 10 top-eight finishes on Saturday night, winning all five events while earning eight medals. For the meet, Liberty earned 40 A Finals, 26 podiums and 13 event wins. The Lady Flames set eight program records, five meet records and five conference records, while earning 10 NCAA B cuts and four NCAA Zone Qualifying scores.
- The Lady Flames are leaving the conference to join the American Athletic Conference in swimming & diving starting on July 1, 2025. Liberty leaves the ASUN with six conference records and six meet records.
- 100 butterfly – Kamryn Cannings – 51.26
- 200 freestyle – Kamryn Cannings – 1:44.10
- 100 breaststroke – Aly Bozzuto – 59.17
- 200 backstroke – Payton Keiner – 1:52.63
- 400 medley relay – 3:33.34
- 400 free relay – 3:15.31
- 800 free relay – 7:06.42
- Liberty 15th-year head coach Jake Shellenberger was voted ASUN Women's Swimming Coach of the Year. It is his seventh Coach of the Year honor and fourth in a row.
- Samantha Pickens was named Women's Diving Coach of the Year in her first year at Liberty.
- Cannings earned her third individual event win of the week, claiming the 100 freestyle in a program-record, NCAA B cut time of 48.45. Sydney Stricklin took third in 49.27, giving her three podium finishes this week and seven for her career.
- Cannings was named Most Outstanding Swimmer of the Meet. She is the third Lady Flame to win the honor all-time, joining Brye Ravettine (2012) and Mikayla Herich (2020).
- Shannon Icard was named Most Outstanding Diver of the Meet for the first time in her career, winning one-meter, three-meter and platform this weekend. Icard is the third Lady Flame to earn Diver of the Meet honors, joining Lauren Chennault (2020) and Maddie Freece (2021, 2022, 2024).
- Bozzuto is the ninth swimmer in program history to be named conference freshman of the meet, joining current teammates Sydney Stricklin (2022) and Kamryn Cannings (2024).
- Malia Francis tied with FGCU's Izzy Ackley for the title in the 200 backstroke, as both finished in NCAA B cut 1:54.87. It marked Francis' first individual conference title. Freshman Layne Jones finished fifth in 1:59.80, while Sadie Stricklin (2:01.37) placed eighth. Liberty has won the 200 backstroke at each of the last eight conference championship meets.
- Aly Bozzuto pulled off a sweep of the breaststroke events, winning the 200 breaststroke tonight in NCAA B cut 2:11.52. Grace Isaacs swam 2:15.52 for third place.
- Liberty opened the session by going 1-2 in the 1650 freestyle, as Eden Troxell won in 16:43.88 and Isabelle Gomez finished second in 16:55.79.
- The Lady Flames clocked an ASUN-record 3:15.31 in the 400 freestyle relay to round out the championship competition.
- Cannings is the third Lady Flame all-time to win three individual event titles at a single conference championship meet, joining Emilie Kaufman (2014 – 100 breaststroke, 200 breaststroke, 200 IM) and Mikayla Herich (2020 – 200 IM, 400 IM, 1650 freestyle).
- Cannings' 48.45 in the 100 free broke her own program record of 48.72, set at last year's ASUN Championships. Aly Bozzuto led off the 400 free relay in an NCAA B cut 100 free time of 49.03. That time is ranked third in program history.
- Francis is now third all-time in program history in the 200 backstroke, at 1:54.87.
- Isaacs ranks 10th on the program's all-time top 10 performers list in the 200 breaststroke at 2:15.52.
- Troxell moved into third place all-time at Liberty with her 16:43.88 in the 1650 freestyle.
- The Lady Flames' 400 free relay of 3:15.31 broke the previous conference record of 3:16.80, set by Queens in 2024.
Liberty's qualified divers (Maddie Freece, Shannon Icard, Chloe LaCount) will compete in the NCAA Zone Diving Championships, March 10-12 in Piscataway, N.J.
Selections for the 2025 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships will be made in early March.
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