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Liberty Set to Compete at UNC Asheville
1/15/2026 11:31:00 AM | Women's Swimming & Diving
LYNCHBURG, Va. - Liberty will compete in a two-day swimming & diving meet at UNC Asheville, taking place Friday and Saturday at the Justice Center Pool in Asheville, N.C.
The swimming events will be contested at the Justice Center Pool on Friday at 6:30 p.m. and Saturday at 11:30 a.m. Meanwhile, diving will take place at the Asheville Jewish Community Center on Friday at 3 p.m.
How to Follow the Lady Flames
Live results will be available through the MeetMobile App.
Liberty's American Conference Athletes of the Week This Season
Swimmer of the Week Aly Bozzuto (Nov. 4)
Freshman Swimmer of the Week Gwyneth Frick (Nov. 25)
Freshman Diver of the Week Mercy Goodnight (Nov. 25)
Liberty has the Top Time in the American Conference in the Following Event
200 backstroke – Gwyneth Frick (1:56.10)
200 breaststroke – Aly Bozzuto (2:11.21)
100 butterfly – Kamryn Cannings (52.44)
Team Notes
The Lady Flames will host Campbell for a two-day dual meet to end their regular-season schedule, Jan. 23-24, at Liberty Natatorium.
The swimming events will be contested at the Justice Center Pool on Friday at 6:30 p.m. and Saturday at 11:30 a.m. Meanwhile, diving will take place at the Asheville Jewish Community Center on Friday at 3 p.m.
How to Follow the Lady Flames
Live results will be available through the MeetMobile App.
Liberty's American Conference Athletes of the Week This Season
Swimmer of the Week Aly Bozzuto (Nov. 4)
Freshman Swimmer of the Week Gwyneth Frick (Nov. 25)
Freshman Diver of the Week Mercy Goodnight (Nov. 25)
Liberty has the Top Time in the American Conference in the Following Event
200 backstroke – Gwyneth Frick (1:56.10)
200 breaststroke – Aly Bozzuto (2:11.21)
100 butterfly – Kamryn Cannings (52.44)
Team Notes
- Liberty, James Madison and Marshall joined the American Conference as affiliate members in women's swimming & diving beginning on July 1, 2025.
- In the 2025 American Conference Preseason Poll, Rice was voted first, followed by Liberty in second and FIU in third.
- The Lady Flames are 3-0 against American Conference opponents this season, topping East Carolina 194-155 Oct. 3-4 at Liberty Natatorium. Liberty then posted a 190-163 victory at Tulane, Oct. 10-11. Most recently, Liberty posted a 219-209 win at FIU, Nov. 1. Liberty is 4-0 overall this season.
- Liberty finished in second place at the TYR '85 Invite to wrap up the fall schedule. During the meet, Liberty broke one record, while four NCAA Zone Diving qualifications were made and three NCAA swimming qualifying standards were met. Aly Bozzuto broke her own program record in the 200 breaststroke with an NCAA standard time of 2:11.21.
- Also at the TYR '85 Invite, Bozzuto swam an NCAA standard in the 100 breaststroke (1:00.26), while Kamryn Cannings met the NCAA standard in the 100 fly (52.44). Shannon Icard (one-meter – 266.90; three-meter – 286.30; platform – 242.40) and Mercy Goodnight (three-meter – 294.40) both qualified for NCAA Zone Diving Championships with scores from the TYR '85 Invite.
- Aly Bozzuto won three events (50 breaststroke, 100 breaststroke, 200 breaststroke) at the FIU meet. Liberty got two wins from Natalie Colarossi (100 free, 200 free), Riley Leach (200 fly, 400 IM) and Gwyneth Frick (100 back, 200 back).
- In the Oct. 25 meet at Campbell freshmen Dakota Howard (50 free) and Sadie Huenefeld (100 free) both posted their first career individual-event wins.
- Liberty won its seventh straight conference championship, claiming the 2025 Atlantic Sun Swimming & Diving Championships. The team 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.
- Head Coach Jake Shellenberger was voted ASUN Women's Swimming Coach of the Year. It was his seventh Coach of the Year honor and fourth in a row. Samantha Pickens was voted ASUN Women's Diving Coach of the Year.
- Kamryn Cannings was named Most Outstanding Swimmer of the Meet, winning the 50 free, 100 free and 100 fly.
- Shannon Icard earned Most Outstanding Diver of the Meet honors, as she won one-meter, three-meter and platform at the ASUN Championships.
- Aly Bozzuto won the conference title in the 100 breaststroke and 200 breaststroke, while finishing second in the 50 freestyle. She was named Most Outstanding Freshman of the Meet.
- Bozzuto and Cannings both represented the Lady Flames in the NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships.
- The Lady Flames were represented by Maddie Freece, Shannon Icard and Chloe LaCount at the NCAA Zone Championships, with Icard making two finals appearances.
- 16th-year Head Coach Jake Shellenberger has led the Lady Flames from the program's inception. He has posted a 139-41 dual-meet record, being named CCSA/ASUN Women's Swimming Coach of the Year seven times (2012, 2014, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025).
- A program-record seven Lady Flames received CSCAA Individual Scholar All-America second team honors last season, in Aly Bozzuto, Kamryn Cannings, Malia Francis, Maddie Freece, Shannon Icard, Chloe LaCount and Sydney Stricklin.
- A total of six current Lady Flames have posted conference podium finishes in their career, led by six medals from Kamryn Cannings. Aly Bozzuto (3), Shannon Icard (3), Eden Troxell (3), Malia Francis (2), and Emily Harstad (1) have all podiumed as well.
- Liberty has posted a 4-0 dual-meet record this season, while UNC Asheville brings a 4-1 record into this weekend's meet after defeating Gardner-Webb on Saturday.
- Liberty is 7-2 all-time against UNC Asheville in regular-season dual meets. The Bulldogs had won two straight meetings before the Lady Flames posted a 192-161 win over UNC Asheville on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, 2025 at Liberty Natatorium.
- The Lady Flames hold a 46-6 all-time dual meet record in North Carolina.
The Lady Flames will host Campbell for a two-day dual meet to end their regular-season schedule, Jan. 23-24, at Liberty Natatorium.
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