Friday, March 20
Atlanta, Ga.
10:00 AM/6:00 PM Finals
Liberty University
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NCAA Division I Swimming & Diving Championships
Bozzuto Completes Double on NCAA Championships Day 3
3/20/2026 1:04:00 PM | Women's Swimming & Diving
ATLANTA, Ga. – Liberty sophomore Aly Bozzuto competed twice on day three of the 2026 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships, Friday at the McAuley Aquatic Center.
Bozzuto competed in both the 200 breaststroke and 50 freestyle this morning, while Bozzuto and Liberty junior Kamryn Cannings swam in the same preliminary heat of the 50 free.
Liberty's Performers
Historically Speaking
Up Next
Tomorrow will see the first Liberty diver to compete in the NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships, as Shannon Icard contests platform. Meanwhile, Cannings will swim the 100 free. Tomorrow's swimming prelims begin at 10 a.m. with the 200 IM, followed by the 100 free, 200 fly, 200 back and 400 free relay. Icard's platform diving prelim starts at 12:30 p.m.
Bozzuto competed in both the 200 breaststroke and 50 freestyle this morning, while Bozzuto and Liberty junior Kamryn Cannings swam in the same preliminary heat of the 50 free.
Liberty's Performers
- Jr. Kamryn Cannings – 50 freestyle – 22.38 (t-41st place overall)
- So. Aly Bozzuto – 200 breaststroke – 2:12.58 (49th place overall); 50 freestyle – 22.81 (50th place overall)
- During this week's four-day meet, the top 16 from morning prelims each day qualify for evening finals.
- Anastasia Gorbenko of Louisville edged out Virginia's Aimee Canny for the top time in 200 breaststroke prelims, 2:05.16 to 2:05.25. Emma Weber of UVA earned the eighth and last A Final spot in 2:07.58. It took 2:08.35 to qualify for the B Final.
- Bozzuto competed in the third of seven heats of the 200 breaststroke. Competing one lane over from 100 breaststroke silver medalist McKenzie Siroky of Tennessee, Bozzuto finished seventh in the heat in 2:12.58.
- Virginia freshman Sara Curtis claimed the top time in 50 free prelims, in 20.93, while Brady Kendall earned the last A Final spot, 21.44. The last B Final qualifying time was 21.75.
- Bozzuto and Cannings both swam in the first of seven heats in the 50 free. Cannings tied for first in the heat, while Bozzuto finishing fifth.
Historically Speaking
- This is the second year in a row in which Bozzuto and Cannings competed in the same 50 freestyle preliminary heat together. Last year, competing together in prelims, Cannings (22.37) finished sixth and Bozzuto (22.46) seventh in heat five.
- Bozzuto is the first Lady Flame to compete in multiple individual events on the same day at NCAA Championships in program history.
- This is the 10th time in 15 years of the program's history that at least one Lady Flame has been selected to compete in the NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships. The Lady Flames have had two All-America honorable mention finishers, in Brye Ravettine (13th in 50 free, 2012) and Jess Reinhardt (10th in 100 fly, 2014). All competitors at the cancelled 2020 NCAA Championships were named All-Americans, so Payton Keiner received All-American honors in 2020.
- Cannings joins Payton Keiner (2018, 2020, 2021) as the only Lady Flames to make three appearances at NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships to date.
Up Next
Tomorrow will see the first Liberty diver to compete in the NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships, as Shannon Icard contests platform. Meanwhile, Cannings will swim the 100 free. Tomorrow's swimming prelims begin at 10 a.m. with the 200 IM, followed by the 100 free, 200 fly, 200 back and 400 free relay. Icard's platform diving prelim starts at 12:30 p.m.
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