Loyola University Maryland Athletics

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2025-26 (Sophomore): Set personal bests in all three individual events (100/200 backstroke, 100 butterfly) at the Patriot League Championships… Best finish was a tenth-place effort in the 100 back (55.28)… Cut over one second and placed 17th in the 100 fly (54.57)… Earned a relay bronze as lead-off swimmer (backstroke) in 200 medley relay… Earned 30 points in the meet… A three-time time finalist at the H2ounds Invitational… Best finish was a fifth-place effort in the 100 back… Also earned a silver in the 400 medley relay and picked up 84 points (18th-best) in the meet… Won her first collegiate race, capturing the 100 back at the Thomas Murphy Invitational… Also won gold in 200 medley relay and was fourth in the overall point-count with 94 in the November competition.

2024-25 (First Year): Produced an outstanding meet to conclude the campaign at the ECAC Open Championships… Set personal bests, improved from the prelims to the finals in all three individual events and tallied 17 points for the Greyhounds… Best finish was ninth in the 100 butterfly and posted a time of 55.65… Also placed 12th in the 200 backstroke (2:06.45) and 14th in the 100 back (57.28)… Tallied 60 points for the Greyhounds at the Thomas Murphy Invitational, competing in the same three events… Scored in her first collegiate meet, placing fourth (of 11 swimmers) in the 100 backstroke vs. American.   

Before Loyola: Competed in the state, sectionals and futures as a high school junior in 2023 with Cardinal and Gold Aquatics… Returned to state and sectional competition as a senior… Participated in the July 2023 USA Swimming Futures Championships in Richmond, Va. in July 2023… A finalist in the 2024 Maryland LC Championships, placing seventh in the 100 backstroke.     

Personal: Daughter of MaryBeth and Jeff Brandenburg… Has three siblings, Grace, Tess and Henry… A member of the National Technical Honor Society… Received a ServSafe certification through the National Restaurant Association… Honored with The Patty Considine Award for outstanding contribution to the Campus Cabana Swim team.