2022-23 Women's Swimming Season in Review
3/24/2023 1:00:00 PM | Women's Swimming
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - North Florida women's swimming set multiple school records, posted a plethora of top-ten times and collected a variety of awards and achievements during the 22-23 competition season. Today we will look at some of those notable moments throughout the latest season in program history.
The Ospreys kicked off the year with a dual meet victory at UALR in the first-ever meeting between the two schools. As the season carried on, times only got faster and UNF went on to break a total of five school records at both the Gamecock Invitational and the 2023 Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (CCSA) Championships.Â
Freshmen Feats
UNF women's swimming welcomed 13 freshmen to the team for the 22-23 competition season. Out of the 16 individual first place finishes earned by the Ospreys throughout the year, freshmen accounted for 14 of those victories. In individual races, freshmen recorded 102 top-five finishes out of the 164 top-five finishes total for the year.Â
Freshman Faith Mutschler secured the first CCSA Swimmer of the Week honor after securing three victories in the 200-yard freestyle, 500-yard freestyle and the 1,000-yard freestyle in her collegiate debut at UALR on September 23.Â
It only took her one week to earn her first @CCSA_Swim_Dive Swimmer of the Week honor - congratulations on a great start to your career, @MutschlerFaith ?
— UNF Swimming (@OspreySwim) September 27, 2022
READ >> https://t.co/Nzu4roySAW#SWOOP pic.twitter.com/3FXfH7MTW7
Raining Records
Five school records were broken during the year, three more than the previous campaign. New individual records were set in the 1,000-yard freestyle, the 1,650-yard freestyle and the 100-yard breaststroke. New relay records were tallied in the 400-yard freestyle relay and the 800-yard freestyle relay.
Mutschler broke not one but two records in the same race, doing so at the 2023 CCSA Championships on February 18 in the 1,650-yard freestyle where she set the record in 16:54.78 breaking her own record time of 16:57.22 that she set at the Gamecock Invitational on November 18. Her 1,000-yard freestyle split time in that race came in at 10:11.16 breaking the previous highwater mark held by Amy Taylor.
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— UNF Swimming (@OspreySwim) November 18, 2022
Faith Mutschler breaks the school record for the 1650 freestyle ?#SWOOP pic.twitter.com/daOcmjqoj8
Freshman Victoria Torres registered the 100-yard breaststroke record three times in the same season. She first broke the record at the Gamecock Invitational November 17 with a time of 1:03.87. She then broke it again at the 2023 CCSA Championships February 17 in the preliminaries with a time of 1:03.81. In the finals she would break her own record yet again, touching the wall in 1:03.42.
New 100 yard breast school record holder Victoria Torres, with a time of 1:03.87! #SWOOP x #UNFSwimming pic.twitter.com/yzVjbJJSwT
— UNF Swimming (@OspreySwim) November 18, 2022
SCHOOL RECORD ALERT ????
— UNF Swimming (@OspreySwim) February 17, 2023
Victoria Torres breaks her own record in the 100-breaststroke during this morning's trials ??#SWOOP pic.twitter.com/sYMLHIaHEw
Victoria Torres BREAKS her own 100 breaststroke record twice in one day during this evening's finals???
— UNF Swimming (@OspreySwim) February 18, 2023
TIME: 1:03.42#SWOOP pic.twitter.com/CJBL7VAxj6
The 400-yard freestyle relay record was broken at the Gamecock Invitational at the University of South Carolina back on November 18 by the group of Torres, Kate Eaton, Ashley Cozad and Ashley Kephart. The group finished in 3:27.49, breaking the record time of 3:28.22 previously recorded by Cozad, Kephart, Taylor Warren and Marcia Shaw at the 2022 CCSA Championships.
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— UNF Swimming (@OspreySwim) November 18, 2022
The team of Kate Eaton, Victoria Torres, Ashley Kephart and Ashley Cozad broke the school record for the 400 Free Relay?
TIME: 3:27.49#SWOOP pic.twitter.com/BwDFs98CAc
The 800-yard freestyle relay record was set at the 2023 CCSA Championships on February 17 by the group of Mutschler, Cozad, Eaton and Hannah Gnatt. The group touched the wall in 7:31.77, breaking the previous record time of 7:32.66 set by Amy Taylor, Olivia Langford, Maria Bernard and Natalie McCallum at the 2013 CCSA Championships.
SCHOOL RECORD ALERT ????
— UNF Swimming (@OspreySwim) February 17, 2023
The group of Faith Mutschler, Ashley Cozad, Hannah Gnatt and Kate Eaton break the UNF record for the 800-yard freestyle relay at tonight's finals ?#SWOOP pic.twitter.com/cUu2BVR5HO
Top Ten TimesÂ
All told, 22 new top-ten times were accumulated by the Ospreys over the course of the competition season. Out of that group, 19 of those times were recorded by freshmen with Cozad, Kephart and Allie Larrimore being the other three swimmers to secure a top-ten time. Mutschler set ten top-ten times and Torres set four top-ten times in just their first season with the Ospreys.
New top-ten times were recorded in eight different events including the 100, 500, 1,000, and 1,650-yard freestyle, the 100-yard breaststroke, the 100-yard butterfly, and the 400-yard individual medley
CSC Academic All-District Honors
Four Ospreys were recognized by the College Sports Communicators (CSC) for their combined performance in the pool and in the classroom. Cozad, Kephart, Bella Giresi and Gabriella Reeves were named to the 2022-23 Academic All-District Women's Swimming and Diving Team for their academic and athletic performances this past season.
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