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2025-26 Women's Swimming & Diving Roster

Laina Swartzwelder

  • Position Freestyle/Butterfly
  • Height 5-7
  • Class First Year
  • Hometown Akron, Ohio
  • Highschool Green
  • Major Biomedical Engineering

Biography

Before RIT:
  • Member of National Honor Society
  • 2025 Academic All-Ohio, finishing in the top five percent of graduating class
  • School record holder in the 200 and 500 freestyle and 200 and 400 freestyle relays
 
Personal:
  • Daughter of Erin and Chris Swartzwelder
  • Enjoys baking/cooking and crafting (knitting, weaving, and sewing)
  • Best advice you have received during your career: "Hard work makes life easier."
  • Started swimming at eight years old, quit, and then started again at age 10
  • Volunteered for Blessings in a Backpack and Bed Brigade