PROVO, Utah — The 2023-24 season saw BYU women’s swim and dive garner eight all-conference honors, three school records and 23 program top-10 performances.
Sprinter Mackenzie Lung won five races on the season, with two in the 100 breast and three in the 200 breast. Lung finished 2024 ranked second all-time at BYU in both events and is poised to surpass those times in 2025 after personal-best performances in both versus Utah on Feb. 10. The Big 12 honored Lung with Co-Swimmer of the Week following her wins over Utah.
Lung improved on both swims with a 1:00.30 in the 100 breast and 2:11.95 in the 200 breast at the Big 12 Championships in Morgantown, West Virginia Feb. 27-March 2. With a fifth-place spot in the 100 breast and sixth in the 200, Lung took home a team-best two All-Big 12 Second Team honors. The sophomore from Clovis, California closed the season with a school record-breaking 28.43 in the 50 breast at the CSCAA National Invitational Championships on March 14 in Ocala, Florida.
Emma Marusakova’s season included eight races won, an all-conference spot, Big 12 Women’s Co-Swimmer of the Week honors on Oct. 18, team-high point totals in two meets and a climb up three program top-10 boards.
The sophomore from Zilina, Slovakia took seventh in the 200 back at 1:58.05 to return from Big 12 Championships with all-conference second team honors. Marusakova recorded a season-best 1:57.66 to climb to No. 5 all-time at BYU in a winning performance at the Mizzou Invitational on Nov. 17. In the span of just over a month, Marusakova recorded the program’s 10th and fourth-best times in the 200 individual medley. Marusakova won three 100 fly races and recorded BYU’s fifth-fastest all-time with 54.39 at Big 12’s.
Sprinter Halli Williams came home from Morgantown with an all-conference finish in the 50 free at 22.74. Williams won three 50 free races and two in the 100 free on t season. The junior from Houston, Texas capped the season No. 2 all-time at BYU in the 50 free (22.62) and No. 3 in the 100 free (49.48).
Regan Geldmacher and Victoria Schreiber headlined the Cougars’ distance group in 2024. Geldmacher earned All-Big 12 Second Team honors with an eighth-place finish at 4:54.05 in the 500 free. The junior from West Richland, Washington won six events on the season, three in the 500 free alone.
Schreiber finished sixth at Big 12’s in the 1650 free with a time of 16:43.49, good for another all-conference citation and No. 3 all-time at BYU. The junior from Brighton, Michigan started the season off strong as she shaved over a minute off her previous best in a fourth-place mile finish at the Mizzou Invitational.
The Cougars’ final All-Big 12 swimming honor came from true freshman Tatum Cooley’s breakout showing in Morgantown on Feb. 29. Cooley began the day with a personal-best 1:49.09 in the 200 free preliminary only to face a swim-off against Kansas’ Eleni Kotzamanis. With a spot in the championship final on the line, Cooley overtook her Jayhawk opponent with yet another personal best at 1:48.31. The freshman from Mesa, Arizona took eighth in the final at 1:50.18 but finishes her first season in Provo already at fourth all-time in the 200 free.
BYU women’s diving was led by sophomore Alexia Jackson in 2024. Jackson’s season included five event wins, including a school-record 281.75 platform performance at the Air Force Diving Invitational on Feb. 3. With a 259.40 platform score in Morgantown, Jackson garnered the Cougars’ lone all-conference diving honor. The Mesa, Arizona native also earned Big 12 Women’s Diver of the Week following a 3-meter score of 308.80 versus Air Force and Colorado Mesa on Jan. 19.
As a team, BYU finished fifth at Big 12 Championships with a final score of 771.5. The Cougars’ came in a spot behind Cincinnati and in front of West Virginia, Kansas and Iowa State. BYU’s best team performances came in a 229-181 win over Air Force at the Intermountain Shootout on Sept. 29-30 and a first-place, 766-point outing at the BYU Tri-Meet on Jan. 19-20.
The Cougars welcome five sprinters to the roster in 2024-25 with two top-300 prospects in Lucy Warnick and Jasmine Anderson, as well as the top-ranked recruit in Utah, Haylee Tiffany.