FEDERAL WAY, Wash. – The 400 medley relay broke their own school record and earned All-America accolades for the Florida State women’s swimming and diving team on the third day of the NCAA Championships at the Weyerhauser King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way, Washington, on Friday evening.
 
The top-16, point-scoring finish was one of five entries for the Seminoles on the penultimate day of the four-day national championship meet.
 
“We had a really good day in the pool and on the boards,” FSU head coach Neal Studd said. “We swam and dove really well early but didn’t earn a top-16 finishes. Then, we had an amazing relay tonight that set the school record and placed in the top-16 to finish out our day.  It was great. We had some really nice splits and an amazing finish to senior Gloria Muzito’s career, so that was really nice.  I am looking forward to a great day tomorrow.”

FSU’s relay team featured freshman Alice Velden and seniors Maddy Huggins, Edit Jernstedt and Gloria Muzito. The Seminoles were 16th overall with a time of 3:30.93. The fastest mark in school history, it bested the previous record of 3:31.04 set by the same swimmers at the ACC Championships exactly one month ago. Today’s relay team earned the top-16 finish by a margin of 0.29 seconds.

 

With the point-scoring finish, Huggins, Jernstedt, Muzito and Velden earned All-America accolades.

 

On springboard, graduate student Samantha Vear finished 21st overall with 298.30 points and redshirt junior Kayleigh Clark was close behind her in 23rd with 294.50 points.

 

The day began with prelims of individual swimming events, where both Huggins and Jernstedt placed 29th. Huggins raced in the 100 breaststroke and touched the wall in 59.51. Jernstedt was 29th in the 100 butterfly in 52, 09, just 0.06 seconds shy of her seed time of 52.05.

 

There are eight student athletes representing the Noles at NCAAs from March 19-22. Events conclude on Saturday, with prelims at 1 p.m. ET. Huggins swims in the 200 breaststroke and Jernstedt in the 200 butterfly as both vie for a top-16 finishes to advance to the finals. Clark competes on platform at 3 p.m. ET, where the top eight divers advance to finals, and those who finish ninth-16th compete in the consolation final at 8:15 p.m. ET. Swimming finals commence at 9 p.m. ET to wrap up the four-day event.

 

All sessions will be streamed live on ESPN+. Live results can be found at Meet Mobile and online here, and additional championships info is available here. Direct links and live updates can be found by following and connecting with the Seminoles on Twitter/X, Instagram and Facebook.

 

Saturday, March 22

1 p.m. ET – Prelims: 200 back, 100 free, 200 breast (Maddy Huggins), 200 fly (Edith Jernstedt)

3 p.m. ET – Prelims: Platform diving trials (Kayleigh Clark)

6:45 p.m. ET – Prelims: 1650 free

8:15 p.m. ET – Platform consolation finals

9 p.m. ET – Finals: 1650 free, 200 back, 100 free, 200 breast, 200 fly, platform diving, 400 free relay

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