New Hampshire’s Audrey Mahoney Breaks 35-Yr-Outdated Jenny Thompson Pool Report
New Hampshire senior sprinter Audrey Mahoney didn’t simply take down a pool report on Friday. She downed a mark older than her from the state’s best ever swimmer.
Mahoney clocked in at 22.98 seconds Friday in a two-day twin meet towards Central Connecticut State, erasing a pool report belonging to 12-time Olympic medalist Jenny Thompson.
Thompson’s mark had held since 1990 at 23.21 seconds. It was set whereas Thompson was nonetheless at Dover Excessive College, from which she graduated in 1991, earlier than embarking on a stellar profession at Stanford and at 4 Olympics, yielding 12 whole medals and eight gold to turn out to be then probably the most adorned feminine Olympic swimmer (she’s since been surpassed by Katie Ledecky). Thompson would go on to set 9 particular person world information, two in long-course, together with the 100 free mark in 1992.
Mahoney had set her sights on Thompson’s superannuated report. Within the Wildcats’ season opener, the senior captain from Downers Grove, Illinois, took down the pool report at Vermont’s Forbush Natatorium with a time of 23.52.
“After Audrey set that UVM pool report final weekend, I gave her a private problem for this weekend’s meet,” UNH head coach Josh Willman mentioned in a press launch. “She actually got here by way of, and it was enjoyable to look at!”
Mahoney gained the America East title within the 50 free as a freshman with a time of 23.17. She has continued to get sooner, although a 23.10 as a sophomore was good for under second (she gained the 100 free after ending because the runner-up as a freshman) after which 22.94 as a junior for third. She repeated because the 100 free champ in 2025 and set the convention championship report.
Her finest time is a 22.93 from the CSCAA Nationwide Invitational final March, at which she completed seventh.
UNH went on to a 243-110 win over CCSU in a two-day meet. Mahoney additionally anchored the Wildcats’ profitable 200 medley and 400 medley relays. She gained the 100 free in 51.80.
