Florida Adds Julia Heimstead and Katelyn Schroeder for 2024-25

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The College of Florida ladies’s swimming and diving group has introduced the addition of Julia Heimstead and Katelyn Schroeder for the 2024-25 college 12 months.

Julia Heimstead

Heimstead is a fifth-year switch from Bloomington, Illinois. She competed on the College of Arizona, the place she specialised in fly and free. She was a three-time NCAA qualifier, competing within the 200 IM and 100/200 fly in 2022; the 50/200 free and 200 fly in 2023; and the 50 free and 100/200 fly in 2024. She was additionally an integral a part of the Wildcats’ relays.

At Pac-12 Championships this season, she positioned eighth within the 100 fly (52.03), eighth within the 200 free (1:46.60), and sixth within the 200 fly (1:54.57). She additionally cut up a 23.11 butterfly leg within the 200 medley relay to assist Arizona end third.

Heimstead was named Pac-12 Ladies’s Co-Swimmer of the Month in November for the second time in her profession with the Wildcats.

Finest instances:

50 free – 22.41
100 fly – 51.61
200 fly – 1:54.57
200 free – 1:44.69

Katelyn Schroeder

Schroeder hails from Langley, British Columbia, in Canada. She is a member of the Langley Olympians Swim Membership and can head to Gainesville after having spent a 12 months on the College of Toronto.

In February, she was named OUA Ladies’s Rookie of the 12 months after ending 1st within the 100 again, 1st within the 200 again, 2nd within the 50 again, sixth within the 100 fly, and third with the 4×50 medley relay on the 2024 Ontario College Athletics (OUA) Swimming Championships.

Earlier than Toronto, she ranked third within the 100m backstroke and fifth within the 200m backstroke within the Junior Rankings of Canada. She tied for gold on the 2023 Speedo Canadian Swimming Championships final August and represented Workforce Canada on the Junior Pan Pacific Championships in 2022.

Schroeder is the newest within the Canada-to-Gainesville pipeline. She is going to be part of fellow Canadians Lilly Daley, Eric Brown, Josh Liendo, and Ed Fullum-Huot in addition to fellow freshman Julie Brousseau, on the Gators’ roster within the fall. Non-Canadians Addison Reese, Gracie Weyant, and Sofia Plaza may also be in that class. Laila Oravsky and Sylvia Statkevicius, two extra Canadians, have verbally dedicated to Florida for the autumn of 2025.

Finest LCM instances:

50 again – 29.21 (25.77)
100 again – 1:01.31 (54.15)
200 again – 2:12.24 (1:56.97)

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