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2022-23 Women's Swimming and Diving Roster

Samantha Shelton

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown San Antonio, Texas
  • High School Santa Margarita Catholic (Calif.)
  • Event Freestyle/Backstroke/IM
  • Concentration Psychology
  • House Cabot

Biography

Secondary Concentration: Economics

Top Collegiate Times

50-Yard Freestyle: 23.84 (11/4/22)
100-Yard Freestyle: 50.15 (2/18/22, 12/3/22)
200-Yard Freestyle: 1:45.15 (2/22/19)
500-Yard Freestyle: 4:58.10 (1/15/20)
1,000-Yard Freestyle: 10:14.46 (1/18/20)
50-Yard Backstroke: 26.94 (11/15/19)
100-Yard Backstroke: 55.61 (1/28/23)
200-Yard Backstroke: 1:54.01 (2/23/19)
200-Yard Butterfly: 2:03.97 (12/1/18)
200-Yard Individual Medley: 1:58.03 (2/17/22)
400-Yard Individual Medley: 4:12.61 (12/6/19)

2022-23 (Senior)

Ivy League Career High Point Award recipient ... All-Ivy League First Team (200 back, 200 free, 400 medley relay) ... All-Ivy League Second Team (800 free relay) ... Academic All-Ivy League ... CSC Academic All-District ... Set a personal record in the 50 free when she finished in 23.84 vs. Rutgers ... Matched her PR in the 100 free (50.15) at the Minnesota Invitational ... Established a personal record one year to the day after she originally set her standard in the 200 back (1:54.42) at the Ivy League Championships ... Won the 200 free at the Ivy meet with a time of 1:46.13 ... Finished the season with the team's top 200 IM performance (1:59.43 at Ivies) ... Helped the 400 medley relay win the Ivy title, swimming anchor (3:35.64) ... Swam the second leg of the runner-up 800 free relay at Ivies (7:09.86) ... Was on the team's No. 1 400 free relay team (3:20.06 at Ivy Championships) ... Also competed on the 200 free and medley relay teams.

2021-22 (Junior)

Won Ivy titles in the 200 individual medley and 800 freestyle relay, earning First Team All-Ivy in both events … Placed second in the 200 freestyle and 400 free relay at the Ivy League Championships, gaining Second Team All-Ivy in both events … Posted the team’s fastest time in the 200 free (1:45.82) of the season at the Ivy League Championships (Feb. 18) … Came in third in the 200 free relay and ninth in the 100 free at the Ivy League Championships … Swam season-best times of 50.15 in the 100 freestyle, 1:45.82 in the 200 free, 55.75 in the 100 backstroke, 2:06.57 in the 200 back, and 1:58.03 in the 200 IM … Notched NCAA B cut times in the 200 free and 200 IM … Won the 200 free and 100 free at Columbia (Nov. 6) … Captured the 200 free vs. Brown (Jan. 4) … Helped the Crimson win the 2022 Ivy League title … Earned CSCAA Second Team Scholar All-America honors.

2020-21

Season canceled due to COVID-19.

2019-20 (Sophomore)

CSCAA All-American ... Named to the All-Ivy first team as a member of the 400- and 800-yard freestyle relay squads that qualified for the national championships with NCAA A-cut times ... Earned All-Ivy second team in the 200-yard backstroke with a B-cut time of 1:54.91 ... Second highest finisher in the 200-yard freestyle at the Ivy Championships with a B-cut time of 1:46.16 ... Secured third-place in the 200-yard freestyle (1:46.16) and fourth in the 200-yard IM (2:00.13) at the league championship meet ... Placed first in the 500-yard freestyle against Brown with a season-best time of 4:58.10 ... Competed in the long course time trial of 100 back at the Minnesota Invitational, posting a time of 1:03.41 ... Clocked an NCAA B-cut time (4:12.61) to finish first in the B-final of the 400 IM at the Minnesota Invitational ... Harvard's top finish in the 200-yard freestyle (1:48.32) to open the season against Duke and Texas A&M.

2018-19 (First-Year)

NCAA Championships qualifier in the 200 free, 200 back and 200 IM ... First-team all-Ivy League in the 200 free, 200 back, 200 IM, 400 free relay and 800 free relay ... Second-team all-Ivy League in the 200 free relay and 400 medley relay ... Earned the Ivy League Co-High Point Award after winning three events at the Ivy League Championships ... Set the program record in the 200 back (1:54.01) at the Ivy meet ... Turned in the second-fastest 200 free time in school history (1:45.15 - Ivy League Championships) ... Swam the third-best 200 IM in program history (1:58.45) at the Ivy League meet ... Turned in the fourth-fastest 100 free time of the season (50.83) and the sixth-best 100 back (56.47) at Cornell/vs. Dartmouth (50.83) ... Ranked fifth on the team in the 200 fly (2:03.97 - Hall of Fame Invitational) and 400 IM (4:25.11 - at UCLA/vs. San Diego) ... Finished seventh on the team in the 50 free (23.95 - at UCLA/vs. San Diego) ... Part of the 400 free relay that set the school record (3:15.47) at the Ivy meet ... Was the anchor leg on the third-fastest 400 medley relay team in school history (3:38.58 - Ivy League Championships) ... Swam the third leg on the third-best 200 free relay in program history (1:30.80 - Ivy League Championships) ... Was on the second- (7:06.98 - Ivy League Championships) and fourth-best (7:09.84 - Hall of Fame Invitational) 800 free relays in school history.

Before Harvard

Two-time Orange County Female Swimmer of the Year (2016, 2017) … Three-time Trinity League Swimmer of the Year (2015, 2016, 2018) … Santa Margarita Catholic Rookie of the Year (2015) … Santa Margarita Swimmer of the Year (2016, 2017) … Two-time CIF champion in 200 freestyle (2016, 2017) … CIF champion in the 100 butterfly (2016), and 100 backstroke (2017) … Broke National Independent High School record in the 400 freestyle relay (2017) … Daughter of Vanessa and Richard Powers.

Historical Player Information

  • 2018-19First-Year

    Freestyle/Backstroke/IM
  • 2019-20Sophomore

    Freestyle/Backstroke/IM
  • 2021-22Junior

    Freestyle/Backstroke/IM
  • 2022-23Senior

    Freestyle/Backstroke/IM