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2022-23 Women's Swimming and Diving Roster

Marcella Ruppert-Gomez

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Miami, Fla.
  • High School Gulliver Prep
  • Event Freestyle/IM
  • Concentration Neuroscience
  • House Mather

Biography

Top Collegiate Times

100-Yard Freestyle: 55.18 (11/13/21)
200-Yard Freestyle: 1:54.08 (11/30/18)
500-Yard Freestyle: 4:51.57 (11/29/18)
1,000-Yard Freestyle: 9:52.05 (2/22/19)
1,650-Yard Freestyle: 16:25.22 (2/23/19)
200-Yard Backstroke: 2:11.59 (11/6/21)
100-Yard Butterfly: 1:00.60 (2/21/19)
200-Yard Butterfly: 2:04.93 (12/1/18)
400-Yard Individual Medley: 4:20.13 (11/20/18)

2022-23 (Senior)

Finished the season with the team's top 1,000-free time, which was accomplished at the annual HYP meet (10:06.37) ... Ended the year with the best 1,650-free time on the team (17:01.14 at Minnesota Invitational) ... Turned in the team's third-best 500-free time of the season when she finished in 4:55.95 at the HYP meet ... Competed on the 400 and 800 free relay teams.

2021-22 (Junior)

Placed ninth in the 1000 freestyle and 16th in the 1650 freestyle at the 2022 Ivy League Championships … Swam season-best times of 55.18 in the 100 free, 1:58.50 in the 200 free, 5:02.14 in the 500 free, 10:02.70 in the 1000 free, 16:56.38 in the 1650 free, 2:11.59 in the 200 back, 1:02.11 in the 100 fly, and 4:28.71 in the 400 IM … Posted the team’s second-fastest times in both the 1000 free and 1650 free on the year … Won the 1000 free at two dual meets (Nov. 5, Nov. 13) … Also competed in the 400 free relay and 200 medley relay … Helped the Crimson win the 2022 Ivy League title.

2020-21

Season canceled due to COVID-19.

2019-20 (Sophomore)

Swam season bests of 10:03.11 in the 1,000 free and 16:53.48 in the 1,650 free at the Ivy League Championships ... Clocked a 5:04.28 in the 500 free and a 4:22.36 in the 400 IM at the Minnesota Invitational, both season bests ... Logged a 2:07.25 in the 200 butterfly against Columbia.

2018-19 (First-Year)

Second-team all-Ivy League selection in the 1,650 free ... Logged a time of 16:25.22, which was No. 2 all-time in Harvard history and No. 1 for the 2018-19 campaign, to finish second in the 1,650 free at the Ivy meet ... Posted the ninth-best 1,000 free performance (9:52.05) in program history at the Ivy League Championships ... Ranked fifth on the team in the 500 free after producing a time of 4:51.57 at the Hall of Fame Invitational ... Swam the 200 free at the Hall of Fame Invite and turned in a time of 1:54.08 ... Competed in the 100 fly at the Ivy meet (1:00.60) ... Also logged season bests in the 200 fly (2:04.93) and 400 IM (4:20.13) at the Hall of Fame Invite ... Her best 200 IM time came vs. Columbia (2:09.48).

Before Harvard

Three-time state champion in the 500 freestyle (2017), 200 IM (2017), and 400 freestyle relay (2017) ... Named to the first team in the 500 freestyle (2016) … Earned second team honors in 200 IM (2016) … Two-year team captain (2016, 2017) … Selected as the 2018 Gulliver Prep Athlete of the Year … Class 2A Swimmer of the Year (2017) … Four-time USA Swimming Scholastic All-America … Competed in the Speedo Junior National Championship in 2017 … Member of the National Honor Society … Earned the Excellence in Global Politics Award … Daughter of Maria Carolina Gomez and Thomas Kent Ruppert.

Historical Player Information

  • 2018-19First-Year

    Freestyle/IM
  • 2019-20Sophomore

    Freestyle/IM
  • 2021-22Junior

    Freestyle/IM
  • 2022-23Senior

    Freestyle/IM