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2024-25 Women's Swimming and Diving Roster

Molly Hamlin

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Reading, Mass.
  • High School Reading Memorial
  • Event Freestyle/Backstroke/Butterfly/IM
  • Concentration Government & Spanish, Latin America, and Latino Studies
  • House Quincy

Biography

Top Collegiate Times

50-Yard Freestyle: 23.39 (12/2/21)
100-Yard Freestyle: 49.38 (2/19/22)
200-Yard Freestyle: 1:46.66 (2/18/22)
500-Yard Freestyle: 4:53.40 (2/16/23)
50-Yard Backstroke: 25.99 (12/1/22)
100-Yard Backstroke: 53.34 (2/21/25)
200-Yard Backstroke: 1:53.73 (2/22/25)
100-Yard Butterfly: 55.58 (11/6/21)
200-Yard Individual Medley: 2:07.89 (11/11/22)

2024-25 (Senior)

Served as one of three team captains… CSCAA Scholar All-America Second Team... CSC Academic All-District honoree… All-Ivy League First Team in the 200 back… Allstate NACDA Winter Good Works Team nominee… Top 200 back time came at the Ivy League Championships, finishing in 1:53.73, which ranked second in school history… Swam the team’s second-best 200 free (1:46.91 at Ivy)… Finished with the team’s second-best 100 back time (53.34 at Ivy), which ranked fourth in school history… Swam the 100 free (51.66 vs. Boston College) and 500 free (5:03.27 at Minnesota Invitational)… Part of the team’s top 400 free relay (3:18.72; 6th in school history) and 800 free relay (7:14.99 at Minnesota Invite).

2023-24 (Junior)

CSCAA Scholar All-America Second Team... CSC Academic All-District… Swam the team’s third fastest 100 free at the Minnesota Invite (50.33)… Swam the team’s fastest 200 free for the season (1:47.97 at Ivy Championships)… Raced the 500 free in 4:57.09 at the Minnesota Invite… Sits in the program top ten for her 100 back (53.81) and 200 back (1:55.28) efforts at the Ivy Championships… Raced as the last leg in the team’s second fastest 200 free relay of the season (1:31.28 at Minnesota Invitational)… Swam as the third leg in the team’s fastest 400 free relay (3:18.43) and 800 free relay (7:10.25) at the Ivy Championships… Swam in the team’s fourth fastest 200 medley relay (1:40.97 at Minnesota Invite) and 400 medley relay (3:46.32 at Columbia).

2022-23 (Sophomore)

All-Ivy League Second Team (800 free relay)... Set personal records in the 500 free (4:53.40 at Ivy League Championships) and 200 back (1:58.65 at Minnesota Invitational)... Finished the season ranked second on the team in the 200 free (1:47.66 at Ivy Championships).. Top 500 free time also ranked second on the team... Swam the second-fastest 100 free on the team (49.87 at Ivies)... Swam her best 100 back vs. Columbia (55.67)... Competed in the 200 IM at Brown (2:07.89)... Was the fourth swimmer on the team's best 200 free relay (1:31.13 at Minnesota Invite) and 800 free relay (7:09.86 at Ivy League Championships)... Swam the second leg on the team's fastest 400 free relay (3:20.06 at Ivies).

2021-22 (First-Year)

Won the Ivy title in the 800 freestyle relay, earning First Team All-Ivy… Placed second in the 400 freestyle relay at the Ivy League Championships, gaining Second Team All-Ivy… Posted the team’s fastest time of the season in the 100 free (49.38)… Finished third in the 200 free relay, third in the 200 free, fourth in the 100 back, and fourth in the 100 free at the Ivy League Championships… Swam season-best times of 23.39 in the 50 free, 49.38 in the 100 free, 1:46.66 in the 200 free, 25.99 in the 50 back, 54.25 in the 100 back, 1:59.62 in the 200 back, and 55.58 in the 100 fly… Notched NCAA B cut times in both the 100 free and 200 free… Won the 100 fly at Columbia (Nov. 6)… Captured the 50 free and 200 back at Cornell (Nov. 13)… Claimed the 100 free and 100 fly vs. Brown (Jan. 4)… Secured first in the 100 back vs. Penn (Jan. 22)… Helped the Crimson capture the 2022 Ivy League championship… Earned CSCAA Second Team Scholar All-America honors.

Before Harvard

Four-year letterwinner at Reading Memorial… Captain in 2021… RMHS record holder in the 100 yard freestyle, 500 yard freestyle, 100 yard butterfly, 100 yard backstroke, 400 yard freestyle relay and 200 yard medley relay… Three-time 100 yard freestyle MA Division 2 State Champion… Two-time 200 yard freestyle MA Division 2 State Champion... Member of the State Champion relay team in 2018… Member of 400 yard freestyle MA Division 2 State Champion relay team in 2017, 2018 and 2019… Member of MA Division 2 State Champion team in 2017 and 2018… Three-time Winter Junior Nationals Qualifier… Two-time Summer Junior Nationals Qualifier… Toyota US Open Qualifier in 2020… Named the RMHS Girls' Swim Team MVP and High Point Scorer in 2019... Earned Middlesex League All-Conference Team honors in 2017, 2018 and 2019… Received the RMHS Girls' Swim Team Impact Freshmen Award in 2017… Received the New England Swimming Outstanding Swimmer Award in 2018-2019, 2019-2020… Received the New England Swimming "Top 10" Award in 2018, 2019 and 2020… Named the Boston Globe Athlete of the Year in 2018… Named to the Boston Herald and Boston Globe All-Scholastic Team in 2017, 2018 and 2019… Named to the USA Swimming Scholastic All-American Team in 2018, 2019 and 2020… Four-year honor roll recipient… National Honor Society… Hamilton College Book Award recipient… National Merit Commended Scholar… RMHS Student Council Class of 2021 Representative… RMHS Student Council President junior and senior year… RMHS National Honor Society Secretary senior year… Cradles to Crayons Teen Leadership Corps… Volunteered at the Reading Public Library.

Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22First-Year

    Freestyle/Backstroke/Butterfly/IM
  • 2022-23Sophomore

    Freestyle/Backstroke/Butterfly/IM
  • 2023-24Junior

    Freestyle/Backstroke/Butterfly/IM
  • 2024-25Senior

    Freestyle/Backstroke/Butterfly/IM