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2011-12 Women's Swimming and Diving

Petra Janney

  • Class Sophomore
  • Hometown Edgecomb, Maine
  • High School Phillips Exeter Academy
  • Event Free/Fly
  • House Quincy

Biography

Harvard Women''s Swimming and Diving
Career Highs
50 Free: 25.53 (Georgia Invitational, 12/2/11)
100 Free: 54.74 (Georgia Invitational, 12/3/10)
100 Back: 1:00.58 (HYP, 1/28/11)
200 Back: 2:09.41 (HYP, 2/4/12)
100 Fly: 57.63 (Ivy League Championships, 2/25/11)
200 Fly: 2:07.42 (Ivy League Championships, 2/25/11)
200 IM: 2:10.36 (HYP, 1/28/11)
400 IM: 4:42.92 (Georgia Invitational, 12/3/10)

Sophomore · 2011-12
Member of the 200 medley relay team that placed seventhwith a time of 1:50.80 and participated in the 100 backstroke andbutterfly events against Cornell and Dartmouth ... Finished thirdin the 100 fly (59.15), and took sixth in the 100 back (1:02.06)and 200 back (2:11.78) at the MIT Invitational ... Was a member ofthe third-place finishing 200 free relay team at the ECACChampionships.

Freshman · 2010-11
Helped the Crimson to a second-place finish at the 2011ECAC Championships by turning in an eighth-place time of 57.63 inthe 100 butterfly at ECACs and finishing 11th in the 200 butterflyconsolations finals with a time of 2:07.42. 

Before Harvard
Swam three years at Phillips Exeter Academy after spendingfreshman season on North Yarmouth Academy squad … Named 2010MVP of Exeter girls swimming and diving team … NEPSSA top 20in 100-yard butterfly, 200 individual medley, 200 freestyle and 400free relay … Exeter school record holder and All-American aspart of 400 free relay team … Holds 10 team records and wasnamed MVP as a freshman at Yarmouth Academy … Holds 10 cluband four Maine state individual swimming records and helped clubteam to state and national championships … Led Exeter swimteam to a state championship as a senior … PresidentialScholar and National Merit Scholar semifinalist … Topperformer in national German test in 2009 and outstanding academicperformance in French in 2008 … Noted for excellence inEnglish composition in 2007 … Volunteers at animal sheltersand the Make-A-Wish Foundation … Enjoys reading, music,movies and baking … Brother, Niall Janney, is a member ofthe Harvard men’s swimming and diving team and grandfather,Henry James McTighe II ’37, was a member of the swimming anddiving and boxing teams while at Harvard.  

Historical Player Information

  • 2010-11First-Year

    Free/Fly
  • 2011-12Sophomore

    Free/Fly