CHICAGO, IL – University of Rochester women's swimming and diving sophomore Amelia Hardiman and first-year Ally Mackey rewrote the Rochester record book in the 400 IM on day three of the 2025-26 University Athletic Association (UAA) Swimming & Diving Championships, hosted by the University of Chicago inside the Ratner Athletic Center.
 
Hardiman and Mackey were two of four 'Jackets who earned spots in the evening's 400 IM final, with Mackey netting a spot in the 'B' final with her performance in the morning's prelims (15th, 4:39.99), while Hardiman, along with Ava Kaufman and Rachel Ruminer, competed in the 'C' final.
 
Hardiman won the 400 IM 'C' final and set a new school record with her 4:34.03 time, breaking the previous record of 4:35.54, set by Emily Friedline in 2012. Hardiman's time was good for 17th, while Ava Kaufman placed 21st with a time of 4:46.38, and Ruminer came in 23rd, touching the wall in 4:49.92.
 
In the 'B' final, Mackey also bested the previous school record, setting the new No. 2 mark in program history in the 400 IM with her 4:34.59 time, good for 14th overall.
 
Ariana Pasquella also swam in the 'B' final in the 100-yard breaststroke, one of two Yellowjackets to qualify for the evening's finals. Pasquella clocked in at 1:05.12, good for 12th in the 'B' final after finishing ninth in the prelims, while Sarah Leevan finished 24th in the 'C' final with a time of 1:08.52, ninth on URochester's top-10 times list.
 
In the 200-yard freestyle, Morgan Edstrom earned a spot in the 'C' final with a 20th-place result in the morning prelims, and then came in 24th in the final, clocking in at 1:56.21.
 
Two Yellowjackets swam in the 100-yard backstroke finals, with both Sophia Dmytruk and Olivia Dewar placing in the 'C' final. Both improved upon their performances from the morning prelims as well, as Dmytruk placed 22nd in the final, after finishing 24th in the prelims, and shaved nearly half-a-second off her morning time, touching the wall in 58.95 seconds, No. 8 on the top-10 times list.
 
While Dewar came in 23rd in both the morning's prelims and evening's 'C' final, and knocked 0.14 seconds off her time, swimming the 100 backstroke in 59.00 seconds in the evening's final, the 9th-fastest time in program history.
 
Dmytruk was also Rochester's top swimmer in the 100-yard butterfly prelims, earning one of two alternate spots with her 25th-place finish and 58.97-second time.
 
Rochester wrapped up day three with the 200-yard medley relay, notching seventh and 15th-place finishes with its 'A' and 'B' relays. In the 'A' final, Dmytruk, Pasquella, Powers and Adele Hellstrom combined for a time of 1:46.91, good for seventh and No. 5 on the top-10 times list. While the 'Jackets' 'B' relay of Phoebe Hamblett, Leevan, Dewar and Edstrom finished 15th in the 'B' final with a time of 1:52.19.
 
Through three days of competition, the Yellowjackets, as a team, sit in seventh place with 381.5 points. NYU holds the top spot among the eight schools with 1,278 points, followed closely by Emory with 1,254 points, and Chicago with 848.5 points.
 
Rochester will wrap up the 2026 UAA Championships on Saturday, Feb. 14, with the morning prelims getting started at 10:00 a.m. CT with the 200-yard backstroke, and the evening's finals slated for 6:00 p.m. CT.