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2024 CENTRAL AMERICAN/CARIBBEAN FEMALE SWIMMER OF THE YEAR: KRISTEN ROMANO, PUERTO RICO
Kristen Romano takes her 2nd straight win within the class. Romano has been coaching with the professional group at Tennessee since she graduated from Ohio State in 2022, and he or she had a really constant season swimming in any respect three main worldwide meets for Puerto Rico.
Romano began her 12 months on the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha, the place she swam three particular person occasions, the 200 IM, 200 again, and 400 IM. She made the semi-final within the 200 IM, coming in twelfth with a last time of two:13.33.
She was eleventh within the 400 IM at 4:45.78, and twentieth within the 200 backstroke at 2:14.46. She is the nationwide file holder within the 400 IM at 4:45.47 from June 2023.
In Might, she competed within the Atlanta Basic meet. She completed that meet with a win, and a season greatest time within the 200 IM of two:13.09. She additionally swam the 100 fly, putting fifth together with her last time of 59.63 which was a brand new Nationwide Report
Romano swam the 200 IM on the 2024 Paris Olympics as certainly one of two swimmers on Puerto Rico’s roster. This was Romano’s first Olympics, and he or she completed 21 within the preliminaries, coming in at 2:13.32.
On the Puerto Rico Worldwide Swimming Open in October, Romano swam and received seven occasions. Most notably, she set a brand new Nationwide Report within the SCM 100 backstroke, going 59.62 within the occasion.
Lastly, Romano competed in 5 occasions on the 2024 SC World Championships, the 200 backstroke, 100 fly, 100 IM, 200 IM, and 400 IM. Her highest end was a tenth place within the 400 IM, the place she went 4:33.56. She completed thirteenth within the 200 IM, usually a semi-finals swim, with a brand new nationwide file time of two:08.92. She was twenty third within the 200 again (2:07.60) and the 100 IM (1:00.76), and twenty fourth within the 100 fly (58.93).
Honorable Point out:
- Maria Mata Cocco, Mexico: Mata Cocco competed at each World Championships this 12 months. On the 2024 World Championships in Doha, she certified for the semi-finals and completed eleventh within the ladies’s 200 butterfly, going 2:11.17. She additionally swam the 100 fly, ending twenty fourth in 1:00.39, and the fly leg on Mexico’s 400 medley relay, splitting 1:00.53. On the 2024 CCAN Championships she received the 100 fly (1:00.15) and 200 fly (2:11.64). Her last meet of the 12 months was the 2024 SC World Championships in Budapest the place she swam the 100 and 200 fly. Her 100 fly was twenty fifth at 58.96 (simply behind Romano), and her 200 fly was sixteenth in 2:09.32.
- 2023 — Kristen Romano, Puerto Rico
- 2022 — Maria Mata Cocco, Mexico
- 2021 — Joanna Evans, Bahamas
- 2020 — Alia Atkinson, Jamaica
- 2019 –Alia Atkinson, Jamaica
- 2018 – Alia Atkinson, Jamaica
- 2017 – Lili Ibanez, Mexico
- 2016 – Alia Atkinson, Jamaica
- 2015 – Alia Atkinson, Jamaica
- 2014 – Alia Atkinson, Jamaica
