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Florida native Emma Herrera of the Flood Aquatics Swim Staff is ready to affix Liberty College this fall, 2025. Herrera is a mid-distance freestyle/IM specialist and is presently a senior at The King’s Academy.
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The King’s Academy competes in Florida’s Class 1A State Championships, the place Herrera has persistently excelled, incomes the excellence of a 7x championship finalist by inserting within the prime 8 at a number of occasions. Her most spectacular efficiency got here this previous November, the place she claimed 2nd place within the 200 freestyle with a private finest time of 1:48.23 and completed Third within the 500 freestyle with a time of 4:52.37, narrowly lacking her private better of 4:51.49 set earlier in prelims. Herrera was additionally essential in main The King’s Academy to a Third-place workforce end in a area of 70 excessive colleges. She was the workforce’s highest scorer and delivered a 51.87 cut up within the 400 freestyle relay and anchored the 200 freestyle relay in 23.72.
On the 18&Underneath Spring Cup in Fort Lauderdale this previous Could, Herrera earned 4 top-5 finishes and set 4 private bests. Within the 200 free, she hit a brand new PB of two:02.55 for fifth, and carried that momentum into the 400 freestyle, the place she clocked a 4:19.69 to take 2nd place. Within the 400 IM, she touched the wall in 5:00.59 for an additional 2nd-place end. Herrera additionally swam the 200 IM, ending fifth with a time of two:23.50, simply shy of her private finest of two:21.33 set at Futures – Ocala in 2023.
Finest occasions:
- 100 free – 51.56
- 200 free – 1:48.23
- 500 free – 4:51.49
- 200 IM – 2:04.20
- 400 IM – 4:22.52
- 100 fly – 55.65
- 200 fly – 2:02.09
Liberty College is a Division I mid-major college competing within the ASUN Convention. This previous yr, they gained the ASUN convention title, securing their sixth consecutive convention championship and seventh total. Earlier than the 2024 season, Liberty was a part of the Coastal Collegiate Sports activities Affiliation (CCSA). Nonetheless, in August of 2023, the ASUN started sponsoring males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving, absolutely absorbing all CCSA establishments. Liberty has only one extra season remaining within the ASUN Convention earlier than transitioning to the American Athletic Convention (AAC) in June 2025. The college just lately introduced this transfer, which may even embrace James Madison and Marshall. The AAC is anticipated to change into much more aggressive with these additions, as James Madison is the reigning Solar Belt Convention champion, and Marshall completed because the Solar Belt runner-up.
When Herrera arrives on campus, Liberty can be making their debut on the AAC Championships, a title just lately claimed by FIU in 2024. Herrera will goal to make a right away affect not solely in particular person occasions but in addition as a key contributor to the workforce’s total success: her present 100 freestyle time would have ranked sixth on Liberty’s roster this previous season, whereas her 200 freestyle time would have been the 2nd. Additional, she would rank 1st within the 500 free, Third within the 200 IM, and Third within the 400 IM.
Herrera’s potential affect is to not be understated—on the 2024 AAC Championships, her 500 free would have certified for the A remaining, her 200 free would have taken 2nd total, and her 200 IM, 400 IM, and 200 fly all would have earned her a second swim.
She is ready to affix Gwyn Frick, Carly Larson, Dakota Howard, diver Rachel Laraio, and fellow Florida native Riley Leach in Lynchburg this coming fall. Leach, one other IM specialist, brings bests of two:00.75 within the 200 IM and 4:15.56 within the 400 IM. Frick, whereas primarily a dash stroke/IM swimmer, additionally contributes depth in distance occasions with a stable 500 freestyle better of 4:58.88.
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