Torie Buerger

Top Times (SCY):
100 Backstroke: 52.79 (Tennessee Invitational, 11/16/23)
200 Backstroke: 1:54.59 (CSCAA National Invitational Championship, 3/16/24)
200 IM: 1:58.00 (SEC Championships, 2/21/24)

Top Times (LCM): 
100 Backstroke: 1:01.24 (IN Indy Spring Cup, 05/19/23)
200 Backstroke: 2:12.34 (Phillips 66 National Championships, 7/27/22)
200 IM: 2:16.60 (GA ABSC Bulldog Summer Invite, 7/1/22)

Career Notes:

• 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials Qualifier
• 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials qualifier
• 2021 All-SEC Freshman Team
• 2022, 2023, 2024 SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll
• 2021 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll
• 2024 CSCAA Second-Team Scholar All-America
• 2022 CSCAA Scholar All-America Honorable Mention
• Frank G. Ham Society of Character Inductee

In the Record Book:

• No. 9 in the 200 IM (2024)
• No. 10 in 100 back (2023)

2023-24 (Senior): Won the 200 backstroke (1:54.59) with a personal best swim at CSCAA National Invitational. Also placed second in the 100 back (53.00), seventh in the 50 back (25.01) and 10th in the 200 IM (2:04.06) … Scored in three events at SEC Championships, placing 15th in the 100 back (53.06), and 16th in both the 200 IM (2:00.07) and 200 back (1:56.31) … Finished first in the 100 back against Alabama (52.86), while adding second place finish in the 200 back (1:56.22) and third place result in the 200 IM (2:00.97) … Had three top-10s at the Tennessee Invitational, placing fourth in the 100 back (52.79) … sixth in the 200 back (1:55.72) and seventh in the 200 IM (2:00.91) … Took second in both the 200 free (1:54.69) and 200 back (2:01.86) against Eastern Michigan … Had pair of second-place finishes against Indiana, swimming to runner-up results in the 100 back (1:02.53) and 200 back (2:14.13) … Won both the 200 back (2:00.23) and 200 IM (2:05.65) at Arkansas to open season.

2022-23 (Junior): Made three finals at the SEC Championships racing to 19th in the 200 back (1:55.53), 22nd in the 200 IM (1:59.54) and 23rd in the 100 back (53.48) … Set a personal best time in the 200 back at the Ohio State Last Chance Qualifier (1:54.84) … Had ten, top-10 finishes in dual meets … Competed at the Toyota US Open Championships in the 200M backstroke … Finished inside the top-10 in three events at the Ohio State Invitational … Was eighth in the 100 back (53.54), ninth in the 200 back (1:57.40) and ninth in the 200 IM (2:00.36).

2021-22 (Sophomore): Won the C-final of the 200 back (1:54.97) in a lifetime best at the SEC Championships to finish 17th overall, also taking 19th in the 100 back (53.22) … Placed 11th in the 200 back (1:56.26) and 14th in the 100 back (54.50) at the midseason Ohio State Invitational … Had six top-5 finishes throughout the dual meet season, highlighted by her first collegiate win in the 100 back (56.19) against Cincinnati … Finished third in the 200 back (2:00.32) versus Marshall … Placed fifth in the 100 back (56.65) in the season-opening tri-meet against Indiana and Indiana State.

2020-21 (Freshman): Named to All-SEC Freshman Team … Won the B-final of the 200m back in 2:14.12 at Wave I of the 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials … Finished 13th in the 200 back (1:55.51), 16th in the 100 back (53.47) at the SEC Championships … Split 50.71 on the 400 freestyle relay as UK won their first-ever SEC title … Recorded seven top-6 finishes throughout the dual meet season, including a runner-up showing in the 200 back against Tennessee … Placed fifth in the 200 back, seventh in the 100 back, and 11th in the 200 IM at the Missouri Invitational … Named to the SEC First-Year Honor Roll.

Prior to UK: 2020 Pennsylvania 3A state champion in the 200 IM … Six-time Pennsylvania State Championship finalist … Three-time WPIAL gold medalist … Also swam for Allegheny North Swim Club where she was a U.S. Open qualifier … 2019 Geneva Futures 100m back champion … NISCA and USA Swimming Scholastic All-American.