Swimming & Diving
Haley McInerny - Swimming & Diving - University of Kentucky Athletics

HaleyMcInerny

  • class Senior
  • Hometown Lawrenceville, Ga.
  • Major Marketing
  • High school Peachtree HS

Top Times (SCY):
50 Freestyle:  23.23 (2016 SEC Championships, 02/17/16)
200 Freestyle: 1:48.03 (Ohio State Fall Invite, 11/16/18)
500 Freestyle: 4:45.77 (2018 SEC Championships, 02/15/18)
100 Butterfly: 53.28 (2019 SEC Championships, 2/21/19)
200 Butterfly: 1:56.04 (2019 SEC Championships, 02/22/19)
200 Individual Medley: 2:00.04 (2017 SEC Championships, 02/15/17)
 
Top Times (LCM):

50 Butterfly: 28.24 (2017 Phillips 66 National Championships, 06/28/17)
100 Butterfly: 1:00.24 (2017 U.S. Open, 08/04/17)
200 Butterfly: 2:14.21 (2018 Phillips 66 National Championships, 06/25/18)
 
Career Notes:

  • 2019 NCAA Qualifier
  • 2016, 2018, 2019 CSCAA Scholar All-America First Team
  • Three-time All-America Honorable Mention
  • 2017, 2018, 2019 SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll
  • 2016 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll
  • 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials Qualifier

 
2018-19 (Senior): Scored points in two events at the SEC Championships … Finished seventh overall in the 200 fly on a final mark of 1:56.09 and finished 23rd overall in the 100 fly on a final time of 53.43 at the SEC Championships … Set career-best times in the preliminary rounds of the 100 fly (53.28) and 200 fly (1:56.04) at the SEC Championships … Set a career best in the 200 free (1:48.03) at the Ohio State Fall Invite … Qualified for the NCAA Championships in the 100 and 200 fly … Earned her third-career All-America Honorable Mention honor, swimming the third leg in the 800 free relay (10th, 6:58.05) … Finished in 34th on a time of 1:56.79 in the 200 fly and finished in 52nd on a mark of 53.52 in the 100 fly and at the NCAA Championships … Received the Bridgette Alexander 100% Award at the end of year banquet … Named to CSCAA Scholar All-America First Team … Named to SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll.

2017-18 (Junior): Part of Kentucky’s school record-breaking 800 free relay team which finished 11th at the NCAA Championships to earn All-America Honorable Mention honors for the second time in her career … Recorded a personal-best time of 1:56.82 in the 200 fly to place 10th overall at the SEC Championships … Finished 15th overall in the 100 fly at SECs, touching the wall in 53.42 … Also scored in the 500 free at the SEC Championships, finishing 21st with a personal-best time of 4:45.77 … Named to CSCAA Scholar All-America First Team … Named to SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll.

2016-17 (Sophomore): Posted personal-best times in all three of her individual events at the SEC Championships … Won the 200 fly “B” final at SECs with a time of 1:56.89 … Qualified for the “B” final of the 100 fly, finishing 16th overall with a time of 53.29 … Set a personal record at the Ohio State Fall Invite, swimming the opening leg of the 800 free relay with a 1:48.24 split.
 
2015-16 (Freshman):  
All-America honorable mention, swimming the third leg of the UK record-breaking 800 free relay that finished 15th at the NCAA Championships in 7:04.75 with a 1:46.07 split … Swam the anchor on the then-record-breaking 800 free lineup at the SEC Championships that placed sixth in 7:05.68 … Posted the third-fastest 200 fly time in school history in 1:57.72, set in the prelims before taking 13th at the SEC Championships … Her time of 53.81 set in the prelims of the 100 fly at the conference meet is the sixth-fastest in program laurels, and was followed by a 23rd-place finish at the SEC Championships … Staple swimmer in the medley relays, including the school-record-tying 400 medley relay that placed 19th at the NCAA Championships in 3:33.94 with a 53.05 fly split … Posted two “B” cuts in both the 100 and 200 fly prior to the NCAA Championships … Qualified to the U.S. Olympic Trials in the 100 and 200 fly… Named to CSCAA Scholar All-America First Team … Named to SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll.
 
Prior to UK: 
Swam under coach Chris Davies at Swim Atlanta … Two-time high school All-American … Holds the Peachtree High School records in the 100 and 200 free, 100 back, 100 fly and two relays … Broke the Gwinnett County record in the 100 fly … Swam two Olympic trial cuts in the 100 and 200 fly.

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