Swimming & Diving
Madison Winstead - Swimming & Diving - University of Kentucky Athletics

MadisonWinstead

  • class Junior
  • Hometown Lexington, Ky.
  • Major Human Health Sciences
  • High school Paul Laurence Dunbar

Top Times (SCY):
200 IM: 1:57.70 (2018 SEC Championships, 02/15/18)
100 Breaststroke: 59.38 (2018 SEC Championships, 02/17/18)
200 Breaststroke: 2:07.65 (2018 NCAA Championships, 03/17/18)
100 Freestyle: 50.07 (Ohio State Fall Invite, 11/19/17)
 
Top Times (LCM):

50 Freestyle: 27.46 (2017 Bucceto Open, 06/01/17)
100 Freestyle: 58.20 (2017 Bucceto Open, 06/02/17)
50 Breaststroke: 32.56 (2017 Phillips 66 National Championships, 06/29/17)
100 Breaststroke: 1:10.61 (2017 Phillips 66 National Championships, 06/30/17)
200 Breaststroke: 2:32.37 (2017 Phillips 66 National Championships, 06/28/17)
200 IM: 2:19.36 (2017 Phillips 66 National Championships, 07/01/17)
 
Career Notes:

  • 2017, 2018, 2019 NCAA Qualifier
  • 2018, 2019 SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll
  • 2018 All-America Honorable Mention in 200 Breaststroke
  • 2018 All-SEC Second Team
  • 2018 SEC Bronze Medalist in 100 Breaststroke
  • 2017 All-SEC Second Team, All-Freshman Team
  • 2017 All-America Honorable Mention in 400 Medley Relay
  • 2017 SEC Silver Medalist in 100 Breaststroke
  • 2017, 2018, 2019 CSCAA Scholar All-America First Team
  • 2017 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll


2018-19 (Junior): Scored points in the SEC Championships in the 200 free relay, 100 breast and 200 breast … Placed 11th in the 200 free relay, swimming the anchor leg (1:30.81), finished 12th in the 100 breast (1:00.52) and finished 14th in the 200 breast (2:10.22) at the SEC Championships … Qualified for the NCAA Championships in the 100 and 200 breast … Finished 24th in the 100 breast on a season-best time of 59.89 and finished 34th in the 200 breast on a mark of 2:10.94 … Named to CSCAA Scholar All-America First Team … Named to SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll.
 
2017-18 (Sophomore): Earned individual All-America honors for the first time in her career, finishing 10th in the 200 breast at the NCAA Championships with a lifetime best 2:07.65 … Earned the SEC bronze medal in the 100 breast with a school-record time of 59.38 … Placed 10th in the 200 breast at the conference meet in 2:08.71 … Scored in the 200 IM at the SEC meet, going 1:57.70 to finish 21st overall … Earned All-SEC Second Team honors … Named to CSCAA Scholar All-America First Team … Named to SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll.

2016-17 (Freshman): Became the first UK swimmer to record a sub-minute time in the 100 breast, winning the SEC silver medal in 59.86 … Scored in the 200 breast at the conference meet, finishing 16th overall in 2:13.90 … Qualified for the NCAA Championships in the 100 breast, finishing 33rd with a time of 1:00.72 … Finished 42nd at NCAAs in the 200 breast with a personal-best time of 2:12.13 … Earned All-America Honorable Mention by swimming the breaststroke leg of UK’s 16th-place 400 medley relay … Named to CSCAA Scholar All-America First Team … Named to the All-SEC Second Team and All-Freshman Team … Named to SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll. 
 
Prior to UK: Eleven-time NISCA All-American … Captured a state championship her senior year … Four-time All-State team member … Top-eight finisher at the Summer Junior Nationals in 2014 … Competed for Highbridge Aquatics … Played basketball and volleyball.

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