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Trinity Ward - Swimming & Diving - University of Kentucky Athletics

TrinityWard

  • position Freestyle/butterfly
  • class Junior
  • Hometown Pittsburgh, Pa.
  • High school Mt. Lebanon High School

Top Times (SCY):
100 Butterfly: 53.27 (2021 SEC Championships, 2/19/21)
200 Butterfly: 1:59.86 (2021 SEC Championships, 2/20/21)
100 Backstroke: 54.85 (2022 SEC Championships, 2/17/22)
200 Backstroke: 1:57.99 (2022 SEC Championships, 2/19/22)

Top Times (LCM):
100 Butterfly: 1:02.02 (2019 Ohio State Fall Invite, 11/22/19)
200 Butterfly: 2:24.35 (2019 Ohio State Fall Invite, 11/23/19)

Career Notes:

  • 2021 CSCAA Scholar All-America Honorable Mention
  • 2021, 2022 SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll
  • 2020 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll

In the Record Book:

  • No. 9 in 100 fly (2021)

2021-22 (Junior): Finished 27th in the 200 back (1:57.99), 31st in the 100 fly (54.06) and 33rd in the 100 back (54.85) at the SEC Championships, earning best times in both backstroke events … Finaled in three events at the midseason Ohio State Invitational with her highest finish being a 28th-place showing in the 100 fly (55.46) … Had seven top-8 finishes throughout the dual meet season, highlighted by a runner-up finish in the 100 back (57.00) against Ohio … Raced to third in the 100 back (56.94) versus Marshall … Took third in both the 100 back (57.29) and 200 back (2:04.77) in a tilt with Cincinnati.

2020-21 (Sophomore): Placed 18th in the 100 fly with a time of 53.27 and 21st in the 200 fly in 2:00.33 at the 2021 SEC Championships where UK won their first-ever conference title … Finished sixth in both the 100 fly (54.49) and 200 fly (2:04.68) at the Missouri Invitational … Won the 100 free against Vanderbilt in 52.37 … Took sixth in the 100 fly (55.49) and seventh in the 200 fly (2:04.28) versus Louisville … Named to SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll … Named a CSCAA Scholar All-America Honorable Mention.

2019-20 (Freshman): Finished in 24th place in the 100 butterfly in 54.56 at the 2020 SEC Championships, before earning a career-best 53.77 during preliminaries … Finished in 25th place in the 200 butterfly in 1:59.91, a career best, at the SEC Championships … Set a career best in the 200 freestyle (1:54.45), the 1000 freestyle (10:09.15) and the 1650 freestyle (16:53.29) at the Ohio State Winter Invite … Named to the SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll.

Prior to UK: 2017 and 2019 Pennsylvania 3A state champion in the 100 fly … Two-time WPIAL 3A champion … Also competed for Mount Lebanon Aqua Club where she was a Junior National qualifier … Placed fifth in the 100m fly at Geneva Futures in 2019 … Took eighth in the 100m free at the 2018 Eastern Zone Senior Championships … NISCA All-American.

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