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2017-18 Women's Swimming and Diving

Raquel Wasserman

  • Class Senior
  • Highschool The Fox Lane
  • Hometown Pound Ridge, NY

Biography

  • Enjoyed an outstanding four-year career for the Royals in which she won four indvidual Landmark Conference Championships
  • Set two individual school records and swam a leg for three relay teams that also set program records
  • Earned five All-Landmark Conference honors including four First Team selections and was the 2015 Landmark Conference Rookie of the Year 

Senior Season (2017-18)

  • Battled through injury to compete in six meets and post a fifth place finish in the 50 freestyle at the Landmark Conference Championships
  • Won four events on the season, winning both the 50 freestyle and 100 freestyle twice
  • Won both events against Catholic on October 27
  • Finished in the top-five of all eight events in which she competed on the year with six top-three results

Junior Season (2016-17)

  • Won two individual events and two relay events at the 2017 Landmark Conference Championships, earning first team honors in each event
  • Defended her titles in the 50 freestyle and 100 freestyle, taking both events with times of 24.20 and 52.22
  • Swam anchor on both relay teams that won conference titles: the 200-freestyle and 400-freestyle relays
  • 400-free relay team broke the school/Landmark Conference Championship record in the event, hitting the wall in 3:34.74
  • 200-free relay (1:38.15) and 400-medley relay (4:01.23) teams also broke program records during the Landmark Conference Championships
  • Swam in all eight dual meets the Royals took part in during the regular season, winning at least one event individually in each meet; was a two-time winner four times throughout the year

Sophomore Season (2015-16)

  • Picked up where she left off from the start in her sophomore year, swimming butterfly and short distance freestyle for the Royals
  • Was a driving force behind the Royals going 9-2 in dual meets on the year, winning an individual event in seven of the eight meets she took part in
  • Had her most success in the 50-freestyle, winning the event six times throughout the course of the year
  • Was just as successful swimming a leg on Scranton's two relay teams, as the 200-medley and 400-freestyle team swept the events in six meets

Freshman Season (2014-2015)

  • Was named the Landmark Conference Rookie of the Year after putting on a  dominating performance at the league's championship meet in Feb., winning the 50 (:24.06) and 100 free (:52.22) and finishing second in the 100 fly (:59.53)
  • Her times in the finals of the 50 and 100 free established new Scranton records
  • Swam the opening leg on the fourth-place finishing 400 medley relay that established a new Royal record in 4:01.73
  • Also swam the anchor legs on the 200 and 400 free relay teams that set new Scranton records in 1:38.42 and 3:38.41, respectively; the 200 free relay placed second the 400 free finished third
  • Earned first-team All-Landmark honors for her performances in the 50 and 100 free and second team for her efforts in the 100 fly and the 200 free relay at the conference meet
  • Completed in all 10 dual meets and recorded 16 first-place and three runner-up finishes
  • Won the 100 free (:54.02) and 100 back (:54.02) against Catholic University on Jan. 11, a performance that earned her the Landmark Conference Athlete of the Week award

Landmark Conference Championship Finishes

2018

  • 50 Freestyle (5th, 24.75)

2017

  • 50 Freestyle (1st, 24.20)
  • 100 Freestyle (1st, 52.95)
  • 100 Butterfly (9th, 1:00.17)

2015

  • 50 Freestyle (1st, 24.06)
  • 100 Freestyle (1st, 52.22)
  • 100 Butterfly (2nd, 59.53)

Notables

  • Landmark Conference 50 freestyle champion (2015, 2017)
  • Landmark Conference 100 freestyle champion (2015, 2017)
  • Royal record-holder in the 50 freestyle (:24.06)
  • Royal record-holder in the 100 freestyle (:52.22)
  • Royal record-holder in the 200 (1:38.15) and 400 (3:38.41) freestyle relays and 400 medley relay (4:01.23)

Awards/Honors

  • Landmark Conference Athlete of the Week (Jan. 12, 2015; Nov. 23, 2015; Jan. 11, 2016)
  • Landmark Conference Rookie of the Year (2015)
  • Landmark Conference 1st-team selection (2015, 2017)
  • Landmark Conference 2nd-team selection (2015)
  • University of Scranton Athlete of the Week (Jan. 19, 2015; Jan. 17, 2017)
  • CollegeSwimming Conference Swimmer of the Week (Oct. 31, 2016; Nov. 14, 2016)
  • Landmark Conference Academic Honor Roll (2018)

Personal/High School

  • Earned five letters for swimming
  • Member of 200 free relay that set new school record her senior year
  • Earned all-sectional and all-league honors
  • State qualifier her junior and senior years and sectional qualifier all five years
  • NCSA Junior National qualifier in the 50 free in 2014
  • Also earned Scholar-Athlete honors
  • Daughter of Dr. Eric & Roxane Wasserman
  • Has a brother, Kurt

Historical Player Information

  • 2014-15Freshman

  • 2015-16Sophomore

  • 2016-17Junior

  • 2017-18Senior

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