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2016-17 Women's Swimming & Diving Roster

Hannah Bollinger

  • Position Free/Fly
  • Height 5-7
  • Class Sophomore
  • High School Ithaca HS
  • Hometown Ithaca, N.Y.

Biography

As a sophomore (2016-17)
• Recorded the fifth-fastest 100 free time in school history (51.27) at the Ivy League Championships.
• Scored in the 200 free with the fourth-fastest time at Cornell (1:50.75), as well as in the 500 free.
• Won the 100 and 200 back in the dual meet win at St. Bonaventure.
• Took home the 200 free title in the dual meet against Columbia.

As a freshman (2015-16)
• Competed in three events at the 2016 Ivy League Championships, scoring in both the 100 and 200 free.
• Swam the third-fastest 200 free race in school history, placing 20th overall at the Ivy championship in 1:50.59.
• Anchored the 800 free relay team that included Micaela Luders, Abby Benkert and Billy Murch Elliot to a time of 7:30.90, the second-fastest by a Big Red group.
• Placed 23rd in the 100, with her time of 51.64 ranking 10th all-time at Cornell.
• Swam the second leg on the 400 free relay that sits third on Cornell’s career chart.
• Won six individual dual meet races on the year, including the 200 and 500 free against Brown, the 200 against Yale and the 500 vs. Columbia.
• Had four top four individual finishes at the Ithaca Bomber Invitational, including winning the 500 free in 4:56.43.
• Posted the second-fastest time of the year by a Big Red swimmer in the 200, as well as the third-fastest in the 100 and 500.

Prior to Cornell
• Bollinger was a USA Swimming Scholastic All-American as a senior.
• Three-time team MVP.
• Earned the ESPN Ithaca Athletic Achievement Award in 2014.

Personal
• Hannah Kerttu Bollinger is the daughter of Wade Bollinger and Maureen Newman and has two younger brothers.
• Her father was a three-time All-America lacrosse player, winning four Ivy titles and polacing as high as third at the NCAA championships.
• He is a member of Cornell's Athletics Hall of Fame after scoring 111 points (61 goals, 50 assists).
• Hannah Bollinger is enrolled in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

Historical Player Information

  • 2015-16Freshman

    Free/Fly
    5'7"
  • 2016-17Sophomore

    Free/Fly
    5'7"