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2024-25 Women's Swimming and Diving Roster

Penelope Helm

  • Year Graduate Student
  • Hometown Wayzata, MN
  • High School Minnetonka
  • Position Free, Fly

Biography

Graduate Student (2024-25):

  • CSCAA All-America First Team in 800 Freestyle Relay (3rd), 500 Freestyle (3rd), 200 Freestyle (3rd), 400 Freestyle Relay (6th)
  • CSCAA All-America Second Team in 100 Freestyle (13th)
  • All-UAA in 800 Freestyle Relay (2nd), 500 Freestyle (2nd), 200 Freestyle (2nd), 400 Freestyle Relay (2nd)
  • CSCAA Scholar All-America First Team

Senior (2023-24):

  • CSCAA All-America First Team in 200 Freestyle (3rd), 800 Freestyle Relay (4th) and 500 Freestyle (6th)
  • CSCAA All-America Second Team in 400 Freestyle Relay (9th)
  • All-UAA in 800 Free Relay (2nd), 500 Freestyle (2nd), 200 Freestyle (2nd) and 400 Freestyle Relay (2nd)
  • CSC Academic All-America First Team
  • CSCAA Scholar All-America First Team

Junior (2022-23):

  • CSCAA All-America First Team in 800 Freestyle Relay (5th)
  • All-UAA in 500 Freestyle (2nd) and 800 Freestyle Relay (3rd)
  • CSCAA Scholar All-America First Team

Sophomore (2021-22):

2022 All-America 800 Freestyle Relay 6th
All-America Honorable Mention 500 Freestyle 10th
UAA Champion 500 Freestyle
All-UAA 500 Freestyle 1st

Career Best Times:

23.99 50 Free 2/23/2024 Emory February Invitational
50.60 100 Free 3/19/2025 NCAA Championships
1:48.59 200 Free 3/19/2025 NCAA Championships
4:51.02 500 Free 3/19/2025 NCAA Championships
2:03.41 200 Back 2/21/2025 Emory February Invitational
56.33 100 Fly 2/21/2025 Emory Invitational

Prior to Emory:

Swam three seasons for the Minnetonka swimming & diving team...NISCA High School All-American 2019-20...2x Minnesota All-State Team...2x All-Lake Conference Selection...400 and 800 Freestyle Relay school record holder...2016-20 Academic Letter Winner, A Honor Roll...USS Futures qualifier...NSCA qualifier...Winter Juniors Qualifier.

Personal:

Father, Doug, and mother, Marsha, both swam at the University of Iowa...Mom, was also an All-American at Colorado State University.

Why she chose Emory?

"I chose Emory because I wanted a school with a strong liberal-arts curriculum and because I knew the swim team would be a great fit for me."

Historical Player Information

  • 2020-21Freshman

    Free, Fly
    5'9"
  • 2021-22Sophomore

    Free, Fly
  • 2022-23Junior

    Free, Fly
  • 2023-24Senior

    Free, Fly
  • 2024-25Graduate Student

    Free, Fly
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