Simon Fraser University Athletics

NCAA CHAMPIONS & ALL-AMERICANS
(updated November 2025)


By Team:
 

Year	Gender	NCAA Champions	All-American - First Team	All-American - Second Team
2025	Women	2	18	7
	Men	0	1	2
2024	Women	0	16	2
	Men	0	1	7

 

CHAMPIONS
	Tori Meklensek NCAA Champion: 500 & 1,650 Freestyle | 2025 All-American First Team 200 Freestyle | 2024, 2025 500 Freestyle | 2024, 2025 1,000 Freestyle| 2024, 2025 1,650 Freestyle | 2024, 2025 200 Freestyle Relay | 2025 400 Freestyle Relay | 2024, 2025 800 Freestyle Relay | 2024, 2025 Meklensek in her senior year won two national titles – in the 500- and 1,650-yard freestyle events – at the 2025 NCAA championships in Indianapolis, Ind., and earned seven First Team All-America selections in total – all in school record fashion.		Mariya Chekanovych NCAA Champion: 100 & 200 breaststroke | 2013 All-American First Team 100 & 200 Breaststroke | 2013 200 & 400 medley relay | 2013 Chekanovych, a freshman, made SFU history as the first student-athlete to win a NCAA Division II national title in any sport. Chekanovych, the top-ranked swimmer in both events, raced to a new NCAA record 1:01.50 in the 100- yard breaststroke, 0.35 seconds faster than runner-up Kayla Scott of Wayne State. The next day, Chekanovych also won a NCAA championship in the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:13.35.
	Collyn Gagne NCAA Champion: 400 IM | 2022 All-American First Team 400 Individual medley | 2019, 2022 200 Individual medley | 2022 200 backstroke | 2022 200 butterfly | 2022 800 free relay | 2022 Collyn Gagne set an NCAA record in winning the 400-yard individual medley by nearly six seconds over the second place finisher at the 2022 NCAA Championships. He became the first SFU swimmer to win five NCAA All-American First Team trophies in a single championship.		Mackenzie Hamill NCAA Champion: 1,650 freestyle | 2016 All-American First Team 1,650 free | 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 500 free | 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 1,000 free  | 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 800 free relay |  2016, 2017, 2019 Hamill, a freshman, won the 1,650 yards freestyle to become SFU’s first NCAA champion in men's swimming. Ranked seventh entering the race, Hamill was fifth after the first lap, second after the ninth split, and then edged Cristian Vasquez of Lindenwood 15:19.73 to 15:20.66, breaking SFU's all-time record set by Eugene Gyorfi in 1983.
ALL-AMERICAN FIRST TEAM
	Melissa Adelman All-American - 1st Team 200 Freestyle Relay | 2025 400 Freestyle Relay | 2025		Delrae Vetter All-American - 1st Team 800 Freestyle Relay | 2024, 2025 All-American - 2ndTeam 400 Medley Relay | 2025
	Kaysha Bikadi All-American - Second Team 400 Medley Relay | 2025		Thomas Caruso All-American - 2ndTeam 200 Back | 2024 800 Free Relay | 2024
	Keira Kennedy All-American - First Team 1,650 Freestyle | 2025 All-American - Second Team 500 Freestyle | 2025 1000 Freestyle | 2025		Marcus Mak All-American First Team 200 Individual Medley | 2024 All-American Second Team 200 Individual Medley | 2025 200 Backstroke | 2024, 2025 400 Individual Medley | 2024 800 Free Relay | 2024
	Aly Whitmore All-American - 1st Team 200 Freestyle Relay | 2024, 2025 400 Freestyle Relay | 2024, 2025 800 Freestyle Relay | 2025 All-American - 2nd Team 50-yard Freestyle | 2024 400 Medley Relay | 2025		Abby Williams All-American - 1st Team 100 Freestyle | 2025 200 Freestyle Relay | 2024, 2025 400 Freestyle Relay | 2024, 2025 800 Freestyle Relay | 2024, 2025 All-American - 2ndTeam 50 Freestyle | 2025 100 Freestyle | 2024 400 Medley Relay | 2025
	Owen Nicholson All-American - 2ndTeam 800 Freestyle Relay | 2024		Kayla Houlder All-American - 1st Team 200 Freestyle Relay | 2024 400 Freestyle Relay | 2024
	Laine Perry All-American - 1stTeam 200 Freestyle Relay | 2024 800 Freestyle Relay | 2024
	Nicole Cossey All-American First Team 50 freestyle | 2013, 2014 100 freestyle | 2013, 2014 200 medley relay | 2013 400 medley relay | 2013 800 freestyle relay | 2015		Kristine Lawson All-American First Team 200 medley relay | 2013 400 medley relay | 2013
	Alexandria Schofield All-American First Team 200 medley relay | 2013 400 medley relay | 2013, 2015 800 freestyle relay | 2015		Carmen Nam All-American First Team 200 butterfly | 2014, 2015
	Adrian VanderHelm All-American First Team 200 freestyle | 2015, 2016 100 freestyle | 2015 500 freestyle | 2016, 2017, 2019 200 individual medley | 2016, 2017 400 individual medley | 2017, 2019 800 freestyle relay | 2016, 2017, 2019		Lauren Swistak All-American First Team 800 freestyle relay | 2016 200 butterfly | 2016
	Maran Kokoska All-American First Team 800 freestyle relay | 2015		Grace Ni All-American First Team 400 medley relay | 2015
	Meaghan Frenks All-American First Team 400 medley relay | 2015		Gabriel Lee All-American First Team 800 freestyle relay | 2016, 2017, 2019
	Colton Peterson All-American First Team 800 freestyle relay | 2016		Jessie Gibson All-American First Team 100 butterfly | 2017, 2018, 2019 200 butterfly | 2017, 2018, 2019 800 freestyle relay | 2018, 2019 400 freestyle relay | 2019 200 medley relay | 2019
	Tim Woinoski All-American First Team 1,650 freestyle | 2017		Rolando Hernandez All-American First Team 800 freestyle relay | 2017 500 freestyle | 2018 400 individual medley | 2019
	Andrew Woinoski All-American First Team 500 freestyle | 2018 1,000 freestyle | 2018, 2019		Kristen Olvet All-American First Team 800 freestyle relay | 2018 400 freestyle relay | 2019
	Kaleigh Sharkey All-American First Team 200 butterfly | 2018, 2019 800 freestyle relay | 2018, 2019, 2022 100 butterfly | 2019 400 freestyle relay | 2019, 2022 200 medley relay | 2019 400 medley relay | 2022 100 freestyle | 2022		Erin Lawrence All-American First Team 800 freestyle relay | 2018, 2019
	Kennedy Loewen All-American First Team 400 Individual medley | 2022 200 Individual medley | 2022 400 medley relay | 2022 800 freestyle relay | 2022 400 freestyle relay | 2022		Jordan Doner All-American First Team 800 freestyle relay | 2019 400 freestyle relay | 2022
	Matthew Fuller All-American First Team 200 freestyle | 2019 800 freestyle relay | 2019, 2022		Sara Whelan All-American First Team 200 medley relay | 2019 400 freestyle relay | 2019 800 freestyle relay | 2019
	Isabelle Roth All-American First Team 400 medley relay | 2022 100 Breaststroke | 2022 200 Breaststroke | 2022 800 freestyle relay | 2022		Tori Meklensek All-American First Team 200 freestyle | 2022 400 freestyle relay | 2022 800 freestyle relay | 2022
	Leo Fath All-American First Team 800 freestyle relay | 2022		Jimmy Zhang All-American First Team 800 freestyle relay | 2022
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NCAA DIV. II / CSCAA SCHOLAR ALL-AMERICA TEAMS 

The College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) recognizes students that have achieved a grade point average of 3.50 or higher
and competed at the NCAA Division II Swimming and Diving Championships through its Scholar All-America teams.
   













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YEAR	STUDENT-ATHLETES
2012-13	Nicole Cossey
2013-14	Nicole Cossey
2014-15	Nicole Cossey, Elizabeth Durward, Hans Heyer (HM), Dimitar Ivanov (HM)
2015-16	Adrian VanderHelm, Karen Castillo (HM), Robyn Lee, Sidney Peake (HM)
2016-17	Kristen Olvet, Miranda Stever
2017-18	Jayden Cole (HM), Kristen Olvet
2018-19	Jayden Cole, Engineering | Marina Cummiskey (HM) // Communications | Kristen Olvet // Communications
2019-20	none
2021-22	Jayden Cole, Engineering |

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