Five Tartans Headed to NCAA Championships

(INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.) – Five Carnegie Mellon University women's swimmers have earned the right to compete at the 2025 NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships. The championship meet will be hosted at the Greensboro Aquatic Center in Greensboro, North Carolina, on March 19-22.

Junior Savannah Xu will make her third appearance at the national meet after studying abroad during the first semester and qualifying for the meet through the final four meets of the season. Xu was invited to compete in the 100-yard backstroke, 200-yard backstroke, and 200-yard IM. Her time in the 200-yard backstroke is 11th, the 100-yard backstroke is 21st, and the 200-yard IM is 25th. Last year, Xu placed fourth in the 200-yard backstroke while she was sixth in the event in 2023.

Junior Audrey Soetanto returns to the meet for the second year, invited to swim in the 200-yard butterfly with a ranking of 23rd. She'll also swim the 200-yard IM (ranked 44th) and the 100-yard butterfly (ranked 38th).

Sophomore Elizabeth Shaffer was invited to the meet to swim the 200-yard breaststroke and ranks 23rd. Shaffer will also swim the 50-yard freestyle (ranked 64th) and 100-yard breaststroke (ranked 33rd) after meeting qualifying standards throughout the year.

Two first-year Tartans have also been invited with Natalia Evans-Gibson set to swim the 200-yard butterfly and Alexandra Scharpf the 400-yard IM. Both athletes will have the chance to swim other individual events with Evans-Gibson swimming the 100-yard butterfly (ranked 40th) and Scharpf the 200-yard butterfly (ranked 34th) and the 1,650-yard freestyle (ranked 28th).

The group will put together two relays: the 400-yard medley relay with Xu, Shaffer, Evans-Gibson, and Soetanto, and the 200-yard freestyle relay with Soetanto, Xu, Shaffer, and Scharpf set to swim.

The meet starts Wednesday, March 19 with the 200-yard IM, 50-yard freestyle, and 400-yard medley relay.