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2024-25 Women's Swimming & Diving Roster

Issara Schmidt

  • Position Dives
  • Height 5-6
  • Class Senior
  • Major Mathematics/Economics (College of Arts and Science)
  • Hometown Winona, MN
  • High School Winona Senior

Biography

Career Results (SwimCloud)
2024-25
  • All-American in the 1-meter dive (seventh place, 417.40) at the NCAA Division III Championships (3/20-23)
  • Second Team All-American in the 3-meter dive (10th place) and totaled a season best 439.10 at the NCAA’s
  • NCAA Regionals 3-Meter Dive Champion (3/1)
  • Totaled a season best 541.80 in the 1-meter dive at the NYU Invitational (2/21-22)
  • CSCAA Scholar All-American
  • UAA Winter All-Academic
2023-24
  • Two-time UAA Athlete of the Week – Diving (1/16/24), (2/26/24)
  • Posted season-best 242.15 in 1M diving and 289.50 in 3M diving at the RPI Kumpf Invite (1/20)
  • UAA Winter All-Academic
  • CSCAA Scholar All-American
2022-23
  • NCAA Northeast Regional Champion in the 1-meter and 3-meter dives (11 dives each) (2/24-25)
  • First Team All-American in the 1-meter dive (eighth place) and Second Team All-American in the 3-meter (11th) at the NCAA National Championships (3/15-18)
  • Third Team All-UAA in the 1-meter at the UAA Championships (2/8-11)
  • Won the 3-meter and third in the 1-meter at the Carnegie Mellon Diving Invitational (11/18-19)
  • CSCAA First Team Scholar All-America
  • Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar First Team
  • CSC Academic All-District Team
  • UAA Winter Sport All-Academic
2021-22
  • Finished sixth and earned NCAA All-American honors in the 1-meter dive 
  • Finished 19th in the 3-meter dive at the NCAA Championships (3/16-19)
  • Posted victories in both dives vs. West Chester (10/9), TCNJ (11/6), and MIT/Williams (1/21)
  • Three-time UAA Athlete of the Week – Diving (10/11, 11/8, 1/24)
  • CSCAA First Team Scholar All-American
Personal
  • Minoring in Social and Cultural Analysis
  • Four-year team member in high school
  • Enjoys hiking, yoga, kayaking, reading, and painting
  • Aspires to conduct research on the intricacies of the South East Asian economic sphere and its sociopolitical impacts on women
Schmidt on NYU
  • Chose NYU “for three reasons: amazing academic program, location in NYC, and the welcoming and supportive athletic team.”

Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22Freshman

    Dives
    5'7"
  • 2022-23Sophomore

    Dives
    5'6"
  • 2023-24Junior

    Dives
    5'6"
  • C

    2024-25Senior

    Dives
    5'6"
    C