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2016-17 Women's Swimming & Diving Roster

Maia Brearton

  • Position Freestyle/Backstroke
  • Height 5-10
  • Class Senior
  • Major Business (Leonard N. Stern School of Business)
  • Hometown Lake Forest, IL
  • High School Lake Forest

Biography

2015-16: Member of NYU’s second-place 200-yard freestyle relay (1:40.29) and 400-yard medley relay (4:03.70), and finished fifth in the 100-yard free (55.24) and 100-yard breaststroke (1:01.40) at the NYU Invitational (2/5-6)…UAA Winter Sport All-Academic…Intercollegiate Athletic Advisory Committee Fall and Spring Honor Rolls.

2014-15: Member of the Violets’ winning 400-yard freestyle relay team (1:39.41) and recorded season bests in the 100-yard backstroke (fourth place, 59.81) and 200-yard back (second place, 2.10.39) at the NYU Invitational (2/6-7)…UAA Winter Sport All-Academic…Intercollegiate Athletic Advisory Committee Fall and Spring Honor Rolls.

2013-14: Participated on the second-place 200 free relay (1:44.49) vs. Wagner (1/17)…recorded a season-best time with her fourth-place finish in the 1,000 free (11:18.38) vs. Vassar (1/25)…finished 10th in the 100 back (59.24) and 22nd in the 100 free (55.43) at the UAA Championships (2/14-15)…Intercollegiate Athletics Advisory Committee Fall and Spring Honor Rolls.

High School: Four-year team member…named Most Improved Swimmer as a sophomore and junior, and team MVP as a senior…helped lead her teams to conference and sectional championships all four years…also a member of the water polo team…National Honor Society member.

Personal: Interested in photography and social work…member of Habitat for Humanity, Stern Cares and Undergraduate Stern Women in Business (USWIB)…hopes to travel the world after graduating.

Historical Player Information

  • 2013-14Freshman

    Free/Back
    5'10"
  • 2014-15Sophomore

    Freestyle/Backstroke
    5'10"
  • 2015-16Junior

    Freestyle/Backstroke
    5'10"
  • 2016-17Senior

    Freestyle/Backstroke
    5'10"