DANVILLE, Ky. – The Millsaps men's and women's swimming and diving programs closed the final two days of the 2025 SAA Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving Championships strong inside Champions Hall, Friday and Saturday.
Senior
Kat Burns highlighted becoming the first Millsaps women's swimmer to be named All-SAA Honorable Mention in program history.
Classmate
Catherine Passarelli also set both the 1650-yard freestyle and 1000-yard freestyle program records. For the men's team, junior
Ben Anderson ended the meet with a fifth-place showing in the 100-yard freestyle.
The Majors totaled 26 season-best times, including 11 career bests and Passarelli's pair of school records over four days of competition.
The Millsaps women's swimming and diving program finished a program-best fifth with 250 points. The men's team tallied 177 points for sixth.
On Friday, Burns claimed third place in the 100-yard breaststroke A-Final (1:06.25). Her season-best time bettered her mark of 1:06.61 and fourth place set at the 2024 conference meet.
Burns concludes her senior campaign with four individual records, including in the same 100-yard breaststroke (1:05.80).
She also placed eighth in the 50-yard freestyle on Thursday and eighth in the 100-yard freestyle on Saturday. Burns swam 54.98 in the 100 free prelims and 56.08 in the A-Final.
Passarelli, who owns three individual school records of her own, bettered her time in the 1650-yard freestyle with a time of 19:34.89 to place 10th on Saturday. In the same swim, she bettered her top school time at 1000 yards (11:45.62).
Millsaps had several other top-16 performances in the B-Final on Friday and Saturday, which consisted of swimmers who placed ninth through 16th in the prelims and advanced.
Junior
Zoe Cowell was 11th in both the 100-yard breaststroke (1:11.71) and 200-yard breaststroke (2:34.23).
Senior
Chloee Beebe was 10th in the 200-yard butterfly (2:30.24) and 15th in the 100-yard butterfly (1:02.56), while graduate
Ginny Ray Clevenger placed 14th in the 200-yard backstroke (2:32.85).
The freshman duo of
Choloe Barnard and
Samantha Himel finished well in their first conference meet. Barnard was 12th in the 100-yard backstroke (1:11.88) and Himel was 16th in the 100-yard freestyle (59.92).
On the men's side, Anderson earned All-Second Team after placing runner-up in the 50-yard freestyle (21.05) on Thursday. He followed with a fifth-place finish in the 100-yard freestyle (46.68) on Saturday.
Sophomore
Payton Jones and junior
Andrew Meadows were stellar in Kentucky as well.
Jones placed 11th in the 1650-yard freestyle (19:03.54), 12th in the 400-yard IM (4:51.97) and 16th in the 200-yard butterfly (2:18.82).
Meadows was 14th in the 400-yard IM (4:56.94) and 16th in the 100-yard backstroke (1:02.85).
| MILLSAPS AT SAA CHAMPIONSHIPS (FEB. 12) |
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| Women's 200-Yard Medley Relay |
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| Passarelli, Burns, Beebe, Himel |
1:57.53. |
5th |
A - Final |
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Season Best |
| Barnard, Cowell, Clevenger, Pineda |
2:07.97. |
12th |
B - Final |
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Season Best |
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| Men's 200-Yard Medley Relay |
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| Meadows, Anderson, Van Meter, Auzenne |
1:44.99. |
6th |
A - Final |
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Season Best |
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| Women's 800-Yard Freestyle Relay |
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| Beebe, Cowell, Himel, Passarelli |
8:42.59. |
6th |
A - Final |
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Season Best |
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| Men's 800-Yard Freestyle Relay |
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| Jones, Meadows, Auzenne, Van Meter |
8:04.55. |
6th |
A - Final |
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Season Best |
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| MILLSAPS AT SAA CHAMPIONSHIPS (FEB. 13) |
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TIME |
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| Women's 500-Yard Freestyle Prelims |
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| Catherine Passarelli |
x5:37.77. |
Open |
Season Best |
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| Men's 500-Yard Freestyle Prelims |
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| Payton Jones |
x5:26.12. |
Open |
Season Best |
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| Men's 200-Yard IM Prelims |
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| Andrew Meadows |
x2:16.32. |
Open |
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| Women's 50-Yard Freestyle Prelims |
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| Kat Burns |
24.88. |
8th |
To A-Final |
| Ginny Ray Clevenger |
28.72. |
25th |
Season Best |
| Chloe Barnard |
29.06. |
26th |
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| Haylei Pineda |
32.08. |
27th |
Career Best |
| Chloe Beebe |
x26.70. |
Open |
Career Best |
| Samantha Himel |
x27.54. |
Open |
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| Zoe Cowell |
x28.13. |
Open |
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| Women's 50-Yard Freestyle A-Final |
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| Kat Burns |
24.74. |
8th |
Tied Season Best |
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| Men's 50-Yard Freestyle Prelims |
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| Ben Anderson |
21.25. |
4th |
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| Jackson Van Meter |
23.32. |
21st |
Season Best |
| Kaiden Auzenne |
23.83. |
23rd |
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| David Kingsbury |
36.26. |
25th |
Season Best |
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| Men's 50-Yard Freestyle A-Final |
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| Ben Anderson |
21.05. |
2nd |
Season Best |
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All-SAA 2nd Team |
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| Women's 200-Yard Freestyle Relay |
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| Burns, Beebe, Passarelli, Himel |
1:44.61. |
5th |
A - Final |
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Season Best |
| Barnard, Clevenger, Cowell, Pineda |
1:57.38. |
13th |
B - Final |
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Season Best |
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| Men's 200-Yard Freestyle Relay |
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| Anderson, Van Meter, Meadows, Auzenne |
1:32.57. |
6th |
A - Final |
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Season Best |
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| MILLSAPS AT SAA CHAMPIONSHIPS (FEB. 14) |
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| Women's 400-Yard IM Prelims |
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| Catherine Passarelli |
5:04.58. |
9th |
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| Women's 400-Yard IM B-Final |
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| Catherine Passarelli |
4:59.91. |
10th |
Career Best |
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| Men's 400-Yard IM Prelims |
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| Payton Jones |
4:51.29. |
12th |
Season Best |
| Andrew Meadows |
5:08.01. |
14th |
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| Men's 400-Yard IM B-Final |
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| Payton Jones |
4:51.97. |
12th |
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| Andrew Meadows |
4:56.94. |
14th |
Season Best |
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| Women's 100-Yard Butterfly Prelims |
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| Chloee Beebe |
1:02.44. |
13th |
Season Best |
| Ginny Ray Clevenger |
1:07.46. |
18th |
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| Women's 100-Yard Butterfly B-Final |
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| Chloee Beebe |
1:02.56. |
15th |
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| Men's 100-Yard Butterfly Prelims |
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| Ben Anderson |
54.48. |
13th |
Career Best |
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| Women's 200-Yard Freestyle Prelims |
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| Samantha Himel |
2:15.46. |
19th |
Career Best |
| Haylei Pineda |
2:43.49. |
21st |
Season Best |
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| Men's 200-Yard Freestyle Prelims |
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| Jackson Van Meter |
2:01.03. |
19th |
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| Women's 100-Yard Breaststroke Prelims |
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| Kat Burns |
1:06.51. |
3rd |
To A-Final |
| Zoe Cowell |
1:12.13. |
10th |
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| Women's 100-Yard Breaststroke A-Final |
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| Kat Burns |
1:06.25. |
3rd |
Season Best |
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All-SAA Honorable Mention |
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| Women's 100-Yard Breaststroke B-Final |
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| Zoe Cowell |
1:11.78. |
11th |
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| Women's 100-Yard Backstroke Prelims |
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| Chloe Barnard |
1:14.14. |
13th |
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| Women's 100-Yard Backstroke B-Final |
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| Chloe Barnard |
1:11.88. |
12th |
Career Best |
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| Men's 100-Yard Backstroke Prelims |
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| Andrew Meadows |
1:03.26. |
16th |
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| Kaiden Auzenne |
1:03.64. |
17th |
Season Best |
| David Kingsbury |
1:33.94. |
19th |
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| Men's 100-Yard Backstroke B-Final |
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| Andrew Meadows |
1:02.85. |
16th |
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| Women's 400-Yard Medley Relay |
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| Passarelli, Cowell, Beebe, Burns |
4:18.10. |
5th |
A - Final |
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Season Best |
| Barnard, Clevenger, Himel, Pineda |
4:55.65. |
13th |
B - Final |
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| Men's 400-Yard Medley Relay |
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| Kingsbury, Meadows, Jones, Auzenne |
4:43.21. |
6th |
A-Final |
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| Women's 1650-Yard Freestyle Final |
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| Catherine Passarelli |
19:34.89. |
10th |
School Record |
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| Women's 1000-Yard Freestyle |
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| Catherine Passarelli |
11:45.62. |
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| Men's 1650-Yard Freestyle Final |
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| Payton Jones |
19:03.54. |
11th |
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| Women's 200-Yard Backstroke Prelims |
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| Ginny Ray Clevenger |
2:30.97. |
14th |
Season Best |
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| Women's 200-Yard Backstroke B-Final |
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| Ginny Ray Clevenger |
2:32.85. |
14th |
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| Men's 200-Yard Backstroke Prelims |
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| Andrew Meadows |
2:21.03. |
18th |
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| David Kingsbury |
3:25.85. |
19th |
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| Women's 100-Yard Freestyle Prelims |
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| Kat Burns |
54.98. |
8th |
To A-Final |
| Samantha Himel |
59.15. |
16th |
Career Best |
| Chloe Barnard |
1:05.44. |
21st |
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| Haylei Pineda |
1:13.20. |
23rd |
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| Women's 100-Yard Freestyle A-Final |
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| Kat Burns |
56.08. |
8th |
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| Women's 100-Yard Freestyle B-Final |
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| Samantha Himel |
59.92. |
16th |
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| Men's 100-Yard Freestyle Prelims |
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| Ben Anderson |
46.82. |
5th |
To A-Final |
| Jackson Van Meter |
51.22. |
19th |
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| Kaiden Auzenne |
52.30. |
20th |
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| Men's 100-Yard Freestyle A-Final |
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| Ben Anderson |
46.68. |
5th |
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| Women's 200-Yard Breaststroke Prelims |
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| Zoe Cowell |
2:36.98. |
10th |
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| Women's 200-Yard Breaststroke B-Final |
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| Zoe Cowell |
2:34.23. |
11th |
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| Women's 200-Yard Butterfly Prelims |
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| Chloee Beebe |
2:31.09. |
10th |
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| Catherine Passarelli |
x2:33.81. |
Open |
Career Best |
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| Women's 200-Yard Butterfly B-Final |
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| Chloee Beebe |
2:30.24. |
10th |
Career Best |
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| Men's 200-Yard Butterfly Prelims |
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| Payton Jones |
2:20.28. |
16th |
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| Men's 200-Yard Butterfly B-Final |
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| Payton Jones |
2:18.82. |
16th |
Season Best |
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| Women's 400-Yard Freestyle Relay |
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| Beebe, Burns, Passarelli, Himel |
3:56.63. |
6th |
A-Final |
| Cowell, Barnard, Clevenger, Pineda |
4:21.23. |
14th |
B-Final |
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| Men's 400-Yard Freestyle Relay |
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| Van Meter, Anderson, Jones, Kingsbury |
4:13.60. |
6th |
A-Final |
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