ATLANTA – Senior Lia Thomas put together another All-America performance on Friday at the NCAA Women's Swimming & Diving Championships, finishing fifth in the 200 freestyle. It is the second All-America honor already this weekend for Thomas, who won the program's first NCAA title in women's swimming on Thursday in the 500 free.

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Thomas earned her All-America honor Friday morning when she qualified for the evening final, her 1:42.09 prelim time bettered only by Stanford junior Taylor Ruck (1:41.89). In the final, Ruck touched first with a pool-record time of 1:41.12, followed by Cal senior Isabel Ivey (1:41.59). Texas junior Kelly Pash was third in 1:42.38, Stanford freshman Lillie Nordmann was fourth in 1:42.63, and Thomas was fifth with a time of 1:43.40.
 

Fifth-place finish and first-team All-America honors tonight for Lia. She goes 1:43.40 in the 200 free final. Proud of her effort today, look forward to tomorrow when all three Quakers swim (Catherine and Anna in the 1650 free, Lia in the 100 free)! #FightOnPenn ???? pic.twitter.com/EiVnR8VPYB

— Penn Swimming & Diving (@PennSwimDive) March 18, 2022

Thomas will swim in one more event on Saturday, the 100 freestyle. Her teammates, juniors Catherine Buroker and Anna Kalandadze, also will swim on Saturday in the 1,650 freestyle.