ATLANTA – Senior Lia Thomas closed out her college swimming career on Saturday night at the NCAA Championships with a third and final All-America honor. The Championships took place this year at the McAuley Aquatic Center on the campus of Georgia Tech.
 
After posting the fourth-fastest time in the 100-yard freestyle prelims on Saturday morning with a program-record time of 47.37 seconds, Thomas placed eighth in the evening final in a time of 48.18 seconds. The winner was Virginia freshman Gretchen Walsh, who clocked 46.78 seconds to defeat N.C. State junior Katharine Berkoff by .11 seconds. Another Ivy Leaguer, Yale's Iszac Henig, was fifth in the race in 47.32 seconds.
 
All three of Penn's swimmers were in action at the final day of the NCAA Championships. Earlier in the afternoon, junior Catherine Buroker—just the second woman in program history to make multiple NCAA Championships appearances—reset her personal best in the 1,650 freestyle and narrowly missed out on All-America honors, clocking 16:07.84 to finish 19th out of 44 swimmers overall. Junior Anna Kalandadze, who made her NCAA debut this weekend for the Quakers, also swam the 1,650 on Saturday afternoon and clocked 16:31.04 in her heat.