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2017-18 Women's Swimming and Diving

Virginia Burns

  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Brockton
  • Hometown Brockton, Mass.

Biography

2017-18: Ivy League champion in 500 free, becoming first woman in Penn history and ninth in Ivy history to win the same event all four years at Ivy Championships … Also Ivy League Championships qualifier in 200 free (A final), 1650 free (A final), 200 free relay, 400 free relay, 800 free relay, 400 medley relay.
 
2016-17: Ivy League champion in 200 free and 500 free, setting a Brown pool record … Part of 200 free relay that finished fourth at ILC … Academic All-Ivy.
 
2015-16: Ivy League champion in 500 free … Second-team All-Ivy in 200 free.
 
2014-15: Ivy League champion in 500 free … Second-team All-Ivy in the 400 medley relay.
 
TOP TIMES
50 Free … 23.83
100 Free … 50.04
200 Free … 1:45.51
500 Free … 4:42.20
1,000 Free … 10:02.37
1,650 Free … 16:37.07
100 Fly … 58.97
 
High School: Captain ... Two-time state champion in 50 free (2013, 14) ... State champion in 100 fly (2014) ... Two-time Southern Massachusetts sectional champion in 50 free (2013, 14) ... Southern Massachusetts sectional champion in 100 free (2014) and 100 fly (2013) ... Set the sectional record in the 50 free, 100 free, and 100 fly (2013) ... Member of National Honors Society and Language Honors Society ... Boston Globe All-Scholastic ... Boston Herald All-Scholastics ... USA Swimming Scholastic All-America.
 
Personal: Daughter of John and Mona Burns ... Brother, John Burns, runs cross country and track at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst ... Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.
 

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  • 2015-16Sophomore

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  • 2017-18Senior

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