2022-23 Swimming and Diving Roster
Roster
Abigail Meder
- Height:
- 5-7
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- home-school
- Hometown:
- Durban, South Africa
Senior (2022-23)
Placed sixth in the 1000 freestyle with a time of 10:32.70 against Texas (Oct 7)…Placed fourth in the 500 freestyle with a time of 5:08.59 against Texas (Oct 7)…Placed fifth in the 500 freestyle with a time of 5:08.11 against BYU (Oct 14)…Was a part of the 400 freestyle relay team that placed fourth with a time of 3:36.89 against BYU (Oct 14)…Was a part of the 800 freestyle relay team that placed sixth with a time of 7:15.16 against Texas A&M (Nov 18)…Placed fourth in the 1000 freestyle with a time of 10:10.25 against SMU (Dec 2)…Placed third in the 500 freestyle with a time of 4:58.73 against SMU (Dec 2)…Placed eleventh in the 1650 freestyle with a time of 17:07.61 at the Big 12 Championships (Feb 25)…
Junior (2021-22)
Placed second in the 1000 freestyle against Iowa State (Jan. 14-15) … Finished third in the 1000 freestyle against Texas A&M (Nov. 5) … Notched a third-place finish in the 1000 freestyle against SMU (Oct. 29) … Won the 500 freestyle against UT Permian Basin (Oct. 9).
Sophomore (2020-21)
Finished fourth in the 1650 freestyle at the Big 12 Championships with a time of 17:02.10.
Freshman (2019-20)
Placed 16th at the CSCAA Open Water Championships 5K with a mark of 1:06:39.7 ... Placed fourth in the 50 yard butterfly (28.41) and second in the 200 yard freestyle (1:58.38), was part of the 400 yard freestyle relay and placed third (3:45.13) at the vs. UTPB Dual Meet in Fort Worth (Sep. 20) ... Placed fifth in the 200 yard freestyle (1:57.13) and third in the 500 yard freestyle (5:10.65), was part of the 200 yard freestyle relay and finished fifth (1:40.72) in the Pepperdine Malibu Invite in Malibu (Oct.11-12) ... Won the 1000 yard freestyle (10:18.17) and the 500 yard freestyle (5:03.57), was part of the 400 yard freestyle relay and finished fifth (3:40.99) at the vs. SMU meet in Fort Worth (Oct. 25) ... Finished second in the 1000 yard freestyle (10:18.62) and third in the 500 yard freestyle (5:07.31) at the vs. UIW meet in Fort Worth (Nov.8).
High School
Represented South African at the Junior Worlds Open Water Championships in Elate, Israel in 2018 ... first South African swimmer to finish the 10km, finished 16th ... qualified to compete in the Junior Worlds Swimming Championships in 2017 in the woman's 800m and 1500m free ... qualified for the Youth Olympics in Argentina in the 800m free ... represented South Africa in the First CANA Africa Open Water Championships in Mauritius in 2017 competing in the 5km and 3km events as well as a mixed relay finishing first in all events ... awarded the Victrix Ladorum for the competition ... competed for South Africa in the Italian leg of the Len Cup in 2017 and was first South African to finish the 10km and 5km.
Personal
Received Academic Honors for grades eight, nine, and ten ... was in the top ten students for those three years ... awarded the Junior Sports Woman of the Year as well as the Senior Sports Woman of the Year.
