2024 NCAA qualifier Aris Runnels has introduced she shall be retiring from the game after spending three years with Florida.
Runnels arrived at Florida in fall 2021. She completed her freshman season on the Bulldog Invite after not swimming at SECs. She completed with a 54.25 within the 100 again and a 54.91 within the 100 fly.
She had an enormous sophomore yr, incomes a spot on the SEC roster the place she scored 57 particular person factors, the sixth most for the Florida girls. She completed sixth within the 100 again (51.97), ninth within the 100 fly (52.10), and 14th within the 200 IM (1:57.39). She additionally helped the Florida relays, swimming the backstroke leg on each medley relays.
Her instances from SECs earned her an invitation at NCAAs. She went on to attain at NCAAs within the 100 again ending thirteenth in a 51.76. She additionally swam in prelims of the 200 again with a thirty eighth place end. She additionally helped the Florida girls’s 400 medley relay to a seventh place end.
Persevering with her momentum into this previous season, Runnels as soon as once more made the SEC ‘A’ last of the 100 again as she was fifth in a 51.71. She additionally completed tenth within the 200 IM and eleventh within the 100 fly to attain 58 particular person factors.
As soon as once more making NCAAs, Runnels completed twenty first within the 100 again, twenty seventh within the 200 again, and forty first within the 200 IM. She additionally swam the lead off leg for the 200 medley relay that completed third.
Runnels was the third quickest 100 backstroker on the roster this previous season as Bella Sims and Isabel Ivey had been the one swimmers sooner. Sims didn’t swim the occasion at 2024 NCAAs and Ivey simply completed up her fifth yr so the crew shall be looking for a brand new backstroker.