Stephanie Zielinski

Class:
Senior
High School:
Archbishop Ryan
Hometown:
Philadelphia, Pa.

Stephanie Zielinski's Personal Records
Event	Mark	Year
50-yard freestyle (school record)	22.72	2008-09
100-yard freestyle (school record)	50.07	2008-09
100-yard breaststroke (school record)	1:02.78	2008-09

2007-08/2008-09 Second Team All-MAC
2007-08/2008-09 Academic All-MAC

as a Junior (2008-09): Had a phenomenal juniorcampaign and was named to the All-MAC second team following anoutstanding meet at the Mid-American ConferenceChampionships…Continued to excel academically as she earnedAcademic All-MAC honors for the second consecutiveseason…Garnered Mid-American Conference Swimmer of the WeekHonors (Nov. 4) Afte tallying four individual victories in additionto assisting with one first and three second place relayfinishes…Was named co-MVP along side Katie Carter for the2008-09 season…Registered 28 individual top-fiveperformances, including 16 victories…Swept both the 50-yardand 100-yard freestyle events on five different occasions,achieving the feat against Ohio, Miami, Marshall, Buffalo andToledo…Additional wins include 50-yard freestyle againstOakland and Eastern Michigan; 100-yard freestyle against BallState, Bowling Green and at the Zippy Invitational; the 200-yardfreestyle against St. Francis and Youngstown State; as well as the100-yard breaststroke race against St. Francis…Swam asignificant number of relay races for the Zips, registering 21 topfive finishes while recording seven victories…Notched a pairof top five finishes at the MAC Championship meet, finishing thirdin the 50-yard freestyle after setting a school record in thepreliminary event (22.72)…Also finished third in the100-yard freestyle, setting a school and personal standard with a50.07 timestamp… 100-yard breaststroke event saw her tap inat ninth, with another school record and time of1:02.78…Swam on all four record-setting relay teams at MACs,helping UA to fifth place finishes in the 400-yard medley and800-yard freestyle relay events and seventh place finishes in the200-yard and 400-yard freestyle relay races...Served on the AkronStudent-Athlete Advisory Council in the capacity of Secretary.

as a Sophomore (2007-08): Continued emerging asa consistent and reliable swimmer for the Zips...Recorded amagnificent 37 combined top-five finishes on the year in bothindividual competition and as a member of the UA relay team...Sweptfirst place in both 50 and 100-yard freestyle events againstOakland, Eastern Michigan and Bowling Green...Anchored thefreestyle relay teams which swept the 200 and 400-yard medleyevents against Marshall...Also swam the anchor leg of the 400-yardfreestyle and 400-yard medley relay teams, which clinched firstplace against Ohio...Zielinski rarely competes in the 100-yardbreaststroke event yet managed to record a first place victory with1:08.78 in the meet against Youngstown State...Culminated herseason with a record shattering performance at the Mid-AmericanConference Championships where she set personal bests in the50-yard (5th, 23.53) and 100-yard (6th, 51.53) freestyles inaddition to the 100-yard breaststroke (7th, 1:05.36)...Also added apair of seventh place finishes in the 200-yard medley (1:46.41) and400-yard freestyle (3:53.07) relays at the MACChampionships...Zielinski’s hard work at the MACChampionships paid off as she earned Second Team All-MAChonors...Boasted a GPA of 3.56 in the UA nursing program whichearned her a spot on the Academic All-MAC squad...

as a Freshman (2006-07): Moved into secondall-time with a mark of 23.81 in the 50-yard freestyle at the MACChampionships (2/14-2/17/07) ... finished the season with 10top-five performances – including one victory against BowlingGreen with a time of 24.53 in the 50-yard freestyle (1/13/07) ...also added 10 relay top-five finishes – including twovictories against EMU (1/20/07) when she swam the opening leg ofthe 200-yard medley relay team (1:48.92) and the anchor leg of the400-yard freestyle relay team (3:39.33) ... also swam the anchorleg of the 200-yard medley relay team that recorded the second-besttime (1:45.86) in school history at the MAC meet.

at Archbishop Ryan High School: First athlete in schoolhistory to achieve first-team All-Catholic honors in three sports(swimming, volleyball and track) ... received the Wendy’sHigh School Heisman and also earned team MVP honors during hersenior season ... part of four Philadelphia All-Catholic LeagueChampionships and was named a first-team All-Catholic selection forfour consecutive years (2003-2006) ... finished second in the 50freestyle at the Eastern Championships.

Personal: Daughter of Steve and Peggy Zielinski... has a younger brother, Daniel (16) ... majoring in nursing ...enjoys boating, wake boarding, dancing and reading.