Joleigh Ferro
Joleigh Ferro
Height: 5-6
Year: Senior
Hometown: Pittsfield, MA
High School: Saint Joseph Central
Major: Biochemistry

2014-15 Season: Tabbed to the Great Northeast Athletic Conference All-Academic Team ... Named a Captain ... Scored 131 points to rank seventh on the team ... Swam in nine different individual events ... Posted 24 top-three finishes, including four first-place efforts ... Scored 30 points with an 11th-place finish in the 50-yard freestyle with a season-best time of 25.63 and a 13th-place effort in the 100-backstroke on a season-best mark of 1:03.46 at the New England Intercollegiate Swimming & Diving Association Championship on February 13-14 ... Also helped the Sharks place second in the 200-freestyle relay to earn All-NEISDA status ... Placed in four different events and scored 26 points at the Great Northeast Athletic Conference Championship with second-place finishes in the 100-freestyle on a season-best time of 57.12 and in the 50-backstroke to go with third-place efforts in the 50-freestyle and the 200-backstroke on a season-best mark of 2:23.17 ... Also helped the Sharks set the GNAC and Holmes Sports Center Natatorium Pool record in the 200-medley relay with a time of 1:56.09 ... Helped Simmons set school records in the 200-freestyle relay with a sixth place finish at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championship on a time of 1:37.71 and in the 400-freestyle relay with a time of 3:37.74 ... Scored 13 points vs. Saint Joseph's College (Maine) on January 11 after winning the 200-yard freestyle with a season-best time of 2:08.02 and placing second in the 500-freestyle with a time of 5:54.46 ... Finished first in the 50-backstroke and added a second-place effort in the 100-freestyle to score 13 points vs. Western New England University on January 24. 

2013-2014 Season: Named to the Great Northeast Athletic Conference All-Academic Team ... Ranked seventh on the team with 124 points and tallied five first place finishes, six second place efforts and seven third place showings ... Won the Great Northeast Athletic Conference Championship in the 50-yard backstroke with a time of 31.24 ... Finished third at the GNAC Championships on December 7 with a time of 2:09.37 in the 200-yard freestyle and fourth in the 50-yard freestyle with a mark of 26.58 ... Placed 15th in the 50-back with a time of 31.04 at the New England Intercollegiate Swimming and Diving Association Championships on February 14.

2012-13 Season: Scored 294 points...Swam in GNAC Championships...Swam in NEISDA...8 first place finishes... 2013 GNAC All-Academic Team

High School/Personal: Four-year letterwinner in swimming and cheerleading in addition to earning three letters in softball for Saint Joseph Central High School ... Named the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association Student-Athlete of the Month for the Crusaders ... Earned the MIAA Sportsmanship Award for the SJCHS swimming squad ... Selected a Captain for the cheerleading, swimming and softball teams as a senior ... Graduated as the Class Salutatorian at Saint Joseph Central ... Received the University of Rochester Young Leaders Award as well as the Wellesley Book Award at SJCHS ... Member of National Honor Society at Saint Joseph Central High School ... Served as a Volunteer Cheerleading Coach and Junior Rotarian ... Born July 8, 1993 ... Majoring in Biochemistry with a minor in Physics at Simmons ... Daughter of Leah and Ian Ferro.