2014-15 Season: Named Great Northeast Athletic Conference Swimmer of the Year ... Tabbed to the GNAC All-Academic Team ... Earned GNAC Swimmer of the Week honors a league-high eight times ... Scored a team-high 279.50 points and racked up 36 top-three finishes, including wins in 30 of 42 races that she entered, including six of nine 100-yard freestyle races she competed in and eight of nine backstroke races from the 50 to the 200 ... Competed in seven events at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championship, including three individual races and broke the school mark with a time of 1:54.81 in the 200-yard freestyle to place 20th in the preliminaries ... Also swam in the ECAC consolation finals in both the 100 and 50-yard freestyle events, placing 13th and 12th with a season-best time of 24.01, respectively, while swimming the lead leg in all four relays for Simmons, swimming the backstroke laps of the 400-yard medley relay to help the squad to a fourth-place finals finish on a school-record effort of 3:56.80 in addition to helping the Sharks to a school-record time of 1:37.71 in the team's sixth-place finals showing in the 200-yard freestyle relay and also led off the 400-yard freestyle relay during an eighth-place showing prior to breaking the school mark in the event's preliminary heat with a time of 3:37.74 ... Scored 56 points and with a pair of second-place finishes in the 200-freestyle and the 50-freestyle at the New England Intercollegiate Swimming & Diving Association Championship on February 13-14 and also set a school record with a 50-yard backstroke split of 27.35 as part of a school relay-record time of 1:48.73 to place third in the 200-medley relay in addition to helping Simmons to a pair of third-place efforts in the 200-medley and 400-medley relays and a second-place finish in the 200-free relay ... Gained All-NEISDA status in five events ... Top scorer for the Sharks at the Great Northeast Athletic Conference Championship on December 6-7 with 36 points after winning all four events that she entered, while setting three GNAC and two pool records ... She won the GNAC 50-yard freestyle, 200-freestyle with a GNAC record (1:57.57) and set GNAC and pool records in the 50-backstroke (27.36) and the 100-freestyle (51.75), while also making the NCAA qualifier 'B' cut in the 100 ... In addition, she was a part of Simmons' 400-medley relay team that set a GNAC record with a time of 4:10.25 and helped the Sharks win the 200-free relay ... Began the season by winning her first 20 races of the campaign ... Won nine different individual events during the season ... Tallied double-digit points in nine dual meets, including three meets with a trio of first place finishes.

2013-14 Season: Won 26 of 36 events that she placed in, including nine of 12 backstroke events and 15 of 22 freestyle events and placed among the top three in all but one race that she entered ... Named Great Northeast Athletic Conference Swimmer of the Week three times and the GNAC Rookie of the Week twice ... Racked up 36 points by winning all four events she entered at the GNAC Championships on December 7 and set pool and GNAC records in the 50-yard freestyle (24.29) and the 100-yard freestyle (53.12), while also breaking the conference mark in the 200-yard freestyle (1:58.28) ... Set four school records, while scoring 84 points on three second-place finishes at the New England Swimming & Diving Intercollegiate Association Championships on February 14 ... She set school records in the 50-yard freestyle (23.93), the 100-yard freestyle (52.81) and the 200-yard freestyle (1:57.30), while clocking a school-record standard of 58.21 in the 100-yard backstroke leg of the 400-yard medley relay team's fourth-place finish at NEISDA with a school-record time of 4:04.18 ... Also helped Simmons set new marks in the 800-yard freestyle relay with a first-place showing of 7:59.69 and the 200-yard freestyle following a second-place effort with a time of 1:38.97 ... Made her collegiate debut by helping the Sharks 200-yard medley relay squad set a school record with a time of 1:56.23 vs. Westfield State University on October 26 and was a part of the 400-yard freestyle relay team's record-setting showing of 3:44.26 vs. Wellesley College on November 16 ... Began her career by winning the first seven races she entered over three meets ... Scored a trio of first place finishes in the 50-yard freestyle, 50-yard backstroke and 100-yard backstroke vs. Mount Holyoke College on January 11 as part of a stretch that saw her win 15 consecutive events from December 7 to February 1.

High School/Personal: Four-year letterwinner in swimming and also earned a letter in track for La Cueva High School ... Won the Metro Champion in both the 50-yard freestyle and the 100-yard freestyle events for the Bears swimming team ... Set the school record in the 50-free at LCHS ... Four-year State Qualifier and top three finisher for La Cueva High swimming ... Won the 50 and 100-free District crown for the Bears swimming squad ... Named a Captain for the LCHS swim team as a senior ... Member of Student Senate and served as Senior Class President for La Cueva High School ... Member of National English Honors Society for La Cueva High ... Volunteered with Special Olympics and was a Therapeutic Riding Program volunteer ... Born September 4, 1994 ... Majoring in Physical Therapy with a minor in Spanish at Simmons ... Daughter of Lisa Verploegh and Ted Swisher.