Michaela Morris
Michaela Morris
Height: 5-0
Year: Junior
Hometown: Duxbury, Mass.
High School: Duxbury
Major: Psychology

2016-17 Season: Earned Great Northeast Athletic Conference All-Conference status after being a part of five first-place finishes at the GNAC Championship ... Named to the New England Intercollegiate Swimming & Diving Association All-Academic Team and the GNAC All-Academic Team ... Ranked fifth on the team with 219 points and posted 21 top-three finishes, including 12 victories in butterfly events ... Competed in all 12 meets for the Sharks and 10 different events ... Tallied the fourth-most points at the GNAC Championship with 75 and won the 50 and 100-yard butterfly events in GNAC-record times in addition to winning the 200-yard butterfly and helping the Sharks win the 200 and 400-yard medley relay races on December 3 ... She also placed fourth in the 200-yard individual medley with a personal-record time of 2:23.64 ...  Placed second, third and eighth in the 50, 100 and 200-yard butterfly events at the NEISDA Championship on February 16 and broke her own standard in the 50-yard butterfly with a time of 26.78 ... Became the first competitor in school history to break the minute mark in the 100-butterfly with a time of 59.95 at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Open Championship on March 3 ... Helped Simmons break the school record in the 200-yard medley relay with a combined time of 1:47.87 at the ECAC Championship and the 400-yard medley relay with a mark of 3:56.59 at the NEISDA Championship.


2015-16 Season:
Ranked fifth on the team with 204 points for the season ... Morris earned All-Great Northeast Athletic Conference accolades after winning the 50, 100, and 200-yard butterfly events with GNAC-record times and helping Simmons win the 400-yard medley relay in GNAC-record time ... Named to the GNAC All-Academic Team ... Set a school mark in winning the 50-yard race with a time of 27.38, while posting times of 1:01.85 and 2:18.91 in the 100 and 200-yard events as part of a 76-point effort to tie for the highest-scoring competitor at the championship meet ... Placed fourth in the 200-yard fly at the New England Intercollegiate Swimming & Diving Association Championship and fifth in the preliminaries of the 100-yard fly in a school-record time of 1:00.08, before taking sixth in the finals and added a seventh-place effort in the 50-yard butterfly as part of a 73-point showing ... Won 13 of 25 butterfly events that she entered and turned in 27 top-five finishes in all events ... Competed in 11 different events during the season ... Placed first in both the 50 and 100-yard butterfly events to go with a fourth-place finish in the 100-yard backstroke vs. Regis College and Colby-Sawyer College on January 16. 

2014-15 Season: 
Scored 196 points to rank third on the team in her rookie campaign for the Sharks ... Made her collegiate debut on October 25 by finishing first in the 100-yard butterfly and second in the 100-backstroke at Westfield State University ... Posted 33 top-three finishes, including 16 first-place showings within five different events ... Named Great Northeast Athletic Conference Rookie of he Week on two occasions ... Swam in 13 different individual events during the season ... Scored 48 points at the New England Intercollegiate Swimming & Diving Association Championship with a pair of top-seven efforts, including a fifth-place finish in the 50-butterfly with a school-record time of 27.56 and a seventh-place effort in the 100-butterfly on February 13-14 ... She also helped the Sharks place third at NEISDA in the 200-medley relay with a school-record mark and the 400-medley relay ... Helped Simmons break the school standard in the 400-medley relay at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championship on February 27 to March 1 ... Racked up 32 points to tie for the second-most at the GNAC Championship on December 6-7 on three first-place finishes and a fourth-place showing ... Won the GNAC crown in the 100-butterfly, 200-butterfly and set a conference record in the 50-butterfly with a time of 27.71, while placing fourth the 200-backstroke with a season-best time of 2:23.63 ... Scored in double-digits in eight different dual meets during the season ... Placed first in the 50-butterfly and the 200-butterfly to go with a second-place effort in the 100-individual medley vs. Colby-Sawyer College and Regis College on January 17 ... 

High School/Personal: Four-year letterwinner in swimming and also competed for a year in soccer and sailing for Duxbury High School ... Competed at the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association and Sectional Championships all four years for the Dragons' swimming team ... Named a Patriot League All-Star all four years for DHS swimming ... Received the Duxbury swimming team's Spirit Award ... Member of National Honor Society at DHS ... Born May 5, 1996 ... Majoring in Psychology at Simmons ... Daughter of Jimmy and Holly Morris ... Named to the Dean's List for both the Fall and Spring Semesters as a sophomore at Simmons ... Enjoys spending time with friends, writing, Astrology and Meyers Briggs personality types.