Valeriia Egorova Season 2024-25
Egorova’s Top Times (at LSU) – Backstroke
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SOPHOMORE SEASON (2023-24)
Swam leadoff on the fifth-place 400 medley relay team for the highest relay finish at Big Ten Championships for Rutgers since joining the league in 2014-15… B finalist with 11th place finishes in 100 and 200 backstroke at Big Ten Championships… Won the 200 medley relay swimming leadoff and 100 and 200 back vs. Villanova (1/20)… Fourth with 400 medley relay, sixth with 200 medley relay, and seventh with 400 free relay at Hawkeye Invitational (11/30-12/2)… Won 100 back and runner-up with 200 free relay and 200 medley relay at Princeton (11/11)… Won 200 medley relay swimming leadoff and 100 and 200 back and runner-up with 200 and 400 free relay vs. Purdue & Oakland (11/3-4)… Won 200 free relay swimming third leg and runner-up with 200 medley relay “B” team vs. LIU (10/28)… Won 200 back and 200 medley relay swimming leadoff and runner-up in 200 free and 200 free relay vs. Toronto (10/27)… Won 400 medley relay swimming opening leg, runner up with 400 free relay and seventh place with 200 free relay “B” team at Rutgers Preseason Tune-Up (10/6-7)
FRESHMAN SEASON (2022-23 at Rutgers)
Podium finish with an eighth-place performance with 800 free relay team at Big Ten Championships (2/15)… Won B final of 200 back at Big Ten Championships (2/18)… Won B final of 100 back at Big Ten Championships (2/17)… Won 100 back vs. Nebraska (1/28)… Fourth-place finish in 400 free relay “B” team vs. Nebraska (1/28)… Won 200 back and 400 medley relay vs. Nebraska (1/27)… Third-place finish with 200 free relay “B” team vs. Nebraska (1/27)… Fourth-place finish in 500 free vs. Nebraska (1/27)… Won 100 back and 200 medley relay vs. Villanova (1/21)… Runner-up in 200 back vs. Villanova (1/21)
HIGH SCHOOL
Finished third in 200 back and sixth in 100 back at 2022 Russian Short Course Championships… Swam in 2021 Russian Olympic Trials… Won 100 and 200 back, runner-up in 800 free, and third in 50 free at the 2022 Thai Short Course National Championships… Won 200 free and 100 and 200 back and took fifth in 50 back at the 2021 National French Championships… Placed eighth in 50 back at the 2021 Russian National Championships… Took seventh in the 100 back at the 2020 Russian Short Course Championships… Claimed third in the 200 back and fourth in the 100 back at the 2019 Championship of Russia… Won gold in the 100 back at the 2015 Russian National Junior Championships
PERSONAL
Born on April 18, 2001… From Kaliningrad, Russia and attended the Olympic Reserve School… When arriving at LSU, she planned to major in journalism or the sports management realm… Her parents are Elena Egorova and Dmitry Egorov; she has two siblings – a sister named Anya and a brother named Dmitry… An interesting fact about her is she loves to cook… Chose LSU because “LSU provides the best training program in the training process and the educational direction.”