FEDERAL WAY, Wash. – UC San Diego's Chloe Braun set a new program record in the 100 yard breaststroke in her NCAA Women's Swim and Dive Championships debut. The junior also competed in the 200 yard breaststroke in her two-day debut at the national championships.

HOW IT HAPPENED
On the third day of the national championships, Chloe Braun's seed time (59.14) placed her in the third heat and the fourth lane for the 100 breast. The junior set the program record, Big West Championships meet record and qualified for the NCAA Championships with that mark.

Swimming against UCLA, Aubur, OSU, Alabama, and most notably Virginia; Braun powered herself to a second- place finish. The French national posted a time of 59.09 to break her own record for the third time this season. At the start of the 2024-25 season, the program record for the event was 1:00.83 (Katja Pavicevic) and was broken at the midseason meet in St. George by freshman Hayley Gregory (1:00.66). Braun broke it in the next heat after Gregory making it 1:00.30, and she went on to break it again at the Big West Championship meet in February 2025.

Finishing 20th in the nation, the junior's swim was 0.16 seconds too slow to qualify for finals.

Braun also earned an invited cut for the 200 breast and swam on Saturday, March 22 in the first heat to finish with a time of 2:12.84.

About UC San Diego Athletics
After two decades as one of the most successful programs in NCAA Division II, the UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program began a new era in 2020 as a member of The Big West Conference in NCAA Division I. The 23-sport Tritons earned 30 team and nearly 150 individual national championships during its time in Divisions II and III and helped guide 1,400 scholar-athletes to All-America honors. A total of 83 Tritons have earned Academic All-America honors, while 38 have earned prestigious NCAA Post Graduate Scholarships. UC San Diego scholar-athletes exemplify the academic ideals of one of the world's preeminent institutions, graduating at an average rate of 91 percent, one of the highest rates among institutions at all divisions.