GREENSBORO, N.C.- Francesca Schiro competed at the NCAA Division III Championship at the Greensboro Aquatic Center in Greensboro, North Carolina from Wednesday to Saturday (March 19-22).
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Schiro (Sr. • New Glarus) was the first swimmer from the UW-Oshkosh women's swimming & diving team to appear at the national championship since Renee Porter in 2005. She qualified in the 100-yard freestyle and added the 50-yard and 200-yard editions of the event as her bonus events.
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Schiro placed 50th in the 50-yard preliminary on Wednesday with a time of 24.12 seconds, swam to 30th with a time of 1:52.07 in the preliminary round of the 200-yard freestyle on Thursday, and swam a 51.63 in the 100-yard preliminary on Saturday.
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The holder of four individual event records for the Titans and a member of five relay records, Schiro set the program 100-yard freestyle, 200-yard freestyle, and 200-yard individual medley marks at the WIAC Championship this season on her way to her second league swimmer of the meet award. She also set the 500-yard freestyle school record at the Carthage College Classic in December. Three of UW-Oshkosh's relay records were broken at last year's conference championship and the remaining two, the 200-yard freestyle relay and 800-yard freestyle relay, were reset at the 2025 league meet.