Lydia Schaeffer

Class:
Senior
Height:
5-7
Hometown:
Granger, Ind.
High School:
Saint Joseph

HONORS AND AWARDS
2020-21 All-BIG EAST Team
2020-21 BIG EAST Championships: 200 Medley Gold Medalist
2019-20 All-BIG EAST Team
2019-20 BIG EAST Championships: 200 Medley Relay Silver Medalist
2019-20 BIG EAST Championships: 400 Medley Relay Silver Medalist
2019-20 BIG EAST All-Academic Team
2018-19 All-BIG EAST Team
2018-19 BIG EAST Championships: 200 Medley Relay Gold Medalist
2018-19 BIG EAST Championships: 400 Medley Relay Silver Medalist
2018-19 BIG EAST All-Academic Team

2020-21: Took part in three individual events at the BIG EAST Championships...Earned a spot in the Championship final of the 100 breast, placing eighth with a season-best time of 1:04.78...Earned a spot in the 200 Breast finals where she set a season-best time of 2:23.81 to place 13th...Competed in the B-Final of the 200 IM, setting a personal-best time of 2:06.90 to finish 13th...Was part of the gold-medal winning 200 medley relay that finished in 1:41.74.

2019-20: Took part in three individual events at the 2020 BIG EAST Championships, earning a spot in the finals in a pair...Also earned All-BIG EAST as part of two relays...Set a season-best time in the A-final of the 100 breast, 1:04.70, to finish fourth...Set a personal-best time of 2:21.77 in the Championship final of 200 breast to take sixth...Set a personal-best time of 2:08.55 in the prelims of the 200 IM to earn a spot in the B-Final...Earned All-BIG EAST after finishing the breast stroke leg of the 200 medley relay in 28.63, helping the Musketeers finish second with a time of 1:41.24...Also swam the breast stroke leg of the 400 medley relay, finishing in 1:04.90, to help the Musketeers finish second in a time of 3:46.28.

2018-19: Took part in three individual events and a pair of relays at the 2019 BIG EAST Championships...Finished fourth in the championship final of the 100 breast with a time of 1:04.46, matching her season-best time and the top time by a Musketeer that season and second fastest time by a Musketeer all-time...Set her personal-best time to take the top spot in the B-Final of the 200 breast, 2:22.10...Set her personal-best time in the 200 IM in the B-Final, 2:08.57...Helped set a new school record and win a conference title in the 200 medley relay, finishing the breast stroke leg in 28.45 to help the Musketeers finish in 1:40.26, becoming the first school to win a women’s relay other than Villanova since the conference was re-aligned in 2013...Also earned all-conference as part of the second-place finishing 400 medley relay.

PRIOR TO XAVIER: Specializes in breaststroke and IM...Swam four years of varsity at Saint Joseph High School and was part of the squad that placed eighth at the IHSAA Girls State Championship in 2018...Placed ninth in the 100 breast at the event with a personal-best time of 1:04.67...In the 2018 sectionals, the first sectionals win for the team since 2002, she also set a personal best in the 200 IM, 2:09.20...Swam club with the Michiana Stars Swimming through high school

PERSONAL: An Exploratory major at Xavier...Daughter of Darin and Lisa Schaeffer...Her father played baseball at Valparaiso...has a brother, Blake.