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Haley Bishop - Women's Swim & Dive - Kansas Jayhawks

Haley Bishop

Position Fly/Free
Class Senior
Hometown Apex, N.C.
High School Panther Creek HS
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Top Collegiate Times

Time Event Date Meet
23.03(R) 50 Y Free 03/01/2019 2019 Big 12 Swimming & Diving Championship
50.86 100 Y Free 11/20/2015 The Big Challenge
1:48.23 200 Y Free 02/22/2017 2017 Big 12 Swimming & Diving Championship
53.81 100 Y Fly 02/24/2016 2016 Big 12 Swimming & Diving Championship
2:00.30 200 Y Fly 11/17/2017 Kansas Classic

2017-18 (Junior)
All-Big 12 First Team … Received Academic All-Big 12 First Team honors … Named to the 2017 Fall Athletic Director’s & Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Rolls … 2018 Spring Athletic Director’s & Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Rolls … Participated in a third-place finish in the 800-yard freestyle relay at the Big 12 Championship (2/21-24) with a team season-best time of 7:13.75 … Earned silver in the Big 12 Championship 50-yard freestyle Consolation Final with team and personal season-best time of 23.21 … Earned another bronze metal at conference in the 400-yard medley relay with a season-best time of 3:38.53, only .08 away from the KU record … First place in the 100-yard butterfly Consolation Final with a team and personal season-best time (54.55) … Participated in the 200-yard freestyle relay at the Big 12 Championship earning a third-place time as well as a team season best (1:32.02) … Won the Big 12 Championship (2/21-24) 200-yard butterfly with a time of 2:02.70 in the consolation final … Swam a top-five team, season-best time and to a first-place finish in the 100-yard freestyle event against Arkansas (51.90) … First place finish and second season-best time in the 200-yard medley relay against Arkansas (1:41.90) … Swam a team top-three time in the 200-yard freestyle at the Kansas Classic (1:49.13) in the 800-yard freestyle relay … Personal best and team season second-best swim in the 200-yard butterfly event with a first-place time (2:00.30) … Second-place finish and second-best season time at the Kansas Classic in the 400-yard freestyle relay (3:25.62) … Won the 50-yard freestyle event in three different dual meets … Participated in three wins against William Jewell (1/18) in the 100-yard, 200-yard freestyle and the 200-yard medley relay … Finished in ninth-place at the Collegiate Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Open water Championships (9/16), finishing with a time of 1:05:33.51.

2016-17 (Sophomore)
Fall Academic All-Big 12 Second Team … Co-champion with Libby Walker of the inaugural CSCAA five-kilometer Open Water Nationals (9/17) registering a time of 1:05:48.32 … Shared CollegeSwimming.com’s Big 12 Swimmer of the Week (9/20) with Walker and again won it individually (2/7) … Recorded three ninth-place individual finishes at the Big 12 Championship (2/22-25) in the 50-yard freestyle (23.06), 100-yard butterfly (55.08) and 200-yard butterfly (2:02.44) … Contributed to four relay teams at the conference meet, placing second in the 400-yard medley relay (3:39.66) and 800-yard freestyle relay (7:14.81), tying for second in the 400-yard freestyle relay (3:21.90) and finishing third in the 200-yard freestyle relay (1:31.54) … Her 200-yard opening leg in the 800-yard freestyle relay at the Big 12 Conference meet (1:48.23) is the fifth-fastest time in program history … The first of her season’s five individual event wins came with the 50-yard freestyle (24.04) in a double-dual against North Dakota and Missouri State (10/21-22) … Won the 100 (56.58) and 200-yard (2:04.86) butterfly against TCU (10/27) … Accomplished the same feat against Iowa State (2/3-4), swimming the 100-yard butterfly in 56.44 and the 200-yard butterfly in 2:05.48 … Won the 800-yard freestyle twice, contributing to swims of 7:20.05 at the Kansas Classic (11/18-20) and 7:38.84 against North Dakota and Missouri State … Was a member of three winning 200-yard medley relay teams, including at Iowa State (1:44.40), against TCU (1:44.90) and North Dakota and Missouri State (1:45.79) … Participated on five teams that won the 400-yard freestyle relay … Shined in her three events at William Jewell (1/19), including a 50-meter short course freestyle victory (26.71) and record-setting performances in the 200-meter medley relay (1:58.26) and 200-meter freestyle relay (1:46.14).

2015-16 (Freshman)
Named Big 12 Swimmer of the Week by the conference (2/11)… Nominated as Big 12 Swimmer of the Week by CollegeSwimming.com four times throughout the season, including a stretch of three-consecutive weeks (11/3, 1/26, 2/2 and 2/9)… Placed in the top-seven and recorded lifetime-best marks in all three individual events at the 2016 Big 12 Championships… Earned All-Big 12 First Team honors with a third-place finish in the 100-yard butterfly at the conference meet (53.81), a NCAA B standard, and All-Big 12 Second Team after finishing fifth in the 200-yard butterfly (2:01.56)… Finished seventh in the 50-yard freestyle at Big 12s with a time of 23.06, tying her season-best mark… A member of all four Big 12 relays, contributing to second-place finishes in the 400 medley and the 200 and 800 freestyle relays, and a third-place finish in the 400 freestyle relay… Top point scorer for the Jayhawks at the league meet, totaling 176 points… Won 27 events over the course of her rookie season, including 13 individual events and 14 relays… Held two of the team’s top times in the 50 free and 200 free… Named to the Big Challenge All-Star team… Qualified for ‘A’ finals in four separate events at the Big Challenge (11/20-22).

High School
Owns the Panther Creek High School records in the 50 freestyle, 100 butterfly, 200 medley and 200 freestyle relay… Swam a personal-best 23.41 in the 50-yard freestyle at the 2015 YMCA Short Course Nationals… Three-time conference champion in the 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard butterfly…  Three-time all-state selection in the 50- and 100-yard butterfly… Member of the YOTA club team coached by Chad Onken… Four year letterwinner in swimming… Earned scholastic all-America honors her last three seasons… Named North Carolina Academic Scholar her senior year… Made honor roll all four years.
 
Personal
Daughter of Mike and Cathy Bishop… Has one older sister, Farrell… Plans to major in pre-pharmacy.