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2025-26 Women's Swimming & Diving Roster

Jimena Leal

  • Event Backstroke/IM
  • Class SR
  • Height 5-6
  • Hometown Bogota, Colombia
  • Previous School Maria Inmaculada School Colombia

Biography

NCAA Standards ('B' Standard unless otherwise noted): 200 Back (2025) ... 100 Back (2025)

All-Conference Honors
400 medley relay (2024, 2023)
200 medley relay (2024)
200 back (2024)
100 back (2024)

2024-25 (Junior): Recorded her personal best time in the 100 back (53.39) and 200 back (1:55.72) at the SMU Invite ... Placed 30th in the 100 back at the ACC Championships.

2023-24 (Sophomore): Recorded four NCAA B-Standrds across the 200 back and the 100 back. Was the 2024 AAC Individual Champion in the 200 back while also earning AAC All-Conference honors in the 100 back and the 200 medley relay. Combined with Maddy Lewis, Johanna Gudmundsdottor and Valentina Becerra to win the AAC individual Championship in the 400 medley relay.

Prep: Competed at South American, Pan American and World Championships… Was a South American Champion and earned silver at Junior Pan Ams… Became the first Colombian swimmer to make a semifinal at the FINA World Championships in 2022… Won gold in the 200 back and 4x100 medley relay at the 2022 Bolivarian Games, also won bronze in the 100 back and 200 IM.

Personal: Daughter of Zulma Leal.

Historical Player Information

  • 2022-23FR

    Backstroke/IM
    5'6"
  • 2023-24SO

    Backstroke/IM
    5'6"
  • 2024-25JR

    Backstroke/IM
    5'6"
  • 2025-26SR

    Backstroke/IM
    5'6"