From University of Rochester Athletics
Lauren Bailey has achieved a significant number of swimming
honors in three years at the University of Rochester. Now, she has
an academic award that is one of the highest that a student-athlete
can earn.
Bailey has been named to the Capital One Academic All-America
At-Large Team in voting by members of the College Sports
Information Directors of America. She is a Second Team Academic
All-America selection after earning First Team Academic
All-District honors.
She is just the third Rochester women's swimmer to earn Academic
All-America honors from CoSIDA in the past 29 years. Irene "Patty"
Rupp '87 was honored for three straight years in the mid-1980s.
Colette Cove '00 was honored in 2000. Bailey is a resident of
Ossining, NY and an alumnus of Ossining High School.
CoSIDA selects Academic All-District and Academic All-America teams
in a 10 sports. In the spring, the organization also selects an
At-Large team. This incorporates a wide range of sports, including
swimming and diving, lacrosse, field hockey, ice hockey, golf,
rowing, and tennis to name a few.
In 2013-14, Bailey earned All-America honors in four events at the
NCAA Division III National Championships: the 100- and 200-yard
butterfly, the 200-yard freestyle relay, and the 200-yard medley
relay. During the season, she set 10 Rochester records – five
individual records and five relay records. At the NCAA
Championships, Rochester finished 20th overall,
it's best finish in 20 years.
She was selected as the Liberty League Women's Swimmer of the Year
for the second straight year. At the 2013-14 Liberty League
Championships, she won seven league titles, broke seven league
records, and six Rochester records. In three years (freshman
through junior seasons), she has won 17 Liberty League titles and
set 14 Liberty League records.
She carries a 3.87 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.00
scale), majoring in chemical engineering with a minor in
mathematics.
Away from the pool, Bailey is a member of Tau Beta Pi, the
engineering honor society. She is a member of the National Society
of Collegiate Scholars, Chi Omega Sorority, and Rochester's
Chemical Engineering Car Club. She won the Iota Book Award from Phi
Beta Kappa, the internationally renowned honor society. The Iota
Book Award honors the top student-athletes in the sophomore calls.
As a junior, she was selected to the Provost's Circle (which
designates the top junior student-athletes).
Bailey was a teaching assistant for an economics class and a
volunteer at the Ossining Food Pantry at home.