2024-25 Women's Swimming and Diving Roster
Biography
2024-25: Finished fifth in the 200 fly at the CAA Championships after posting a personal best 2:01.34 in the prelims … placed fifteenth in the 200 IM at CAAs with a time of 2:04.73 … swam a personal best 4:25.02 in the 400 IM prelims at CAAs before finishing sixteenth in the finals … finished sixteenth in the 200 fly finals and 40th in the 200 IM prelims at the CSCAA National Invitational Championships.
2023-24: Placed fifth in the 200 fly at the CAA Championships with a season-best 2:03.04 … took 13th in the 200 IM finals with a personal-best 2:04.33 … finished 16th in the 400 IM finals with a time of 4:30.72 … earned CSC Academic All-District® honors.
2022-23: Primarily swam butterfly, IM and freestyle events... swam a season-best 4:29.52 in preliminary swims of the 400 IM at the conference championship meet... recorded season-bests in the 100 fly (56.80) and the 200 IM (2:07.37) at the Tiger Winter Open... named to the CAA Academic Honor Roll.
2021-22: Swam in five different events as a true freshman, focusing on the middle distance events … took second in the 200-yard butterfly at Drexel (Jan. 22) with a 2 minute, 11.51 second swim … followed the next weekend with a third-place finish against Delaware (Jan. 29) in the same event (2:11.19).
High School: Swam for York High School under head coach Reggie Moore and the Falcons … swam in the butterfly and individual medley events … led team to state title in 2018 with regional titles in 2018, 2019 and 2021 … served as a team captain in 2020 and 2021 … named all-state and all-region in all four years … member of the national honor roll, Spanish National Honor Society … Mu Alpha Theta and earned highest honors four times … swam club for the Coast Guard Blue Dolphins under head coach Jack Bierie.
Personal: Full name is Laura Maureen Gaffney … daughter of Mike and Kristen Gaffney … has two siblings, Megan and Shannon … Megan swims at La Salle University while Shannon plays field hockey at Virginia Wesleyan University … hobbies include skiing and paddle boarding … works as a lifeguard in the summer and coaches summer swim league … plans to major in biology with the aim of going to medical school.
Historical Player Information
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2021-22Freshman
Butterfly/IM
5'5"
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2021-22Freshman
Butterfly/IM
5'5"
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2022-23Sophomore
Butterfly/IM
5'5"
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2023-24Junior
Fly/IM
5'5"
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2024-25Senior
Fly/IM
5'5"
