GREENSBORO, NC – Sophomore Kristin Cornish won her second straight national championship in the 1650 freestyle and the Johns Hopkins women's swimming team earned 32.5 points on the fourth and final day of the 2023 NCAA Division III Women's Swimming Championships to finish with 126.5 points and place 11th in the final team standings.
 
Denison won the team title with 464.5 points and was followed by Emory (385 points), Kenyon (383), Williams (307) and NYU (301) in the top five of the final team standings.  The 11th-place showing marks the 11th consecutive top 15 finish for the Blue Jays at the NCAA Championships.
 
Cornish quickly took the drama out of the longest race at the championship as she built more than a two-second lead in the first 100 yards, extended that to nearly five seconds at the 500-yard mark and had the margin at just under eight seconds at the 1,000-yard turn.  Her margin at 1,000 yards over eventual runner-up Taryn Wisner was larger than her winning time over Wisner at the 2022 NCAA Championships and she built the lead to more than 10 seconds in the final 150 yards before clocking in at 16:29.78; Wisner would touch home in 16:40.24 to make Cornish's winning margin 10.46 seconds, the largest in the event since 2018.
 

Johns Hopkins rounded out its showing with an 11^th-place finish in the 400 free relay.  The team of Makenzie Higgins, Michelle Liu, Sophia Girgenti and Kristen Alicea-Jorgensen finished in 3:26.56 to finish third in the consolation final and 11^th overall to earn All-America honors.