Grace Mering Season 2024-25

EventsBack, IM
ClassFreshman
HometownSacramento, Calif.

SDSU TOP-10 MARKS
400 IM (7th)


HONORS
2025 All-Mountain West Selection (400 IM)
Mountain West Scholar-Athlete (2024-25)
Mountain West All-Academic Selection (Spring 2025)

Link: Season & Career Bests

2024-25 SEASON (As A Freshman): Competed in 12 meets during her first year on The Mesa… Helped the Aztecs capture their fourth consecutive Mountain West championship with a sixth-place finish in the 400 IM after touching the wall with an NCAA ‘B’ cut time of 4:16.59, which ranks seventh in school history (2-22-25)… Earned all-conference honors with that performance as well… Also won the ‘B’ final of the 200 IM (2:00.83) at the conference meet and placed second in the ‘B’ final of the 200 backstroke (1:57.72), both of which marked season bests… Opened the year with a 10th-place finish in the individual standings at the USD-SDSU Pentathlon (9-13-24)…Logged season-fast swims in the 50 free (25.74), 100 free (56.27) and 100 fly (1:00.29) that day… Contributed to the Aztecs’ triumph over the Toreros in a distance meet two weeks later with a third-place finish in the 150 back (1:32.74)… Also recorded the second-fastest time in the 300 IM (3:20.13) vs. USD, which was scored as an exhibition (9-27-24)… Placed third in the 100 IM with a clocking of 1:01.29 in SDSU’s sprint meet triumph at Pepperdine (10-3-24)… Figured in the Aztecs’ second-place team finish at the Fresno State Invitational, where she took 10th in the 1,650 freestyle with a season-best performance of 18:28.40 to go with another 10th-place effort in the 400 IM with a 4:30.78 clocking (10-4/5-24)… Also swam anchor on SDSU’s 10th-place 800 freestyle ‘B’ relay at that two-day meet (7:50.85)… Posted a pair of second-place results in the 200 IM (2:10.25) and 400 IM (4:38.56), helping the Aztecs to a road sweep of Alaska Fairbanks in consecutive dual meets (10-11/12-24)… Helped the Aztecs to a strong second-place team finish at the highly competitive Hawkeye Invitational with runner-up placement in the ‘B’ finals of the 200 IM (2:01.38) to go with a third-place effort in the ‘B’ finals of the 400 IM (4:19.56)… Also took second in the ‘C’ finals of the 200 back (1:59.98) at the Iowa meet (11-21/23-24)… Finished second in the 200 back (2:08.46) and placed fifth in the 100 back with a season-fast swim of 59.68, propelling the Scarlet and Black to a double dual-meet sweep of New Mexico and Pepperdine following the holiday break (1-2-24)… Came back five days later to log another runner-up placement in the 400 IM (4:32.72) against Cal State East Bay and Colorado College, helping the Aztecs to another home sweep (1-7-25)… Also set a season best in the 100 breaststroke (1:08.42) in that double dual vs. the Pioneers and Tigers… Contributed to SDSU’s team title at the USD Invitational, where she finished sixth in the 200 fly with a season-fast swim of 2:09.98 before placing seventh in the 200 IM (2:10.28) and 10th in the 200 back (2:08.69) (1-11-25)… Earned a spot on the Mountain West all-academic team and received conference scholar-athlete recognition.

PRIOR TO COLLEGE: Graduated in 2024 from St. Francis High School in Sacramento, California… Took home two gold medals and a pair of silvers at the 2024 CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Championships as a senior… Captured the 200 IM finals with a time of 2:04.21 and led off the Troubadours’ victorious 200 medley relay with a personal-best split of 26.68…Also placed second in the 100 back (56.97) and swam the third leg of St. Francis’ runner-up 400 freestyle relay with a split of 52.11… Claimed a silver medal in the 200-meter backstroke (2:19.57) at the 2023 Speedo Sectionals in Roseville, California.

 

Grace Mering-SDSU-2425

Sophomore
2025-26

Back, IM