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University of Illinois Athletics

2017-18 Swimming & Diving Roster

Adelaide Curry

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Oak Park, Ill.
  • High School Fenwick H.S.

Biography

Personal Bests

50 free: :24.30 (at B1G Champs, 2/16/17)
100 free: :52.93 (at Big Challenge, 11/22/15)
200 free: 1:57.80 (at Missouri Invitational, 11/21/14)
500 free: 5:31.16 (vs. Indiana State, 11/5/16)
100 back: 1:08.22 (at FIU, 11/3/17)
100 fly: 1:00.92 (at Missouri Invitational, 11/17/16)

Senior - 2017-18

  • Academic All-Big Ten
  • Swam a personal-best 100 backstroke time of 1:08.22 at Florida International (11/3/17)
  • Top-10 fastest individual on the season in the 50 freestyle (:24.50), 100 freestyle (:54.09) and 500 freestyle (5:38.72)
  • Contributor on 200 freestyle relay, 400 freestyle relay and 200 medley relay

Junior - 2016-17

  • Academic All-Big Ten
  • Swam a personal-best 50 freestyle time of 24.30 at the Big Ten Championships
  • Swam a leg on the fifth-fastest 200 freestyle relay team on the season at the Missouri Invitational, finishing with a time of (1:36.86)
  • Part of the fourth-fastest 800 freestyle relay team for the Illini, posting a time of 7:55.63

Sophomore - 2015-16

  • Academic All-Big Ten
  • Clocked a personal-best time of 24.32 in the 50 free and 52.93 in the 100 free
  • Also swam a mark of 1:02.17 in the 100 fly

Freshman - 2014-15

  • Swam a career-best mark of :24.40 in the 50 free at the Big Ten Championships
  • Posted a career-best time of :53.41 in the 100 free at the Missouri Invitational, while also recording a personal-best reading of 1:57.80 in the 200 free event at the meet

High School

  • Earned six total varsity letters at Fenwick High School, four in swimming and two in water polo
  • Member of Fenwick High School swim team that finished second in 2013 and third in 2012 and 2014 in the state of Illinois
  • Member of Fenwick High School water polo team that won the 2012 Illinois State Championship
  • Received Academic All-American and Illinois State Scholar honors
  • Member of National Honors Society

Personal

  • Born May 3, 1996
  • Parents are Russell Curry and Germaine Caprio
  • Hobbies include painting and baking
  • Biggest thrill in sports came from standing on the pool deck at high school state and hearing the dead silence at the start of the race turn into an intense roar as soon as the swimmers dove in
  • Plans on working in Chicago after finishing school
  • Her parents most influenced her athletic career by teaching her to never give up

Historical Player Information

  • 2014-15Freshman

    Free
  • 2015-16Sophomore

    Free
  • 2016-17Junior

    Free
  • 2017-18Senior

    Free