Jesse Ecklund

Jesse Ecklund

  • Award
    Rookie
  • Week Of
    1/21/2019
  • Sport
    Women's Swimming & Diving
  • School
    Vassar College
  • Year
    Freshman
  • Position
    Backstroke/Freestyle
  • Hometown
    Missoula, Mont.
  • High School
    Hellgate
Vassar College first-year swimmer Jesse Ecklund accounted for 114 points at the Seven Sisters Championships, helping the Brewers to a second-place finish. Ecklund claimed three individual gold medals (four overall). She won the 500 freestyle by nearly seven seconds (5:10.19), and also took first in the 100 backstroke (58.05) and 200 backstroke (2:04.95). Ecklund just missed a fourth individual title in the 200 freestyle, finishing second in 1:55.86, just .05 behind the winner. She swam the backstroke leg on the victorious 400 medley relay squad that set a pool and meet record.