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2026-27 Women's Swimming and Diving Roster
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Virginia Hastings
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Wilton
- Hometown:
- Wilton, Conn.
Career Results
Career Entering 2026-27: 2024 Second Team All-Patriot League ... has scored 193 points at Patriot League Championships ... 2025 ECAC champion in 200 IM and 400 freestyle relay … holds the school’s second-fastest 200 freestyle (1:48.06), third-fastest 200 IM (2:01.05) and fourth-fastest 400 IM (4:18.63) times … part of school-record 800 free relay ... also part of second- and third-fastest 200 free relay … part of eight total top-10 relay times … nine wins in individual events.
2025-26 (Junior): Recorded 51 points at the 2026 Patriot League Champions, finishing fourth in the 400 IM, seventh in the 200 IM and 23rd in the 100 free … at the 2026 ECAC Championships, won silver in the 200 free, bronze in the 50 free and took eighth in the 200 back … won the 200 IM in wins over Holy Cross and Loyola (Md.) … scored 85 points in dual/quad meets.
2024-25 (Sophomore): Tallied 33 points at the Patriot League Championships, highlighted by bronze medals in the 400 IM and 800 free relay ... also placed 19th in the 100 free and fourth in the 200 free relay (just .4 off the podium) ... played a big role in Bucknell's team title at the ECAC Championships, winning gold medals in the 200 IM and 400 free relay ... captured bronze in the 800 free relay and fourth in the 200 free relay ... also made the A Final and placed eighth in the 200 backstroke ... won the 400 IM at the Bucknell Winter Invitational ... won the 50 free in the season-opening dual vs. Boston University... member of Patriot League Academic Honor Roll.
2023-24 (First Year): Second Team All-Patriot League honoree ... scored 58 points at the Patriot League Championships, good for second among Bison, placing fourth in the 400 IM (4:23.54), seventh in the 500 freestyle (4:57.87) and 17th in the 100 freestyle (51.36) … also at the PL Championships, swam the first legs of the fourth-place 800 freestyle relay team (7:19.96), which ranks fifth in school history, the sixth-place 200 freestyle relay team (1:32.93), which set the school record, and the fifth-place 400 freestyle relay team (3:24.06), which ranks fourth in school history … swam the second-fastest 200 freestyle (1:48.06) and the ninth-fastest 500 freestyle (4:55.58) in program history at PL Championships … tallied four first-place finishes in individual events during the season, including a win in the 500 freestyle and the 400 IM at the Navy Invitational … placed runner-up in the 50 freestyle at Boston U. … went third eight times on the season, including three times in the dual vs. Lehigh … earned a spot on the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll.
Before Bucknell: Served as team captain for the Wilton Warriors … All-Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference and All-State honoree … two-time FCIAC champion in the 500 freestyle … 2022 Outstanding Senior Award recipient … Wilton's school-record holder in the 500 freestyle … also competed for Wilton YMCA Wahoos … junior national qualifier and scorer … two-time Janel Jorgensen Award winner as most inspirational swimmer of the year … Connecticut Swimming Scholar-Athlete honoree.
Personal: Virginia Ruth Hastings … born June 11, 2005 in Wilton, Conn. … daughter of Kim and Peter Hastings … has three siblings: William, Liela and Charlie … sister, Liela, swam at Fairfield University ... majoring in early childhood education.
Career Entering 2026-27: 2024 Second Team All-Patriot League ... has scored 193 points at Patriot League Championships ... 2025 ECAC champion in 200 IM and 400 freestyle relay … holds the school’s second-fastest 200 freestyle (1:48.06), third-fastest 200 IM (2:01.05) and fourth-fastest 400 IM (4:18.63) times … part of school-record 800 free relay ... also part of second- and third-fastest 200 free relay … part of eight total top-10 relay times … nine wins in individual events.
2025-26 (Junior): Recorded 51 points at the 2026 Patriot League Champions, finishing fourth in the 400 IM, seventh in the 200 IM and 23rd in the 100 free … at the 2026 ECAC Championships, won silver in the 200 free, bronze in the 50 free and took eighth in the 200 back … won the 200 IM in wins over Holy Cross and Loyola (Md.) … scored 85 points in dual/quad meets.
2024-25 (Sophomore): Tallied 33 points at the Patriot League Championships, highlighted by bronze medals in the 400 IM and 800 free relay ... also placed 19th in the 100 free and fourth in the 200 free relay (just .4 off the podium) ... played a big role in Bucknell's team title at the ECAC Championships, winning gold medals in the 200 IM and 400 free relay ... captured bronze in the 800 free relay and fourth in the 200 free relay ... also made the A Final and placed eighth in the 200 backstroke ... won the 400 IM at the Bucknell Winter Invitational ... won the 50 free in the season-opening dual vs. Boston University... member of Patriot League Academic Honor Roll.
2023-24 (First Year): Second Team All-Patriot League honoree ... scored 58 points at the Patriot League Championships, good for second among Bison, placing fourth in the 400 IM (4:23.54), seventh in the 500 freestyle (4:57.87) and 17th in the 100 freestyle (51.36) … also at the PL Championships, swam the first legs of the fourth-place 800 freestyle relay team (7:19.96), which ranks fifth in school history, the sixth-place 200 freestyle relay team (1:32.93), which set the school record, and the fifth-place 400 freestyle relay team (3:24.06), which ranks fourth in school history … swam the second-fastest 200 freestyle (1:48.06) and the ninth-fastest 500 freestyle (4:55.58) in program history at PL Championships … tallied four first-place finishes in individual events during the season, including a win in the 500 freestyle and the 400 IM at the Navy Invitational … placed runner-up in the 50 freestyle at Boston U. … went third eight times on the season, including three times in the dual vs. Lehigh … earned a spot on the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll.
Before Bucknell: Served as team captain for the Wilton Warriors … All-Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference and All-State honoree … two-time FCIAC champion in the 500 freestyle … 2022 Outstanding Senior Award recipient … Wilton's school-record holder in the 500 freestyle … also competed for Wilton YMCA Wahoos … junior national qualifier and scorer … two-time Janel Jorgensen Award winner as most inspirational swimmer of the year … Connecticut Swimming Scholar-Athlete honoree.
Personal: Virginia Ruth Hastings … born June 11, 2005 in Wilton, Conn. … daughter of Kim and Peter Hastings … has three siblings: William, Liela and Charlie … sister, Liela, swam at Fairfield University ... majoring in early childhood education.
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