Hannah Gajewski
Hannah Gajewski
Height: 6-0
Year: 2012
Hometown: Biddeford, Maine
High School: Catherine McAuley
Major: Exercise Science

Accolades:

GNAC Woman of the Year (2012)
GNAC ROY (2009)
GNAC All-Academic (2010, 2011, 2012)
GNAC Co-SOW: 2/23/2009
GNAC ROW: 11/3/2008, 11/17/2008, 11/24/2008, 12/8/2008, 1/26/2009, 2/9/2009
GNAC All-Tournament (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)
GNAC Honor Roll: 12/7/2009, 11/27/2009, 1/25/2010, 1/18/2010, 1/17/2011, 1/24/2011, 2/7/2011, 12/5/2011, 1/23/2012

2011-12: Swam in all nine of the Monks’ meets and participated in 31 individual events as a senior…also swam legs in 16 different relay races…tallied 11 victories and nine runner-up efforts…broke six SJC individual records and participated in four of the team’s record-breaking relays at the NEISDA Championship in late February…selected as a team captain for the second-consecutive season…named as the GNAC Woman of the Year…recorded individual wins in the 1000 Free (12:29), 100 Breast (1:17.98), and 50 Fly (31.38)…posted victories in the 400 Free (5:06.95, personal-best) and 100 IM (1:16.74) with a runner-up effort in the 200 Free (2:25.55) at Elms College on November 12th…tallied a trio of runner-up performances versus Regis College on November 19th…earned GNAC All-Tournament honors for the fourth-consecutive season with a victory in the 200 IM (2:19.25) in the GNAC Championship in early December…also broke the program records for 1000 Free (11:37.74) and 100 Breast (1:15.40) while placing second and third, respectively, in the conference meet…won both of her events (100 Fly, 50 Fly) in a victory over Husson on January 14th…contributed a victory in the 500 Free (5:51.21) and a runner-up finish in the 100 Breast (1:17.90) against University of New England on January 16th…also recorded a personal best 2:27.64 time to place third in the 200 Back versus the Nor’easters…produced a victory in the 100 Fly (1:08.39) and added a runner-up time in the 100 Free (1:00.21) against Simmons College on January 21st…added a win in the 500 Free (5:50.54) and a runner-up effort in the 100 Fly (1:07.43) at Gordon College on February 4th…broke the program’s individual records for the 200 Free (2:05.40), 200 IM (2:17.92), and 100 IM (1:05.58) in the NEISDA prelims…also set a new 100 Free program record with a 58.33 time in the first leg of the 400 Free relay at NEISDA’s…notched the highest NEISDA Championship finish in SJC program history with a sixth-place effort in the 200 IM (2:18.68) finals…swam legs for the Monks’ record-breaking 200 Medley (2:03.05), 400 Medley (4:29.66), 400 Free (3:54.69), and 800 Free (8:37.95) relay teams at the NEISDA Championship…leaves the program having competed in 116 individual events with 61 victories and 22 runner-up performances…ranks as the Monks’ all-time leader in all three categories…owns 10 of the team’s 18 individual records and swam legs for four of the Monks’ five top relay teams during her career. 

2010-11: Participated in 29 individual events and 17 relay competitions…recorded 16 top finishes and five runner-up efforts…swam legs for four winning relay teams…broke three team records as a junior: 19:45.51 in the 1650-Free at the GNAC Championship on December 5th, 5:08.34 in the 400-IM against Gordon College on February 5th, and 2:22.56 in the 200-IM at the NEISDA Championship on February 18th…registered a career-best 28.05 time in the 50-Free at Husson on January 15th…posted three individual victories in three different meets and a pair of wins in two other events…earned GNAC All-Tournament honors for the third consecutive season after winning the 1650-Free with a 19:56.12 performance…placed 14th in a pair of events at the NEISDA Championship, the 200-IM (2:23.76) and 100-IM (1:07.70)…has a team-record 50 individual wins and has posted 13 runner-up performances in 88 career events over three seasons…listed on the GNAC Weekly Honor Roll three times.

2009-10: Participated in all 10 meets and swam in 29 different events…recorded 17 top finishes and five runner-up times as a sophomore…broke a pair of team records at the GNAC Championship in early December: 500-Free (5:39.34) and 1000-Free (11:40.12)...notched three individual wins in the GNAC tourney: 1000-Free, 500-Free and 200-Free (2:07.27)…won the 200-Free at the GNAC’s for the second consecutive year… won the 100-Breast and set a new team mark with a 1:16.70 effort at Husson on January 23rd…set team records and placed eighth in both the 200-IM (2:22.78) and 100-IM (1:06.26) at the NEISDA Championship in late February…also swam a leg for the team-record-setting 400-Free Relay (3:59.03) team at the regional event… garnered GNAC Weekly Honor Roll mention four times.

2008-09: Participated in 11 meets and swam in 28 different events…won 17 events and posted five runner-up times as a rookie…opened her career by winning six consecutive individual events…set nine individual program records and was a member of four relay teams that improved upon program-record times…named as the GNAC Rookie of the Year and garnered GNAC Rookie of the Week honors six times…also collected GNAC All-Tournament honors with wins in the 200-free (2:05.95) and 100-IM (1:07.02) events…also set team records in both competitions… advanced to the finals in three events at the New England Intercollegiate Swimming and Diving Championship…set a new program record in the 200-IM with a 2:24.56 effort and her preliminary time of 1:06.81 in the 100-IM was a new team-best as well…swam a leg for the 10th place 800-Free Relay team in the NEISDA’s and helped the group post a new team record (8:41.72) in the competition.

High School: Swam two years on the varsity swim team at Catherine McAuley High School...was a member of the State Championship team during the 2007-2008 season...McAuley also garnered State Sportsmanship honors after the 2007-2008 season...named as team captain her senior season and was given the Most Improved Award as a junior. 

Personal: Hannah Marie Gajewski, born September 18, 1990 in Biddeford, Maine...daughter of Susan and Chuck Gajewski...majoring in Exercise Science.