2023-24 Swimming & Diving Roster

Kostas Lymperopoulos

Lauryn Johnson

  • Class Graduate Student
  • Position Fly/Free
  • Highschool Sacred Heart Academy
  • Hometown Rockville Centre, New York
  • Prev School UCLA

Biography

PERSONAL BESTS
50 Free (23.50)
100 Free (51.03)
200 Free (1:48.54)
500 Free (4:47.91)
100 Fly (54.97)
200 Fly (1:59.13)
 
CAREER HONORS AND AWARDS
2023-24 (Graduate)
BIG EAST Champion 800 Free Relay (Anchor leg) - 7:15.39 (1:49.29 split)
BIG EAST Champion 200 Free Relay (Anchor leg) - 1:32.26 (22.95 split)
All-BIG EAST 800 Free Relay
All-BIG EAST 200 Free Relay
BIG EAST All-Academic Team (2023-24)
Athletic Director's Honor Roll (Spring 2024)

Villanova Career: Closed out her career as a two-time All-BIG EAST performer on a pair of BIG EAST championship relays in her lone season with the Wildcats.
 
2023-24: Part of two BIG EAST Championship relays in lone year on the Main Line … Posted season-bests in the 50 Free (23.50), 100 Free (52.18), 200 Free (1.51.38), 500 Free (5:03.40) and 200 Fly (2:03.75); BIG EAST Championships (2/28-3/2): Anchored two championship-winning relays … Went 22.95 for the 200 Free Relay team (1:32.26) and 1:49.29 for the 800 Free Relay (7:15.39); Penn State (2/3): Finished third in the 200 Fly (2:04.77) … Part of two top-three relays … Anchored the 400 Medley Relay to a third-place finish (3:51.79) … Posted a 24.49 opening-leg time for the A team’s second-place 200 Free Relay showing (1:36.53); WVU/Iowa State (1/27): Swam a second-leg 51.58 for the A team’s second-place 400 Free Relay finish (3:26.63); Rutgers (1/20): Led Villanova with a second-place finish in the 200 Free (1:53.88) … Posted a second-leg time of 52.45 for the A team’s first-place 400 Free Relay (3:30.36); Richmond (1/12): Finished in the top three of all four events she swam in … Won the 200 Free (1:53.80) and was second in the 50 Free (24.26) … Anchor (52.97) for the B team’s third-place 400 Medley Relay (3:53.90) and was the opener (24.39) for the A team that finished second in the 200 Free Relay (1:36.41); Penn (11/8): Anchor (53.25) for the 400 Free Relay that the A team won (3:33.67); La Salle (11/4): Second in the 50 Free (24.19) and third in the 100 Free (53.43) … Swam anchor (23.82) for the B team’s third-place 200 Medley Relay (1:47.30); Georgetown (10/28): Second in the 200 Fly (2:05.79) … Posted a 52.34 anchor leg for the B team’s third-place (3:32.67) showing in the 400 Free Relay; UConn (10/21): Touched third in the 200 Fly (2:04.92) … Opened the B team’s third-place (1:38.07) showing in the 200 Free Relay with a 24.31 time.

Previous School (UCLA): Four-year member swimming butterfly and freestyle… 2022-2023 Team Captain…Eight-time UCLA Director's Honor Roll… Three-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll… Two-year UCLA SAAC Member… 2022-2023 UCLA SAAC President
 
Club Swimming: 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Qualifier… 2019 U.S. Junior National Team Champion contributor
 
Sacred Heart Academy: Four-year letter winner swimming butterfly and freestyle.
 
Personal: Born 5/8/2005 in Rockville Centre, NY. … Daughter of Chris and Tara Johnson… Has one sister, Rylee Johnson… Chris Johnson (Father) played basketball at Mount Saint Vincent … Chose to attend Villanova because of the University’s reputable Business School with a top tier competitive athletic program and I loved the team culture at Villanova and immediately felt at home…. Majoring in Finance.