Melissa Cowen Season 2025-26

Career Honors
• 2023-24 second-team CSCAA Scholar All-American
• 2023-24 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll

Career-Best Times (collegiate)
50 Free: 23.87 at Georgia Fall Invitational, 11.16.23
100 Breast: 1:01.36 at Georgia Fall Invitational, 11.21.24
200 Breast: 2:12.18 at Florida Invitational, 2.3.24

As a Junior (2025-26)
• Came in second in the 100 breast (1:05.63) and placed third in the 50 breast (30.49) in her Commodore debut against North Florida (Oct. 4)

As a Sophomore at Florida (2024-25)
• Raced in two meets during the fall season
• Advanced to the B Final in both the 100 and 200 (2:13.84) breast at the Georgia Fall Invitational (Nov. 20-22), posting a career-low mark in prelims of the former event
• Earned a third-place finish in the 100 breast (1:05.46) in tri-meet against Rollins and Tampa (Oct. 25)

As a Freshman at Florida (2023-24)
• Swam in 14 Individual events and was member of the Gators’ 200 and 400 free, and 200 and 400 medley relays
• Placed sixth in both the 100 (1:04.86) and 200 (2:21.93) breast in win over Florida State (Jan. 26)
• Posted a season-best 1:02.57 in the 100 breast at the Georgia Fall Invitational (Nov. 16-18)

The Cowen File
• Major is psychology
• Competed for both Rangitoto College and the North Shore Swimming Club
• Named Rangitoto’s sports woman of the year in 2020, and was the school’s female senior swimmer of the year each of her last three seasons
• Excellence Endorsed by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority each of her last two years in school
• Helped the school to three straight New Zealand secondary schools titles
• Received the New Zealand Swimming Alumni Award in 2021
• Named the Emerging Domestic Swimmer of the Year the previous season
• Set open women’s short course records in the 100 and 200 breast during the 2020 campaign
• Daughter of Sonya and Andrew Cowen
• Has one younger brother
• Likes to travel in her spare time