Alexa Pappas

Photo by: Shelley M. Szwast

Position:
Back/Fly
Class:
Sophomore
High School:
Weston
Hometown:
Weston, Conn.

Honors
3x Ivy League Champion (First Team All-Ivy)
2024: 200 medley relay
2023: 200 medley relay
2022: 200 medley relay

1x Ivy League Runner Up (Second Team All-Ivy)
2025: 200 medley relay

2x CSCAA Scholar All-American (2024, 2023)

Lifetime Bests
50 Back – 24.50
100 Back – 52.81
200 Back – 1:57.70
100 Fly – 54.05
200 Fly – 2:00.65

2024-25: Ivy League Runner-Up in the 200 medley relay…Finished fifth in the 100 backstroke at HYP…Finished fourth in the 200 butterfly at the tri-meet with Penn State/Virginia Tech…Won the 200 backstroke and 100 backstroke at the tri-meet with Kenyon/Navy

2023-24: Part of the team that won the 200 medley relay at the Ivy League Championships … also finished fifth in the 100 backstroke, 18th in the 200 butterfly and 19th in the 200 backstroke at the Ivy League Championships … won the 100 backstroke and finished second in the 200 backstroke at the H-Y-P meet … won the 100 backstroke and finished sixth in the 100 butterfly at the Rutgers dual meet … competed in seven regular season meets

2022-23: Finished first in the 200 medley relay, seventh in the 100 backstroke, 15th in the 200 butterfly and 20th in the 100 butterfly at the Ivy League Championships … finished third in the 100 backstroke, fifth in the 100 butterfly and 16th in the 200 backstroke at the Big Al Invitational … competed in nine regular season meets.

2021-22: First team All-Ivy League in the 200 medley relay...Finished seventh in the 100 backstroke, 14th in the 200 butterfly and 23rd in the 100 butterfly at the Ivy League Championships...Set top times in the 50 freestyle (23.86) and 200 backstroke (2:00.09) at the Big Al Invitational, 50 butterfly (25.25) at the Rutgers dual, 50 backstroke (24.95) at the Ivy League Championships, 100 butterfly (54.81) at the Penn/Cornell tri-meet and the 100 backstroke (54.39) at HYPs.

Before Princeton: Winter and Summer Junior National Qualifier … 2X Connecticut Swimming High Point overall winner …e arned All-State and All-American accolades … awarded Outstanding Swimmer in the South-West Conference … high school and South-West Conference records in the 100 back and 100 fly … 3X South-West Conference and Class S 100 back champion … 2X South-West Conference and Class S 100 free champion … 2020 South-West Conference 100 fly champion … 2X CIAC 100 back champion … 2020 CIAC 100 fly champion …A ll-Conference and All-State Academic Team … High School Principal Honor Roll all four years.

Personal: Daughter of Kyrk and April Pappas … has a sister, Kyri Pappas … plays the alto saxophone … volunteers at the local church pre-school.