Dakota Tucker

Princeton Women’s Swimming and Diving hosts Yale and Harvard on February 3, 2024. Prior to the meet, Princeton honored the Class of 2024 for all three teams.

Photo by: Shelley M. Szwast

Position:
IM/Fly/Breast
Class:
Freshman
High School:
St Stithians Girls’ College
Hometown:
Johannesburg, South Africa

Honors
Second Team All-American - 400 IM

4x Ivy League Champion (First Team All-Ivy)
2025: 200 breaststroke
2024: 200 IM, 400 IM, 200 breaststroke

2x Ivy League Runner Up (Second Team All-Ivy)
2025: 200 IM, 400 IM

NCAA Championships Qualifier
2025: 200 IM, 400 IM, 200 breaststroke
2024: 200 IM, 400 IM, 200 breaststroke

Ivy League Championships High Point Swimmer of the Meet (2024)
CSCAA Scholar All-American (2024)

Lifetime Bests
50 Free – 24.85
100 Free – 51.56
200 Free – 1:49.50
500 Free – 4:52.78
50 Back – 27.64
100 Back – 56.17
200 Back – 1:59.34
50 Breast – 30.12
100 Breast – 1:02.65
200 Breast – 2:09.54
100 Fly – 56.49
200 Fly – 1:59.05
200 IM – 1:56.77
400 IM – 4:07.07

2024-25: Finished 15th in the 400 IM at the NCAA Championships to earn Second Team All-American honors…Also finished 45th in the 200 IM and 51st in the 200 breaststroke…Ivy Champion in the 200 breaststroke…Ivy League Runner Up in the 200 IM and 400 IM…Won the 200 breaststroke and finished second in the 1000 freestyle at HYP…Finished second in the 200 IM, fourth in the 500 freestyle and fifth in the 100 breaststroke at the tri-meet with Penn State/Virginia Tech…Won the 400 IM and 1000 freestyle at the tri-meet with Kenyon/Navy…Won the 200 breaststroke at the Big Al Invitational…Won the 200 breaststroke at the tri-meet with Penn/Cornell…Won the 200 breaststroke at the tri-meet with Brown/Dartmouth

2023-24: Finished 22nd in the 800 freestyle relay, 30th in the 200 IM, 30th in the 400 IM and 34th in the 200 breaststroke at the NCAA Championships … won the 200 IM, 400 IM and 200 breaststroke at the Ivy League Championships … won the 200 breaststroke and the 400 IM and finished second in the 200 IM at the Big Al Invitational … won the 400 IM, finished second in the 200 breaststroke and third in the 200 butterfly at the Notre Dame-Navy tri-meet … won the 200 breaststroke and the 400 IM at the Brown-Dartmouth tri-meet … finished second in the 200 breaststroke, second in the 200 IM and fifth in the 200 butterfly at the H-Y-P meet … competed in eight regular season meets

Before Princeton: Represented the South African National team at World Short Course Championships in Melbourne, 2022 … represented South Africa as a Junior in 2019 at the African Junior Championships in Tunisia … selected for other national competitions including Junior Worlds and World Short Course in 2021 … achieved multiple national medals in the medley and butterfly events … matriculated high school with great results (including distinctions in Mathematics, Biology and IT)

Personal: Daughter of Wayne and Julie Tucker … has a sister, Skye Tucker, who is on the rowing team at Merrimack … has a sister, Summer Tucker, who is still in high school … accepted into the mechanical engineering program at Princeton