Meg Wheeler

Princeton Women’s Swimming and Diving hosts the Ivy League Tournament on February 16, 2023.

Photo by: Shelley M. Szwast

Position:
Back/IM
Class:
Junior
High School:
John McRae Secondary School
Hometown:
Perth, Ontario

Honors
1x Ivy League Runner Up (Second Team All-Ivy)
2023: 400 IM

Lifetime Bests
200 Free – 1:51.02
200 Breast – 2:11.40
200 Back – 1:56.08
400 IM – 4:12.97

2024-25: Finished third in the 400 IM, 11th in the 200 IM and 16th in the 200 backstroke at the Ivy League Championships…Finished seventh in the 200 IM and eighth in the 200 backstroke at HYP…Finished fourth in the 200 IM at the tri-meet with Penn State/Virginia Tech…Finished second in the 400 IM and third in the 200 backstroke and 500 freestyle at the tri-meet with Kenyon/Navy…Finished third in the 200 IM at the dual-meet with Rutgers

2023-24: Finished second in the 200 IM and eighth in the 50 breaststroke at the Columbia dual … finished third in the 200 backstroke, ninth in the 100 IM and ninth in the 100 breaststroke at the Cornell-Penn tri-meet … finished fifth in the 200 IM at the Virginia Tech-Penn State tri-meet … competed in eight regular season meets

2022-23: Finished second in the 400 IM, third in the 200 backstroke and fifth in the 200 IM at the Ivy League Championships … finished second in the 400 IM, fourth in the 500 freestyle, fifth in the 200 IM and seventh in the 200 backstroke at the Big Al Invitational … competed in eight regular season meets.

Before Princeton: 2021 & 2022 Canadian Olympic & World Trials Qualifier … 2019, 2020 Dan Taylor Award for Academic Achievement & Swimming Excellence … 2022 Eastern Canadian Champion in the 50 back, 100 back, 400 IM … 2021 Ontario Junior International Bronze medalist in the 400 IM & 200 back … 14x Nepean Kanata Barracudas Record Holder (backstroke & IM) … 2018 Ontario Summer Games (triathlon) … 2018 National Cross-Country Championship … Honor Roll Grade 9-12, 4.0 GPA

Personal: Daughter of Bill Wheeler and Valerie Dickinson-Wheeler … her father Bill played baseball in college … has one sister, Maria, who is a competitive swimmer … loves Grey’s Anatomy, ice cream, and spending time at the Lake House with family and friends.