Eleanor Sun

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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:
Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart
Hometown:
Bethesda, Maryland

Honors
Second Team All-American - 400 IM

5x Ivy League Champion (First Team All-Ivy)
2025: 200 IM, 400 IM, 200 butterfly, 400 freestyle relay, 800 freestyle relay

3x Ivy League Runner-Up (Second Team All-Ivy)
2025: 400 medley relay
2024: 200 butterfly, 400 IM

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

Ivy League Championships High Point Swimmer of the Meet (2025)

CSCAA Academic All-American (2024)

Lifetime Bests
100 Free – 49.59
200 Free – 1:47.92
1000 Free – 9:58.19
200 Back– 1:56.64
200 Fly – 1:54.64
200 IM – 1:55.50
400 IM – 4:05.73

2024-25: Finished 12th in the 400 IM at the NCAA Championships to earn Second Team All-American honors…Also finished 20th in the 200 IM and 32nd in the 200 butterfly…Ivy League Champion in the 200 IM, 400 IM, 200 butterfly, 400 freestyle relay and 800 freestyle relay…Won the 200 butterfly and 200 IM at HYP…Finished third in the 1000 freestyle and fourth in the 100 butterfly at the tri-meet with Penn State/Virginia Tech…Won the 200 butterfly and 200 IM at the tri-meet with Kenyon/Navy…Won the 400 IM and 200 IM at the Big Al Invitational…Won the 200 IM, 200 backstroke and 100 breaststroke at the tri-meet with Penn/Cornell…Won the 200 backstroke and 200 IM at the dual-meet with Rutgers…Won the 400 IM and 1000 freestyle at the tri-meet with Brown/Dartmouth

2023-24: Finished 22nd in the 800 freestyle relay, 25th in the 400 IM, 30th in the 200 butterfly and 39th in the 200 IM at the NCAA Championships … finished second in the 200 butterfly, second in the 400 IM and third in the 200 IM at the Ivy League Championships … won the 200 IM and the 400 IM and finished third in the 200 backstroke at the Big Al Invitational … won the 200 butterfly and finished second in the 200 IM and 200 breaststroke at the Virginia Tech-Penn State tri-meet … won the 200 IM and the 200 butterfly and finished second in the 200 breaststroke at the Rutgers dual … competed in eight regular season meets

Before Princeton: Attended 2019 USA Swimming National Select Camp … 2021 US Olympic Trials qualifier (200 fly, 400 IM) … 8x NISCA All-American … 3x Scholastic All-American … National Merit Finalist … Valedictorian … AP Scholar with Distinction

Personal: Daughter of Hanzhen Sun and Yan Sun … has a brother, Henry Sun