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2024-25 Women's Swimming Roster

Monmouth Athletics

Alexa Houseknecht

  • Position IM / Back
  • Height 5-7
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Downingtown West
  • Hometown Glenmoore, PA

Biography

Swim Cloud Top Times 

2024-25:
  • Three second-place finishes in the 2024-25 season
  • Competed in breaststroke and butterfly events in the CAA Championships and ECAC Winter Championship
  • Earned High Honors with Distinction on the 2024 Fall CAA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll
  • Named to the 2024-25 CSC Academic All-District Team
2023-24:
  • One first-place finish in the 2023-24 season
  • Placed first in the 100-yard backstroke against Manhattan, finishing in 1:01.05
  • Members of the Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll for the 2023 Fall semester, awarded with High Honors with Distinction 
  • Named to the 2023-24 CSC Academic All-District Team 
2022-23:
  • Three first-place finishes in the 2022-23 season
  • Placed first in the 50-yard breaststroke, finishing at 33.13 against Manhattan
  • Earned gold in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 1:01.74 against Manhattan
  • Finished first in the 100-yard IM, clocking in at 1:03.35 against Manhattan
  • Member of CSC Academic All-District Team
2021-22:
  • One first-place finish in the 2021-22 season
  • Won the 100 back in 1:01.20 to secure her first-collegiate victory in the win over Saint Peter's
  • Set personal best times in the 100 back, 200 back and 200 IM at the MAAC Championships.
Before Monmouth: 
  • Competed in freestyle, backstroke, butterfly and IM events at Downingtown West High School for coach Eric Snook
  • Four-year varsity letterwinner
  • Competed for the Upper Main Line YMCA and head coach Louis Petto
  • Career top events and times include the 50 Freestyle (25.25), 100 Freestyle (55.21), 50 Backstroke (28.10), 100 Backstroke (58.68), 100 Breaststroke (1:05.42), 200 Breaststroke (2:26.03), 400 IM (4:46.75) and 200 IM (2:11.47)
  • Made first YMCA Nationals cut in 2017
  • Owns National Cut times in the 100 and 200 Breast and 100 Back
  • Competed at the PIAAA District Championships in the 100 Breast and 200 IM and the medley relay team that qualified for the 2018 High School State Championships
  • Also competed in lacrosse for 10 years
  • Member of the National Honor Society
Personal: 
  • Daughter of Gerald and Diane Houseknecht
  • Majoring in Biology with a concentration in Molecular Cell Physiology 

Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22Freshman

    Breast / IM
    5'7"
  • 2022-23Sophomore

    Breast / IM
    5'7"
  • 2023-24Junior

    IM / Back
    5'7"
  • 2024-25Senior

    IM / Back
    5'7"