Aurora Zanin Season 2025-26

Honors & Awards
NJCAA Female Swimmer of the Year (2025)
Seven-Time NJCAA Champion (2025)
NJCAA Champion (1,000 Free, 2025)
NJCAA Champion (1,650 Free, 2025)
NJCAA Champion (400 IM, 2025)
NJCAA Champion (200 Fly, 2025)
NJCAA Champion (400 Free Relay, 2025)
NJCAA Champion (800 Free Relay, 2025)
Six-Time NJCAA All-American (2025)

Before Nebraska
Aurora Zanin joins the Huskers after being named the NJCAA Female Swimmer of the Year by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America in 2025. Zanin earned the CSCAA honor after leading Indian River State College to the NJCAA championship by winning four individual gold medals and two more relay golds at the national meet in Buffalo, N.Y., in March. 

Zanin raced to gold in the 200 butterfly in an NJCAA-record time of 1:59.52. The sophomore-to-be from Vittorio Veneto, Italy added a sweep of the distance freestyle events with a win in the 1,000 (10:29.10) and the 1,650 free in a lifetime-best 17:24.73 at the NJCAA Championships. Zanin contributed her final individual title with a win in the 400 IM (4:24.09), before helping Indian River State College to relay golds in the 400 and 800 freestyle events. 

Indian River State (Fort Pierce, Fla.) won all 25 events on its way to winning its 43rd consecutive NJCAA women's swimming and diving championship.

Personal
The daughter of Luca Zanin and Laura Dianca Spinadin, Aurora was born Oct. 6, 2005. She has two younger sisters, Angelica and Andrea. Aurora plans to major in psychology at Nebraska.