Gena Jorgenson Season 2024-25

Honors & Awards

• Two-Time First-Team All-American (1,650 Free, 2024, 2025)
• NCAA Championships Qualifier
      1,650 Free, 500 Free, 400 IM (2025)
      1,650 Free, 500 Free, 400 IM (2024)
      1,650 Free, 500 Free, 400 IM (2023)
• Nebraska School-Record Holder
      500 Free, 4:39.31
      1,000 Free, 9:41.68
      1,650 Free, 15:49.99
      400 IM, 4:11.51
      800 Free LCM, 8:44.58
      1,500 Free LCM, 16:40.17
• Sixth, NCAA Championships, 1,650 Free (15.49.99, 2025)
• Eighth, NCAA Championships, 1,650 Free (15:55.71, 2024)
• Fifth, Big Ten Championships, 1,650 Free (16:01.72, 2024)
• Sixth, Big Ten Championships, 1,650 Free (16:13.54, 2023)
• Devaney Natatorium Record (1,000 free, 9:53.58)
• Three Letters (2023, 2024, 2025)
• CSC Academic All-American (3rd, 2025)
• CSCAA Scholar All-American (1st; 2023, 2024)
• CSC Academic All-District (2024, 2025)
• Big Ten Swimmer of the Week (Oct. 30 2024, Dec. 6 2023)
• Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2024)
• Academic All-Big Ten (2024, 2025)
• Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2022, 2023, 2024; Spring 2023*, 2024)
• Nebraska Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (2024-25)
• Tom Osborne Citizenship Team (2023, 2024, 2025)

Junior (2024-25)
Two-time first-team All-American Gena Jorgenson continued to rewrite the Husker record book while leading the Huskers to a second straight top-35 team finish at the NCAA Championships. The junior from Aberdeen, S.D., smashed two individual school records and became Nebraska's first two-time first-team individual swim All-American since Elvira Fischer in 2001. Jorgenson qualified for three events at the NCAA Championships in Federal Way, Wash., where she shattered her own school record in the 1,650 freestyle. Her time of 15:49.99 pushed her to a sixth-place finish at nationals, after taking eighth in the event as a sophomore in 2024.  

Jorgenson added a 22nd-place finish in the 500 free at the NCAA Championships, while adding a 39th-place showing in the 400 IM with a season-best 4:13.76.

Jorgenson became the first swimmer in Husker history to earn All-America honors in the pool and in the classroom in the same season, when she captured third-team Academic All-America accolades from the College Sports Communicators on April 22. She joined former Huskers Lindsay Helferich (2019) and Kaitlin Arntz (2010) as Nebraska swimming Academic All-Americans, while divers Courtney Jensen (2000) and Abi Knapton (2021) also claimed CSC Academic All-America awards. Knapton was also a six-time All-American in the diving well.

At the 2025 Big Ten Championships, Jorgenson earned a fourth-place finish in the 1,650 free in a time of 15:56.70, just shy of her previous school mark. She set the school record time in the 500 free with an impressive sixth-place finish with a 4:39.31. She added another school-record-time (7:07.35) as part of Nebraska's 800 freestyle relay team at the conference meet, joining Beatrix Tanko, Maisie Gilford and Giulia Marchi in helping the Husker relay to an eighth-place finish.

Jorgenson amassed 31 top-five finishes during the season, including 29 top-three performances. She was named the Big Ten Swimmer of the Week, Oct. 30, 2024. 

Sophomore (2023-24)
Jorgenson produced a monumental sophomore season, breaking four school records and qualifying for three events at the NCAA Championships in Athens, Ga. Jorgenson swam a then-school-record time of 15:55.71 in the 1,650 freestyle at nationals to capture an eighth-place finish and claim first-team All-America honors.

She became the first Husker swimmer to earn first-team honors since 2001. Jorgenson posted a then-career-best time of 4:41.03 in the 500 freestyle and another career-best time of 4:11.51 in the 400 IM to shatter two more school records at nationals. 

She entered 2024-25 with six school records. At the Hawkeye Invitational, Jorgenson logged an NCAA B Standard in the 500 free prelims (4:45.60). She posted a winning time of 4:43.87 in the final and added her second title of the meet in the 1,650 freestyle (16:15.82). 

At the Big Ten Championships, Jorgenson took fifth in 1,650 free (16:01.72) and 10th in the 500 freestyle (4:41.19) while hitting the NCAA B Standard in both events. She also helped the Huskers to an eighth-place finish in the 800 freestyle relay at the Big Ten Championships with the third-fastest time in school history (7:11.31).

Freshman (2022-23)
Jorgenson unleashed an historic freshman season, twice breaking the 1,650 freestyle school record while punching her ticket to the NCAA Championships. She cut 20 seconds off her previous career-best mile time (16:13.54) at the Big Ten Championships to set a school record and place sixth overall. At NCAAs, Jorgenson broke the record again with a 16:13.34 to place 28th. She added a 41st-place finish in the 400 IM (4:18.00) and a 56th-place showing in the 500 free (4:46.43) at the Allan Jones Aquatic Center in Knoxville, Tenn.

Jorgenson added a 13th-place finish in the 500 freestyle at the Big Ten meet with a then-career-best 4:45.02. She also won the 400 IM C Final with a then-career-best 4:15.95. She swam to a pair of 500 freestyle titles in the first two meets of the season at South Dakota State (5:04.50) and against Iowa State (4:58.68). She added a 1,000 freestyle win against the Cyclones in 10:13.63. NU hosted Minnesota and South Dakota for a double-dual, where Jorgenson notched a pair of runner-up finishes in the 1,000 freestyle and 200 IM with times of 10:15.03 and 2:09.25, respectively. She added a third-place finish in the 500 freestyle, clocking a 5:03.16.

At the Iowa dual, Jorgenson won the 1,000 freestyle with a 10:11.44, finished second in the 500 freestyle with a 5:00.64 and took third in the 200 IM with a 2:08.76. At Kansas, Jorgenson pitched in another 1,000 freestyle victory in 10:14.79 and a pair of runner-up finishes in the 500 freestyle (5:00.74) and the 400 IM (4:29.71).

Jorgenson swam in the A Final in four different individual races at the competitive Hawkeye Invite. She went on to cut 20 seconds off her previous career-best 1,650 freestyle time, to finish as runner-up in 16:34.48. Adding a trio of top-five finishes, Jorgenson took third in the 500 freestyle (4:48.19) and the 400 IM (4:18.31), while finishing fourth in the 200 freestyle (1:49.03). She was also a member of Nebraska’s winning 800 freestyle relay at the invitational (7:16.24).

Before Nebraska
Jorgenson left her mark on swim and dive in the state of South Dakota, setting seven individual state records in long course meters and three in short course yards. She won every individual event at the state championship for five-straight seasons. Jorgenson qualified for the Futures Championship, held in July of 2022. It was her third appearance and her best showing at the esteemed event. To qualify, swimmers must record a time that is in the top 3 percent of swimmers in the United States. Jorgenson swam to titles in the 800-meter and 1,500-meter freestyle events, while placing third in the 400-meter freestyle and fourth in the 400 IM.
    
Personal
The daughter of Jason and Lisa Jorgenson, Gena was born in Fairmont, Minn., on Jan. 4, 2004. She has two younger brothers, Andrew and Benjamin. A biological sciences major, Gena earned third-team CSC Academic All-America honors in 2025. She is a two-time CSC Academic All-District honoree (2024, 2025). She was also a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar in 2024. She earned Academic All-Big Ten accolades in 2024 and 2025. A two-time first-team CSCAA Scholar All-American, Jorgenson is a five-time Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll selection. A three-time member of the Tom Osborne Citizenship Team, Jorgenson is a Nebraska Student-Athlete Advisory Committee representative in 2024-25.

Career-Best Times

Event	Time	Meet (Date)
100 Fly	1:00.34	Omaha (2024)
200 Free	1:48.31	Kansas (2024)
500 Free	4:39.31	Big Ten Championships (2025)
1000 Free	9:41.68	Illinois (2024)
1650 Free	15:49.99	NCAA Championships (2025)
100 Back	55.18	Hawkeye Invitational (2024)
200 Back	1:57.38	Hawkeye Invitational (2024)
200 Breast	2:29.20	SDSU (2023)
200 IM	2:04.87	Omaha (2024)
400 IM	4:11.51	NCAA Championships (2024)