TicketsSpecial surprise for Joleigh 🥹
— Cincinnati Swim-Dive (@GoBearcatsSWIM) July 2, 2025
Congrats on being named UC Female Student Athlete of the Year! pic.twitter.com/MLRwFaNYrK
𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐌 𝐀𝐋𝐋-𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐍 🏆
— Cincinnati Swim-Dive (@GoBearcatsSWIM) March 22, 2025
Joleigh Crye is a first team All-American after finishing fourth in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time 58.11! pic.twitter.com/eh8tttNIXC
Champion has a nice ring to it 🏅✨🐾
— Cincinnati Swim-Dive (@GoBearcatsSWIM) March 1, 2025
Crye takes the 100-yard breaststroke title with a time of 58.09!#Bearcats | #Big12SD pic.twitter.com/jEiAzwXtft
2024-25
Named UC's Female Student Athlete of the Year... Earned First Team All-American at the 2025 NCAA Women’s Swimming Championships, placing fourth in the 100-yard breaststroke (58.11... Grabbed the programs first Big 12 title at the Big 12 Conference Championships in the 100-yard breaststroke (58.09)… Finished second in the 100-yard butterfly (52.13) at the championship meet... Was a member of the 200-yard medley relay team that competed at the 2025 NCAA Championships for the first time since 1986… Grabbed Big 12 Women’s Swimmer of the Week three times… Placed second, three times in the 50-yard breaststroke, 50-yard freestyle, and the 100-yard butterfly… Competed in nine meets this season… Recorded first place a combined 10 times in the 100-yard breaststroke, 100-yard butterfly, and the 200-yard breaststroke… Claimed first place at the Ohio State Invitational in the 100-yard breaststroke... Achieved Winter Academic All-Big 12 Team… Ranks first in points at Cincinnati, second in the Big 12 Conference, 39th in NCAA Division 1, and 45th nationally in the US with 885.65… Broke four school records in the 50-yard breaststroke, 50-yard butterfly, 100-yard breaststroke and 100-yard butterfly… Ranks fifth in program history in the 50-yard freestyle… Was a member of two record breaking relay teams... Earned First Team All-Big 12... Tallied two NCAA B-Cut times in the 100-yard breaststroke and the 100-yard butterfly.
2023-24
Earned Honorable Mention All-American status in the 100-yard breaststroke … Qualified for the 2024 NCAA Division One Swimming and Diving Championships in the 100-yard breaststroke for the second year in a row … Competed at the 2024 Olympic Team Trials and finished 16th in the 100-yard breaststroke … Finished third at the Big 12 Conference Championship with a school record time of 58.24 … Broke three school records and registered seven event wins throughout the season … A member of three school record-holding relay teams … First Bearcat to qualify for back-to-back NCAA Championships since Jacqueline Kiere did so in 2014 and 2015 … Finished fourth at the Big 12 Conference Championship in the 100-yard butterfly (53.60) … Named 2023 Winter Academic All-Big12 … Earned College Sports Communicators Academic All-District … Received First Team All-Big 12 honors … Named Big 12 Female Swimmer of the Week on 1/17/24 ... Winter Academic All-Big 12 Team.
2022-23
Finished with one of the most accomplished freshman campaigns in program history … Competed in 12 meets … Led the women’s team with 11 event wins … Surpassed the 100-yard breaststroke program record at three separate meets … Was the program’s lone NCAA Qualifier, where she finished 22nd in the 100-yard breaststroke at 59.49 seconds … Claimed the American Athletic Conference Championship title in the 100-yard breaststroke with a program-record and meet-record time of 59.07 seconds to become the first female in program history to finish sub-1-minute in the event … Was also a part of the program record 200-yard medley team with a time of 1:40.78 at the Ohio State Invitational.
HIGH SCHOOL / PREP
Competed for Avon Central High School in Avon, N.Y. … Multi-sport athlete, also played softball and ran cross country … Named a three-time All-American from her sophomore to senior season … One of 19 to be selected to the 2022 Democrat and Chronicle AGR Boys Swimming and Diving Team … Named to the 2021 Democrat and Chronicle All-Greater Rochester Softball Team … Won the 100-yard freestyle at Class C sectionals as a junior … Finished as an All-American champion as a senior … Broke multiple Livingston County records en route to helping her team win Class C sectionals as a freshman … Also competed for Mercury Swimming.
PERSONAL
Daughter of Tom and Ann Marie Crye … Mother, Ann Marie swam at Buffalo and was inducted into the Dr. and Mrs. Edmond J. Gicewicz Family UB Athletics Hall of Fame … Born on March 20th, 2004.