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2025-26 Women's Swimming & Diving Roster

Rowan McWhorter

  • Height 5-6
  • Class Sophomore
  • Highschool Cypress Woods
  • Hometown Houston, Texas

Biography

Awards:
  • Edgardo Madrid & Associates Student-Athlete of the Month (November 2024)
  • First-Team Academic All-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (2025-26)
  • RMAC Academic Honor Roll (2025-26)
  • College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® Women's Swimming & Diving Team (2025-26)

2025-26 (Sophomore):
Team Captain... Voted First Team Academic All-RMAC. McWhorter was third on the Falcons (86th overall) in scoring (20 points) at the RMAC Championship. McWhorter helped UTPB set two school records in the relays. Her best individual finish was 16th in the 200 IM. She set one personal best and one season best at the championship. For the second year in a row, she ranked first on the team and 89th in the RMAC according to FINA points... Picked for the 2025-26 Academic All-District® Team, selected by College Sports Communicators... Was also a member of the 2025-26 RMAC Academic Honor Roll.

2025-26 RMAC Championship Results:
  • 200 medley relay – Finals – "A" relay – seventh place – 1:47.30 (School Record) (swam third)
  • 200 freestyle relay – Finals – "A" relay – seventh place – 1:39.56 (swam anchor)
  • 400 freestyle relay – Finals – "A" relay – seventh place – 3:36.30 (swam anchor)
  • Time Trial – 400 medley relay – "A" relay – 3:59.95 (Alt Adj 3:59.55) (School Record) (swam third)
  • 200 IM – B Final – 16th place – 2:12.19 (15th in prelims, 2:09.75, Season Best)
  • 100 breaststroke – C Final – 23rd place – 1:08.04 (22nd in prelims, 1:07.81)
  • 100 freestyle – C Final – 18th place – 53.28 (Personal Best) (24th in prelims, 54.45, moved up six spots in final)
2025-26 Season-Best Times:       
  • 50 Free – 24.82 (Relay Leadoff) – Trinity University Tiger Invitational – Nov 21, 2025              
  • 100 Free – 53.18 (Alt Adj) (Personal Best) – RMAC Championships – Feb 14, 2026   
  • 200 Free – 2:10.81 – OC Tri-Meet – Sep 26, 2025
  • 100 Breast – 1:07.25 – Trinity University Tiger Invitational – Nov 22, 2025             
  • 200 Breast – 2:41.36 – Trinity (TX) vs. UT Permian Basin – Nov 1, 2025     
  • 100 Fly – 59.13 (Personal Best) – Trinity University Tiger Invitational – Nov 22, 2025              
  • 200 Fly – 2:24.28 – UTPB vs. UTRGV – Oct 11, 2025          
  • 100 IM – 1:01.26 – Sam Freas Invite – Sep 27, 2025          
  • 200 IM – 2:08.55 (Alt Adj) – RMAC Championships – Feb 11, 2026     

2024-25 (Freshman):
Appeared in all nine meets for the Falcons as a true freshman... Opened the season with first-place finishes in the 50 breaststroke (32.96), the 100 breaststroke (1:12.71) and the 200 IM (2:19.17) to go along with a second-place finish in the 200 medley relay (2:02.65) at the McMurry/Adams State double dual meet (Oct. 4-5)... In a three-day stretch with three different meets in Arkansas, she opened the weekend up with a second-place finish in the 200 IM (2:18.89) in the dual meet at Henderson State (Oct. 24); followed that up by aiding the 400 medley relay team (4:28.06) to a second-place finish and both the 400 freestyle relay team (4:12.06) and the 800 freestyle relay team (8:39.63) to third-place finishes at the Hendrix Relays (Oct. 25); and ended the three-day stretch with wins in both the 200 IM (2:18.07) and the 200 breaststroke (2:40.46) and a second-place finish in the 400 freestyle relay (3:58.93) at the Hendrix Classic (Oct. 26)... Earned a pair of second-place finishes in the 100 breaststroke (1:11.29) and the 200 IM (2:17.08) and was third in the 200 backstroke (2:20.60) in the home dual meet vs. Trinity (Nov. 2)... Had a pair of wins in the 50 freestyle (25.63) and the 200 IM (2:18.74) and added a second-place finish in the 100 breaststroke (1:11.95) at the McMurry/Austin College double dual meet (Dec. 7)... Won the 100 breaststroke (1:15.72) and finished in second place in both the 100 freestyle (58.05) and the 200 IM (2:24.09) in the tune-up meet (dual meet at Southwestern) before the conference meet (Jan. 25)... Won the B Final (9th place) with a time of 2:09.52 in the 200 IM and added a 15th-place finish in the 100 breaststroke (1:07.23) at the RMAC Championships (Feb. 11-15). Also helped UTPB finish seventh in the 400 freestyle relay (3:42.69), eighth in both the 800 freestyle relay (8:06.94) and the 400 medley relay (4:11.65), and ninth in the 200 medley relay (1:56.15) at the conference meet... Was named UTPB's Edgardo Madrid & Associates Women's Student-Athlete of the Month for November.

Cypress Woods (HS):
Was Second-Team All-Region all four seasons (2021-24)... Was also Academic All-State during her senior year (2024)... Was a "Straight A" student all four years of high school... Graduated in the top-10 percent of her graduating class.

Personal:
Maintained a 4.0 GPA during each of her first two semesters at UTPB.


Current UTPB School Records:
  • 200 Medley Relay (Ava McCormack, Avery Momotiuk, Rowan McWhorter, Mackenzie Gingerich) – 1:47.30 – 2026
  • 400 Medley Relay (Ava McCormack, Avery Momotiuk, Rowan McWhorter, Mackenzie Gingerich) – 3:59.55 alt adj. – 2026
 

Historical Player Information

  • 2024-25Freshman

    5'6"
  • 2025-26Sophomore

    5'6"