Maisie Gilford Season 2024-25

Junior (2024-25)
Maisie Gilford joined the Huskers in the fall of 2024. She competed internationally at the University of Bath, after competing as a high school student in Qatar. Gilford is expected to help Nebraska in the sprint freestyle events.

Gilford competed at the 2024 British Swimming Championships at the London Aquatics Centre in April of 2024. She qualified for the championships, which served as Britain's Olympic Trials, in the 100-meter freestyle (57.40), the 200-meter free (2:05.17) and took 12th in the 200-meter individual medley (2:24.13).

At the Golden Bear Meet in Zagreb, Croatia in June of 2024, Gilford finished second in the 100-meter freestyle (57.27), while adding third-place finishes in the 50-meter free (26.67) and the 50-meter butterfly (29.03) for the University of Bath Swim Club. In March of 2024 at the Edinburgh International swim meet, Gilford posted a time of 26.49 in the 50-meter free, a 2:05.20 in the 200 free and a 28.55 in the 50-meter fly.

In 2019, Gilford competed at the FINA World Cup, posting times of 27.67 in the 50-meter free and 32.41 in the 50-meter backstroke. She also competed at the British Swimming Summer Championships in 2019 as a high school junior at Doha College.

The daughter of Kevin and Alison Gilford, Maisie was born Sept. 9, 2003. She has a younger sister, Lara, and a younger brother, Fred. Maisie is majoring in mathematics at Nebraska.