Marissa Laurin Season 2024-25

Honors & Awards
Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2024)

Freshman (2024-25)
Marissa Laurin, a freshman from Alberta, Canada, logged a promising debut season. She swam namely in the 100 and 200 backstroke events as well as the 200 and 400 IM races. In a meet against the Kansas Jayhawks, Laurin logged a career best in the 100 backstroke touching the wall at 56.44. Later at the conference championships prelims, she took 27th with a 1:58.60 in the 200 back, marking her career high in the event. 

Laurin collected two first-place finishes in the 200 IM throughout the season. Her first top performance was against Iowa State on October 25 and her second was at the Hawkeye Invitational prelims in late November. She made impressive strides in the 200 backstroke as well, notching a second-place finish against Minnesota and South Dakota as well as Iowa State. Overall, she posted 21 top-five performances with more than half of them being top-three places.

Before Nebraska
Laurin joined the Huskers as an experienced swimmer in the backstroke and individual medley events. She is from Grand Prairie, Alberta, Canada and swam for the Grand Prairie Piranhas, where she earned Swimmer of the Year and Most Improved Swimmer Awards. Laurin took third in the 200 backstroke at the Canada Summer Games and finished in the top-10 of her age group in Canada in various other events. She also helped her club team to a third-place finish in medium-sized teams in the provincial championships. At the 2024 Bell Canadian Swimming Trials, Laurin set a career-best in the 200 long-course backstroke prelims and finished 11th to qualify for the finals, where she set a new career-best of 2:15.70 and finished sixth-overall.

Personal
The daughter of Michael and Candice Laurin, Marissa was born on May 1, 2006. She has one sister, Mikayla. Laurin plans to study Law and Business at Nebraska with the goal of working at and eventually owning part of a law firm. 

“I chose Nebraska because I know Pablo (Morales) and Patrick (Rowan) are great coaches and will help me improve in my sport and have created a positive team atmosphere that I am excited to be a part of,” Laurin said. “The academic and athletic support has far surpassed what I was looking for in a school and made the decision a lot easier.”

Career-Best Times

Event	Time	Meet (Date)
100 Back	56.44	Kansas (2024)
200 Back	1:58.60	Big Ten Championships (2025)
100 Breast	1:07.83	Omaha (2024)
100 Free	55.03	SDSU (2024)
200 Free	1:57.70	SDSU (2024)
1,000 Free	10:29.73	Omaha (2024)
200 IM	2:01.85	Big Ten Championships (2025)
400 IM	4:17.30	Big Ten Championships (2025)