The University of Akron Athletics
2023-24 Women's Swimming & Diving Roster

Rachel Sabotin
- Class:
- Redshirt Junior
- High School:
- Trinity Lutheran
- Hometown:
- Columbus, Ind.
2023-24: Named First-Team All-MAC... won one gold, three silvers and one bronze for 50 points at the MAC Championships... helped the Zips secure the 2023-24 MAC Championship... won gold as part of the 200 FR and silver as part of the 800 FR teams at the MAC Championships... won three silvers and three bronze medals for 68 points at the CSCAA NIC... won silvers as part of the 400 MR and 200 MR teams... set a personal best in the 50 Free with a time of 23.02 at the Zippy Invitational... set a personal best in the 200 Back with a time of 2:05.20 at the Magnus Invitational... set a personal best in the 50 Fly with a time of 24.59 at the MAC Championships... set a personal best in the 100 Fly with a time of 52.57 at the OSU Last Chance Qualifier... set a personal best in the 200 Fly with a time of 1:57.88 at the MAC Championships... set a personal best in the 100 IM with a time of 55.31 at the CSCAA NIC... set a personal best in the 200 IM with a time of 1:59.18 at the CSCAA NIC... named to the Academic All-MAC Team... named to the CSC Academic All-District Team...
2022-23: Top three finisher in the 200 butterfly (2:05.33), 200 IM (2:05.34), and 400 IM (4:29.51) at the Zips Classic. Top five in 100 butterfly (56.19), 200 butterfly (2:03.63), and 200 IM (2:07.19) against Buffalo. Placed third in the 200 butterfly against Ohio State with a time of 2:03.08. Got third in the A-Final of the 200 butterfly at 2:00.85 at the Magnus Cup. Touched the wall third in both the 100 and 200 butterfly at the Zippy Invitational, including a season best time in the 200 butterfly at 1:59.56. Won the 100 butterfly (57.03), 200 butterfly (2:05.30), and 200 IM against Mount Union and Baldwin Wallace. Earned a spot in the A-Final at the Tim Welsh Classic, finishing 8th in the 200 IM (2:01.81). A-Finalist in the 200 IM (1:59.74 – 4th), 100 butterfly (53.72 – 8th), and 200 butterfly (1:59.93 – 5th) at MAC Championships. MAC Team Champion. Named to the All-MAC Second Team and the Academic All-MAC Team. Finished top five with three relay teams at CSCAA National Invitational Championships.
2021-22: Member of 2023 NIC team, Duals, 3rd in both the 150fly (1:31.43) and 200IM (2:08.06) against Toledo, 2nd in the 400 freestyle (4:04.09) and 3rd in the 300 IM (3:17.90) against OhioÂ
2020-21: MAC championship, finished 4th in the 200 IM (2:00.70) and 5th in the 200 fly (1:59.16), also was apart of the 3rd place 800 free relay team. Earned all mac first team and all American second team. Invites, 2nd in the 200fly (1:59.58) at the Akron last chance meet, 4th in the 200 IM (2:02.35) at the shamrock invitational, 2nd in the 100 fly (54.72), 200 fly (2:00.22) and 200 IM (2:02.38) at zippy, Duals, 1st in the 200 IM (2:04.75) and 3rd in the 100 bk (57.85) against ball state, 1st in the 200 fly (2:01.96) 2nd in the 100 fly (56.42) and 3rd in the 200 IM (2:07.40) against Buffalo 2nd in the 200 fr (1:53.58) and 100 fly (55.79) against eastern Michigan
High School: Four-year letter winner… Holds every swimming record at Trinity High School… Four-time MVP…Academic All American (2020)…All American in 200 IM and 100 Fly… Four time swimmer of the year Republic and Tribune newspapers… Five-time state medalist 2018 500fr(4th) 2019 500fr (7th) 200IM (7th) 2020 200IM (3rd) 100fly (3rd)… Junior national open water medalist 2017
Personal: Daughter of Janice and Doug Sabotin… Has an older brother Cameron, younger brother Jacob and Sister Hannah… Majoring in Speech Language Pathology