SPRINGFIELD, Mo.— Four former Drury women's swimmers were named among the top 100 collegiate swimmers of all-time by the College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America. The CSCAA is celebrating its 100^th year as an organization and created a Top-100 list to honor the sport's all-time greats as part of their centennial.
 
Former Drury swimmers that were selected among the top 100 include Lourette Hakansson ('94), Michelle Langsford ('86), Bailee Nunn ('20), and Nida Zuhal ('97).
 
Lourette Hakansson was the NAIA Swimmer of the Year in 1991, 1992, 1993, and Co-Swimmer of the Year in '94 with teammate Nida Zuhal. The native of Sweden won 12 national championships and completed a career national title sweep in the 200 Breast, 200 IM, and the 400 IM. Hakansson was inducted into the Drury Athletics Hall of Fame in 1999.
 
Michelle Langsford won 14 national championships in the NAIA, including five at the 1984 national championships. Although Drury did not have a women's team at the time, she competed for the Panthers and still scored enough points in the national meet to put DU in the top team at the national meet in 1984 and 1985. A Springfield native and product of Central High School, Langsford is a member of the Drury Athletics Hall of Fame and the Springfield Area Sports Hall of Fame.
 
Bailee Nunn was the NCAA-II Swimmer of the Year as a sophomore in 2018 and ended her career with 10 national championships. The Marshfield native earned one national title in 2020, but three of the four days at the national meet were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Nunn won three national championships in the 200 Breast, and three in the 200 IM.
 
Nida Zuhal was the national Co-Swimmer of the Year in the NAIA in 1994 with Lourette Hakansson, then was the NCAA-II Swimmer of the Year in 1996 and 1997 and the Panthers. She won seven national championships and completed a career sweep in the 200 Fly with a national title in every year of her career. Zuhal was inducted into the Drury Athletics Hall of Fame in 2002 and competed in the 1996 Olympic Games for her native Turkey. 
 
The CSCAA's Top 100 includes some of the most recognizable names in the sport; Janet Evans, Missy Franklin, and Katie Ledecky are included on the list of the greatest collegiate swimmers in the last 100 years. Nearly three thousand athletes were nominated, with a blue-ribbon panel of current and former college swimmers, coaches, and members of the media making selections from a list of 973 finalists.
 
 
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