Henrietta Fangli Becomes Houston’s First All-American Since 1986 With 100 Breast ‘A’ Final

2025 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships

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Henrietta Fangli of Houston became the school’s first All-American on Friday since 1986 after finishing 6th in the women’s 100 breaststroke. The senior touched in a 58.29, just off of her prelims swim of a 58.09 that was the 4th fastest swim of the morning. 

This was not Fangli’s first NCAA experience as she qualified for the meet a year ago. She snuck into the ‘B’ final after swimming the 16th fastest 100 breast in prelims with a 59.23 before going on to swim a 58.98 for 14th in finals. 

Fangli was the only swimmer to make the meet for Houston last year. This year, the team had three individual qualifiers. 

“My only goal coming into this meet was to make the ‘A’ final. I definitely didn’t imagine making it qualifying fourth, so I wasn’t expecting to do that. I also usually have a hard time going a best time in the morning, so that was already great for me. It was a good swim. and I was really happy with that.”

“Just having two other teammates here, last year I was the only swimmer qualifying and we had two divers, but I was the only swimmer, so this year having more swimmers and having the two of them and both of my coaches here, it was just an amazing feeling and an amazing experience.”

This emphasis on team was furthered as Fangli gave credit to her improvement from her growth as a captain as well as being able to train alongside the team’s strong breaststroke group that includes Virag Peter who also swam the 100 breaststroke at NCAAs. 

“I think [being selected captain] just gave me some extra responsibilities that really helped me push myself through a certain limit in practice. I’m not saying that I wasn’t able to do that before, but I definitely needed the support of my team and my teammates and we have a really strong breaststroke group. It’s three or four really strong girls that I just love training with and we just keep pushing each other and that definitely helped a lot.”

Fangli had some familiarity of the field in the 100 breaststroke final as the ‘A’ final also included fellow Big 12 swimmers Joleigh Crye and Mackenzie Miller. Crye is a junior for Cincinnati while Miller is a junior at BYU. 

“I didn’t really talk to the two girls before this year, but I think we formed a bond coming into this meet from the same conference and just racing each other in multiple years and at multiple meets. Having them with me racing them, that has also given me a lot of motivation, you know, just knowing that I keep racing them and they’re kind of always there, they’re not really new, so it was great to be in that A final with the two girls from big 12”

The senior represents Hungary internationally and plans to continue swimming. Despite still swimming, Fangli spoke on the things she will miss about college swimming. 

“I never imagined that I would be so grateful and that it would be so hard to leave the college life or college swimming. I had my last event today in the 200 breaststroke prelim and I’ve been tearing up like every ten minutes since then. Just thinking of the fact that this was my 100 breast, but I couldn’t be more grateful for my team, my coaches and just this whole four years in the experience that I had.”