2015-16: Competed in six meets as a first-year captain during sophomore season … Earned the first-ever NE-10 weekly award in program history with relay team, as the group earned NE-10 Relay Team of the Week honors following a first-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle relay (1:52.88) during a double-dual meet in Standish, Maine (11/21) … Set three program records with relay team at the NE-10 Championships (2/4-7), which came in the finals of the 200-yard freestyle relay (1:44.53), the 400-yard freestyle relay (3:50.41) and the 200-yard medley relay (1:58.43) … Tallied a program-best time with relay team in the finals of the 400-yard medley relay (4:31.77) at the WPI Gompei Invitational (12/5-6) … Recorded a trio of personal records at the NE-10 Championships, which came in the preliminaries of the 50-yard freestyle (27.88), the 200-yard freestyle (2:12.73) and the 100-yard freestyle (1:00.57) … At the WPI Gompei Invitational, posted career-best times in the preliminaries of the 500-yard freestyle (6:18.90) and the 50-yard backstroke (36.30) … Placed first along with her team in the 200-yard medley relay (2:05.80) against Saint Michael’s (11/13). 

2014-15: Swam in all six meets as a freshman… Collected a 4^th place finish in the 100 Backstroke, 4^th in the 50 Freestyle, 2^nd in the 50 Butterfly and helped her team win 1^st in the 200 Freestyle Relay with a time of 1:55.73 against Saint Michael's … In the SCSU/Conn College Tri-meet she placed 7^th in the 50 Freestyle, 7^th in the 100 Butterfly, and 6^thwith her 200Freestyle Relay team…At the Northeast-10 Championships she placed 8^th as part of the 200 Medley Relay team and 9^th with her 200 Freestyle Relay team.

Before Merrimack: Three-year letterwinner at Burlington Community High School ... Member of the Z3 High Performance Triathlon Team 

Personal: Daughter of Robert Van Pelt ... Double Major in Environmental Studies & Sustainability and Political Science, with International Business and Biology minors at Merrimack