Maddie Thornton

Position:
Free / Back / IM
Class:
Freshman
High School:
Bend Senior
Hometown:
Bend, Ore.

Prior to Georgia: Swam for Bend Senior High School under coach Elizabeth Meskill and for Bend Swim Club under coach Jim Nickell...Won four consecutive OSAA Class 5A state titles in 100 backstroke (2023-26) and three straight in 200 IM (2024-26)...Set Oregon state records in 100 back and 200 IM in 2026...Won 200 medley relay titles (2024-26), 200 free relay titles (2023, 2025-26), 400 free relay (2023-24)...Also finished second in 200 freestyle at 2023 championships...Finished third in 200 freestyle, fourth in 100 backstroke and 200 IM, fifth in 200 backstroke, and eighth in 100 freestyle at 2025 Speedo Winter Junior Championships...Finished eighth in 200m IM at Speedo Junior National Championships...Named to 2025 NISCA All-America Team...Finished first in 200m backstroke at 2024 USA Swimming Futures Championships.

National: Finished 11th in 100m backstroke at 2026 Speedo Junior National Championships...Finished 47th in 100m backstroke and 48th in 200m IM at 2026 U.S. National Championships.

Personal: Born September 27, 2008...Daughter of Tiffany and James Thornton...Father swam at Arizona...Undeclared on major.