Bio

There can’t be many collegiate swimmers who relish the thought of competing in Buffalo during the month of March. But that’s where the 1992 NCAA Division III Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships were held and where Kim Raley Graybill became Goucher College’s first swimmer to earn All-America honors.

A product of Towson High School, Raley was a highly recruited swimmer who first landed at the University of South Carolina, before transferring to Goucher and joining the swimming team in 1991-92. At the Capital Athletic Conference Championships that year, she took first place in both the 200-yard backstroke and the 200-yard individual medley, and was runner-up in the 100-yard breaststroke.

She and P.J. Stamnos from St. Mary’s (Md.) were named Co-Female Swimmers of the Year in the CAC for 1991-92.

Raley was the first female athlete ever from Goucher to compete at an NCAA Division III championship event as she qualified that year in three events. She placed 30th overall in the 200 IM and 26th in the 100 breast. Her time of 1:09.49 in the 100 breast remains the fastest in school history.

Raley’s top performance at the NCAA Division III meet came in the 200 breast, where she was clocked at 2:29.73, good for eighth place. The top eight finishers in each event are recognized as Division III All-Americans.

In addition to still owning the fastest 100 breast time in the history of Goucher’s women’s swimming program, she is the school record-holder in the 200 breast (2:27.42). Her times of 2:30.68 in the 200 breast and 2:16.91 in the 200 IM still stand as facility records for the von Borries Pool, and only one person has since turned in a faster time than her former school record of 2:13.31 in the 200 IM, and that is Stephanie LaGue, who was inducted into the Goucher College Athletics Hall of Fame in 2013.

Raley was also on Goucher’s swimming roster in 1992-93.