Ex-NCAA swimmer still upset over Lia Thomas making it to 500 finals in 2022 championships

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Reka Gyorgy, a former swimmer at Virginia Tech, was among those who lent their support for female athletes in an amicus brief filed to the Supreme Court last week.

The brief was filed in support of the state of West Virginia and its Save Women’s Sports law. The legislation seeks to keep transgender student-athletes at all level of competition to play against those with the same biological gender instead of the gender they identify as. A preliminary injunction dissolved in January when a federal judge ruled the law didn’t violate Title IX protections but the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to reinstate a preliminary injunction.

Gyorgy made headlines last year during the NCAA Championships when she blasted the governing body of collegiate sports for allowing Lia Thomas, of Penn, to compete against biological women as a transgender female competitor. Gyorgy was one of 67 athletes, coaches and family members who called on the Supreme Court to vacate the preliminary injunction.

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Reka Gyorgy competes in the Women's 400m individual medley during the Toyota U.S. Open Championships at the Greensboro Aquatic Center on Nov. 13, 2020 in Greensboro, North Carolina. (Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)

"I was a senior competing in my last swim meet at the NCAA Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships on March 17th, 2022. I swam the 500 freestyle in preliminaries where I got 17th, which means I did not make it back to the finals and was first alternate," her statement read. "I watched Lia Thomas [a biological male] from the pool deck win a women’s national title in a finals that I deserved to