Penn's Lia Thomas wins 100M, 200M freestyle races against Harvard

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Penn swimmer Lia Thomas came away with wins in the 100 meter and 200-meter freestyle races against Harvard on Saturday. The victories came days after the NCAA updated its policy for transgender participation and how it will be determined on a sport-by-sport basis.

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Lia Thomas of the Pennsylvania Quakers smiles after winning the 200 meter freestyle event during a tri-meet against the Yale Bulldogs and the Dartmouth Big Green at Sheerr Pool on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania on January 8, 2022 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  (Hunter Martin/Getty Images)

Thomas finished the 100m race in 50.55 seconds and with the second-place competitor in at 51.51. In the 200m race, Thomas won in 1:47.08, while the second-place finisher came in 1:48.44. Thomas, who was on the Penn men’s team during her first three years, joined the women’s team after transitioning.

The NCAA announced that the policy would begin with the winter championships. The NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships are set for March 16-19 at the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta.

"Based on the new NCAA policy put out on Wednesday, there is nothing that would preclude Lia from racing in March at the NCAA Championships. There is a framework, some guidance, but nothing that anybody would recognize as a line-in-the-sand threshold," Braden Keith, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of SwimSwam, told Fox News on Thursday.

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Lia Thomas of the Pennsylvania Quakers gets ready to compete in a freestyle event during a