Career Honors

  • Two-time Pac-12 team champion (2022-23)
  • 2021-22 CSCAA Scholar All-American
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

As a Junior (2023-24)

  • Scored points in the 100 back and 200 back at the Pac-12 Championships.

As a Sophomore (2022-23) • Pac-12 Champions

  • Member of 400 free relay that won in the dual against Utah (Oct. 13)
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll 

As a Freshman (2021-22) • Pac-12 Champions

  • CSCAA Scholar All-American
  • Was second in the 100 back at UCLA (Jan. 28)
  • Scored at the Pac-12 Championship in the 200 back (fourth), 200 free (11th), and 200 IM (16th)
  • Swam at the NCAA Championships in three events, taking 48th in the 200 free (1:47.04), 42nd in the 200 back (1:55.40) and 59th in the 200 IM (1:59.17)

Prior to Stanford

  • A 2020 graduate of Foothill High School in Irvine, Calif.
  • Deferred enrollment for a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Ranked as the No. 18 recruit in the country for the Class of 2020, per SwimSwam
  • Eleven-time high school All-American: 100 free (2017-19), 200 free (2017-19), 100 backstroke (2017-18), 200 IM (2018-19), 200 medley relay (2018)
  • Three-time Crestview League Female MVP (2017-19)
  • School record holder in the 100 free, 200 free, 200 IM and 200 medley relay
  • Swam on the club level for Brea Aquatics and SoCal Aquatics
  • 2018 Summer Junior National runner-up in the 100 free
  • Four-time “A” finalist at the 2018 Winter Junior National
  • 2018 Summer Junior National Championship as a team
  • 2019 Gold Medal Cup
  • Led Foothill to three Crestview League Championships (2017-19)

Personal

  • Parents are Keir and Jackie
  • Has siblings Anna and Alexandra
  • Father rowed at Harvard and represented the United States at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics in the quadruple sculls
  • Mother was an All-Ivy League swimmer at Brown
  • National Merit Commended Scholar
  • California Scholastic Federation member
  • Enjoys snorkeling, snowboarding, and hiking; has watched every Oscar-nominated Best Picture film for the last three years

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