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Kendra Crew - Swimming & Diving - University of Kentucky Athletics

KendraCrew

  • class Senior
  • Hometown Springfield, Ohio
  • High school Shawnee High School
BIO

Top Times:
100 Breaststroke: 1:00.15 (2017 NCAA Championship, 03/17/17)
200 Breaststroke: 2:10.20 (2017 NCAA Championship, 03/18/17)
200 Individual Medley : 2:00.21 (2016 SEC Championships, 02/17/16)
400 Individual Medley 4:30.49 (Ohio State Invitational, 11/22/13)
 
LCM
100 Breast: 1:10.01 (2016 US Olympic Trials, 06/27/16)
200 Breast: 2:31.28  (Greensboro Speedo Sectionals 07/16/16)
200 IM: 2:19.25 (2015 US Nationals Time Trial, 08/06/15)
 

  • 2016 US Olympic Trials Qualifier
  • 2016 SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll
  • 2016, 2017 NCAA Qualifier

 
2016-17 (Senior): Lowered her own Kentucky record in the 200 breast at the NCAA Championships, finishing 19th overall in 2:10.20 … Also set a new PR in the 100 breast at NCAAs, finishing 21st overall in 1:00.15 … Came in 11th overall the SEC Championships in the 100 breast with a time of 1:01.06 … Also placed 11th at the conference meet in the 200 breast (2:10.42) … Finished fifth in the 200 breast (2:11.39) at AT&T Winter Nationals in December … Recipient of the team’s Booster Club Award at the end of year banquet … Named to the SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll.
 
2015-16 (Junior):  Broke the Kentucky records in both the 100 and 200 breast, both of which were in an NCAA B cut time … Her time of 1:01.03 in the 100 breast earned her a spot in the B final at the SEC Championships, where she finished 13th overall … Placed 11th in the 200 breast in a then-school-record 2:10.89 prelims swim before breaking it again in 2:10.31 at the OSU Last Chance Meet … Competed in the 200 IM at the conference meet, placing 31st in 2:00.21 for the third-fastest mark in school history … Swam a season-best 27.54 split on the 200 medley relay that finished in 1:38.58 for eighth at the SEC Championships, as well as a 1:01.08 split on the 400 medley relay that placed seventh in 3:35.26 … Swam on the school record-tying 400 medley relay that finished in 3:33.94 with a 1:00.44 breaststroke split for a 19th-place finish at the NCAA Championships … Also swam in the 100 and 200 breast at the national championship … Earned the Most Improved Swimmer award at the end of year banquet … Named to the SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll … Qualified to the US Olympic Trials in the 100 and 200 breast, breaking her own school record in the 100 LCM breast in 1:10.01.

2014-15 (Sophomore):  Had season bests in the 100 and 200 breast at the Ohio State Invitational, both not far off her personal bests … Clocked a 1:02.88 in the 100 breast and a 2:13.33 in the 200 breast … Suffered a season-ending injury later in the season which prevented her from competing at the 2015 SEC Championships and NCAA Championships.
 
2013-14 (Freshman): Named a 2014 CSCAA Scholar Honorable Mention All-American … Named to the 2014 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll … Posted a school-record time of 2:13.01 in the 200 breaststroke and a 1:02.75 in the 100 breaststroke, the third-fastest time in program history, at the Bulldog Invitational Last Chance Qualifier … Notched a 22nd-place finish in the 200 breaststroke at the SEC Championships with a 2:14.21 and a 2:03.21 in the 200 individual medley, the eighth-fastest time in UK history … Won the 100 and 200 breaststroke vs Cincinnati with a 1:05.30 and 2:21.38, respectively … Claimed a win over Ohio State in the 200 breaststroke with a 2:22.99.

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