2013-14: Named to the SAA Spring 2014 Student-Athlete Academic Honor Roll. Swam in nine meets and achieved two personal records...clocked in a season-best in the 50-yard freestyle versus Sewanee (11/8), posting a time of 30.39...achieved a personal best in the 100-yard back stroke at the SAA Conference Championships (2/15), clocking in at 1:07.48...also swam a personal record in the 200-yard back stroke, posting a time of 2:27.58.
2012-13: Named to the SAA Spring 2013 Student-Athlete Academic Honor Roll. Swam in 10 meets and achieved three personal records...swam a PR in the 200-yard breast stroke at the SCAD Swim Invite (11/30), posting a time of 3:00.68...achieved a PR in the 100 L freestyle at the Copa Coqui Invite in Puerto Rico (1/5), clocking in at 1:13.55...swam a PR in the 200-yard backstroke at the SAA Conference Championships (2/16), posting a time of 2:28.38.
2010-11: Swam in 10 meets...recorded her first PR for the season in the 100-yard backstroke at the Darton College Invitational (11/13), posting a 1:11.33...opened the new semester with two PRs at the Colonel Classic (1/14)...a 1:03.59 in the 100-yard freestyle and a 2:16.32 in the 200-yard freestyle...shaved six seconds off of her 200-yard Individual Medley time at the meet against Lagrange (1/29) to post a 2:34.42...set two PRs at the Appalachian Conference Championship (2/17), including a 5:36.41 in the 500-yard freestyle and a 2:29.16 in the 200-yard backstroke.
High School: Lettered in swimming at Notre Dame Academy in Staten Island, N.Y....was given the Outstanding Swimmer Award for NDA as a sophomore and junior...swam club for the Hillside Swim Team all four years and won the Most Improved Swimmer Award...also spent six years (including four years of high school) with the Wagner Aquatic Club Travel Swim Team…was a member of the National Team and swam for the highest group in the Blue Arrow Club during her senior year...volunteered at the Swedish Home, Relay for Life, Project Hospitality Women's and Children's Shelter and the Special Olympics...her academic achievements include the National Society of High School Scholars, the Soroptomist Award for Outstanding Community Service and Congressional Student Leadership Award...was nominated for Lead America for three years.
Personal: Kaitlin O'Brien was born in Staten Island, N.Y....the daughter of Michael and Catherine O'Brien...majoring in animal science at Berry College.
