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Kate Douglass
Katherine Cadwallader Douglass (born November 17, 2001) is an American competitive swimmer. Douglass is a five-time Olympic medalist, including two golds, and has won 34 medals with 16 golds at the World Championships (combined short and long course). Since 2024, she has been the world record holder for the short-course 200m breaststroke (SC) as well as being part of the 200 IM record team.
Douglass competed for the University of Virginia during her NCAA career, which lasted from 2019 to 2023. She helped Virginia win three NCAA Division I Championships in 2021, 2022, and 2023. As an individual, she has won 15 gold and 6 silver medals at the NCAA championships. Douglass won the Honda Sports Award as the best college female swimmer in 2022 and 2023.
Douglass was born in Pelham, New York, on November 17, 2001, to Allison and William Douglass. She has a younger sister, Abby, and a younger brother, Will. She attended Pelham Memorial High School and graduated in 2019. From age 7 to 15, Douglass swam for the Westchester Aquatic Club in New York. She swam with the Chelsea Piers Aquatic Club in Connecticut in for her last two years of high school, starting in 2017.
Douglass qualified for the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials and swam the 50 m freestyle, 100 m breaststroke, 200 m breaststroke, and 200 m individual medley, placing 32nd, 48th, 77th, and 81st. She did not make the 2016 Olympic team.
Douglass burst into the swimming spotlight as a high school sophomore in November 2016, when she broke Dara Torres' 34-year old 13–14 national age group record of 22.44 in the 50 yard freestyle, swimming a time of 22.32 at a high school state meet. A month later, at the 2016 U.S. Winter Junior Championships, Douglass tied Simone Manuel's 15–16 national age group record in the 50 yard freestyle with a time of 22.04.
At the 2017 World Junior Championships as a member of the U.S. junior national team, Douglass finished eleventh in the semifinals of the 50 m freestyle, and did not qualify for the finals. She also swam in the preliminary heats of the 4×100 meter freestyle relay, which earned her a silver medal.
In her junior year of high school, Douglass verbally committed to swim for the University of Virginia's class of 2023. Due to her national age group records in the 50 yard freestyle and her top-ranked times in the breaststroke and individual medley events, she was named SwimSwam's #2 girls' recruit in their class of 2019 rankings.
At the 2018 Youth Olympic Games, Douglass placed seventh overall in the finals of the 50 m freestyle. She did not qualify for the finals in her other individual events.
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Kate Douglass
Katherine Cadwallader Douglass (born November 17, 2001) is an American competitive swimmer. Douglass is a five-time Olympic medalist, including two golds, and has won 34 medals with 16 golds at the World Championships (combined short and long course). Since 2024, she has been the world record holder for the short-course 200m breaststroke (SC) as well as being part of the 200 IM record team.
Douglass competed for the University of Virginia during her NCAA career, which lasted from 2019 to 2023. She helped Virginia win three NCAA Division I Championships in 2021, 2022, and 2023. As an individual, she has won 15 gold and 6 silver medals at the NCAA championships. Douglass won the Honda Sports Award as the best college female swimmer in 2022 and 2023.
Douglass was born in Pelham, New York, on November 17, 2001, to Allison and William Douglass. She has a younger sister, Abby, and a younger brother, Will. She attended Pelham Memorial High School and graduated in 2019. From age 7 to 15, Douglass swam for the Westchester Aquatic Club in New York. She swam with the Chelsea Piers Aquatic Club in Connecticut in for her last two years of high school, starting in 2017.
Douglass qualified for the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials and swam the 50 m freestyle, 100 m breaststroke, 200 m breaststroke, and 200 m individual medley, placing 32nd, 48th, 77th, and 81st. She did not make the 2016 Olympic team.
Douglass burst into the swimming spotlight as a high school sophomore in November 2016, when she broke Dara Torres' 34-year old 13–14 national age group record of 22.44 in the 50 yard freestyle, swimming a time of 22.32 at a high school state meet. A month later, at the 2016 U.S. Winter Junior Championships, Douglass tied Simone Manuel's 15–16 national age group record in the 50 yard freestyle with a time of 22.04.
At the 2017 World Junior Championships as a member of the U.S. junior national team, Douglass finished eleventh in the semifinals of the 50 m freestyle, and did not qualify for the finals. She also swam in the preliminary heats of the 4×100 meter freestyle relay, which earned her a silver medal.
In her junior year of high school, Douglass verbally committed to swim for the University of Virginia's class of 2023. Due to her national age group records in the 50 yard freestyle and her top-ranked times in the breaststroke and individual medley events, she was named SwimSwam's #2 girls' recruit in their class of 2019 rankings.
At the 2018 Youth Olympic Games, Douglass placed seventh overall in the finals of the 50 m freestyle. She did not qualify for the finals in her other individual events.