Kate Douglass

In addition, Douglass swam a 47.77 100 yard freestyle and a 50.18 100 yard butterfly, both best times for her.

During a time trial swim in February 2021, Douglass swam a 2:03.92 200 yard breaststroke, moving her up the rankings as the ninth-fastest performer of all time in the event.

Katherine Cadwallader Douglass (born November 17, 2001) is an American competitive swimmer.

Douglass was born on November 17, 2001, in Pelham, New York, as the daughter of Allison and William Douglass.

She has a younger sister, Abby, and a younger brother, Will.

She also won a conference title in the 100 yard butterfly with a time of 50.83 and placed third in the 200 yard breaststroke with a personal best time of 2:05.89 to help Virginia win their 16th ACC championship.

Douglass qualified for the 2016 U.S. Olympic trials and swam the 50 m free, 100 m breaststroke, 200 m breaststroke, and 200 m individual medley, placing 32nd, 48th, 77th, and 81st in each event respectively and not making the Olympic team.

Douglass burst into the swimming spotlight as a high school sophomore in November 2016, when she broke Olympian 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.

Douglass first swam for the Westchester Aquatic Club in New York, before moving to the Chelsea Piers Aquatic Club in Connecticut in 2017.

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 finals.

She also swam in the preliminary heats of the 4×100 meter freestyle relay, which ended up getting a silver medal.

In her junior year of high school, Douglass verbally committed to swim for the University of Virginia's class of 2023.

At the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Douglass placed seventh overall in the finals of the 50 m freestyle.

She did not qualify for the finals in her other individual events.

Douglass competed for the University of Virginia during her NCAA career, which lasted from 2019 to 2023.

She is considered one of the greatest swimmers in NCAA history.

In her three NCAA Division I Championship meets in 2021, 2022, and 2023, she helped Virginia win the team competition.

At the 2021 NCAA Championships, she won one gold medal and six silver medals.

At the 2022 NCAA Championships, she won seven gold medals.

At the 2023 NCAA Championships, she won seven gold medals.

Douglass won the Honda Sports Award as the best college female swimmer in 2022 and 2023.

She attended Pelham Memorial High School and graduated in 2019.

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.

Douglass competed at the 2019 U.S. National Championships in July and August.

She did not win a medal in any of her events.

Although Douglass had a national age-group record heading into college, she broke through as an elite swimmer in her freshman year at Virginia with coach Todd DeSorbo.

At a dual meet in October 2019, Douglass swam a 22.28 second 50 yard freestyle and a 2:07.92 200 yard breaststroke, becoming only the third female swimmer to 22-point the 50 free and 2:07 in the 200 breast, which highlighted her versatility as those two events are very different from each other.

In November 2019, Douglass broke the ACC conference record in the 200 yard individual medley with a time of 1:52.84.

A versatile swimmer who competes in many events, Douglass won her first major international medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics with a bronze in the 200 m individual medley.

She won three medals at the 2022 World Championships.

Douglass then won six medals, including two golds, at the 2023 World Championships.

At the 2024 World Championships, she won five medals, including two golds.

She then improved her best time in the 200 breaststroke to 2:06.19 in January 2020.

At the 2020 ACC Championships, Douglass won the 200 yard individual medley title in a time of 1:51.36, making her the fastest freshman ever in the event and the fourth-fastest in history.

Her swim also re-broke her conference record from prior.

Headed into the 2020 NCAA Championships, Douglass was the top seed in the 200 yard individual medley, the third seed in the 200 yard breaststroke, and the fourth seed in the 100 yard butterfly, but the meet was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

At the Tennessee Invitational in November 2020, Douglass swam a 200 yard individual medley in a time of 1:50.82 to become the third-fastest performer of all time in the event.

Her time was just three-tenths off of Ella Eastin's NCAA record of 1:50.62.

She also split a 21.96 while swimming the 50 yard butterfly on Virginia's 200 medley relay, which is the fastest 50 butterfly time in history.