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Alexandra Clarke
| Year: | Senior |
| Hometown: | Phoenix, Ariz. |
| High School: | Sunnyslope |
| Position: | Free |
| House Affiliation: | Currier |
Senior · 2009-10
Team co-captain ... Broke her own school record in the
1,650 free and attained All-America status with 16th-place time of
16:10.25 at NCAA Championships … Named to Ivy League
All-Academic team and ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District team
... Placed 44th in 200 free (1:48.03) and 48th in 500 free
(4:47.87) at NCAA Championships … Captured 1,000 free title
at Ivy Championships with a time of 9:45.03 … Took second in
the 500 free with NCAA provisional mark of 4:45.24 at Ivy
Championships … Part of runner-up 800 free relay team at Ivy
Championships with NCAA provisional time of 7:17.25 … Took
second in the 1,650 free at Ivy Championships … Earned one
first-team All-Ivy nod and three second-team All-Ivy nods …
Won the 500 and 1,650 free at Harvard Invitational.
Junior · 2008-09
Team
co-captain … CSCAA Scholar All-American … Academic
All-Ivy … Sharon Beckman Award winner as the Crimson’s
most outstanding swimmer … Finished 28th in the 1,650
freestyle and 46th in the 500 free at the NCAA Championships
… Won Ivy League title in the 1,000 free, shaving six
seconds off her previous school record (9:43.09) ...
Placed second in both the 1,650 free and the 500 free at the Ivy
League Championships, setting the school record in the 1,650
(16:10.92) and the 500 (4:42.84) free, both qualified as NCAA
“B” cuts ... Helped the 800 free relay team take first,
set a school record and provisionally qualify for the NCAA
Championships (7:13.71) at Ivy League Championships … Won
100 fly against Brown … Named Coop Athlete of the Week and
The Crimson Athlete of the Week for March 2.
Sophomore · 2007-08
Recipient of the Sharon Beckman Award as the Crimson’s most
outstanding swimmer ... Placed 21st in the 1,650-yard freestyle and
68th in the 500 free at the NCAA Championships ... At the Ivy
League Championships; finished second in the 1,650 free and 1,000
free, breaking her own school record in the 1,000 (9:49.28) ... Was
a member of the second-place, school record-setting 800 free relay
team at Ivies (7:21.21), hitting an NCAA “B”-cut time,
and finished fourth in the 500 free with an NCAA
“B”-qualifying time ... Finished second in the 1,000
free and fourth in the 500 free at the HYP meet ... Won the 1,000
free against Brown ... Placed second in the 1,650 free with an NCAA
automatic time and finished seventh in the 500 free with a
“B”-cut time at the Georgia Invitational ... Won the
500 free at Columbia.
Freshman · 2006-07
Finished 17th at the NCAA Championships in the 1,650-yard
freestyle ... Placed 58th in the 200 free (1:49.98) ... Captured
the 1,650 free, took second in the 100 free and finished sixth in
the 200-yard butterfly at the ECAC Championships ... Set school
records in the 1,650 free (16:19.67), 1,000 free (9:51.62), as a
member of the 800 free relay finishing in a time of 7:23.70 while
swimming her 200-yard leg in 1:48.74, and the 500 free (4:47.29) at
the Ivy League Championships ... Won 200 and 500 free while
finishing second in the 1,000 free in a dual against Rutgers ...
Named ECAC Swimmer of the Week for her performance at the Georgia
Invitational where she took second in the 1,650 free setting the
event and 1,000-yard school records in the process (16:25.49) ...
Won the 200 and 500 free races in Harvard's dual victory over
Columbia ... Captured the 100 butterfly and finished second in the
50 free in a dual meet against Cornell and Dartmouth ... Captured
the 100 and 1,000 free in a dual against Brown ... Won the 200 and
500 free races in the season opening dual against Penn.
International
2008 Olympic Trials qualifier … Achieved a personal best
time of 2:03.99 in the 200-meter free … Also competed in the
800-meter free, placing 38th with a time of 8:52.92.
Before Harvard
Named 2006 National High School Female Swimmer of the Year by the
National High School Coaches Association … 2006
Wendy’s National High School Heisman State Finalist …
Five-time Arizona high school state swimming champion … 2006
three-time Junior Nationals individual champion … 2005
Junior Nationals team champion … Five-time Junior Nationals
relay champion … Sunnyslope High School valedictorian
… National Merit Scholar … AP Scholar with
Distinction.









