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2012-13 Swimming & Diving Roster

Emily Kopec

  • Height 5-4
  • Class Senior
  • High School George Washington
  • Hometown Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Biography

 

2011-12
A freestyle specialist as a junior, swam well in the 500-yard freestyle finishing with the season's second-best time (5:14.57)...at the 2012 A-10 Championship swam in the 50-yard freestyle (25.29), 100-yard freestyle (53.99), 200-yard freestyle (1:57.76), 500-yard freestyle (5:14.57) and 200-yard IM (2:16.95) and set a new personal best in the 200-yard IM...

2010-11
Swam the third leg in both the 400-yard (3:30.06) and 800-yard (7:36.67) freestyle relays during the A-10 Championship, setting school records in each event...set a new personal record in the 100-yard freestyle during the prelims of the A-10 Championship, touching the wall at 53.56 - the third-best time of the season for the Bills...finished the season with the fifth-best time in the 200-yard freestyle (1:57.24), 500-yard freestyle (5:14.13) and 1000-yard freestyle (11:13.53)...

2009-10
Was a member of the school-record breaking 200-free relay (1:38.21) at the A-10s ... also swam a leg of the 400-free relay (3:34.20) that posted the third-fastest time in school history at the A-10 Championships ... SLU's top finisher in the 200 free at the A-10s with a 26th-place performance (1:57.52) ... touched 29th in the 100 free (54.13) and 36th in the 100 back (1:03.03) at the A-10s ... clocked personal best in the 100 and 200 free and the 100 back at the A-10s ... won the 100 free at Wash U and vs. IUPUI ... came in first in the 500 free (5:29.69) with a personal best at the Stephens-Lindenwood meet ... touched second in the 100 back (1:04.64) and third in the 200 free (2:03.00) at the Lindenwood Invitational ... placed second in the 100 back (1:03.33) at IUPUI ... recorded a second-place finish in the 100 free (56.81) at South Dakota State ... finished third in the 200 free (2:02.60) at Eastern Illinois ... garnered fourth-place honors in the 100 free (56.05) at the Wash U Thanksgiving Invitational.

At George Washington
Guided her team to a sixth-place finish at the 2008 state championships ... finished fourth in the 200 free and seventh in the 100 free in addition to anchoring the fourth-place 200-free and 400-free relays at the 2008 state meet ... broke her own school record in the 100 free and the 200-free and 400-free relays each eclipsed the school standards ... received All-State first-team plaudits in the 100 and 200 free ... won district titles in four events (100 and 200 free and 200-free and 400-free relays) as a senior ... four-time All-Metro selection and team MVP ... 2005 team Rookie of the Year ... Honor Roll member ... class valedictorian ... four-time recipient of her class' math, science and foreign language awards ... earned an Academic Letter ... awarded Academic All-State honors ... was a member of the Cedar Rapids Aquatic Association (CRAA) club team.

KOPEC'S CAREER BESTS

50 FREE 25.14 A-10 Championships, 2/20/2010 (trial)
100 FREE 53.56 A-10 Championships, 2/26/2011 (prelim)
200 FREE 1:57.24 A-10 Championships, 2/25/2011 (prelim)
500 FREE 5:14.13 A-10 Championships, 2/24/2011 (prelim)
1000 FREE 11:18.38 Lindenwood Invitational,10/29/2011
100 BACK 1:03.03 A-10 Championships, 2/19/2010 (prelim)
200 BACK
2.19.00 Western Illinois, 10/29/2009
200 IM 2:16.95 2012 Atlantic 10 Swimming & Diving Champs, 2/22/2012

Historical Player Information

  • 2009-10Freshman

  • 2010-11Sophomore

    5'4"
  • 2011-12Junior

    5'4"
  • 2012-13Senior

    5'4"