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Katherine Cadwallader Douglass, known as Kate, is an American
competitive swimmer. A versatile swimmer who competes in many events,
Douglass won her first major international medal at the 2020 Olympic
Games 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. In the 2024
Summer Olympics, held in Paris, France, Kate won two additional Swimming
awards - A Silver Medal as part of the Women's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay
team and a Gold Medal in the Women's 200m Breaststroke competition.
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.
Early life
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 attended Pelham Memorial High School and graduated in 2019. Douglass
first swam for the Westchester Aquatic Club in New York, before moving
to the Chelsea Piers Aquatic Club in Connecticut in 2017.
Awards
and honours
Golden Goggle Award for Female Athlete of the Year – 2023
(tied with Katie Ledecky)
Honda Sports Award for Swimming & Diving –
2022 and 2023
College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of
America (CSCAA) Division I Women's Swimmer of the Year – 2022 and 2023
Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Women's Swimmer of the Year – 2022[70]
and 2023
ACC Women's Swimming & Diving Scholar-Athlete of the Year –
2022[72] and 2023 |
