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2019-20 Women's Swimming and Diving

Alexandrine Obrand

  • Height 5-9
  • Year Senior
  • Hometown Westmount, Quebec
  • High School Lower Canada College
  • Event Free, Fly
  • Major Mechanical Engineering

Biography

Collegiate Personal Bests
50-Free - 24.84
100-Free - 53.96
200-Free - 1:56.02
500-Free - 5:14.91
100-Breast - 1:10.34
100-Fly - 59.93

2019-20:
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- Invite: 400 Free Relay (5th), 800 Free Relay (9th), 200 Free Relay (9th), 100 Free (22nd), 50 Free (23rd)
- Regular Season Dual Meet Top-5 Placements: 5

2018-19:
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- Invite: 400 Free Relay (8th), 200 Free Relay (8th), 500 Free (18th), 200 Free (19th), 100 Free (22nd)

2017-18:

- Did not compete in any meets as a sophomore

2016-17:

- NEWMAC: 200 Free (11th), 400 Free Relay (11th), 800 Free Relay (11th), 500 Free (13th), 100 Free (14th)
- Invite: 400 Free Relay (3rd), 800 Free relay (3rd), 200 Free Relay (4th), 200 Free (6th), 50 Free (11th), 100 Free (11th), 100 Fly (13th), 200 Medley Relay (14th)
- Regular Season Dual Meet Top-5 Finishes: 16

Favorite Memory as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Training Trip to Puerto Rico

Out of the Pool at MIT:
- Majoring in mechanical engineering
- Intern at WL Gore & Associates
- Research done at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, QC on the use of Bioimpedance Analysis machines in patients with cardiovascular disease
- Also interned at WL Gore & Associates as a New Product Design Engineer and at Apple as an iPad Product Design Engineer
- Member of MIT water polo club

High School:
- A 2016 graduate of Lower Canada College High School
- Named team MVP
- Age group Provincial top-5, national top-20 in the 100-free
- Westmount Dolphins 50-free and 50-fly women’s record holder
- Competed at the Canadian National Championships
- Also competed for Cote Saint-Luc Aquatics as part of their national team
- Member of the soccer team
- Honor Roll and Deans List 
- Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Winner
- Certificate of Excellence in French and English

Historical Player Information

  • 2016-17First Year

    Sprint Free
    5'9"
  • 2017-18Sophomore

    Free, Fly
    5'9"
  • 2018-19Junior

    Free, Fly
    5'9"
  • 2019-20Senior

    Free, Fly
    5'9"