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2019-20 Women's Swimming and Diving

Kayla Holman

  • Height 5-9
  • Year Senior
  • Hometown Menlo Park, Calif.
  • High School Sacred Heart Preparatory
  • Event Fly, IM, Free
  • Major Mechanical Engineering

Biography

Collegiate Personal Bests
50-Free - 24.09
100-Free - 52.81
200-Free - 1:52.72
100-Back - 57.11
200-Back - 2:14.35
200-Breast - 2:33.60
100-Fly - 57.16
200-Fly - 2:02.09
200-IM - 2:04.71
400-IM - 4:30.04

2019-20:
- All-American (200 Fly)
- NCAA Qualifier
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- CSCAA Scholar All-America
- NEWMAC: 200 Fly (3rd), 100 Back (6th), 200 Free Relay (11th), 400 Free Relay (11th), 50 Free (20th)
- Invite: 200 Free Relay (2nd), 400 Medley Relay (3rd), 200 IM (7th)
- Individual NCAA "B" Cuts: 3
- Regular Season Dual Meet Top-3 Finishes: 9

2018-19:
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- Invite: 800 Free Relay (5th), 200 Fly (6th), 400 IM (8th)
- Regular Season Dual Meet Top-3 Finishes: 4

2017-18:
- All-American (200 Fly, 200 Free Relay, 400 Medley Relay)
- Honorable Mention All-American (200 IM, 400 Free Relay, 800 Free Relay)
- NCAA Qualifier
- NEWMAC Champion (200 Free Relay)
- NEWMAC Second Team All-Conference (400 IM, 400 Free Relay)
- CSCAA Scholar All-American
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- NEWMAC Women’s Relay Team of the Week (11/13, 11/20, 12/4)
- Set the program record and the NEWMAC open record in the 200 free relay at the 2018 NCAA Division III National Championship
- Nationals: 200 Fly (4th), 200 Free Relay (7th), 400 Medley Relay (8th), 800 Free Relay (10th), 400 Free Relay (12th), 200 IM (14th), 400 IM (25th)
- NEWMAC: 200 Free Relay (1st), 400 Free Relay (2nd), 400 IM (2nd), 100 Breast (3rd), 200 IM (6th), 400 Medley Relay (11th), 800 Free Relay (11th)
- Invite: 200 Free Relay (1st), 400 Free Relay (1st), 200 Medley Relay (1st), 400 Medley Relay (1st), 200 IM (2nd), 200 Fly (2nd), 100 Fly (10th)
- Individual NCAA "B" Cuts: 8
- Regular Season Dual meet Top-3 Finishes: 14

2016-17:
- Honorable Mention All-American (200 Fly, 400 Free Relay, 400 Medley Relay)
- NEWMAC Champion (200 IM, 100 Fly, 200 Fly, 400 Free Relay, 400 Medley Relay)
- NEWMAC Rookie of the Year
- NEWMAC Women’s Relay Team of the Week (1/9)
- Aided the Engineers to their best finish in program history at the NCAA Division III Championship as MIT placed fifth with a team score of 165 points
- Broke the MIT program and NEWMAC open record with the 400 free relay team at the NCAA Championship
- Nationals: 400 Free Relay (9th), 400 Medley Relay (10th), 200 Fly (14th), 200 IM (29th), 400 IM (29th)
- NEWMAC: 200 IM (1st), 100 Fly (1st), 200 Fly (1st), 400 Free Relay (1st), 400 Medley Relay (1st), 200 Free Relay (11th)
- Invite: 200 Fly (1st), 400 Medley Relay (2nd), 200 IM (3rd), 200 Medley Relay (3rd), 50 Free (7th), 100 Fly (10th)
- Individual NCAA "B" Cuts: 10
- Regular Season Dual Meet Top-5 Finishes: 20 

Out of the Pool at MIT: 
- Majoring in mechanical engineering
- Minoring in computer science
- Intern at Cruise
- Summer robotics intern at ENSTA-Bretagne
- MIT Shine mentor 
- Kappa Alpha Theta
- Baker House Co-Alumni Chair 
- Baker House Rooming Committee
- Resident Peer Mentor

High School:
- A 2016 graduate of Sacred Heart Preparatory School
- CCS 400 Free Relay Champion in 2014 and 2015
- CCS 200 Medley Relay Champion in 2014
- Also swam for the Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics Club where she was named an Academic All-American in 2014 and 2015 and earned the Leadership Award in 2016
- Scholar-Athlete award in 2016
- Marie Curie Award in Sciences in 2015

Historical Player Information

  • 2016-17First Year

    Fly, IM
    5'9"
  • 2017-18Sophomore

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

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

    Fly, IM, Free
    5'9"