California Golden Bears - Sports

California Golden Bears - Sports

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Name:
Katie Reding
Year/Position:
Sr./Freestyle/Backstroke
Hometown
Piedmont, CA
High School
Piedmont

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*1997-98 Team Captain*

1997 Pac-10 All-Academic

A senior freestyler/backstroker from Piedmont, CA...as a junior (1997) was one of the Bears team leaders and top competitors...competed in the 50 free, 100 free and 100 back at the Pac-10 Championship...was a member of the 1997 Pac-10 All-Academic team...this past summer competed at the USS Summer Senior Nationals in Nashville, TN...as a sophomore (1996) had Cal's third-best time in the 50 free...was a mainstay on the Bears sprint relay corps, swimming lead-off on the team's top 200 free relay...was named honorable mention Pac-10 All-Academic...in the summer of 1996 swam at the USS Summer Senior Nationals in Ft. Lauderdale, FL...as a freshman (1995) had Cal's top time in the 100 free (52.25) and second-best time in the 50 free (23.96)...was a member of the Bears top 200 (1:35.61) and 400 relay (3:30.06) teams...along with Erin Jesfjeld, was named Most Improved Swimmer...in the summer of 1995 competed in her first U.S. Nationals meet, swimming a 27.00 (a drop of 1.1 seconds) in the 50 free (long course meters)...at Piedmont High School was team captain as a junior and senior and holds school records in the 50 and 100 free...played two years of basketball and was the MVP of the ski team...had a 3.7 high school GPA...competed this past summer at the USS Summer Senior Nationals in Nashville, TN...majoring in mass communications...parents, who both attended Cal, are John and Barbara Reding of Piedmont, CA...born 9/23/75 in Berkeley, CA.

Best Cal Times
50 free 23.96 1995 Pac-10 Championship
100 free 52.25 1995 Pac-10 Championship
100 back 59.04 1995 Pac-10 Championship
200 back 2:04.92 1995 Pac-10 Championship