Courtney Mykkanen

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Daily Californian feature - No surprises: A Courtney Mykkanen success story

California

Qualified for her first NCAA Championship meet (later canceled due to the coronavirus) with a PR 1:53.89 in the 200 back at the 2020 Pac-12 Championships (6th). Also took 13th in the 100 back (54.00) and 23rd in the 200 IM (2:01.64)
Scored points for the Bears in both backstroke events at the 2019 Pac-12 meet, finishing 14th in the 200 back (1:56.73) and 16th in the 100 back (54.20). Also 30th in the 200 IM (2:01.96)
Posted NCAA B qualifying times in the 100 back (54.60) and 200 back (1:54.36) during the 2017-18 season, with both marks set at the Pac-12 Championships
Placed 18th in the 100 back, 12th in the 200 back and 19th in the 400 IM (4:21.41) at the 2018 Pac-12 meet
As a freshman in 2016-17, reached the NCAA B qualifying standard in the 100 back (54.09), 200 back (1:55.09), 200 IM (2:00.70) and 400 IM (4:14.22)
Finished 13th in the 400 IM (4:14.22), 16th in the 100 back (54.37) and 11th in the 200 back (1:55.09), scoring points in all three events at the 2017 Pac-12 Championships
Named a CSCAA honorable mention Scholar All-American in 2017, '18 and '19 and to the first team in 2020
Voted honorable mention Pac-12 All-Academic in 2018 and '19 and to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll in 2020

National

Competed in the 100m and 200m back at the 2016 Olympic Trials
Member of the U.S. Junior National Team from 2012-13 and competed in the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China in 2014

High School

Earned her school’s PTO Academic Award of Excellence and was a member of the principal’s high honor roll all four years
A four-time All-American
During her high school career, set school records in the 200 IM and 100 back, as well as on several relays

Personal

Media studies major
Parents are John and Joanna Mykkanen
Born May 16, 1998
Has a long family connection to Cal, a list of graduates that includes both parents, grandparents, aunts, uncle and great grandparents
The Harmer E. Davis Transportation Library at Cal is named for her great grandfather, a longtime member of the civil and environmental engineering faculty
Father, John, was a distance freestyler for Cal in the mid-1980s and earned a silver medal in the 400m free at the 1984 Olympics