Caroline Burckle
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| Full name | Caroline Stilwell Burckle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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June 24, 1986 Louisville, Kentucky |
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| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 137 lb (62 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | FAST Swim Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Florida | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Caroline Stilwell Burckle (born June 24, 1986) is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic bronze medalist.
Burckle was born in Louisville, Kentucky. She attended Sacred Heart Academy in Louisville, and graduated in 2004.
Burckle accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she swam for coach Gregg Troy's Florida Gators swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Southeastern Conference (SEC) competition from 2005 to 2008. She won two NCAA individual championships in the 200- and 500-yard freestyle event in 2008, and was named the 2008 NCAA Female Swimmer of the Year by virtue of winning two NCAA national championships and breaking the oldest-standing women's NCAA swimming record by swimming a 4:33.60 in the 500-yard freestyle.
She also won SEC individual championships in the 200-yard freestyle (2005), the 500-yard freestyle (2005, 2008), the 100-yard breaststroke (2007), and the 200-yard breaststroke (2008), and three more SEC titles as a member of the Gators' winning relay teams in the 4x100-yard medley relay (2005), the 4x200-yard freestyle relay (2005), and the 4x50-yard medley relay (2008). During her four-year college career, she received twenty-three All-American honors. She was the 2007–08 recipient of the Honda Sports Award for Swimming and Diving, recognizing her as the outstanding college female swimmer. She graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in sociology in 2009.
Burckle's younger brother Clark also swam for Florida, but transferred to the University of Arizona before his senior year, and was an individual NCAA champion in the 200-yard breaststroke in 2010.
In 2005, Burckle was selected to compete at the World Championships in Montreal. She swam in the preliminaries of the 4×200-meter freestyle relay for the gold-medal-winning U.S. team. At the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Burckle won the gold medal in the 800-meter freestyle.
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