Kathleen Baker
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| Full name | Kathleen Baker | |||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Thleen, ThleenBean, Little Bean | |||||||||
| National team | United States | |||||||||
| Born |
February 28, 1997 Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
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| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | |||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||
| Strokes | Backstroke, Freestyle | |||||||||
| College team | University of California, Berkeley | |||||||||
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Kathleen Baker (born February 28, 1997) is an American competition swimmer who specializes in freestyle and backstroke events. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she won a gold medal in the 4x100-meter medley relay and a silver medal in the individual 100-meter backstroke.
Baker attended Forsyth Country Day School until the tenth grade, and then was home-schooled so it would be easy to travel back and forth between Winston-Salem,North Carolina and Charlotte, North Carolina to swim and train with SwimMAC Carolina. Her mother swam for the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina and her older sister, Rachel currently swims for Washington and Lee University.
In 2010, Baker was diagnosed with Crohn's disease.
Baker attends the University of California, Berkeley, where she competes for the California Golden Bears swimming and diving team.
At the 2014 Phillips 66 Nationals, the qualification meet for the 2014 Pan Pacifics, Baker finished second in the 200-meter backstroke and qualified for the team. She finished ninth in the 200-meter backstroke at Pan Pacifics, just outside the final.
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