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Kirsten Trammell
Position: Breast, IM
Height: 5'7"
Year: Redshirt Senior
Hometown: Goodyear, Ariz.
High School: Xavier College Prep
Club: YMCA Westside Silver Fins
Experience: 3 Letters

SPARTAN NOTES: Completed her fifth season with the Spartans...Team tri-captain for a third year in 2012...Four-time Academic All-Western Athletic Conference honoree and San Jose State Scholar-Athlete...12-time WAC medalist (five gold, three silver, four bronze) and 17-time All-WAC (nine first team, eight second team)...Finished her San Jose State career holding three individual school records - in the 50, 100 and 200 breaststroke events - and is part of both school-record medley relays...Also has top-four all-time program marks in the 200 IM (3rd) and 400 IM (4th)...Qualified for the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials in both the 100 and 200 breaststroke events.

2011-12: Named CollegeSwimming.com Mid-Major All-America Honorable Mention...Gathered four first-team All-WAC and a second team All-WAC award in taking home four gold medals at the 2012 WAC Championship...Named Academic-All-WAC...Won individual WAC championships in the 100 and 200 breaststroke events, as well as swimming legs on the champion 200 and 400 medley relay teams...Scored 54 individual points (second on the team) and 80 relay points to help the Spartans win their first-ever WAC Swimming & Diving team title...Named WAC Swimmer of the Week on three ocassions - Oct. 10-16, Oct. 24-30 and Nov. 28-Dec. 4...Set new school records and turned in NCAA "B" qualifying marks in the 100 breast (1:01.07) and 200 breast (2:12.48)...Won the 50 and 100 breast at the George Haines Invitational (Oct. 14-15)...Had two second place finishes at the prestigious Arena Invitational (100 & 200 breast)...Collected six individual events and was part of six winning relays during dual meets.

2010-11: Redshirt Season.

2009-10:  Earned three first-team All-WAC (first place in the 200 IM and third in the 100 and 200 breaststroke) and one second-team honor (200 medley relay)...Took home a gold, sliver and two bronze medals from the WAC Championship in earning 52 individual and 64 relay points...A member of six individual and dual meet relay winning teams...Her 1:03.16 and 2:17.44 in the 100 and 200 breaststroke were top times for the team and also had three other top-seven times.

2008-09: Collected 45 individual points, third-best on the team, to go with 68 relay points at the 2009 WAC Championship in San Antonio, Texas, in February...First-team All-WAC with third-place finish in the 100 breast...Also second-team All-WAC in the 200 medley relay (second), 400 medley relay (second), 200 breast (fourth) and 200 IM (fifth)...Swam breaststroke leg as part of an NCAA consideration time in the 200 medley relay event at the meet...That school-record swim (1:41.28) was the first 'B' cut in a relay that San Jose State has ever produced...400 medley was in a school-record 3:42.50 (Feb. 27)...Also notched her first individual 'B' cut by timing a school-record 1:02.37 in finals of the 100 breast (Feb. 27)...Had already broken the school mark in prelims (1:02.52), the second-fastest time of the morning...Went a school-record 2:03.36 for the second-fastest time in prelims of the 200 IM (Feb. 26), before placing fifth at night (2:04.33)...Also broke the program mark in both of her races in the 200 breast...Compiled 10 individual and six relay wins in dual meets...Swam on two first-place relays at the UCI/Ayres Hotels Invitational (Jan. 4).

2007-08: Produced 43 individual points at her first WAC Championship, second-most on the team...Added 28 relay points by swimming the anchor leg of the fifth-place 800 free relay in her WAC meet debut on the first night, with both her 100 and 200-yard splits lifetime bests...Won her heat in 2:07.76 for a spot in the championship final of the 200 IM as the fifth seed, where she finished fourth in 2:07.91 for second-team All-WAC honors...Produced the second-best prelim time in the 400 IM, winning her heat in a lifetime-best 4:31.20, before swimming to a third-place finish and a bronze medal in an even faster 4:31.11 at night...Also won her prelim heat in the 200 breast (2:21.76) on the final day, and placed seventh in 2:22.63...Competed in all 13 meets in her first season of college swimming...Voted Swimmer of the Year by her teammates...Touched just shy by .45 seconds of the school record in the 200 breast at Nike Cup (Nov. 17), in a lifetime-best 2:19.78...Had six dual meet victories on the year...Won the 200 breast against UC Santa Cruz (Oct. 13) and CSUEB (Jan. 26), and twice against Idaho (Oct. 26-27)...Also won the 1000 free against UCSC (Oct. 13) in her home debut, and the 200 fly in her 200 fly collegiate debut at CSUB (Jan. 4)...Swam on the winning 100 medley, 3 x 50 breast and 800 IM relays during the relay meet at Boise State (Oct. 20)...Swam on the winning 3 x 100 breast and 3 x 100 IM relays at the UCI/Ayres meet (Jan. 6)...Entered San Jose State ranked in the top three in four events among current Spartans...Other best times were 27.10 in the 50 free, 57.86 in the 100 free, 1:58.56 in the 200 free, 10:44.11 in the 1000 free, 1:06.13 in the 100 breast, 2:14.03 in the 200 fly and 2:07.24 in the 200 IM...Best 100 IM split was 1:04.73.

XAVIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY: Was a four-year varsity letterwinner in swimming (Coach Jeff Seaquist) at Xavier College Preparatory in Phoenix, Ariz., graduating in 2007...Team was NISCA girl's national champions through dual meet team rankings in 2004-05...Earned high school All-America and academic honors...Best times were 1:06.44 in the 100 breast, 2:23.57 in the 200 breast, 2:09.10 in the 200 IM, 4:37.03 in the 400 IM and 17:36.04 in the 1650 free.

KIRSTEN: Majoring in nutritional science...Enjoys playing the piano and listening to music...Competed for YMCA Westside Silver Fins (WSF), based in Goodyear, Ariz., under coach Matt Rankin...Also swam for Brophy East Swim Team (Coach Dennis Pursley)...Kirsten Mary Trammell was born in Hann, Germany, on July 16, 1989.

Event Career Best
100 Breast 1:01.07
200 Breast 2:12.48
100 Fly 58.67
200 IM 2:03.09
400 IM 4:27.83

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