Kaitlyn Dobler

Kaitlyn Dobler (born February 15, 2002) is an American competitive swimmer. She is the 2022 NCAA Division I champion in the 100-yard breaststroke. She won the national title in the 100-meter breaststroke at the 2022 US National Championships. At the 2019 World Junior Championships, she won the silver medal in the 100-meter breaststroke and the bronze medal in the 50-meter breaststroke, in addition to winning a gold medal in the 4×100-meter medley relay, swimming the breaststroke leg of the relay in the final.

Kaitlyn Dobler
Dobler in 2023
Personal information
National teamUnited States United States
Born (2002-02-15) February 15, 2002[1]
Portland, Oregon, United States[1]
Height5 ft 7 in (170 cm)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesBreaststroke
ClubPortland Dolphins
College teamUniversity of Southern California
Medal record
Women's swimming
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
World Junior Championships 1 1 1
Total 1 1 1
Representing  United States
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Budapest 4×100 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2019 Budapest 100 m breaststroke
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Budapest 50 m breaststroke
Representing the USC Trojans
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
NCAA Championships 1 1 0
Total 1 1 0
By race
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
100 y breaststroke 1 1 0
Total 1 1 0
NCAA Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Atlanta 100 y breaststroke
Silver medal – second place 2021 Greensboro 100 y breaststroke

Background

Dobler was born February 15, 2022, in Portland, Oregon.[1] She graduated from Aloha High School in Aloha, Oregon, in 2020, where she competed as part of the school swim team.[2][3][4] She started attending the University of Southern California and competing collegiately for the USC Trojans starting in the fall of 2020.[1][5] In December 2022, she announced her intent to compete for the university through the end of her master's degree (through the 2024–2025 season), utilizing a fifth year of NCAA eligibility made available to NCAA student-athletes during the COVID-19 pandemic.[6] Her ability to compete in swimming has on occasion been impacted by her asthma, including at the 2021 NCAA Division I Championships in the 200-yard breaststroke.[1]

Career

2019 World Junior Championships
2019 World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 4×100 m medley 3:59.13
Silver medal – second place 100 m breaststroke 1:06.97
Bronze medal – third place 50 m breaststroke 30.92

On the second day of competition at the 2019 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships, held at Danube Arena in Budapest, Hungary in August, Dobler won a bronze medal in the 50-meter breaststroke with a time of 30.92 seconds, finishing less than three-tenths of a second behind gold medalist Benedetta Pilato of Italy and just one-hundredth of a second behind silver medalist Kayla van der Merwe of Great Britain.[7] Two days later, she won the silver medal in the 100-meter breaststroke with a time of 1:06.97, swimming just four-hundredths of a second slower than the gold medalist Evgeniia Chikunova of Russia.[8] The sixth and final day of competition, she won a gold medal in the 4×100-meter medley relay, splitting a 1:07.51 for the breaststroke leg of the relay in the final to help finish first in 3:59.13 alongside finals relay teammates Claire Curzan (backstroke), Torri Huske (butterfly), and Gretchen Walsh (freestyle).[9]

2020–2022: National records, NCAA title, national title

In February 2020, Dobler swam the fastest 100-yard breaststroke by a woman in the history of high school swimming in the United States, setting a new national high school record in the event at the 2020 Oregon 6A State Championships with her time of 58.35 seconds.[10][11][12] Her record marked the first time in approximately 30 years that an Oregonian set a national record.[13] In December, she won the 100-meter breaststroke at the 2020 U.S. Open Swimming Championships held in Irvine, California, and placed sixth overall, with a time of 1:08.77.[5] Two months later, she set a new National Age Group record in the 100-yard breaststroke for the girls 17–18 years old age group, with a time of 57.71 seconds in a collegiate dual meet against the UCLA Bruins that lowered the national mark by over three-tenths of a second from the former record of 58.10 seconds by Rebecca Soni from 2009.[14]

At the 2021 NCAA Division I Championships in Greensboro, North Carolina, Dobler placed 11th overall, third in the consolation final, in the 50-yard freestyle with a personal best time of 21.92 seconds.[1][15] The following day, she made the podium in her first ever event at an NCAA Division I Championships, winning the silver medal in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 57.46 seconds, which was just 0.23 seconds slower than the winning time of 57.23 seconds swum by Sophie Hansson.[16][17][18]

2022 NCAA Championships
Gold medal – first place 100 yd breaststroke 56.93

For the NCAA Championships her sophomore, second, year with the USC Trojans, the 2022 NCAA Division I Championships in Atlanta, Georgia, in March, Dobler won her first NCAA title in the 100-yard breaststroke with a Pac-12 Conference record and USC Trojans record time of 56.93 seconds.[19][20][21][22] She was the first woman from the USC Trojans's swim program to win an NCAA title in the 100-yard breaststroke since 2009, when Rebecca Soni won the NCAA title in the event.[19] The time of 56.93 seconds also ranked Dobler as the sixth-fastest performer in the event in NCAA history, behind Lilly King, Molly Hannis, Sophie Hansson, Alexis Wenger, and Anna Elendt.[19][23]

The following month, at the 2022 USA Swimming International Team Trials in Greensboro, North Carolina, Dobler placed second in the 50-meter breaststroke with a personal best time of 30.34 seconds, finishing just one-hundredth of a second ahead of third-place finisher Lydia Jacoby.[24][25][26] For the 100-meter breaststroke, she placed third with a personal best time of 1:06.19.[27][28] Her top-two finish and FINA "A" cut time of 30.34 seconds in the 50-meter breaststroke were deemed not satisfactory in qualifying for the 2022 World Aquatics Championships by USA Swimming, instead selecting the second-place finisher in the 100-meter breaststroke, who did not compete in the 50-meter breaststroke event at the Team Trials, for the second roster spot in the 50-meter breaststroke.[29][30][31] A little over two months later, she was named to the 2022 Duel in the Pool roster for the United States.[32] Ten days later, she won the gold medal and national title in the 100-meter breaststroke, with a time of 1:06.88, at the 2022 US National Championships, held in Irvine, California.[33]

At the 2022 SMU Classic in October in Dallas, Texas, Dobler won the 100-yard breaststroke for the USC Trojans with a pool record time of 59.09 seconds.[34] The following month, she achieved a season best time (for the 2022–2023 NCAA season) of 56.94 seconds and first-place finish in the 100-yard breaststroke at the 2022 Art Adamson Invitational.[35]

2023

In a dual meet against the UCLA Bruins on February 10, 2023, Dobler won the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 58.04 seconds and placed second in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:09.58.[36]

2023 Pac-12 Championships

Twelve days later, on day one of the 2023 Pac-12 Conference Championships, held at the King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way, Washington, Dobler contributed to a final time of 1:35.63 and placing of third in the 4×50-yard medley relay, splitting a 26.34 for the breaststroke leg of the relay.[37][38] For the finals session on the second day, she placed sixth in the b-final of the 50-yard freestyle with a 22.60 and contributed a 22.24 for the second leg of the 4×50-yard freestyle relay to help win the bronze medal in 1:28.19.[37][39] Out fast in the morning preliminaries of the 100-yard breaststroke on day three with a time of 57.78 seconds and overall first-rank by 1.97 seconds, she finished in 57.10 seconds in the evening final, winning the gold medal and conference title and setting a new Championships record.[40][41] Later in the session, her relay team was one of three teams disqualified in the 4×100-yard medley relay.[37] Her 100-yard breaststroke gold medal marked the third year in a row she won the conference title in the event.[40] Wrapping up competition on the fourth and final day, she won the conference title in the second breaststroke event, the 200-yard breaststroke, with a personal best time of 2:05.66 and a bronze medal in the 4×100-yard freestyle relay with a final time of 3:14.12.[42][43][44] Her results contributed to a final team score of 1267.5 points for the USC Trojans and an overall team placing of second, behind first-place Stanford Cardinal and ahead of third-place California Golden Bears.[43]

2023 NCAA Championships

At the 2023 NCAA Division I Championships, held in March in Knoxville, Tennessee, Dobler split a 26.15 for the breaststroke leg of the 4×50-yard medley relay on day one, helping place tenth in 1:35.52.[45][46] On the second day, she tied Olivia Nel for forty-third in the 50-yard freestyle with a 22.48 and placed twelfth in the 4×50-yard freestyle relay, anchoring the relay to a final time of 1:27.91 with a 22.09.[47] The third day, she finished fourth in the final of the 100-yard breaststroke in a time of 57.50 seconds, which was 0.47 seconds behind first-place finisher Lydia Jacoby, and tenth in the 4×100-yard medley relay, where she and her relay teammates timed in at 3:29.56.[45] For her final individual event, the 200-yard breaststroke on the fourth and final day, she placed fifteenth overall with a 2:09.14.[48]

International championships
Meet 50 breaststroke 100 breaststroke 4×100 medley
WJC 2019
(age: 17)		3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
(30.92)		2nd place, silver medalist(s)
(1:06.97)		1st place, gold medalist(s)
(split 1:07.51, br leg)

Personal best times

Long course meters (50-m pool)
Event Time Meet Location Date Ref
50 m breaststroke 30.34 2022 USA Swimming International Team Trials Greensboro, North Carolina April 28, 2022 [24]
100 m breaststroke 1:06.19 2022 USA Swimming International Team Trials Greensboro, North Carolina April 29, 2022 [27]
200 m breaststroke 2:30.09 2023 TYR Pro Swim Series – Westmont Westmont, Illinois April 14, 2023 [49]

Short course yards (25-yd pool)
Event Time Meet Location Date Ref
50 yd freestyle 21.92 b 2021 NCAA Division I Championships Greensboro, North Carolina March 18, 2021 [1]
100 yd breaststroke 56.93 2022 NCAA Division I Championships Atlanta, Georgia March 18, 2022 [19]
200 yd breaststroke 2:05.66 2023 Pac-12 Conference Championships Federal Way, Washington February 25, 2023 [42]

Legend: b – b-final

Records

National age group records (short course yards)
No. Event Time Meet Location Date Age Age Group Ref
1 100 yd breaststroke 57.71 USC Trojans v. UCLA Bruins Dual Meet Los Angeles, California February 12, 2021 18 years, 363 days 17–18 [14][50]

National high school records (short course yards)
No. Event Time Meet Location Date Type Ref
1 100 yd breaststroke 58.35 Oregon School Activities Association 6A State Swimming Championships Beaverton, Oregon February 22, 2020 Overall, Public [10][11][12]

Legend: Overall – National High School record; Public – National Public High School record

Awards and honors
  • Oregon Sports Awards, Prep Girls Swimmer of the Year: 2018,[2] 2019,[3] 2020[4]

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