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2025-26 Women's Swimming and Diving Roster

Sophie Kloppenburg

  • Position Free
  • Height 5-7
  • Class Junior
  • High School Mount Vernon
  • Hometown Mount Vernon, Ind.
  • School Columbia College

Biography

2024-25 (Sophomore)
Competed in the 200, 100, and 50 Y Free. Competed in the ECAC Open Championship meet. 

2023-24 (First-Year)
During the 2024 ECAC Championship, she was part of the team to achieve a 4th place finish in the 200-free relay with a time of 1:36.48; She also placed 2nd in the 100 Y Free prelims with a time of 51.32 and 5th in the 100 Y Free finals with a time of 51.33. Against Brown, she placed 3rd in the 100 Y Free Finals with a time of 51.39. Against Princeton, she placed 4th in the 100 & Free Finals with a time of 52.42. When competing against Dartmouth, she placed 4th in the 50 Y Free with a time of 24.10; She also placed 4th in the 100 Y Free with a time of 52.11. In the ECAC Open Championships, she placed 4th in the 100 Y Free finals with a time of 51.12; 5th in the 100 Y Free prelims with a time of 51.55; 5th in the 50 Y Free finals with a time of 23.63.

High School: Varsity Swimming: 4 letters… MVP… Team Captain… 6xIHSSA Sectional Champion… 10xIHSSA State Finalist… PAC conference record holder in 100 and 200 freestyles… School record holder in 200 freestyle relay… AAU USA National Team member where she competed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Normandy, France…  8th Place for her age group in the German National Open Water Championships in the 5K - Academic All-American… All-American Consideration time in 200 freestyle relay…  USA Swimming Futures Cuts in the 50 and 100 freestyles Varsity Soccer: 4 letters… Team Captain and ICGSA Academic All-State … 2x Best Defender and ISCA Academic All-State…  Most Improved (freshman)...  Varsity Cross-Country: 3 letters… 2x MVP… All-Conference Team Champion… 3x Semi-State Qualifier… Academic All-State Honorable Mention… Varsity Tennis: 1 letter (sophomore)... Most Improved Player …Varsity Track and Field: honorable letter (freshman; pandemic canceled season)...  MV JHS record holder in 4x400 Relay… National Honor Society (Vice President)...National Scholarship Character Pillar Award Winner… English Academic Team: 2x District, Regional, and 2x State Champion … DECA (Treasurer): 2x District Champion, 2x State Finalist, and 2x International Qualifier … National Elks Foundation: Most Valuable Student Scholarship Winner (3rd Place)... Ron Brown Captain 2023 … GE Ronald Reagan and Coca Cola Scholarships Finalist … Heisman School Winner 2022 … Leadership Everyone (LE) Kevin Fleming Justice Award by Evansville’s 28th (2023) Annual Celebration of Leadership (COL) … Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Celebration Recognition Award of the University of Southern Indiana 2023


Personal: Enrolled in Columbia College…intends to major in Sustainable Development

Historical Player Information

  • 2023-24First Year

    Free
    5'7"
  • 2024-25Sophomore

    Free
    5'7"
  • 2025-26Junior

    Free
    5'7"