WALSH Alex

United States of America

Swimming

Date of Birth: 31 Jul 2001

Age: 20

Gender: Female

Place of birth: NASHVILLE, TN

Birth Country:

United States of America

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Swimming	Women's 200m Individual Medley	2

Schedule

Change

Location	Event	Status
Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Individual Medley - Heat 4	Finished
Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Individual Medley Semifinal 1	Finished
Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Individual Medley Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Pan American Games

Year	Location	200Back	200IndMed	4x200Free
2019	Lima, PER	1st (2:08.30)	1st (2:11.24)	1st (7:57.33)

World Junior Championships

Year	Location	200IndMed	4x100Free W	4x100Medley W
2017	Indianapolis, IN, USA	4th (2:13.62)	2nd (3:39.69)	2nd

Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final

Hobbies:

Baking, yoga. (teamusa.org, 2018)

Occupation:

Athlete, Student

Education:

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

Languages spoken:

English

Club name:

University of Virginia Cavaliers [Charlottesville, VA, USA]

Coach:

Todd DeSorbo [club]; Greg Meehan [national], USA

Sporting relatives:

Her sister Gretchen has represented the United States of America in swimming at junior level. Her mother Glynis has represented Boston College at collegiate level in the United States of America. (swimmingworldmagazine.com, 24 Apr 2021; virginiasports.com, 2021)

Start:

She used to swim for fun and began swimming lessons at age about six. (virginiasports.com, 17 Feb 2021)

Reason:

Her mother Glynis has swam competitively for Boston College in the United States of America. "My dad ran track and field in high school, and now he plays basketball to stay in shape. But he's not a very strong swimmer. So those genes definitely came from my mum." (virginiasports.com, 17 Feb 2021)

Memorable:

Qualifying for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, competing at the 2016 US Olympic team trials at age 14 together with her sister Gretchen who was 13 at the time. (eu.tennessean.com, 25 Jun 2021; swimmingworldmagazine.com, 13 Jun 2020)

Philosophy:

"You know what inspires me? Fearlessness, drive. Barbz stay in school. Don't you ever be lazy; don't you ever complain about hard work. Work hard it pays off." [Nicki Minaj] (Instagram profile, 24 Jun 2021)

General Interest

General
HIGHS AND LOWS
She qualified for the 2020 Olympic Games after winning the 200m individual medley at the 2021 US Olympic Trials. Her younger sister Gretchen also competed at the trials, but did not make the US Olympic team. "[The trials have] been really emotional, with the highs and lows of 'I just made the team' and then my sister didn't make the team and that was really hard to deal with." She said she was inspired by how her sister and other swimmers rebounded from disappointment at the trials. "Even my sister, who didn't do as well, and then she made the final in the [50m freestyle]. I want to kind of take that and if I don't perform as well as I wanted to, still give myself an opportunity to be better and do something good. I think seeing people coming back from failures in such a short turnaround like that has really honestly inspired me and showed me that one performance doesn't just impact everything, so I want to take that lesson and bring it to Tokyo." (swimswam.com, 28 Jun 2021)

Social Media

https://instagram.com/alexwalsh7

Legend

:: Silver Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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