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Amanda Rutqvist

Class: Junior Hometown: Gothenburg, Sweden Height: 5-11

Event: Breaststroke

• 2012 All-American (200 breaststroke) •
• 2012 All-SEC Second Team •
• 2011 All-American (100 breaststroke) •
• 2011 All-American (200 breaststroke) •
• 2011 SEC Champion (200 breaststroke) •
• 2011 All-SEC First Team •
• 2011 All-SEC Freshman Team •

2011-12 - Gamecocks top breaststroker who earned All-America honors in the 200 breaststroke for second straight year...Named to the All-SEC second team...Placed 15th at the NCAA Championships in the 200 breaststroke with a mark of 2:09.92...Finished 33rd in the 100 breaststroke at the NCAA Championships with a time of 1:01.30...Narrowly missed repeating in the 200 breaststroke at the SEC Championships, claiming silver with a season best time of 2:09.48...Posted team's fastest 100 breaststroke mark with a NCAA B cut time of 1:01.18 to finish 10th at the SEC Championships...Won seven races on the season with four coming in the 200 breaststroke and three in the 100 breaststroke... Member of Carolina's 200 medley relay team that set the school record at the SEC Championships with a NCAA B cut time of 1:41.38...Named to the SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll.

2010-11 - All-American in 100 and 200 breaststroke...Finished 5th in 200 breaststroke at NCAA Championships in 2:07.86, lowering her own school and SEC record...Took 16th in 100 breast at NCAA meet...Became South Carolina's first-ever SEC women's swimming champion, winning the 200 breaststroke at the 2011 SEC Championships in Gainesville, Fla....Set an SEC and school record with a time of 2:08.56...Shattered existing school record by nearly five seconds...Selected to All-SEC First Team and All-SEC Freshman Team...Has rewritten the Gamecock record books as a true freshman...Also broke the school record in the 100 breast (1:00.20), setting another `B' cut time...Won all but three races in the 200 breast this season; two losses were to teammate Rachael Schaffer and the other was in the NCAA Championship final...Had 15 individual wins on the season...Part of team's top 200 MR (1:44.55) and 400 MR (3:46.64) squads...Also posted strong times in 200 IM (2:01.72 at SEC Champ) and 400 IM (4:27.55 vs. Arkansas/Missouri).

PRE-COLLEGE - Attended Kitas Gymnasium...Club team was Göteborg Sim...Competed at 2009 Swedish Short Course Championships...Finished 7th in 800-meter freestyle finals...Ranked in Europe's Top 100 in 200 breaststroke.

PERSONAL - Born Oct. 5, 1991, in Gothenburg, Sweden...Parents are Anders and Annika Rutqvist...Has a brother, Oskar, and a sister, Hanna...Her father was a swimmer at the University of Nebraska...Plans to major in business...Also considered an offer from NC State.