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2024-25 Women's Swimming & Diving Roster

Perry Laskaris '07
Tom Killips
Tom Killips
Tom Killips

Colleen Whittaker

  • Position Breaststroke/Butterfly
  • Height 5-3
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Winthrop
  • Hometown Winthrop, MA

Biography

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2024-25: Liberty League Champion in 100 breast (1:05.53) and third in 200 IM (2:06.41) ... Second in 100 fly (56.12) ... NCAA participant on four relays, including 15th-place 400 free relay ...

2023-24: Runner-up in 100 fly (56.78) and third in 200 fly (2:08.19) at Liberty League Championships ... Swam on winning 400 medley relay and third-place 200 medley relay teams ...

2022-23: FINA score of 626.55 ... Placed 2nd in 100 fly and 1st in 200 fly at Liberty League Championships ... First on team in 100 fly (56.88) and 200 fly (2:07.20) both at MIT ... Second on team in 200 breast (2:27.81) at Liberty League Championships ... Liberty League All-Academic ... 

2021-22: Team-best FINA score of 652.95 ... Personal-bests in two events at MIT: 100 fly (57.44) and 200 fly (2:06.78) … Won 100 fly … Season-bests in 50 breast (32.76), 100 breast (1:08.59) and 200 breast (2:27.31) … Personal-bests in three events at Liberty League Championship: 50 fly (26.25), 100 fly (school record, Liberty League record and NCAA B-cut 56.18) and 200 fly (NCAA B-cut 2:05.59) … PRs in 50 breast (31.31), 100 breast (1:06.79) and 200 breast (2:26.98) … Liberty League champion in 100 fly, 200 fly, 200 medley relay (1:45.71) and 400 medley relay (3:52.51) … First on team in 50 fly (26.25), 100 fly (56.18) and 200 fly (2:05.59) … Second in 100 breast (1:06.79) and 200 breast (2:26.98) … First in Liberty League in 100 fly and 200 fly … Second in 50 fly … Liberty League Weekly Honor Roll once … Liberty League Rookie of Week twice … CSCAA Scholar All-America ...

High School: Competed in swimming ... USA  All-Academic... USA qualifier for Winter Junior Nationals twice ... USA qualifier for Futures four times ... USA qualifier for Speedo Sectionals four times ... Salutatorian ... Harvard Book Award in 2019 ... AP Scholar with Honors twice ... High Honor Roll ... National Honor Society (officer) ...

Personal: Chemical Engineering major ... Dean's Honor List ... RPI Athletics 2021-22 Female Freshman Athlete of the Year ... Society of Women Engineers ... American Institute of Chemical Engineers ... Daughter of Kathleen and Charles Whittaker.

Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22Freshman

    Breaststroke/Butterfly
    5'3"
  • 2022-23Sophomore

    Breaststroke/Butterfly
    5'3"
  • 2023-24Junior

    Breaststroke/Butterfly
    5'3"
  • 2024-25Senior

    Breaststroke/Butterfly
    5'3"