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High School: Four-year high school letterwinner, spending her freshman year at Central York High, her sophomore season at Westmoor High and her final two years at St. Ignatius College Preparatory for coach Matt Roberto...earned NISCA All-America honors in the 100 fly, 200 medley relay and 200 free relay as a senior, in the 200 IM and 200 medley relay as a junior, and 100 fly as a sophomore...posted top times of 55l28 in the 100 fly at the 2009 PC CCS-CIF and 2:06.22 in the 200 IM at the 2008 event...was a Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association Championship finalist as a freshman and a Central Coast Section finalists in each of her final three prep seasons...away from the pool, was an AP Scholar. Club: Swam two and a half years for the Fog City Hammerheads and coach Matt Roberto and spent one year with the Burlingame Aquatic Club and coach Chris Culp...selected to participate in USA Swimming's Speedo Junior Nationals in 2009...posted top times of 54.54 in the 100 free, 2:06.28 in the 200 back and 1:07.61 in the 100 breast. Personal: Born Grace Meredith Tarka on April 17, 1992 in Charleston, W.Va...daughter of Raymond and Denise Tarka...has one brother, Peter, and two sisters: Anna and Lauren...proposed major is ecology and evolutionary biology. |
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