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2021-22 Women's Swimming & Diving Roster

Rebecca Choi

  • Position Backstroke/Freestyle/Butterfly
  • Height 5-5
  • Class Senior
  • Major Finance (Leonard N. Stern School of Business)
  • Hometown Newtown Square, PA
  • High School Great Valley

Biography

2021-22
  • CSCAA First Team Scholar All-America
  • Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Second Team
  • UAA Winter Sport All-Academic
  • NYU Student-Athlete Academic Achievement Award
  • Finished 40th in the 100 butterfly (57.00) at the NCAA Championships (3/16-19)
  • Finished first and set personal bests in the 200 freestyle (1:55.00) and 200 IM (2:10.08), placed first in the 100 breaststroke (1:12.31) and claimed second and a personal best in the 200 butterfly (2:11.92) at the NYU Invitational (2/18-19)

2020-21
  • NYU did not compete due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
  • UAA Winter Sport All-Academic
 
2019-20
  • UAA Winter Sport All-Academic
  • Arthur Ashe, Jr. Sports Scholar Award
  • IAAC Fall and Spring Honor Rolls
  • Set personal bests in the 50-yard butterfly (26.58) and the 100-yard fly (57.15) at the UAA Championships (2/12-15)
  • Set a personal best in the 50-yard backstroke (27.16) at the Bomber Invitational (12/6-8)
 
2018-19
  • IAAC Fall and Spring Honor Rolls
  • Set a season best in the 50-yard backstroke (27.60) at the Kenyon Total Performance Invitational (12/1)
  • Recorded season-best times in the 100-yard backstroke (58.50) and 50-yard free (25.08) at the UAA Championships (2/13-2/16)
 
Personal
  • Concentration in finance and statistics
  • Served as co-president of the NYU SAAC
  • Four-year team member in high school
  • Three-time team MVP
  • Enjoys listening to music, going to concerts, finding good places to eat, knitting, Netflix, and golf
  • Aspires to work as a financial analyst in NYC or to attend law school

Choi on NYU
  • Chose to attend NYU because “Coach Trevor, his coaching staff, and the team’s commitment to academic and athletic success for each individual swimmer set this program above the rest”

Historical Player Information

  • 2018-19Freshman

    Backstroke/Freestyle/Butterfly
    5'5"
  • 2019-20Sophomore

    Backstroke/Freestyle/Butterfly
    5'5"
  • 2021-22Senior

    Backstroke/Freestyle/Butterfly
    5'5"