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2019-20 Women's Swimming and Diving

Chloe Close

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown London, United Kingdom
  • High School St. Paul’s Girls’ School
  • Event Breaststroke
  • Concentration Applied Mathematics
  • House Lowell

Biography

Junior - 2018-19
Finished with the team''s fifth-best 50 free performance of the season (23.68) and the sixth-fastest efforts in the 100 breast (1:04.15) and 100 fly (57.06) at the HYP meet ... Her 51.84 in the 100 free at the Ivy League Championships ranked eighth for the campaign ... Swam the second leg on Harvard''s third-fastest 200 free quartet (1:34.46 - Hall of Fame Invitational) ... Was third in line on the team''s third-best 200 medley relay (1:43.35 - HYP).

Sophomore - 2017-18
Swam a personal best in the 100 breaststroke (1:04.31) at HYP ... Placed sixth in the 100 butterfly (58.67) against Cornell. 

Freshman - 2016-17
Second leg of third-place 200 medley relay team at H-Y-P … Placed sixth in the 100 breast and ninth in the 200 at H-Y-P … Fifth in the 100 breast and seventh in the 100 free against Columbia … Eighth in the 100 breast against Cornell and Dartmouth.

Before Harvard
Qualified for the 2014 Commonwealth Trials in the 50 and 100 meter breaststroke … Qualified for the 2013 British World Championship Trials in the 50 meter breast … British semifinalist in the 100 meter breast in 2012 and 100 meter freestyle in 2014 … Was the English finalist in the 50 meter butterfly, 50 meter free, and 100 meter free in 2015 … Two-time school prefect … Qualified for the British mathematical Olympiad in 2015. 

Historical Player Information

  • 2016-17First-Year

    Breaststroke
  • 2017-18Sophomore

    Breaststroke
  • 2018-19Junior

    Breaststroke
  • 2019-20Senior

    Breaststroke