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2020-21 Women's Swimming and Diving

Kennidy Quist

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Snowmass VIllage, Colo.
  • High School Aspen
  • Event Freestyle
  • Concentration Environmental Science and Public Policy
  • House Leverett

Biography

House: Leverett
Secondary Concentration: Economics
Collegiate Top Times:
50-Yard Freestyle: 22.85 (2/20/20)
100-Yard Freestyle: 49.00 (2/22/20)
200-Yard Freestyle: 1:45.48 (2/21/20)
500-Yard Freestyle: 4:48.03 (2/15/18)
100-Yard Breaststroke: 1:02.86 (12/6/19)
200-Yard Breaststroke: 2:20.07 (11/15/19)

Senior • 2020-21
Did not compete due to season cancelation by the Ivy League.

Junior - 2019-20
Named a CSCAA All-American as a member of the Crimson's 400- and 800-yard freestyle relay teams ... Swam the third leg of the 800-yard freestyle relay squad that earned the individual event champion at the Ivy League Championship and qualified for the national meet with a sub-seven time of 6:59.92 ... Also swam the second leg of the Crimson's 400-yard freestyle relay squad that secured an automatic berth to the NCAA Championships with an A-cut time and program record of 3:14.48 ... Earned All-Ivy second team honors in the 200-yard freestyle and 200-yard freestyle relay ... Posted personal bests at the the Ivy League Championships with a pair of NCAA B-cut and season-best times in the 100-yard freestyle (49.00) and 200-yard freestyle (1:45.48) ... Also registered a personal-best in the 50-yard freestyle (22.88) ... Placed fourth in the 200-yard freestyle at H-Y-P with a time of 1:47.94 ... Registered seven first-place finishes in dual meets against Ivy opponents ... Finished first in the 100-yard freestyle against Penn (50.52), 50-yard freestyle (23.65) and 200-yard freestyle (1:49.21) against Brown, 100-yard freestyle (50.72) and breaststroke (1:03.80) against Columbia and 50-yard freestyle (23.61), 200-yard freestyle (1:50.23) and 200-yard breaststroke (2:20.07) against Dartmouth and Cornell ... Competed in three events at the Minnesota Invitational, registering personal bests in the 50-yard freestyle (22.99) - a season-best for the team. 

Sophomore - 2018-19
All-Ivy League first team in the 400 free relay ... Second-team all-Ivy League in the 200 free relay and 200 medley relay ... Swam the third leg on the Ivy-winning 400 free relay (school-record 3:15.47) ... Produced the fourth-best 100 free time (49.56 - Ivy League Championships) ... Recorded the eighth-fastest 100 breast performance (1:02.86 - Ivy League Championships) ... Swam the 10th-fastest 50 free in school history (23.14 - Ivy League Championships) ... Was the anchor on the school-record-holding 200 medley relay (1:39.34 - Ivy League Championships) ... Swam the second leg on the second-fastest 200 free relay (1:30.80 - Ivy League Championships) ... Turned in a season-best 1:52.10 in the 200 free vs. Brown and Penn.

Freshman - 2017-18
First-team all-Ivy League as a member of the 800 freestyle relay team ... Second-team all-Ivy in the 200 freestyle and as a member of the 400 freestyle relay and 400 medley relay squads ... Registered three personal-best times at the Ivy League Championship meet ... Finished second in the 200 freestyle with an NCAA B-cut time of 1:45.75, sixth in the 100 freestyle with a B-cut time of 49.99, and sixth in the 500 freestyle (4:48.03) ... Recorded a time of 51.55 in the opening leg of the 400 freestyle relay at HYP ... Finished third in the 200 freestyle (1:50.96) and 500 freestyle (5:01.60) against Brown and Penn ... Swam the opening leg of the 400 free relay against Brown and Penn, clocking a time of 51.43 in the first 100 yards ... Placed third in the C-final in the 200 freestyle (1:48.82) at the Texas Invitational ... Won the 100 freestyle (51.74) against Cornell ... Won the 500 freestyle against Columbia with a time of 5:01.30. 

Before Harvard
Four-time NISCA All-American … Colorado High School 3A Swimmer of the Year … Colorado High School 3A state record holder in the 50 free, 100 free, 200 medley relay and 400 free relay … Qualified for the Winter Junior Nationals in the 50, 100 and 200 free … Qualified for the Summer Junior Nationals in the 100 and 200 free … Three-time Scholastic All-American … International Baccalaureate Diploma candidate … Awarded Service Letter in 2016 and 2017 for more than 100 hours of community service … National Honor Society member … Father ran track and field at Stanford.

Historical Player Information

  • 2019-20Junior

    Freestyle
  • 2020-21Senior

    Freestyle