Charlotte Clarke
Charlotte Clarke

Class:
Junior

Hometown:
Adelaide, Australia

High School:
The Pembroke School

Height:
5-4

Event:
Back



02/23/2013

Cavalier Women Win Sixth Consecutive ACC Championship

Lauren Perdue named meet's Most Outstanding Swimmer

02/22/2013

Cavaliers Close in on ACC Championship on Third Day

Perdue and Bartholomew win individual titles

02/21/2013

ACC Women's Championships Blog

Follow action from the Greensboro Aquatic Center

02/20/2013

Virginia Leads After First Day of ACC Championships

Cavaliers break conference and school record in 800 free relay

01/26/2013

Swimming and Diving Sweeps Wisconsin, Virginia Tech

Cavalier women finish dual meet season undefeated for second consecutive year

01/22/2013

Swimming Senior Day (by Matt Riley)

Swimming Senior Day (by Matt Riley)

NCAA All-American

2012:
100 Back (HM)

ACC Champion

2012:
100 Back, 200 Medley Relay



UVA Career Bests

100 Back: 52.64

200 Back: 1:55.04
200 IM:
2:00.97
100 Fly:
55.41



Of Note

• Ranks third in the 100 backstroke and fifth in the 200 backstroke on Virginia's all-time top times list

• Won her first career individual ACC championship in the 100 backstroke as a sophomore in 2012

2011-12
• Made her NCAA Championships debut in the 100 and 200 backstroke events
• Collected honorable mention All-America honors in the 100 backstroke with a 14th-place finish in 52.96
• Her preliminary time of 52.64 in the 100 backstroke was a career-best mark
• Placed 33rd overall in the 200 backstroke (1:56.99) at the national meet
• Also swam as a member of the 200 medley relay that finished 18th overall (1:39.46) at the NCAA Championships
• Won her first career ACC individual title in the 100 backstroke, clocking a winning time of 53.33
• Placed fifth overall in the 200 backstroke with a mark of 1:55.84; her prelim time of 1:55.04 was a personal best
• Placed 14th in the 200 individual medley (2:02.02) at ACCs with another personal best time of 2:00.97 set during the morning preliminaries
• Member of Virginia's ACC championship 200 medley relay team that won in 1:39.03
• Selected to All-ACC Academic Team
• Named to ACC Honor Roll

2010-11
• An ACC finalist in both the 100 backstroke and 200 backstroke events at her first ACC Championships

• Finished fourth in the 200 backstroke (1:56.16), just missing all-conference honors

• Placed seventh in the 100 backstroke (54.59) but went faster in the preliminaries (53.88)

• Also clocked a time of 55.75 in the 100 butterfly at the conference meet


High School
• Set Women's Open 50-meter backstroke short course Australian All-Corners Record in 2009

• Totaled of 51 individual South Australian State Age and Open Records

• Placed second in the 50-meter backstroke at the Australian Open Short Course Championships 

• Finished third in the women's 100-meter backstroke at the 2007 Youth Olympic Festival

• Participated in 2007 and 2009 World Championships Trials as well as 2008 Olympic Trials

• Ranks second in the 50-meter and fifth in the 100-meter backstroke in Australia

• Four-time honours award winner 

• Member of the Staff Student Executive

• Served as a two-time team captain of her senior school

• Also competed in water polo and netball 



Personal

• Daughter of Rob and Anne-Marie Clarke

• Has two brothers, Andrew and Nick, and a sister, Brigette

• Likes to read, cook and Skype with her friends and family back home in Australia

• Intends to major in psychology