Owls In Second Place In Team Standings; Meet Continues Through Saturday At U.H. Pool
At Rice 2010-2011 Shared Rice's Catherine Hannah Award (with Shelby Bottoms) as the program's Swimmer of the Year; Conference USA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll; C-USA Swimmer of the Week (Dec. 9); Scored the most points (76) of any Owl at the C-USA Championship meet... Reached the championship finals of three individual events and swam on four relays at the conference meet... Finished third in the C-USA's 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:03.73, the sixth-fastest mark in school history... Placed fourth in the league in the 200-freestyle with a 1:50.10, the sixth-fastest mark in school history and the best-ever by an Owl freshman... Took seventh in the conference in the 100-free with a 51.03, the ninth-fastest time in school history and fourth-best ever by any Rice freshman... Swam the third leg of the second-fastest 400-medley relay in Rice history... Was the lead leg of the fourth-fastest 800-freestyle relay in school history... Set the facility record at the Rice Aquatics Center in the 200-free (1:51.12) in a meet against the Miami Hurricanes... Posted a 52.37 in the 100-free at the Aquatics Center, the best mark by an Owl at the venue... Member of the Owls' medley relay that set the Aquatics Center facility record... Tallied a season-best 23.74 in the 50-free at the Phill Hansel Invitational in the fall, which remained as one of the top sprints on the team until the conference meet in the spring... Finished fourth on the squad in the 100-butterfly with a season-best 58.20.
High School
A 2010 graduate of Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, Calif... Three-time High School All-America honoree... Helped the Matadors win 2009 league championship... First place at CCS for two years... Won the CCS individual title in the 200-freestyle (1:48.98)... Named the team's MVP as a sophomore in 2008... Coached by Don Vierra... California Scholarship Federation for three years... Maintained a 3.9 grade point average.
Club
Veteran competitor for De Anza Cupertino Aquatics... U.S. Open qualifier... Coached by Pete Raykovich.
Personal
Full Name: Chelsea Katelyn Fong. Born: March 13, 1992 in Los Gatos, Calif. Parents: Carl and Cathy Fong of Cupertino, Calif. (one sister). Rice College: Wiess.