2016-17 Women's Swimming & Diving

Caroline Vexler
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Moreland Hills, Ohio
- High School:
- Hawken School
Concentration: Economics
Profile Questions:
Finals march-out song: Earthquake - Labrinth
Favorite food: Apples and peanut butter
Favorite dessert: Lemon bars
Favorite city: Paris
Favorite athlete: Jason Lezak
Favorite pro team: Cleveland Cavaliers
Favorite movie or TV show: Game of Thrones
Current favorite music artist: twenty one pilots
Last book you read: The Hobbit
Favorite restaurant in Providence: Duck & Bunny
Favorite holiday: Thanksgiving
Favorite activity outside the pool: Reading
Who would star as you in a movie about your life: Amy Schumer
Person you’d like to have dinner with: Seth Meyers
Travel destination: Ireland
Other sport you enjoy: There are other sports?
Role model / someone you look up to: My parents
Something you cannot live without: Glasses
Favorite Brown building: 182 George St (The applied math building is basically a castle)
Enjoyed this professor’s class: Shankar Prasad, James Morone
Most memorable meet as a Brown Bear: Ivies 2016
Favorite quote: "If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do."
2016-17: Was a member of the 200 medley relay team that broke the program record and swam the second fastest time ever at the Ivy League Championships ... Finished 10th in the 100 butterfly and 12th in the 200 butterfly at the Ivy League Championships ... Also competed in the 50 freestyle at the Championships ... Swam the third fastest 200 butterfly (2:00.18) in school history ... Won the 100 butterfly and 200 butterfly against both Columbia and Cornell.
2015-16: Finished eighth in the 100 butterfly, 13th in the 200 butterfly and 20th in the 100 backstroke at the Ivy League Championships, posting a personal best in the 100 backstroke and set a school record in the 100 butterfly (54.02) … Member of the 400 medley relay team (3:42.21) and the 200 medley relay team (1:40.26) that set school records at the Ivy League Championships … Recorded her fastest time in the 50 freestyle at the Big Al Invite … Won the 100 yard butterfly against UMass ... Member of the 200 medley relay team that took first against UMass, Harvard/Penn, Columbia and Cornell.
2014-15: Placed 9th in the 200 Fly (2:00.53), 14th in the 100 Fly (:55.79), and 16th in the 200 IM (2:05.18) at Ivy Championships ... Won the 200 Fly in the Bears’ dual meet win over UMass.
2013-14: Competed in the 100 Fly (8th), 200 Fly (10th), and the 200 IM (18th) at the Ivy League Championships … Now sits third all time in school history in both the 100 Fly (54.87) and 200 Fly (2:00.39) … Swam the 7th fastest 200 IM in school history (2:03.43) against Cornell … Swam four different events (50 Back, 400 IM, 100 Fly, 200 Fly) in a dual meet with Columbia.
Before Brown: Graduated Cum Laude from Hawken School … National Merit Finalist … Earned four varsity letters as a member of the Hawken School swim team, serving as co-captain during her senior year … Helped her team to four consecutive OHSAA State Championships … Two-time state champion in the 200 medley relay … Two-time state champion and state record holder in the 200 free relay … Two-time USA Swimming Scholastic All-American ... Six-time All-American … Selected to the All-Conference and All-State teams for four consecutive seasons … Won eight gold medals at the 2011 European Maccabi Games … Also competed for the Lake Erie Silver Dolphins swim team for twelve years.
Personal: Caroline Vexler is the daughter of Laura and David Vexler of Moreland Hills, Ohio … Her father, David, graduated from Brown in 1989 … She has two younger brothers, Jonathan '19 and Zachary.
| Personal Records | ||
| Event | Time | Date |
| 50 Free | 23:81 | 2/16/2017 |
| 50 Back | 28.08 | 1/11/2014 |
| 100 Back | 57.70 | 2/19/2016 |
| 100 Breast | 1:07.64 | 12/7/2013 |
| 100 Fly | 54.02 | 2/19/2016 |
| 200 Free | 1:58.67 | 12/7/2013 |
| 200 Back | 2:12.20 | 1/11/2014 |
| 200 Fly | 2:00.18 | 12/4/2016 |
| 200 IM | 2:03.43 | 2/1/2014 |
| 400 IM | 4:40.50 | 1/25/2014 |


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