Emily Balog
Emily Balog
  • Year:
    So.
  • Hometown:
    Glendale, Cal.
  • High School:
    Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy
  • Events:
    Breaststroke/IM

Bio

2013-14: Posted a personal best time in the 200 IM and 100 Breaststroke at the GLIAC Championships…Swam to a fifth spot on the school record board in the 400 IM…Finished thirteenth at the Championship meet in the 200 Breaststroke…Swam the breaststroke leg of the 200 Medley Relay that placed sixth at the GLIAC Championships...Holds the school record in the 200 breaststroke with a time of 2:24.28.

High School: Earned two All-American honors, coming in the 200 free relay and 200 medley relay while shattering league and school records…Helped her 200 medley team to a first-place finish at the 2013 Division I California Interscholastic Federation meet…Finished in the top 20 overall in the CIF three times over her last two seasons, including two top-18 finishes in the 100 breaststroke…Took 19th overall in the 200 IM at the 2013 CIF championships…Qualified for the Division I CIF meet four times…Named All-Academic in the Mission League four times…Winner of the 2013 Veritas Award and earned Second Team honors from the Los Angeles Daily News…2012 team MVP and was the 2011 High Point Award winner…Champion in the 100 breaststroke at the Mt. Sac Invitational twice…Helped lead team to a seventh-place finish at the 2013 CIF championships…Swam for Crescenta Canada YMCA club team…A YMCA nationals qualifier twice…Has a top time of 1:06.67 in the 100 breaststroke, just one second off the current Hillsdale College school record…Other top times achieved in club include 59.68 in the 100 fly, 2:10.52 in the 200 IM and 54.38 in the 100 free…Member of the National Honor Society…Lifetime member of the California Scholarship Federation…Two-year member of Mu Alpha Theta…Winner of the AP Scholar Award…Played the violin for four years, and was the Book Club president, Latin Club secretary and a member of the Young Writers Society…Born June 20, 1995…Parents are Michael and Laurie.