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Athena Vanyo

Fly/IM
Position
Sophomore
Class
Charlottesville, Va.
Hometown
Monticello
High School
Athena Vanyo - Swimming & Diving - Virginia Cavaliers

Virginia Career Best
100 Back: 56.92
100 Fly: 55.30
100 IM: 58.99
200 IM: 2:08.47

2021-22
• Competed in the 100 back, 200 IM, and 100 fly at the ACC Championships
• Placed 5th in the 200 medley relay at the team’s meet against NC State
• Placed 7th in the 100 back at the team’s meet against North Carolina

BACKGROUND
• Four-time Virginia Swimming All-Star Team (2016-19)
• Two-time All-Central Virginia Girls Swimming & Diving Team (2019-20)
• Swam for Cavalier Aquatics club team
• 2019 Monticello Swimming MVP
• Three-time USA Swimming Scholastic All-America Team (2019-21)
• Named Daily Progress Athlete of the Week (Feb. 3, 2020)
• Attended Virginia Governors Health and Medical Sciences Academy from 2018-2021
• Science National Honors Society Member (2020-21)

PERSONAL
• Parents are Brian and Svetlana Vanyo
• Has two sisters, Sofie and Vivian
• Mother, Svetlana, qualified for the Russian Olympic Swimming Team in 1996 and competed in the 1996 Olympics
• Father, Brian, played basketball for the US Naval Academy