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Breaststroke specialist Kathryn Kern will attend Villanova University to continue both her academic and swimming career in the fall of 2026.
Kern is a senior at Charlotte Catholic High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, and has been training with SwimMAC Carolina since she was nine years old.
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Kern competed at the 2025 NCHSAA 4A State Championship (SCY), representing Charlotte Catholic. Individually, she placed 10th in the 50 free (24.53). She also helped her team’s 200 free relay and 200 medley relay teams to 4th-place finishes, swimming the leadoff leg in the freestyle (24.42) and the breaststroke leg in the medley (29.26), respectively.
In mid-November, Kern captured her quickest 100-yard breast time at the 2025 NC SwimMAC November LC Invitational, finishing 19th in 1:02.28. She also placed 19th in the 200 breast (2:19.41).
In December, at the 2024 NC ATOM Invite (SCY), Kern recorded her fastest 200 IM to date, placing 5th in 2:05.58. She was also the runner-up in the 100 breast (1:03.33) and took 4th in the 200 breast (2:21.06).
Kern posted a personal-best time of 4:37.20 in the prelims of the 400 IM at the 2024 VA SRVA SwimRVA Shamrock Showdown (SCY) before placing 23rd in the final (4:41.87). She also placed 3rd in the 100 breast (1:03.98) and 8th in the 200 breast (2:24.96).
Kern won the 100 breast (1:02.60) at the 2023 North Carolina Senior Championships (SCY). She also secured 9th in the 200 breast (2:18.46), 12th in the 100 IM (59.14), 12th in the 200 IM (2:07.69), 20th in the 100 free (53.21), and 25th in the 50 free (24.50). Her time in the 200 breast remains her lifetime best.
Kern was a Futures finalist in a long course event this past summer in Greensboro, finishing 7th in the 50 breast (33.38).
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100 Breast – 1:02.28 200 Breast – 2:18.46 200 IM – 2:05.58 400 IM – 4:37.20Villanova’s women’s team took the title in a seven-team field at the 2025 Big East Conference Championships. Kern would have secured an ‘A’ final spot in both the 100 breast and 200 breast at the meet, and her 100 breast time would have been the fastest on the team last season. Her current 100 breast time would also rank 5th all-time in school history.
Kern will join Kiersten Armstrong on campus next fall. Armstrong is a distance swimmer with a 4:57.15 in the 500 free.
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