Emily started
swimming for BISC when she was nine years old and still holds
a number of team age-group records. In 2002, while swimming
for BISC, she finished 9th in the 50 freestyle in the US Senior
National Swimming Championship and made her first Olympic Trials
qualifying time. That made her eligible to compete in the 2004 US
Olympic Trials, where she finished 15th in the 50-meter
freestyle.
A 2007-08
All-American. During the 2007-08 college dual season,
she recorded over 10 individual first-place finishes (in dual
meets). She was a member of Cal's 800-yard free relay that won the
2008 Pac-10 title (and Pac-10 meet record) in 7:04.13 and she was
on the NCAA runner-up 200 free relay (1:27.52, a new school
record).
Silver set a Cal
record in the 50 free (since broken) at the 2007 NCAA meet (21.99,
since broken), and she was the '07 Pac-10 champion in the 100 and
200 free.
Voted team MVP as a
freshman in 2005, Silver earned a bronze medal in the 400-meter
free relay at the World Championships that summer.
Silver was a member
of the U.S. team at the 2007 World University Games, where she won
a gold medal in the 400 free relay and a silver in the 400 medley
relay.
Best times at Cal: (yards)
50 free 21.99 (2007 NCAAs); 100 free 47.45 (2007 NCAAs); 200 free
1:44.37 (2007 Pac-10s); 200 IM 2:00.17 (2007
Pac-10s)
In 2008,
Emily claimed her spot on the U.S. Olympic team headed
to Beijing with a fifth-place finish in the 100 free at the trials
(54.91). In Beijing she won a silver medal in the 400
Free Relay.
Emily graduated
from Bainbridge High School as one of the most decorated swimmers
in the history of Washington State High School athletics. She was
the first swimmer in state high school history to win two
individual events four straight years at the state championship
meet.
We hope you can
join us in welcoming Emily back to Bainbridge and sharing her
swimming stories.
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