Katia Soudakova

Class:
Senior
High School:
Eastview HS
Hometown:
Rosemount, Minn.

PRONUNCIATION

Career Honors and Awards

2x Academic All-Big Ten honoree (2022, 24)

2023-24 Senior Season: Academic All-Big Ten honoree... First Chance Meet: won both the 200 free (1:53.03) and 500 free (5:00.68) and got third in the 100 free (53.06)... Purdue/Iowa/Northwestern Quad-Dual: swam a 5:01.61 in the 500 free, 1:54.48 in the 200 free and 53.74 in the 100 free... Pitt Dual: placed third in the 1000 free (10:22.31), seventh in the 50 free (24.98) and eighth in the 100 free (53.84)... Minnesota Invite: finished 21st in the 500 free (4:59.99), 25th in the 200 free (1:54.01) and 33rd in the 100 free (53.16)... Wisconsin Dual: came in seventh in the 1000 free (10:31.97) and eighth in the 500 free (5:08.84)... St. Thomas/South Dakota State Tri-Dual: captured fourth in both the 100 free (54.58) and 200 free (1:54.82)... SMU Dual: finished fourth in the 1000 free (10:36.87) and fifth in the 200 free (1:54.66)... Nebraska/South Dakota Tri-Dual: placed third in the 500 free (5:06.35) and sixth in the 1000 free (10:35.58)

2022-23 Junior Season: First Chance Meet: earned first in the 50 free (23.99), second in the 200 free (1:50.64) and third in the 100 free (51.66) and 500 free (4:57.35) ... Northwestern/Purdue/Iowa Quad-Dual: took ninth in the 200 free (1:52.01); also part of the 200 free relay that took seventh (1:35.55) and the 400 free relay that was eighth (3:28.20) ... Minnesota Invite: came in 31st in the 200 free finals (1:52.62), 39th in the 500 free prelims (5:01.47), 41st in the 100 free prelims (52.03) and 50th in the 50 free prelims (23.93); also part of the 800 free relay that came in 11th (7:21.49), the 400 free relay that was 15th (3:25.02) and the 200 free relay that was 18th (1:36.13) ... Iowa Dual: placed fourth in the 100 free (53.39) and swam the 200 free in an exhibition (1:55.13)

2021-22 Sophomore Season: Won the 200 free (1:48.72) and finished third in the 50 free (23.54), 100 free (50.86) and 500 free (4:52.02) at the Minnesota First Chance Meet • helped an 800 free relay to a fifth-place finish (7:31.97) and a 400 free relay to sixth (3:26.74) in a tri-dual against Northwestern and Iowa • placed 11th in the 1000 free (10:36.89) and helped a 400 free relay team to eighth (3:29.86) in a tri-dual versus Wisconsin and Michigan • at the Minnesota Invite, finished 23rd in the 1650 free (17:24.74), 37th in the 200 free finals (1:50.39), 38th in the 100 free finals (51.52) and 44th in the 500 free prelims (5:00.84); also helped the 400 free relay to a 15th-place finish (3:23.52) · part of the 400 free relay (3:42.53) that came in sixth against Wisconsin · won the 500 free (5:07.54) versus St. Thomas · placed eighth in the 1000 free (10:40.93) against Nebraska · took third in the 1000 free (10:42.69) at Iowa • Academic All-Big Ten honoree

2020-21 Freshman Season: Placed ninth in the 1000 free (10:32.14) at the Wisconsin/Purdue tri-dual.

High School: A 2020 graduate of Eastview H.S. · solely competed for the Riptide Swim Club · Champion in the 500 free & bronze-medalist in the 1650 free at the 2020 Minnesota Senior State Championships · four-time medalist at the Minnesota Swimming Senior Long Course Championships, taking gold in the 200 & 400 free and silver in the 800 & 1500 free.

Personal: Native of Rosemount, Minn. · parents are Margarita & Dmitri Soudakova · is trilingual · hobbies include hiking, painting, rock collecting, long boarding, cooking and bracelet making.