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USA Artistic Swimming Young Alumnae Athletes Shine
We are excited to spotlight two alumnae artistic swimming athletes, Emma Moore ’24 and Morgan Woelfel ’24.
Emma ’24, Morgan ’24, and the rest of the Junior Artistic Swimming Team USA swept Gold at the Pan American Championships in Lima, Peru this summer and also are now World Champions. This was the first Gold medal won by Team USA at the Junior World Championships in 35 years. Both athletes are now training for the 2028 Olympics with the USA Senior National Team in Los Angeles.
Emma Moore ’24 and Morgan Woelfel ’24
Emma ’24 is a freshman at UCLA and is majoring in Business Economics. She believes her academic preparation at Carondelet prepared her to manage a rigorous, demanding schedule and is very grateful to Carondelet for giving her a solid academic foundation. “My college counselors, Ms. Pera and Ms. Kadesh supported me through the college application process and helped me get into my top choice university, UCLA!” she shares. “There were multiple people at Carondelet who helped me, but the ones I connected with the most were Ms. Spradlin and Ms. DeVito. I will never forget the amount of time they spent supporting me through my sport and following my aspirations along with me.”
Morgan said, “My college counselor at Carondelet, Ms. Jessop, was the biggest asset in helping me get to the National Team.” “By helping me pick out classes and set deadlines, she helped me balance my school work whilst training, which allowed me to succeed in both.” One of Morgan’s athletic goals was to become a world medalist in the sport, which she and Emma just achieved! Ever since she was a child Morgan ’24 dreamed of going to Stanford. Recently she announced that she will be swimming for Stanford’s Artistic Swimming Team starting in the fall of 2025!
Morgan’s advice for young women interested in artistic swimming is, “Go try it! You can sign up for the Walnut Creek Aquanuts (WCA) try-it days or reach out to the coaches listed on the WCA website to learn more and get started. For anyone with hopes of making it to the National Team, all I can say is go for it. The only one stopping you is yourself and with lots of artistic swimming talent in the Bay Area you’re already in the best place to achieve it.”
“Being on the National Team is an honor,” says Emma. “You get to represent not only your country, but the athletic history of your sport. I want to continue to advocate for our athletes and sport to give us more recognition and opportunities to keep pursuing our sport and elongating our careers as an athlete. Having more recognition will allow for our sport to have more funding from the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC), which in turn, gives our athletes more resources like pool time, cross training facilities, and money that can support the athletes. It is extremely difficult for us athletes on the Senior Team to make enough money to live in Los Angeles just from swimming. Many of us have to pick up other job opportunities while attending full-time school and training for 54 hours a week. Having more support from the public can change our team and each individual athlete’s lives—so please follow our journey as we make our way to the 2028 Olympics!“
We will continue to watch as these talented, young alumnae athletes strive to make all their dreams come true on the Senior National Olympic Artistic Swimming Team!
