Personal
Born with congenital disarticulation of the right wrist and has no right hand...She began swimming competitively with St. Croix Swim Club at age 11...She started Paralympic swimming at age 12 and competed in her first Can-Am Open later that year in Bismarck, North Dakota...She achieved her first emerging time standard in Charlotte, North Carolina at the 2016 Paralympic Trials...Daughter of Thomas Schmit and Shannon Klint...Has two sisters, Mackenzie and Skye...Hobbies include traveling, reading and baking...Graduated from University of Minnesota with a bachelor of arts in psychology with a minor in Spanish, and a TEFL (teaching English as a foreign language) certificate..Currently a graduate at the University of Oxford pursuing a master's in applied linguistics for language teaching.
Career Highlights
- 2019 World Para Swimming World Series Indianapolis, 1st (200-meter individual medley), 2nd (400-meter freestyle, 100-meter butterfly), 4th (100-meter breaststroke, 100-meter freestyle)
- 2018 World Para Swimming World Series Indianapolis, 3rd (200-meter individual medley, 100-meter breaststroke), 4th (400-meter freestyle, 100-meter freestyle, 100-meter butterfly), 5th (50-meter freestyle)
Paralympic Experience
- One-time Paralympian (2020)
- Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020, 7th (400-meter freestyle), 5th (200-meter Individual Medley), 6th (100-meter butterfly)
World Championship Experience
- Most Recent: 2023 – prelims (100-meter breaststroke, 200-meter individual medley)
- Years of Participation: 2022, 2023
- Medals: 1 (1 bronze)
- Bronze - 2022 (400-meter freestyle)
