Alex Flatness

Position:
Sprint Freestyle/Backstroke
Class:
Senior
High School:
Ankeny
Hometown:
Ankeny, Iowa

Personal Records

Event	Time	Opponent
50 Free	0:23.33	2016 Big 12 Championships
100 Free	0:51.11	2015 Big 12 Championships
200 Free	1:53.69	2016 Big 12 Championships
50 Back	0:28.90	Pentathlon (2015-16)
100 Back	0:57.14	2015 Big 12 Championships
50 Breast	0:35.29	Pentathlon (2015-16)
100 Breast	1:21.71	Nebraska-Omaha (2013-14)
50 Fly	0:28.14	Pentathlon (2015-16)
100 Fly	0:58.86	2013 Big 12 Championships
100 IM	1:03.58	Pentathlon (2015-16)
200 IM	2:24.52	Nebraska-Omaha (2013-14)

Awards and Honors
Team Captain (2015-16)
All-Big 12 Second-Team: 200 Medley Relay (2015), 200 Freestyle Relay (2015)
ISU Most Improved Swimmer (2014-15)
Melissa Fender Award (2015-16)
Academic All-Big 12 First-Team (2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16)
Iowa State Scholar-Athletes (2013-14)
Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll (Fall 2014)

2015-16 (Senior)
One of the team’s top freestyle sprinters … swam on 17 relay teams that finished in the top-three … competed in the 50 freestyle (9th place, 23.42), 100 freestyle (9th place, 50.89), 200 freestyle, 200 MR (3rd place, 1:40.93), 400 MR (4th place, 3:42.92), 200 FR (3rd place, 1:32.86) and 400 FR (2nd place, 3:22.93) at the Big 12 Championship … anchored school record-breaking 400 FR relay team with a 50.92 split … swam on second-place 200 FR squad at The Big Challenge … finished the year with the team’s No. 2 50 freestyle time and No. 1 100 freestyle time … anchored three different relays that finished with the year’s best time … Melissa Fender award winner … named to the 2016 Academic All-Big 12 First Team.

2014-15 (Junior)
Experienced a breakout season during her junior year, earning ISU Most Improved Swimmer honors … competed in the 200 medley relay (second, 1:41.26), 200 freestyle relay (second, 1:32.05), 100 freestyle (10^th, 0:51.11), 100 backstroke (11^th, 0:57.37) and 50 freestyle (0:23.67) at the Big 12 Championships … part of the school record holding 200 freestyle relay team (1:32.05) set at the Big 12 Championships … joined the ISU all-time top-performers lists in the 50 freestyle (eighth, 0:23.44), 100 freestyle (11^th, 0:51.11), 100 backstroke (17^th, 0:57.14), 200 medley relay (fourth, 1:41.26) and 400 freestyle relay (fourth, 3:23.96) … part of Iowa State’s fastest 200 medley, 200 freestyle and 400 freestyle relay teams on the season, while clocking the squad’s second-best 100 freestyle time and the third-best 50 freestyle time.

2013-14 (Sophomore)
Competed in the 50 freestyle (21st, 23.76), 100 backstroke (18th, 57.17), 200 freestyle relay (Exh., 1:36.67) and 400 freestyle relay (3:29.17) at the Big 12 Championships … tallied 11 top-five performances (one individual and 10 relay) … earned two top-five time spots in the 50 freestyle (Big 12s, 0:23.76) and 100 backstroke (Big 12s, 57.17) for the Cyclone squad … holds one top-20 performance in school history for 100 backstroke (57.17).

2012-13 (Freshman)
Competed in the 50 free (17th, 24.07), 200 medley relay (Exh., 1:44.28), 400 free relay (Exh., 3:30.12) and 200 free relay (Exh.,1:36.06) at the Big 12 Championships … finished 4th (52.09) at the Last Chance meet … finished third in the 100 freestyle against UNI and Kansas … had a fourth place finish against Nebraska-Omaha in the 50 freestyle ... fourth in the 100 freestyle and fifth in the 50 free for the Cyclones.

High School
Earned team MVP and 2nd Team All-State in 2010 and 2011 … earned third place in the 100 free at 2010 state meet and 2nd in the 2011 state meet … was a member of the 200 free relay which earned sixth place at the 2011 state meet … member of the honor roll all four years … President’s Vigor Award Winner … earned Academic Merit Medal … Academic All- State recipient … Veridian Credit Union Bank Art Show participant.

Personal
Born April 25 … graphic design major … daughter of Charles and Ann Flatness.