Meghan Kinney

Club: Riverside
Event: Alternate
Height: 5'9"
Date of Birth: July 12, 1989
Birthplace: Berkeley, Calif.
Hometown: Mission Viejo, Calif.
Current Residence: Walnut Creek, Calif.

Career Highlights:
2007 - Nominated as the alternate to the 2007 U.S. Pan American and 2008 U.S. Olympic Teams; FINA World Championships: Combo 3rd; FINA World Trophy Cup: Combo 2nd
2006 - Junior National Championships: Duet 1st, Team 1st; U.S. National Championships: Team 6th; Junior World Championships: Solo 9th, Team 9th, Combo 7th
2005 - Junior National Championships: Team 1st, Solo 9th, Trio 3rd; U.S. National Championships: Team 5th; U.S. Open: Figures 5th, Team 2nd; Junior Pan American Games: Team 2nd, Combo 1st
2004 - Junior National Championships: Team 3rd, Trio 2nd
2003 - Junior National Championships: Team 8th, Trio 7th; U.S. Age Groups: Solo 2nd, Figures 1st; U.S. Open: Team 4th, Trio 2nd
2002 - U.S. Age Groups: Team 2nd, Solo 2nd, Trio 2nd, Figures 2nd
2001 - U.S. Age Groups: Team 1st, Solo 6th, Trio 3rd, Figures 7th

Personal: Daughter of Ann and Paul Kinney...Serves as the alternate for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Synchronized Swimming Team...Attended home school for most of High School...Hopes to compete in synchro at the collegiate level...Career goal is to study journalism or culinary arts and become a food critic...Goal has always been to compete in the Olympic Games...Formerly competed in speed swimming...Lives with teammate Brooke Abel.

Awards:
2006 - Named to the USSS All-America Team II and USSS All-America Junior Team

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Meghan Kinney media coverage
Olympic Swimmers Return to Riverside, The Press Enterprise, July 14, 2008