Concordia Irvine Athletics

2021: First Concordia Eagle to represent school at NCAA DII Swimming & Diving Championships three straight years... CSCAA Second Team All-American in the 100 backstroke (13th place overall)... Set school record in 100 backstroke (54.46 seconds) and at the time held fifth-fastest NCAA DII time in that event... 1st Team Academic All-Conference selection by Pacific Collegiate Swim & Dive Conference (PCSC)... 1st Team All-PCSC & Member of 2nd-fastest 4x100 Free in CUI history... PCSC Swimmer of the Week

HIGH SCHOOL: Prepped at Heritage High School and graduated in 2018... Junior honor guard (top ten in class)... Scholar athlete... NISCA All-American... CIF prelims and finals all four years... 100 back 2018 CIF champion... State qualifier... 2015-2018 MVP... 2018 Scholar athlete of the year... 

CLUB: Swam for club teams for 13 years... Participated in winter Junior Nationals

OTHER: Born April 4, 2000 to Debbie Koepke and Tim Thomas... Has two siblings: Dakota (24) and Denise (10)... Majoring Kinesiology with an emphasis in Lifespan and Allied Health with a minor in Psychology... Career goal is to be an NCAA qualifier... Favorite Bible verse is 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 "Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." ... Favorite movie is "Hacksaw Ridge"... Best advice I ever received was, "If it won't matter to you in five years, don't worry about it for more than five minutes"....Dream job is to be a mom...