HIGH SCHOOL
• Swam for coach Kathy Coffin-Sheard at the Grand Traverse Bay YMCA Breakers club team while attending St. Francis High School in Traverse City
• Served as a team captain during the 2023-24 club season
• At the USA Swimming Futures Championships in Minneapolis in July 2024, won the 200 back and was the runner-up in the 100 back
• Also a two-time finalist in the backstroke events at a Futures Championships showcase in Fargo in the summer of 2023
• Won five events at the Michigan Open SC Championship in March 2024 – 50, 100, 200 back, 50 free and 200 IM
• In March 2023, won the 100 fly, 200 back and 400 IM at the Michigan YMCA State Championships
• Took fourth in the 200 back at Speedo Sectionals meet in Indianapolis in the spring of 2024
• Earned a 4.0 GPA each of his first three years of high school
• Two-time Scholastic All-American as an upperclassman
• Served as student body vice president as a senior
• National Honor Society
• Also swam for the Michigan Zone Team and Traverse City Club
PERSONAL
• Major: Biology
• Full name is Blake Michael Rowe
• Born in Traverse City, Michigan
• Parents are David and Stephanie Rowe
• Family also includes younger siblings Grace, Katharine and Henry
• Swam for coach Kathy Coffin-Sheard at the Grand Traverse Bay YMCA Breakers club team while attending St. Francis High School in Traverse City
• Served as a team captain during the 2023-24 club season
• At the USA Swimming Futures Championships in Minneapolis in July 2024, won the 200 back and was the runner-up in the 100 back
• Also a two-time finalist in the backstroke events at a Futures Championships showcase in Fargo in the summer of 2023
• Won five events at the Michigan Open SC Championship in March 2024 – 50, 100, 200 back, 50 free and 200 IM
• In March 2023, won the 100 fly, 200 back and 400 IM at the Michigan YMCA State Championships
• Took fourth in the 200 back at Speedo Sectionals meet in Indianapolis in the spring of 2024
• Earned a 4.0 GPA each of his first three years of high school
• Two-time Scholastic All-American as an upperclassman
• Served as student body vice president as a senior
• National Honor Society
• Also swam for the Michigan Zone Team and Traverse City Club
PERSONAL
• Major: Biology
• Full name is Blake Michael Rowe
• Born in Traverse City, Michigan
• Parents are David and Stephanie Rowe
• Family also includes younger siblings Grace, Katharine and Henry