2022-23 Swim & Dive Roster
Roster
Gizem Guvenc
- Position:
- Free/Fly
- Height:
- 5-9
- Class:
- Sophomore
- High School:
- Cevre College
- Hometown:
- Kadikoy, Turkey
Career Highlights
2024 Olympian
Bronze Medal at the 2024 European Swimming Championships in the 4x200 free relay representing Turkiye
2023 CSCAA All-American (800 Free Relay)
One Individual Event Win
International (2024)
Helped qualify Turkiye for the 2024 Paris Olympics in the 800 free relay before being selected to represent Turkiye at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France... Swam the first leg of the 800 free relay in Paris, helping Turkiye finish 16th in Paris with a time of 8:05.18... Earlier in the summer helped Turkiye take third in the 4x200 free relay at the European Championships in Belgrade, Serbia.
2024-25
Appeared in eight regular season events ... Recorded the team’s fastest times this season in two events, the 100 freestyle and the 200 freestyle... Recorded a team-best time in the 100 freestyle at the Ohio State Invite, earning an NCAA B-cut... Recorded a team-best time of 1:45.30 in the 200 freestyle at the Ohio State Invite, earning an NCAA B-cut... Achieved two individual event wins at Arizona, recording a time of 49.21 in the 100 freestyle and 1:46.48 in the 200 freestyle... Anchored the team’s season-best performance in the 400 free relay... Led off the team’s season-best in the 800 free relay.
2023-24
Appeared in all 12 regular season meets, as well as the Pac-12 Championships... At the Pac-12 Championships, competed in the 50 free (23.26, 43rd), 100 free (49.46, 20th), and 200 free (1:47.74, 22nd)... Picked up five individual wins throughout the season, in the 100, 200, and 500 free... Set a season best time in the 100 free at the Pac-12 Championships (49.46)... Set a season best time in the 200 free against USC (1:46.04), achieving the NCAA B Cut... Anchored the winning 400 medley relay at the Fresno State Invite and against UCSB.
2022-23
Earned CSCAA All-America honors in the 800 free relay after helping UCLA to a 15th place finish at the 2023 NCAA Championships ... Split 1:45.79 on that relay, just 0.02 seconds behind Katrina Bellio for the fastest on the team ... Competed at the Pac-12 Championships, making the B Final in the 200 free ... At Pac-12s, finished 16th in the 200 free and 30th in the 50 free ... Made her NCAA debut at the UCSD dual meet on Jan. 7, winning the 200 free (1:50.51) and scoring in the 100 free ... Runner-up in the 200 free vs. Denver on Jan. 14 ... Scored in the 100 free and 200 free at USC on Feb. 10.
2021-22
Did not compete for UCLA during the 2021-22 season.
High School/Club
Attended Cevre College in Erenkoy, Turkey ... Competed for five years in high school ... Was team captain for three of those seasons ... Competed for Fenerbahce Sports Club ... During her prep career, set a number of Turkish national records and age-group records; she’s the national record-holder in both 200 LCM freestyle (1:58.24) and 200 SCM freestyle (1:55.91), and was also on relay squads that set Turkish national records in the 4X100 LCM free relay, 2X200 LCM free relay, 4X50 SCM free relay, 4X100 SCM free relay, 4X200 SCM free relay, and 4X50 SCM medley relay ... Also an age-group record-holder in the 50m free, 100m free, 100m IM, and 200m IM ... At the 2020 Turkish Short Course National Championships, was the winner in the 200m free (1:56.89) and was runner-up in the 100m free (54.87) while helping set a new national record in the 4X50m free relay ... Qualified for the 200m free finals at the 2019 European Junior Championships ... Has represented Turkey at multiple European and World Championship events ... Was invited to the Turkish Olympic Team training camp.
Personal
Full name: Gizem Guvenc ... Born in Istanbul, Turkey ... Birthday is Aug. 9 ... Parents are Didem Guvenc and Refik Kutlu Guvenc ... Has one younger sister, Deniz ... Chose UCLA becuase “everything about it felt like the perfect fit for me, it was my childhood dream” ... Cites recording an Olympic B Cut in the 200m freestyle as her greatest pre-UCLA athletic thrill ... Admires Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszu ... Enjoys singing and drinking coffee in her free time ... Is a talented singer ... Plans on majoring in psychology ... Aspires to be a sports psychologist.
Best Times (as of Mar. 22, 2023)
50 free - 23.13
100 free - 49.34
200 free - 1:45.66
