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Cathy Polinsky earned All-American honors five times as a swimmer at Swarthmore, including three honors her freshman season.
Polinsky's first trip to nationals had her winning All-American recognition as a member of the seventh-place 200-yard medley relay team, the 200-yard freestyle relay team and the 400-yard medley relay team.
In 1997, she earned All-America recognition in two different relays, the 400- and 800-yard freestyle relays.
She qualified for nationals again her senior year and this time competed in three events as an individual, the 100- and 200-yard butterfly and the 200-yard individual medley. At the time of her graduation, she held the school record the 50- and 100-yard butterfly. In 1999, Polinsky was awarded Swarthmore's Dinny Rath Award.
She has been named one of the most powerful women engineers in the world and works as the CTO at Stitch Fix. She also served on Swarthmore's Board of Managers.
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