Emily Overholt

Fall 2019 Overholt signed for new ISL, as a member of the New York Breakers. Spring 2020, Overholt signed for the newly formed, first Canadian based ISL team, Toronto Titans.

2013: Overholt won a bronze medal in the 400 m individual medley at the 2013 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships.[2]

2015: After the 2015 Pan Am Games, Overholt practiced her turns heavily to ensure no similar problems at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Russia.[4] There, Overholt won a bronze at the 400 m medley and beat the national record by more than three seconds.[5]

2018: At the Pan Pacifics in Tokyo 2018, Overholt finished fifth in both the 400m freestyle and individual medley.[6]

2017: After returning to Canada, Overholt struggled with depression[7] and only returned to competition in an UBC meet in January 2017.[8] She was then absent from the U Sports season and the Team Canada trials for the 2017 World Championship for not having fully overcome the hamstring injury.[9] By November, Overholt was back into shape and swimming for the Thunderbirds.[10] She has since won two straight U Sports swimming championships for the Thunderbirds,[11] even winning all four races she entered in the 2019 meet.[12]

2016: Overholt attended Collingwood School. She has signed into the University of British Columbia for a degree in science, but deferred her studies and participation in the UBC Thunderbirds until after the 2016 Summer Olympics.[13]

In 2016, she was officially named to Canada's Olympic team for the 2016 Summer Olympics.[14] Despite being hampered by a hamstring injury, Overholt qualified for the 400 m medley final and finished fifth.[15] Despite thinking her Olympic participation was over, when Brittany MacLean could not attend the 4 × 200 m relay qualifying heats due to illness, Overholt was called in to replace her and helped the team reach the finals. Canada went on to win a bronze medal.[16][17]

2015: During the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Overholt won three medals, including a gold in the 400-meter freestyle. The victory occurred less than a day after she was disqualified of a gold medal in the 400 m medley for an illegal turn.[3]

2014: Overholt's first major competitive podium finish came in Glasgow, Scotland as part of the 4×200 m freestyle relay at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, where she competed as a sixteen-year-old and helped the relay team win a silver medal.[18] She also anchored the team that won a bronze medal in the 2014 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships.[19]

2013: Overholt attended the 2013 Canada Games representing British Columbia as a 15-year-old competitor. There she won gold in the individual 200 m and 400 m medleys while adding a gold and a silver in the 400 m and 200 m freestyle respectively.