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Paula is a swimmer from Spain, a distance freestyler and a collegiate competitor, whose official competitive record spans 10 seasons, 2 countries and 81 meets.
Her recorded career begins in 2010 in Madrid, where she raced the 100 butterfly in 1:19.19. She started out alongside REAL CANOE N.C..
Her signature event is the 200 individual medley, the event she has raced the most, followed by the 400 individual medley and 800 freestyle. Individual medley is where her specialisation lies (54 meets), while freestyle appears in more meets (63 meets and 133 recorded swims spread across 9 different distances) because she races it across the full distance range rather than as a main event.
Her fastest 200 individual medley stands at 2:33.10, set in long course (50 m) at M86_madrid.
Her record includes collegiate championships, between 2017 and 2019 (Northeast-10 Conference Championships). A representative mark at that level is 2:02.40 in the 200 freestyle, recorded in short course yards (25 yd).
The record runs unbroken from 2010 to 2019: 10 consecutive seasons without a single missing year. 2012 is the busiest season on record, with 55 verified individual swims.
She is a genuinely international swimmer: the official record spans 2 countries (the United States and Spain), including 40 of 81 meets outside Spain.
Those meets span 32 different venues (Madrid, Pleasantville, Worcester and Kings Point…). She has raced for Pace University and REAL CANOE N.C..
Latest competition: Northeast-10 Conference Championships in Worcester, on February 8, 2019, with 1 swim: 5:19.69 in the 500 freestyle, all in short course yards (25 yd) and 1 PB improvement. She closes this record with 41 current event personal bests and 148 all-time PB improvements, across 292 verified official swims in competitions governed by RFEN and NCAA.