Skip To Main Content

Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges

2022-23 Women's Swimming and Diving

Makenna Parkinson

  • Year Senior
  • Hometown San Luis Obispo, CA
  • High School Mission College Prep
  • Events Dive
  • Major Engineering
  • College Harvey Mudd

Biography



SwimCloud Results

At CMS
Completed her senior season as a member of the CMS swimming and diving team, where she competed in the diving events ... Graduated as the program record holder in the three-meter dive (527.60) ... Also ranks second in the one-meter dive (514.70). 

2022-23 (Senior)
All-SCIAC (one-meter, three-meter) ... CSCAA Scholar All-America ... SCIAC All-Academic Team ... Finished second in the one-meter dive at the SCIAC Championships, as well as third in the three-meter, earning all-conference honors in both boards ... Set a program record in the three-meter dive at the CMS Invitational with a 527.60 ... Also had the second-best score in CMS history in the one-meter with a 514.70 ... Swept both boards in a dual meet with Pomona-Pitzer, as well as in a dual meet with Occidental ... Finished first in the three-meter dive in a tri-meet with Cal Lutheran and La Verne ... Finished first in the one-meter in dual with both Redlands and Whittier ... Won the three-meter in a tri-meet with Caltech and Chapman. 

2021-22 (Junior)
SCIAC All-Academic Team ... Was fifth in the one-meter and sixth in the three-meter at the SCIAC Championships ... Finished first in the one-meter in a tri-meet with Cal Lutheran and La Verne.

2020-21 (Sophomore)
SCIAC All-Academic Team ... Athenas did not compete due to COVID-19.

2019-20 (First-Year)
Earned fourth place in the three-meter and sixth place in the one-meter at the SCIAC Championships, helping the Athenas to the league title ... Finished with 378.15 points in the three-meter ... Swept both diving events in a tri-meet with Occidental and Whittier.  

Prior to CMS
Attended Mission College Preparatory Catholic High School in San Luis Obispo, where she was a member of the swimming and diving team … Set the school’s one-meter dive record … Finished in ninth at the Central Section CIF Championships as a senior … Class Valedictorian … Trig Star California State winner … Etxracurriculars included Royal Ambassadors, Mt. Carmel Lutheran Church Vacation Bible School, MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge, and Green Team.

Personal
Attends Harvey Mudd, where she majors in engineering … Aspires to work in environmental or biomedical engineering … Spent the summer (2021) doing research in a materials engineering lab at Harvey Mudd, working on a project using graphene for water filtration ... Lists Eleanor Roosevelt as the public figure she most admires.

Historical Player Information

  • 2019-20Freshman

    Dive
    5'2"
  • 2020-21Sophomore

    Dive
    5'2"
  • 2021-22Junior

    Dive
  • 2022-23Senior

    Dive