Karen Rodriguez

Class:
Senior
High School:
Universidad Tecmilenio
Hometown:
San Luis Potosí, Mexico

2025-26 (Senior)

Awards

MVC All-Conference Honorable Mention

MVC Championships

Finalist in the 200-breast, 200-fly, and 400-IM

Regular Season

Won one event (1000 free at Eastern Illinois on January 30, 2025)
Had five additional individual podiums
Had four additional individual top-five finishes
A part of one relay podium
A part of one additional top-five relay

2024-25 (Junior)

MVC Championships

Competed and set personal bests in the 200-yard freestyle and 400-yard IM
Competed in the 500-yard freestyle

Regular Season

Had three first-place finishes
Had 10 podium finishes

2022-2023

First Team All-MVC… MVC Swimmer of the Week 10/26/22…holds four SIU top ten program record times… swam in three events… had 22 top three finishes across the season… set new personal records in the 50-yard freestyle (25.57) against Little Rock and Lindenwood, 100-yard freestyle (52.85) against Little Rock and Lindenwood… 200-yard freestyle (1:49.44) earning NICB, and a program record at the MVC Championship.

PRIOR TO SIU

Qualified for the 2021 Junior Pan-American Games... two-time Central American and Caribbean Amateur Swimming Confederation in the 200 and 400 IM... Holds multiple records in her hometown San Luis Potosí, Mexico.

PERSONAL

Born on October 18, 2001 to Carlos Alberto Rodriguez Hernandez and Catalina Cardenas Barnad... majoring in Business Management