Kathleen Rossi from Clearwater, Fla., helps Brenau University Golden Tigers Swim Team Finish No. 6 in the Nation

2013 Mar 23

Kathleen Rossi, a freshman fashion design major from Clearwater, Fla., helped the 2012-13 Brenau University Golden Tigers swimming team finish the season ranked No. 6 in the nation following the team's outstanding performance in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics 2013 Women's Swimming & Diving championship meet in Oklahoma City earlier this month. She is the daughter of Anthony and Kathy Rossi.

On the Brenau team, Rossi specializes in distance freestyle events.

"Kathleen has a background of competitve swimming, we are happy she calls Brenau home," said Golden Tigers Swim Coach Blaire Bachman. "We look forward to her growing as a student-athlete."

The No. 6 honor for the Golden Tigers, with four members named to the All-American squad, was the team's best finish since the university reinstated its intercollegiate program in 2005. The 2012 team finished eighth in the nation.

The Tigers will begin the 2013-14 campaign with all members returning except for senior All-American Hannah Boudreaux.

ABOUT BRENAU – Founded in 1878, Brenau University currently enrolls about 2,800 students in graduate and undergraduate programs on campuses and online. The main campus of the Georgia-based liberal arts institution, which includes the Brenau Women's College, is in Gainesville with other campuses in Augusta, Kings Bay and in two metro Atlanta locations, Norcross and Fairburn. Brenau's 2011 ranking as one of the top 15-best higher education values in the Southeast by U.S. News & World Report marks the university's sixth consecutive year in that position for the magazine's America's Best Colleges guidebook. In 2013 Brenau online programs scored high in national rankings by U.S. News, including a No. 9-in-the-nation "Honor Roll" listing for graduate degree tracks in Brenau's College of Education. Brenau University also was granted "Honor Roll" status among the 2012 listings of the great colleges and universities to work for by The Chronicle of Higher Education and one of the best universities in the Southeast by The Princeton Review. Breanu's extraordinary learning environment also was highlighted among the Colleges of Distinction.