CHICAGO -- Local swimmer Takara Martin competed in her final Horizon League Championship swim meet this past weekend in Chicago, ending a very successful swimming career.
She set a new Oakland University record in the 100-metre breaststroke (1:01.22) winning the Horizon League title.
Martin was on the championship 400-metre medley relay team and was part of 400-metre medley team that holds the Oakland record set at the 2014 championships.
On the first day of the championship event, Martin swam the breaststroke leg of 200-metre medley relay team placing second and setting another Oakland record.
In the 200 breaststroke (2:13.36) she placed second with the second fastest time in Oakland history.
The women's Oakland University swim and dive team have won 23 consecutive championships and are undefeated in the Horizon league after moving to this conference four years ago.
Oakland University is a NCAA Division 1 school in Rochester, Mich.
She attended her first Olympic trials in 2012 as a 16-year-old and again in 2016 and she represented Thunder Bay at World Trials in 2013 and the Pan Am Trials in 2015.
Martin received a full scholarship to Oakland University and graduates this year with a major in health sciences-pre med and minor in French.
Recently, she was named again to the Horizon League all-academic team.
Martin will continue her post-graduate studies in Canada.
