TriCounty As a Pekin High School junior, Charlie was the 2005 Journal Star Girls Swimmer of the Year. She also earned that honor as a freshman. She topped the Journal Star's honor roll in all four freestyle distances and fell nine-hundredths of a second short of becoming a two-time all-American in the 200-yard freestyle. She finished 16th in the state meet in the 200 free and 24th in the 100 free.