Career
Kuan competed in a backstroke double, as a 15-year-old, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. On the second day of the Games, Kuan placed fortieth in the 100 m backstroke. Swimming in heat two, she trailed behind the rest of the field over the race, and picked up a seventh seed in 1:07.18, more than 1.2 seconds below her entry standard.
Four days later, in the 200 m backstroke, Kuan edged out Croatia"s Petra Banović on the final stretch to post a third-seeded time of 2:24.61 from heat one, but finished only in thirty-third overall on the morning prelims.
