Will serve as a co-captain for this year's squad ... three-time monogram winner ... won the BIG EAST title in the 400-yard individual medley in 2004 ... Notre Dame's best-ever swimmer in the event (school-record 3:54.38) has his sights set on the NCAA Championships ... local product holds each of the top six times in Irish history in the event and is the lone swimmer in school history to break the 3:56.00 barrier ... four-time all-BIG EAST honoree was the conference runner-up in the 400 IM as a freshman ... also ranks second all-time in 200 IM (career-best 1:50.46) and ninth in 200 breaststroke (2:04.13) ... qualified for the finals of the 200-meter IM at the ConocoPhillips U.S. Swimming National Championships with a time of 2:07.71 ... swam as a member of the Irish Aquatics Swim Club ... made first senior national cut in summer of '03 ... possesses great work ethic and can swim every stroke well ... highly motivated to achieve ... playful, outgoing spirit turns into toughness on race day. AS A JUNIOR: Placed third in the 400-yard IM at the BIG EAST meet with a season-best time of 3:55.03 to garner the fourth all-BIG EAST honor of his career... posted other BIG EAST "A" cuts in the 100-yard breast (59.35), 200-yard breast (2:04.51) and the 200-yard IM (1:50.46) ... the 200-IM time ranks him second in school history ... the 100-breast time was swam at BYU, while the others were achieved at the BIG EAST Championships ... established BIG EAST "B" cuts with season-best times in the 200-yard freestyle (1:45.08), 500-free (4:48.54), 200-yard back (1:57.67) and the 100-yard fly (52.84) ... swam three events in all at the conference meet (200-breast, 200-IM, 400-IM) ... first on the team in the 400-yard IM, second in the 200-IM and third on the team in the 200-breast ... swam the second and third fastest times in school history in the 400-IM and the seventh-fastest in the 200-IM ... tied for 17th on the team with 171 total points (165 individual, 6 relay). AS A SOPHOMORE: Became the first Notre Dame student-athlete since 2000 to claim a BIG EAST championship, beating the field by more than a second in winning the 400 individual medley in a time of 3:55.37 that ranked him 56th in Division I ... earned all-BIG EAST honors for the third time ... improved upon seed time by more than five seconds ... also was second on team in 200 IM (1:50.85) and third in 200 breast (2:04.13) ... ranked third on team in individual points scored with 249.5 ... 38.5 of those points - second-highest total on the team - came in the BIG EAST meet, making him a big factor in the Irish finishing second and posting their highest-ever point total ... finished fourth in the 200 IM and 13th in the 200 breast ... finished first in the 200 IM in the Notre Dame Invitational and was third in the 400 IM and fourth in 200 breast ... also had six dual-meet race victories including one in the 500 free and one in the 200 breast ... took part in 400 individual medley relay that set meet record (3:40.39) in the Dennis Stark Relays ... also qualified for BIG EAST meet in 200 free and 100 breast. AS A FRESHMAN: Burst onto scene as dominating individual medley swimmer in 2002-03 ... set University record (3:54.38) in finishing as runner-up in 400 IM at BIG EAST Championships ... earned all-BIG EAST honors for finish, which was best for Irish in the meet ... also the top 200 IM swimmer for Notre Dame (fifth at BIG EAST) and third-quickest all-time ... swam 200 breaststroke in BIG EAST meet (finished 16th), as well, ranking as team's fourth-fastest in that event ... posted 14 top-three finishes on season, including dual-meet victory in 400 IM against Michigan State ... also swam 100 and 200 freestyle, 200 backstroke, and 100 breast at times throughout the season. HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL DATA: Four-year letterwinner in swimming at Penn High School in Mishawaka, Ind. ... earned all-conference honors all four years of prep competition ... earned both all-state and All-America honors three times ... served as team captain his senior year at Penn and was named the team MVP both his sophomore and senior seasons ... reached the finals at the junior nationals ... named a BIG EAST Academic All-Star ... member of the National Honor Society and Interact ... his younger brother Daniel is a freshman on the Notre Dame roster ... born May 18, 1984, in Chicago, Ill. ... enrolled in the College of Engineering as an aerospace engineering major. |
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