Yale Bulldogs Swimming And Diving

Since its inception in 1898, the Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving program has produced numerous champion athletes. Many Yale swimmers have gone on to earn All-American honors and even break world records. The team has won 4 NCAA championships, 30 EISL championships, and several AAU championships. Under legendary coach Robert J. H. Kiphuth, the Yale men swam to a record of 528 wins and 12 losses. As of February 2009, the men's program has a record of 1063 wins and 210 losses over 112 years. The first varsity women's team competed in 1975.

History

Coaches

* Thomas O'Callahan (1906–1915) ''47-14''
* Matthew Mann (1915–1917) ''17-3''
* Robert J. H. Kiphuth (1917–1959) ''528-12''
* Phil Moriarty (1959–1976) ''195-25''
* Edward L. Bettendorf (1976–1977) ''8-3''
*Paul Katz (1977–1978) ''3-7''
* Frank P. Keefe (1978–2010) ''241-127 (men)''
* Timothy Wise (2010–2017) (men)
*Jim Henry (2013-present) ''28 - 7 (women, combined 2017-present)''

Captains and season records

Men

# 1898-1899 ? ''1-2''
# 1899-1900 ? ''1-1''
# 1900-1901 ? ''1-0''
# 1901-1902 ? ''5-3''
# 1902-1903 ? ''2-3''
# 1903-1904 ? ''2-1''
# 1904-1905 ? ''4-1''
# 1905-1906 ? ''3-2''
# 1906-1907 ? ''2-3''
# 1907-1908 ? ''3-2''
# 1908-1909 Edward C. M. Richards ''4-2''
# 1909-1910 Edward C. M. Richards ''7-0''
# 1910-1911 William Howe ''5-0''
# 1911-1912 John Cameron Stoddart ''3-2''
# 1912-1913 Andrew Wilson ''8-2''
# 1913-1914 Paul Roberts ''7-1''
# 1914-1915 Daniel Summers ''8-2''
# 1915-1916 Carl V. Schlaet ''7-2''
# 1916-1917 Louis A. Ferguson ''10-1''
# 1917-1918 Richard Mayer ''8-1''
# 1918-1919 John M. Hincks ''7-0''
# 1919-1920 John M. Hincks ''10-0''
# 1920-1921 Lorrin P. Thurston ''14-0''
# 1921-1922 C. Dudley Pratt ''14-0''
# 1922-1923 William L. Jelliffe ''15-0''
# 1923-1924 Robert B. Colgate ''10-4''
# 1924-1925 Robert J. Sullivan ''14-0''
# 1925-1926 James D. Bronson ''14-0''
# 1926-1927 Phil W. Bunnell ''14-0''
# 1927-1928 James A. House, Jr. ''14-0''
# 1928-1929 John A. Pope ''12-0''
# 1929-1930 John V. Howland ''14-0''
# 1930-1931 Robert L. Messimer ''14-0''
# 1931-1932 Lloyd B. Osborne ''11-0''
# 1932-1933 Albert T. Hapke ''14-0''
# 1933-1934 Joseph Barker ''14-0''
# 1934-1935 David Livingston ''12-0''
# 1935-1936 Norris D. Hoyt ''14-0''
# 1936-1937 Richard A. Cooke ''14-1''
# 1937-1938 John Macionis ''10-3''
# 1938-1939 John W. Good ''15-1''
# 1939-1940 Russ P. Duncan ''15-1''
# 1940-1941 Willis H. Sanburn III ''13-0''
# 1941-1942 Howard R. Johnson ''12-0''
# 1942-1943 L.D. Dannenbaum ''13-0''
# 1943-1944 Richard Lyon ''10-0''
# 1944-1945 Alan R. Ford ''8-1''
# 1945-1946 Philetus Stetler ''8-0''
# 1946-1947 Edward K. Heuber ''13-0''
# 1947-1948 Allan M. Stack ''12-0''
# 1948-1949 Richard B. Baribault ''13-0''
# 1949-1950 Albert J. Ratkiewicz ''13-0''
# 1950-1951 Raymond M. Reid ''13-0''
# 1951-1952 James J. Carroll ''13-0''
# 1952-1953 Wayne R. Moor ''14-0''
# 1953-1954 Kenneth S. Welch ''13-0''
# 1954-1955 Malcolm P. Aldrich, Jr. ''14-0''
# 1955-1956 John P. Phair ''15-0''
# 1956-1957 William T. Clinton ''14-0''
# 1957-1958 Peter R. Taft ''13-0''
# 1958-1959 P. Timothy Jecko ''13-0''
# 1959-1960 Peter Lusk ''14-0''
# 1960-1961 Thomas Bissell ''12-1''
# 1961-1962 William McMaster ''12-1''
# 1962-1963 John Finch ''13-0''
# 1963-1964 Michael M. Austin ''13-0''
# 1964-1965 Stephen E. Clark ''13-0''
# 1965-1966 George S. Hill ''12-1''
# 1966-1967 Douglas Kennedy ''14-0''
# 1967-1968 Donald A. Schollander ''14-0''
# 1968-1969 Robert S. Waples, Jr. ''15-0''
# 1969-1970 Edward L. Bettendorf ''14-0''
# 1970-1971 Michael W. Cadden ''12-1''
# 1971-1972 Robert Kasting ''10-3''
# 1972-1973 Nate Cartmell ''10-1''
# 1973-1974 Chuck Holum ''6-5''
# 1974-1975 Bryan Smith ''4-6''
# 1975-1976 Bob Blattner ''7-6''
# 1976-1977 Quentin Lawler ''8-3''
# 1977-1978 Bill Lindsay ''3-7''
# 1978-1979 Jim Healy ''5-6''
# 1979-1980 Mark DeVore ''5-6''
# 1980-1981 Kurt Langborg ''5-6''
# 1981-1982 Bob Murchison ''7-5''
# 1982-1983 Jon Sharp ''6-6''
# 1983-1984 Geoff Pitt ''3-8''
# 1984-1985 Jason Green ''7-5''
# 1985-1986 Todd Kaplan ''3-7''
# 1986-1987 Bert Hazlett ''7-4''
# 1987-1988 Jeff Kaplan ''3-7''
# 1988-1989 Eric Breissinger ''5-7''
# 1989-1990 Dave Jacobs ''7-4''
# 1990-1991 Greg Reihman ''10-3''
# 1991-1992 Greg Reihman ''9-1''
# 1992-1993 Mike Englesbe ''13-1''
# 1993-1994 Sean Tesoro ''10-2''
# 1994-1995 Mike Kostal ''11-5''
# 1995-1996 John Mendell ''7-7''
# 1996-1997 Brian Hall ''9-3''
# 1997-1998 David Antonelli ''7-4''
# 1998-1999 Steve Gold ''10-1''
# 1999-2000 Mike Caperonis ''10-2''
# 2000-2001 George Gleason ''10-3''
# 2001-2002 Pat Dennis ''14-1''
# 2002-2003 Greg Palumbo ''11-2''
# 2003-2004 Alex Nash ''10-2''
# 2004-2005 Dave Lange ''7-5''
# 2005-2006 Brendan Everman ''8-4''
# 2006-2007 Geof Zann ''7-3''
# 2007-2008 Colin Stalnecker ''8-3''
# 2008-2009 Alex Righi ''7-4''
# 2009-2010 Thomas Robinson ''5-6''
# 2010-2011 Kyle Veatch ''2-8''
# 2011-2012 Christopher Luu ''6-2''
# 2012-2013 Jared Lovett ''8-2''
# 2013-2014 Ed Becker 7-3
# 2014-2015 Andrew Heymann 8-2
# 2015-2016 Brian Hogan
# 2016-2017 Alex Goss
# 2017-2018 James Bell
# 2018-2019 Adrian Lin
# 2019-2020 Matthew Slabe
# 2020-2021 Patrick Frith

NCAA Championships

*1942
*1944
*1951
*1953

Men's EISL Championships

Yale is in the Ivy League, but men's swimming traditionally competes in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swim League (EISL), which pre-dates the Ivy League by 18 years. The EISL currently includes all the Ivy League schools.

*1936
*1939
*1940
*1941
*1942

*1943
*1946
*1947
*1948
*1949

*1950
*1951
*1952
*1953
*1954

*1955
*1956
*1957
*1958
*1959

*1960
*1961
*1963
*1964
*1965

*1967
*1968
*1969
*1970
*1973

Women's Ivy Championships

*1978
*1992
*1993
*1996
*1997
*2017

Olympians

Athletes

*1912, Stockholm
**Arthur McAleenan, diving
*1936, Berlin
** John Macionis, 400 Free, 800 Free Relay silver
*1948, London
** Alan Ford, 100 Free silver
** James McLane, 400 Free silver, 1500 Free gold, 800 Free Relay Gold
**John Marshall (Australia), 400 Free bronze, 1500 Free silver
**Allen Stack, 100 Back gold
*1952, Helsinki
**Rex Aubrey (Australia), 100 Free, 1500 Free, 800 Free Relay
** James McLane, 800 Free Relay gold, 400 Free, 1500 Free
**John Marshall (Australia), 400 Free, 800 Free Relay
** Wayne Moore, 800 Free Relay gold, 400 Free
** Donald Sheff, alternate 800 Free Relay
**Allen Stack, 100 Back
*1956, Melbourne
**Timothy Jecko, alternate 800 Free Relay
**John Marshall (Australia), 200 Fly
*1960, Rome
** Stephen Clark, alternate 400 Medley Relay, 800 Free Relay
** Jeffrey Farrell, 400 Medley Relay gold, 800 Free Relay gold
*1964, Tokyo
** Michael Austin, 400 Free Relay gold, 100 Free
** Stephen Clark, 400 Medley Relay gold, 400 Free Relay gold, 800 Free Relay gold
** David Lyons, alternate 400 Free Relay, 800 Free Relay
** William Mettler, alternate 800 Free Relay
** John Nelson, 1500 Free silver, 400 Free
** Donald Schollander, 100 Free gold, 400 Free gold, 400 Free Relay gold, 800 Free Relay gold
** Edward Townsend, alternate 400 Free Relay, 800 Free Relay
*1968, Mexico City
** David Johnson, alternate 400 Free Relay, alternate 800 Free Relay
** Philip Long, 200 Breast
** John Nelson, 800 Free Relay gold, 200 Free bronze, 400 Free, 1500 Free
** Donald Schollander, 800 Free Relay gold, 200 Free silver, alternate 400 Medley Relay, 400 Free Relay
*1972, Munich
**Erik Fish (Canada), 400 Medley Relay bronze
**Robert Kasting (Canada), 400 Medley Relay bronze
*1976, Montreal
**Lionel Bourcelot (France), 100 Back
*1984, Los Angeles
**George Gross (Canada), Water Polo
*2000, Sydney
**Stephen Fahy (Bermuda), 100 Fly, 200 IM
**George Gleason (U.S. Virgin Islands), 100 Free, 200 Free, 200 IM
**Emily de Riel, Modern Pentathlon silver
*2004, Athens
**George Gleason (U.S. Virgin Islands), 100 Free
*2004, Athens (Paralympics)
**Deb Gruen, 100m Breaststroke ("bronze"), 100m Freestyle, 200m Individual Medley, 400m Freestyle, 50m Butterfly
*2008, Beijing (Paralympics)
** Deb Gruen, 400 Freestyle, 50 Fly, 100 Breast (American Record) bronze, 200 IM

Coaches

*Robert J. H. Kiphuth: 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1948
*Philip Moriarty: 1960
*Frank Keefe: 1984, 1988, 2000

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Pan American Games Champions

* Eva Fabian
* Jim McLane

Facilities

The Yale Swimming & Diving teams train and compete in the Payne Whitney Gymnasium on Yale's campus. The third-floor practice pool is a 5-lane, 50-meter course with two moveable bulkheads that allow the pool to be divided into two 25-yard courses. The Robert J. H. Kiphuth Exhibition Pool is the competition venue, and is a 6-lane 25-yard course with seating for 2,178.

References

External links

Men's websiteWomen's website

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