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 47-14
  • Matthew Mann 17-3
  • Robert J. H. Kiphuth 528-12
  • Phil Moriarty 195-25
  • Edward L. Bettendorf 8-3
  • Paul Katz 3-7
  • Frank P. Keefe 241-127
  • Timothy Wise
  • Jim Henry ''28 - 7 ''

    Captains and season records

Men

  1. 1898-1899 ? 1-2
  2. 1899-1900 ? 1-1
  3. 1900-1901 ? 1-0
  4. 1901-1902 ? 5-3
  5. 1902-1903 ? 2-3
  6. 1903-1904 ? 2-1
  7. 1904-1905 ? 4-1
  8. 1905-1906 ? 3-2
  9. 1906-1907 ? 2-3
  10. 1907-1908 ? 3-2
  11. 1908-1909 Edward C. M. Richards 4-2
  12. 1909-1910 Edward C. M. Richards 7-0
  13. 1910-1911 William Howe 5-0
  14. 1911-1912 John Cameron Stoddart 3-2
  15. 1912-1913 Andrew Wilson 8-2
  16. 1913-1914 Paul Roberts 7-1
  17. 1914-1915 Daniel Summers 8-2
  18. 1915-1916 Carl V. Schlaet 7-2
  19. 1916-1917 Louis A. Ferguson 10-1
  20. 1917-1918 Richard Mayer 8-1
  21. 1918-1919 John M. Hincks 7-0
  22. 1919-1920 John M. Hincks 10-0
  23. 1920-1921 Lorrin P. Thurston 14-0
  24. 1921-1922 C. Dudley Pratt 14-0
  25. 1922-1923 William L. Jelliffe 15-0
  26. 1923-1924 Robert B. Colgate 10-4
  27. 1924-1925 Robert J. Sullivan 14-0
  28. 1925-1926 James D. Bronson 14-0
  29. 1926-1927 Phil W. Bunnell 14-0
  30. 1927-1928 James A. House, Jr. 14-0
  31. 1928-1929 John A. Pope 12-0
  32. 1929-1930 John V. Howland 14-0
  33. 1930-1931 Robert L. Messimer 14-0
  34. 1931-1932 Lloyd B. Osborne 11-0
  35. 1932-1933 Albert T. Hapke 14-0
  36. 1933-1934 Joseph Barker 14-0
  37. 1934-1935 David Livingston 12-0
  38. 1935-1936 Norris D. Hoyt 14-0
  39. 1936-1937 Richard A. Cooke 14-1
  40. 1937-1938 John Macionis 10-3
  41. 1938-1939 John W. Good 15-1
  42. 1939-1940 Russ P. Duncan 15-1
  43. 1940-1941 Willis H. Sanburn III 13-0
  44. 1941-1942 Howard R. Johnson 12-0
  45. 1942-1943 L.D. Dannenbaum 13-0
  46. 1943-1944 Richard Lyon 10-0
  47. 1944-1945 Alan R. Ford 8-1
  48. 1945-1946 Philetus Stetler 8-0
  49. 1946-1947 Edward K. Heuber 13-0
  50. 1947-1948 Allan M. Stack 12-0
  51. 1948-1949 Richard B. Baribault 13-0
  52. 1949-1950 Albert J. Ratkiewicz 13-0
  53. 1950-1951 Raymond M. Reid 13-0
  54. 1951-1952 James J. Carroll 13-0
  55. 1952-1953 Wayne R. Moor 14-0
  56. 1953-1954 Kenneth S. Welch 13-0
  57. 1954-1955 Malcolm P. Aldrich, Jr. 14-0
  58. 1955-1956 John P. Phair 15-0
  59. 1956-1957 William T. Clinton 14-0
  60. 1957-1958 Peter R. Taft 13-0
  61. 1958-1959 P. Timothy Jecko 13-0
  62. 1959-1960 Peter Lusk 14-0
  63. 1960-1961 Thomas Bissell 12-1
  64. 1961-1962 William McMaster 12-1
  65. 1962-1963 John Finch 13-0
  66. 1963-1964 Michael M. Austin 13-0
  67. 1964-1965 Stephen E. Clark 13-0
  68. 1965-1966 George S. Hill 12-1
  69. 1966-1967 Douglas Kennedy 14-0
  70. 1967-1968 Donald A. Schollander 14-0
  71. 1968-1969 Robert S. Waples, Jr. 15-0
  72. 1969-1970 Edward L. Bettendorf 14-0
  73. 1970-1971 Michael W. Cadden 12-1
  74. 1971-1972 Robert Kasting 10-3
  75. 1972-1973 Nate Cartmell 10-1
  76. 1973-1974 Chuck Holum 6-5
  77. 1974-1975 Bryan Smith 4-6
  78. 1975-1976 Bob Blattner 7-6
  79. 1976-1977 Quentin Lawler 8-3
  80. 1977-1978 Bill Lindsay 3-7
  81. 1978-1979 Jim Healy 5-6
  82. 1979-1980 Mark DeVore 5-6
  83. 1980-1981 Kurt Langborg 5-6
  84. 1981-1982 Bob Murchison 7-5
  85. 1982-1983 Jon Sharp 6-6
  86. 1983-1984 Geoff Pitt 3-8
  87. 1984-1985 Jason Green 7-5
  88. 1985-1986 Todd Kaplan 3-7
  89. 1986-1987 Bert Hazlett 7-4
  90. 1987-1988 Jeff Kaplan 3-7
  91. 1988-1989 Eric Breissinger 5-7
  92. 1989-1990 Dave Jacobs 7-4
  93. 1990-1991 Greg Reihman 10-3
  94. 1991-1992 Greg Reihman 9-1
  95. 1992-1993 Mike Englesbe 13-1
  96. 1993-1994 Sean Tesoro 10-2
  97. 1994-1995 Mike Kostal 11-5
  98. 1995-1996 John Mendell 7-7
  99. 1996-1997 Brian Hall 9-3
  100. 1997-1998 David Antonelli 7-4
  101. 1998-1999 Steve Gold 10-1
  102. 1999-2000 Mike Caperonis 10-2
  103. 2000-2001 George Gleason 10-3
  104. 2001-2002 Pat Dennis 14-1
  105. 2002-2003 Greg Palumbo 11-2
  106. 2003-2004 Alex Nash 10-2
  107. 2004-2005 Dave Lange 7-5
  108. 2005-2006 Brendan Everman 8-4
  109. 2006-2007 Geof Zann 7-3
  110. 2007-2008 Colin Stalnecker 8-3
  111. 2008-2009 Alex Righi 7-4
  112. 2009-2010 Thomas Robinson 5-6
  113. 2010-2011 Kyle Veatch 2-8
  114. 2011-2012 Christopher Luu 6-2
  115. 2012-2013 Jared Lovett 8-2
  116. 2013-2014 Ed Becker 7-3
  117. 2014-2015 Andrew Heymann 8-2
  118. 2015-2016 Brian Hogan 8-3
  119. 2016-2017 Alex Goss 10-2
  120. 2017-2018 Dirk Bell 6-2
  121. 2018-2019 Adrian Lin 4-4
  122. 2019-2020 Matthew Slabe 6-3
  123. 2020-2021 Patrick Frith Season Canceled
  124. 2021-2022 Nathan Stern 4-4
  125. 2022-2023 Joseph Page 6-3
  126. 2023-2024 Sungmin Kang 4-5
  127. 2024-2025 Alex Deng 7-1
  128. 2025-2026 Alex Hazlett

    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, 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 Freestyle, 4x200 Freestyle Relay silver
  • 1948, London
  • *Alan Ford, 100 Freestyle silver
  • *James McLane, 400 Freestyle silver, 1500 Freestyle gold, 4x200 Freestyle Relay Gold
  • *John Marshall, 400 Freestyle bronze, 1500 Freestyle silver
  • *Allen Stack, 100 Backstroke gold
  • 1952, Helsinki
  • *Rex Aubrey, 100 Freestyle, 1500 Freestyle, 4x200 Freestyle Relay
  • *James McLane, 4x200 Freestyle Relay gold, 400 Freestyle, 1500 Freestyle
  • *John Marshall, 400 Freestyle, 4x200 Freestyle Relay
  • *Wayne Moore, 4x200 Freestyle Relay gold, 400 Freestyle
  • *Donald Sheff, alternate 4x200 Freestyle Relay
  • *Allen Stack, 100 Backstroke
  • 1956, Melbourne
  • *Timothy Jecko, alternate 4x200 Freestyle Relay
  • *John Marshall, 200 Butterfly
  • 1960, Rome
  • *Stephen Clark, alternate 4x100 Medley Relay, 4x200 Freestyle Relay
  • *Jeffrey Farrell, 4x100 Medley Relay gold, 4x200 Freestyle Relay gold
  • 1964, Tokyo
  • *Michael Austin, 4x100 Freestyle Relay gold, 100 Freestyle
  • *Stephen Clark, 4x100 Medley Relay gold, 4x100 Freestyle Relay gold, 4x200 Freestyle Relay gold
  • *David Lyons, alternate 4x100 Freestyle Relay, 4x200 Freestyle Relay
  • *William Mettler, alternate 4x200 Freestyle Relay
  • *John Nelson, 1500 Freestyle silver, 400 Freestyle
  • *Donald Schollander, 100 Freestyle gold, 400 Freestyle gold, 4x100 Freestyle Relay gold, 4x200 Freestyle Relay gold
  • *Edward Townsend, alternate 4x100 Freestyle Relay, 4x200 Freestyle Relay
  • 1968, Mexico City
  • *David Johnson, alternate 4x100 Freestyle Relay, alternate 4x200 Freestyle Relay
  • *Philip Long, 200 Breaststroke
  • *John Nelson, 4x200 Freestyle Relay gold, 200 Freestyle bronze, 400 Freestyle, 1500 Freestyle
  • *Donald Schollander, 4x200 Freestyle Relay gold, 200 Freestyle silver, alternate 400 Medley Relay, 4x100 Freestyle Relay
  • 1972, Munich
  • *Erik Fish, 4x100 Medley Relay bronze
  • *Robert Kasting, 4x100 Medley Relay bronze
  • 1976, Montreal
  • *Lionel Bourcelot, 100 Backstroke
  • 1984, Los Angeles
  • *George Gross, Water Polo
  • 2000, Sydney
  • *Stephen Fahy, 100 Butterfly, 200 Individual Medley
  • *George Gleason, 100 Freestyle, 200 Freestyle, 200 Individual Medley
  • *Emily de Riel, Modern Pentathlon silver
  • 2004, Athens
  • *George Gleason, 100 Freestyle
  • 2004, Athens
  • *Deb Gruen, 100 Breaststroke bronze, 100 Freestyle, 200 Individual Medley, 400 Freestyle, 50 Butterfly
  • 2008, Beijing
  • * Deb Gruen, 400 Freestyle, 50 Butterfly, 100 Breaststroke bronze, 200 Individual Medley
  • 2024, Paris
  • *Ali Truwit, 400 Freestyle silver, 100 Backstroke '''silver'''

    Coaches

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

    Pan American Games Champions

  • Eva Fabian
  • Jim McLane

    Alumni

  • Ogden Mills Reid '07, Law '09; "Yale's first great swimmer" and later financial supporter and occasional coach.
  • Robert Moses '09; future New York power broker resigned from the swim team as an undergraduate, in a dispute over fundraising.