Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving explained
University: | Yale University |
Athletics Name: | Yale Bulldogs |
Conference: | Ivy League |
Conferenceshort: | Ivy League |
Nickname: | Bulldogs, Elis |
Home Pool: | Robert J. H. Kiphuth Exhibition Pool |
City: | New Haven |
State: | Connecticut |
Stateabb: | CT |
Coach: | Jim Henry |
Men's Ncaa: | 4 (1942, 1944, 1951, 1953) |
Women's Ncaa: | 0 |
Men's Conference: | 30 |
Women's Conference: | 6 |
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
- 2021-2022 Nathan Stern
- 2022-2023 Joseph Page
- 2023-2024 Sungmin Kang
NCAA Championships
[1]
Men's EISL Championships
Yale is in the Ivy League, but men's swimming traditionally competes in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swim League (EISL),[2] which pre-dates the Ivy League by 18 years. The EISL currently includes all the Ivy League schools.[3]
Women's Ivy Championships
- 1978
- 1992
- 1993
- 1996
- 1997
- 2017
Olympians
Athletes
- 1912, Stockholm
- 1936, Berlin
- 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
- 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
[4]
Pan American Games Champions
Alumni
- Ogden Mills Reid '07, Law '09; "Yale's first great swimmer" and later financial supporter and occasional coach.[5]
- Robert Moses '09; future New York power broker resigned from the swim team as an undergraduate, in a dispute over fundraising.
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.
External links
Notes and References
- http://www.ncaasports.com/swimming/mens/history History - Past Champions - NCAA.com
- http://www.collegeswimming.com/conference/EISL/ Eastern Intercollegiate Swim League
- Although Army and Navy are members of the Patriot League, they have participated in the EISL championships at times since 1962. See: Men's History: Yearly Team Scores (1962-2007). The Psyche Sheet. February 6, 2007. Retrieved 2010-03-03.
- http://yalebulldogs.cstv.com/sports/m-swim/stats/2004-2005/olympicgames.html Yale University Bulldogs, Official Athletic Site
- Book: Caro . Robert A. . The power broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York . 1975 . Random House . New York . 978-0-394-72024-1 . 2 . Vintage Books . 3 February 2024 . Reid, who had been Yale's first great swimmer, not only paid the team's expenses but, week after week, traveled up to New Haven from New York to do the coaching himself..