Swimming & Diving
Isaac Jones - Swimming & Diving - University of Kentucky Athletics

IsaacJones

  • class Senior
  • Hometown Allansford, Australia
  • Previous School Emmanuel College, Australia

Top Times:
500 Freestyle: 4:14.72 (Ohio State Invite, 11/17/17)
200 Freestyle: 1:35.50 (Ohio State Invite, 11/18/17)
1650 Freestyle: 14:48.61 (Ohio State Invite, 11/19/17)
200 Butterfly: 1:47.34 (2015 SEC Championships, 02/20/15)
 
LCM
200 Free: 1:48.96 (GHSF Australian Age & MC, 04/14/14)
400 Free: 3:53.10 (2017 U.S. Open, 08/03/17)
800 Free: 8:03.83 (2017 U.S. Open, 08/06/17)
 

  • 2018 NCAA Qualifier
  • 2016,2017, 2018 SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll

2017-18 (Senior): Broke the school record in the 1,650 free at the Ohio State Invitational in November with a time of 14:48.61 … Also reset the Kentucky record in the 500 free at Ohio State, going 4:14.72 … Earned the top seed in both the 500 and 1,650 free for the 2018 SEC Championships, but suffered a hand injury in the final dual meet of the season which derailed his training … Only competed in the 1,650 free at the SEC Championships, finishing 28th in 15:32.58 … Bounced back for the NCAA Championships, finishing 17th in the 500 free with a time of 4:15.26 … Placed 23rd in the 1,650 free at the national meet with a time of 14:51.69 … Also finished 36th in the 200 free at the NCAA Championships with a time of 1:35.58 … Named to SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll … Inducted into the Frank G. Ham Society of Character. 

2016-17 (Junior): Set new school records in both the 500 and 1650 free at the SEC Championships … Became the second Wildcat to ever swim the 1650 in under 15 minutes, finishing 10th in the event at the conference meet with a new school standard 14:57.77 … Made the championship final of the 500 free at SECs, finishing seventh overall with a program record 4:17.52 … Also had the fifth-fastest swim in UK laurels in the 200 free at the meet, going 1:35.72 to finish 19th … Had NCAA B cuts in the 200, 500 and 1650 free and was less than a second off of NCAA qualification in the 1650 … Recipient of the team’s 100% Award at the end of year banquet … Named to SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll.
 
2015-16 (Sophomore): Had a trio of NCAA B cuts at the SEC Championships … Placed 11th in the 500 free in 4:19.15, just over a second off his school-record time … Swam a 1:36.72 in the prelims of the 200 free, placing 24th in 1:37.89 … Placed 26th in the 200 fly in 1:47.63 … Had two wins in the 500 free and one in both the 200 free and 200 fly during the regular season … Staple swimmer in the 400 free relay … Swam a 1:36.86 anchor leg split in the seventh-place 800 free relay at the SEC Championships that finished in 6:24.65 … Named to the SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll.
 
2014-15 (Freshman):  Broke Kentucky’s record in the 500 free at the 2015 SEC Championships when he finished 12th in 4:18.42 … Also placed 17th in the 200 free at the conference meet in 1:36.43, which ranks seventh in UK laurels … Swam in three relays at the SEC Championships, including the UK record-breaking 800 free relay that took eighth in 6:23.75 with a second leg 200-yard split of 1:35.56 … Swam the butterfly leg of the ninth-place medley relay that touched in at 3:14.69, with a 100-yard split of 47.60 seconds … Anchored the 10th-place 400 yard freestyle relay that finished in 2:57.37, with a 100-yard split of 44.36 seconds.

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