Swimming & Diving
Glen Brown - Swimming & Diving - University of Kentucky Athletics

GlenBrown

  • class Senior
  • Hometown Kokomo, Ind.
  • Major Accounting
  • High school Fishers High School

Top Times (SCY):
200 IM: 1:43.47 (2020 SEC Championships, 02/19/20)
400 IM: 3:46.73 (2018 SEC Championships, 02/16/18)
200 Breaststroke: 1:56.66 (2018 SEC Championships, 02/16/18)
100 Freestyle: 43.28 (2020 SEC Championships, 02/22/20)
200 Freestyle: 1:35.34 (2020 SEC Championships, 02/20/20)
100 Backstroke: 47.28 (2020 SEC Championships, 02/21/20)

Top Times (LCM):
100 Freestyle: 50.99 (2020 OH AP Ohio State January, 01/03/20)
200 Freestyle: 1:51.90 (2019 Time Trials Phillips 66 National Championships, 08/01/19)
50 Backstroke: 27.20 (2017 Bucceto Open, 06/01/17)
100 Backstroke: 59.66 (Ohio Valley Championship, 06/08/18)
200 Breaststroke: 2:22.07 (Ohio Valley Championship, 06/08/28)
200 IM: 2:02.83 (2017 Speedo Long Course Sectionals, 07/13/17)

Career Notes:

  • 2020 All-SEC Second Team
  • 2020 SEC Bronze Medalist in 400 Freestyle Relay
  • 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials qualifier 
  • ^2020 All-America in 200 Individual Medley, 400 Freestyle Relay
  • 2020 NCAA Student-Athlete Leadership Forum (SEC selection)
  • 2020 H. Boyd McWhorter Scholarship Award nominee
  • 2020 CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team
  • 2020 SAAC President
  • 2019 SAAC Vice President
  • 2019, *2020 NCAA qualifier
  • 2019 All-America Honorable Mention in 400 Freestyle Relay
  • 2019, 2020 SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll
  • 2019 SEC Community Service Team selection
  • 2019, 2020 CSCAA Scholar All-America First Team
  • 2018 CSCAA Scholar All-America Honorable Mention
  • 2017 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll

2019-20 (Senior): Named to the All-SEC Second Team … Scored 45 individual points at the SEC Championships, while also helped the 400 freestyle relay to a bronze medal … Finished fourth place in the 200 IM in 1:43.47, a personal best, at the SEC Championships … Finished in 20th place in the 200 freestyle in 1:35.44, after earning a personal-best 1:35.34 in preliminaries, at the SEC Championships … Finished in 13th place in the 100 freestyle in 43.28, a personal best, at the SEC Championships … Helped the 400 freestyle relay team to a bronze medal, a NCAA “A” cut and school record in  2:50.28, swimming the third split in 42.38, at the SEC Championships … Helped the 800 freestyle relay team to a fourth-place finish in 6:18.11, swimming the anchor split in 1:33.46 … Invited to the NCAA Championships in the 200 IM before it was caneled due to the COVID-19 public health threat … Named to CSCAA Scholar All-America First Team … Named to SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll.

2018-19 (Junior): Scored in three events at the SEC Championships … There, finished in sixth place in the 200 IM (1:44.35), earned fifth place swimming the anchor leg in the 400 free relay (2:41.40) and finished in sixth place swimming the anchor leg in the 800 free relay (6:21.53) … Reset the 200 IM school record two times this season, both at the Bulldog Invitational (March 2 – 1:44.15; March 3 – 1:43.69) … Qualified for the NCAA Championships for the first time in his career in the 200 IM … There, finished 35th in the 200 IM on a time stamp of 1:44.42 and swam the anchor leg in the 400 free relay to finish 15th (2:51.53) … Earned a career-best time in the 100 back at the Ohio State Fall Invite (47.94) … Helped the UK men break two school relay records in 2019, including the 400 free relay (2:51.40) and the 800 free relay (6:21.53) … Named to SEC Community Service Team … Named to CSCAA Scholar All-America First Team … Named to SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll.
 
2017-18 (Sophomore): Qualified for the championship final of the 200 IM at the SEC Championships, breaking the school record in prelims with a time of 1:44.16 … Finished eighth overall with a time of 1:44.41 … Won the “C” final of the 200 breast at the SEC Championships with a time of 1:56.74 … Placed 20th in the 400 IM at the league meet, going a personal-best 3:46.73, which ranks No. 2 in program history … Won all four of his individual events at the Saluki Invite vs. SIU, Northwestern and Mizzou … Named CSCAA Scholar All-America Honorable Mention.

2016-17 (Freshman): Broke the Kentucky record in the 200 IM with his time of 1:46.57, which earned him a 20th-place finish at the SEC Championships … Swam the third leg of UK’s record-breaking 800 free relay team, which placed sixth at the conference meet in 6:23.51 … Claimed the seventh-fastest 400 IM in program history after going 3:53.64 at the Ohio State Fall Invite …  Recipient of the team’s Freshman Award at the end of year banquet… Named to  2017 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll.
 
Prior to UK: Indiana swimming top performer award … One of two males selected from Indiana to attend Golden Goggles Awards … Indiana swimming high point winner … Indiana State Champion … Broke multiple high school records at both Western and Fishers High School … National Interscholastic Swimming Association All-American … Academic All-American … Swim team co-captain … Competed for Fishers Area Swim Team … Member of the National Honor Society … Graduated in top-10 percent of his class … Class President for Western High School …  Father, Ted, swam at Princeton … Brother, Ted Jr., swam at Notre Dame … Sister, Summer, swims at Vanderbilt.

*The NCAA Championships were canceled because of the COVID-19 public-health threat.
^The CSCAA board adjusted the All-America selection criteria to recognize a group of individuals who would have had the opportunity to compete for All-America status at the canceled 2020 NCAA Championships.

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