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Josh Swart - Swimming & Diving - University of Kentucky Athletics

JoshSwart

  • class Senior
  • Hometown San Clemente, Calif.
  • Major Marketing
  • High school San Clemente HS
BIO

Top Times (SCY):
100 Backstroke: 47.19 (2019 SEC Championships, 02/22/19)
200 Backstroke: 1:43.37 (2019 SEC Championships, 02/23/19)
100 Butterfly: 47.57 (2019 SEC Championships, 02/21/19)
 
Top Times (LCM):
50 Backstroke: 27.00 (2017 Phillips 66 National Championships, 06/29/17)
100 Backstroke: 56.86 (2017 Speedo Long Course Sectionals, 07/14/17)
200 Backstroke: 2:05.03 (Iowa City Speedo Champions Series, 07/21/18)
100 Butterfly: 55.41 (Iowa City Speedo Champions Series, 07/21/18)

Career Notes:

  • 2017, 2018, 2019 SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll
  • 2016 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll
  • 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials Qualifier
2018-19 (Senior): Scored points in four events at the SEC Championships … There, finished ninth in the 200 medley relay (1:24.98) and the 400 medley relay (3:09.56) – breaking school records in each event, 19th in the 100 back (47.19) and 20th in the 200 back (1:43.37), while also earning an alternate spot placing 26th in the 100 fly (47.57) … Meanwhile, he set career-best times in each of his individual events at the league meet, including the 100 back (47.19), the 200 back (1:43.37) and the 100 fly (47.57) … Named to SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll.
 
2017-18 (Junior): Part of Kentucky’s 400 medley relay team that broke the school record at the SEC Championships in 3:10.78 … Posted a PR 47.32 swimming the backstroke leg in the record-breaking relay … Scored individually in the 100 back at the conference meet, finishing 15th in 47.80 … Set a personal record in the 100 fly at the SEC Championships, placing 29th in prelims in 47.91 … Won the 200 back twice throughout the dual season … Named to SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll.

2016-17 (Sophomore): Scored points in both the 100 and 200 back at the SEC Championships … His top finish at the conference meet in the 200 back, finishing 19th with a PR 1:44.44 … Set a personal record in the 100 back, going 48.00 to finish 23rd … Both his backstroke times from the conference meet ranked fourth on UK’s all-time performers list … Named to SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll.
 
2015-16 (Freshman): Swam the fourth-fastest 200 back and eighth-fastest 100 back in school history at the SEC Championships … Placed 20th in the 200 back in an NCAA “B” cut time of 1:45.26 after going 1:45.17 in the prelims … Finished 26th in the 100 back in 48.64 seconds … Broke the UK record in the 100 back at the 2016 Olympic Trials, taking down Shane Eliason’s 2004 standard in 56.88 seconds… SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll.
 
Prior to UK: Swam for San Clemente Aquatics under coach Keith Kennedy … Broke the 100 back record in two different leagues, besting the previous standard of then-100 LCM back world record holder Aaron Piersol … Held the San Clemente High School records in the 100 back and 100 fly … Played water polo.

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