Collegiate Bests:
50-yard freestyle: 19.42
100-yard freestyle: 42.86
200-yard freestyle: 1:35.69
100-yard butterfly: 48.53

GAISSERT SENIOR SPOTLIGHT
 
2019-20: Earned CSCAA All-America honors as part of the NCAA Championship qualifying 200 freestyle relay… Recipient of the Harold Ulen Career High Point Swimmer Award at the Ivy League Championship… Part of winning 200 and 400 freestyle relays at Ivy’s… Finished fourth in the 100 freestyle, fifth in the 50 free and seventh in the 100 backstroke at Ivy’s.
 
2018-19: Swam in the third-place 400-yard freestyle relay and the second-place 800 freestyle relay at the Ivy League Championships… Had top five finishes in 50 freestyle (third), 100 freestyle (second) and 200 freestyle (fifth)… Finished second in the 50 free, third in the 100 free and eighth in the 200 free at the Ohio State Invitational.
 
2017-18: Was part of four relays that finished in the top three at the Ivy League Championship – 800 freestyle (second), 400 freestyle (second), 200 medley (third) and 200 freestyle (third)… Finished third in the 50 freestyle, fourth in the 100 freestyle and sixth in the 200 freestyle at Ivy’s.
 
2016-17: Swam in the second-place 400-yard freestyle relay at the Ivy League Championships… Part of the fourth-place 200-yard freestyle relay… Finished sixth in the 100 freestyle and was ninth in the 200 free and 12^th in the 50 free at Ivy’s.
 
Before Yale:  Three-time USA Swimming Scholastic All-American... Member of two third-place relays at the 2015 East Winter Junior Nationals. 
 
Personal:  Dual citizen of the US and Germany... Member of National Honor Society and National Junior Classical League... Older brother Philipp was a member and captain of the Columbia swimming and diving team... Cousin, Adrian Lin ''19, swam at Yale.
 
Why Yale: “The Yale Bulldogs stand out as a team of tremendous pride, incredible performance and continuing progress. I could not be more excited to be a part of such an established culture of athletic and academic success.”