2016-17 Men's Swimming and Diving

Alex Schultz

  • Weight 0
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Gilbert, Ariz.
  • Highschool Gilbert High School

Biography

Best Times:     200 Free:  1:40.08

100 Fly:         49.50        200 Fly:     1:47.00

100 Back:     47.93         200 Back:  1:44.61

Club: Arizona Gold Swimming                           Coaches:  Jerry Olszewski, Mike Walker 


2016-2017 (Senior): Won the S. Livingston Mather award for outstanding performance in backstroke swimming... 100-yard backstroke: Seventh place at the 2017 Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships with a season best time of 48.60... Second place vs. Boston University and UConn… 200-yard backstroke: Eighth place at Ivies with a season best time of 1:46.67... Fourth place vs. Brown and UMass… Third place vs. Columbia… Third place vs. Boston University and UConn… Second place Dartmouth and Penn… Second place at Penn State… Third place at Cornell… Fifth place vs. Harvard and Princeton…100-yard butterfly: Fourth place vs. Columbia… 200-yard butterfly: Fifth place vs. Brown and UMass… First place Dartmouth and Penn… Second place at Penn State… Second place at Cornell… Seventh place vs. Harvard and Princeton…

2015-2016 (Junior): 100-yard backstroke: Twenty-fourth place at 2016 Ivy League Men''s Swimming and Diving Championships, season-best time of 50.10 in prelims... Fifth place vs. Dartmouth and Penn... 10th place vs. Harvard and Princeton... 26th place at Nike Cup... 200-yard backstroke: Seventeenth place at Ivies with season-best time of 1:46.37... Fourth place vs. Dartmouth and Penn... Ninth place vs. Harvard and Princeton... 200-yard butterfly: Eighteenth place at Ivies, recorded season-best time of 1:49.48... Second place vs. Penn State... Third place vs. Brown... Third place vs. Columbia. 

 2014-2015 (Sophomore): 100-yard backstroke: Seventh place at 2015 Ivy League Men''s Swimming and Diving Championships, personal best time of 47.93 in prelims... 200-yard backstroke: Twelfth place at Ivies... Fifth place vs. Penn State... Seventh place vs. Cornell... Seventh place vs. Dartmouth and Penn... 12th place vs. Harvard and Princeton... 200-yard butterfly: Twentieth place at Ivies...  Second place vs. Cornell... Second place vs. Dartmouth and Penn... Second place vs. Penn State... Third place vs. Coumbia.

2013-2014 (Freshman): 100-yard backstroke: Nineteenth at Ivy League Championships... Career-best time of 49.74 in eighth place finish at HYP... Second at Bucknell Invitational... Fourth vs. Dartmouth and Penn... 200-yard backstroke: Twelfth at Ivy League Championships with career-best time of 1:46.27... Second vs. Fordham and Rider...Seventh at HYP... Seventh at Bucknell Invitational... 100-yard butterfly: Season-best time of 51.29 at Bucknell Invitational, finished 17th... Third vs. Cornell... 200-yard butterfly: Ninth at Ivy League Championships... Season-best time of 1:48.92 in eighth place finish at HYP... Third vs. Brown.

Before Yale: State Champion in the 100 backstroke Junior and Senior year...Captain of High School Swim team senior year...Academic All-American...Short Course Western Sectionals Champion in the 200 fly...qualified for 2012 Olympic Trials.


Personal: Member of Ezra Stiles College...In high school was the president of the Best Buddies club...1st Chair Bassist in Gilbert Symphony Orchestra...Bassist in East Valley Regional Orchestra...Member of Gilbert Theatre Ensemble...Has two brothers: Kai who swam at Columbia and Zach who went to Stanford.

Why Yale: "I chose Yale because of the amazing academics, the inspiring student body, and the close-knit family that I found within the swim team." 

Historical Player Information

  • 2013-14First Year

    Butterfly/Backstroke/Freestyle
  • 2014-15Sophomore

    Butterfly/Backstroke/Freestyle
  • 2015-16Junior

    Butterfly/Backstroke/Freestyle
  • 2016-17Senior

    Butterfly/Backstroke/Freestyle