2016-17 Men's Swimming and Diving

Ben Lerude

  • Weight 0
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Reno, Nev.
  • Highschool Reno High School

Biography

Best Times:       500 Free:    4:28.07         1000 Free:  9:05.47

1650 Free:  15:11.57

Reno Aquatic Club                           Coach:  Matt Benedict


2016-2017 (Senior): Won the Phil Moriarty Prize, given to an upperclassman "who has contributed immeasurably to the Yale Swimming tradition by his dedication and personal achievement"... 500-yard freestyle: Second place vs. Brown and UMass… Second place vs. Columbia… Seventh place at Virginia Tech Invitational… Second place vs. Boston University and UConn… Fifth place Dartmouth and Penn… Fifth place at Penn State… Second place at Cornell… Eighth place vs. Harvard and Princeton… 1000-yard freestyle: Eighth place at the 2017 Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships with a personal best time of 9:05.47... Second place vs. Brown and UMass… Second place vs. Columbia… Second place vs. Boston University and UConn… Second place Dartmouth and Penn… First place at Cornell… 1,650-yard freestyle: Fifth place at Ivies with a season best time of 15:13.67... Second place at Virginia Tech Invitational… Second place at Penn State… Fourth place vs. Harvard and Princeton…200-yard butterfly: 15th place at Ivies... 14th place at Virginia Tech Invitational… First place at Southern Connecticut.

2014-2015 (Sophomore): 200-yard butterfly: Second place at Bucknell Invitational... Second place vs. Boston University... Fourth place vs. Cornell... Sixth place vs. Dartmouth and Penn...  500-yard freestyle: Fifth place at 2015 Ivy League Men''s Swimming and Diving Championships with personal best time of 9:05.52... First place vs. Brown... Fourth place vs. Penn State... 14th place vs. Harvard and Princeton... 1,000-yard freestyle: Second place at Cornell... Second place vs. Brown... Third place vs. Penn State... Fourth place vs. Dartmouth and Penn... 1,650-yard freestyle: Fifth place at Ivies with personal best time of 15:11.57... 400-yard IM: 15th place at Ivies, personal best time of 3:55.10 in prelims... Sixth place vs. Penn State... Fifteenth place vs. Harvard and Princeton.

2013-2014 (Freshman): Competed in 11 different events...Member of third place 800-yard freestyle relay team at Ivy League Championships, swam a 1:41.19 split... 500-yard freestyle: Season-best time of 4:28.07 at HYP, finished fourth...1,000-yard freestyle: Fourth place at Ivy League Championships, with season-best time of 9:07.44...1,650-yard freestyle: Fifth place at Ivy League Championships... Second at HYP, with season-best time of 15:14.11... 200-yard butterfly: 20th place at Ivy League Championships... Sixth place at HYP, with season-best time of 1:48.21... Third vs. Dartmouth and Penn.

Before Yale: USA Swimming Scholastic All-American ... four-year varsity swimmer ... two-year high school team captain ... four-year regional champion in 500 free ... senior national qualifier.

Personal: Attended Reno High School ...Mother Stephanie, father Eric, brother Griffin.

Why I Chose Yale: "The team environment and the goals of the team appealed to me and I felt like Yale could help me grow over the next four years."

Historical Player Information

  • 2013-14First Year

    Freestyle/Butterfly
  • 2014-15Sophomore

    Freestyle/Butterfly
  • 2015-16Junior

    Freestyle/Butterfly
  • 2016-17Senior

    Freestyle/Butterfly