2015-16 Men's Swimming and Diving

James McNelis

  • Weight 0
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.
  • Highschool Grosse Pointe North

Biography

2015-2016 (Senior): One-meter diving: Sixteenth place at 2016 Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships... Season-best score of 277.20 vs. Columbia, placed second... Second place vs. Boston University and the University of Connecticut (259.45)... Second place vs. Dartmouth and Penn (276.80)... Three-meter diving: Seventeenth place at Ivies... Second place vs. Brown (276.75)... Third place vs. Columbia (292.50)... Fourth place vs. BU and UConn (256.80)...  Fourth place vs. Penn State... Fifth place vs. Harvard and Princeton (282.60)... 

2014-2015 (Junior): One-meter diving: 41st place at NCAA Zone A Championships... 13th place at 2015 Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships (268.45)... Third place at Bucknell Invitational (303.55)... First place vs. Cornell (299.47)... First place vs. Brown (308.25)... Second place vs. Boston University (271.05)... Third place vs. Dartmouth and Penn (276.20)... Fourth place vs. Harvard and Princeton (248.90)... Three-meter diving: 46th place at NCAA Zones... 11th place at Ivies (266.20; 322.20 in prelims)... First place at Bucknell Invitational (317.55)... First place vs. Boston University (269.85)... First place vs. Cornell (314.70)... Third place vs. Dartmouth and Penn (272.40)... Third place vs. Brown (284.03)... Fourth place vs. Harvard and Princeton (277.90).

2013-2014 (Sophomore): One-meter diving: Season high score of 292.65 vs. SCSU... Third vs. Fordham and Rider... Fifth at Bucknell Invitational...Sixth at HYP...Three-meter diving: Season high of 312.53 vs. Cornell, finished second...Second vs. Fordham and Rider...Fifth at Bucknell Invitational...Sixth at HYP.

2012-13 (Freshman): Finished second in the 1m diving against Brown; competed at Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships. 

Before Yale: Four-year letterman for diving… Captain of the team junior and senior year… All-American in diving…  All-state in diving junior and senior year… Academic All-American… Academic All-State… Scholar-athlete all four years of high school… Went to USA Diving Nationals as a junior… Attended Michigan Diving Academy for three years…

Personal: Member of Pierson College…Brother named William...Parents Phil and Julia both went to the University of Michigan.

Why I Chose Yale“I liked everything about my visits to Yale, including the students, the team, the campus, the way the colleges are set up, the atmosphere, etc.”

Historical Player Information

  • 2012-13First Year

    Diving
  • 2013-14Sophomore

    Diving
  • 2014-15Junior

    Diving
  • 2015-16Senior

    Diving