2015-16 Men's Swimming and Diving

Kevin Stang

  • Weight 0
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Highland Heights, Ohio
  • Highschool University

Biography

Best Times:

100 Back 49.43

200 Back : 1:45.00

200 IM: 1:52.83

400 IM: 3:50.22

2015-2016 (Senior): Received the S. Livingston Mather Swimming Award for outstanding performance in backstroke swimming... 100-yard backstroke: Twenty-third place at at 2016 Ivy League Men''s Swimming and Diving Championships... Third place vs. Brown... Third place vs. Columbia... Third place vs. Penn State... Eighth place vs. Harvard and Princeton... 200-yard backstroke: Twelfth place at Ivies with season-best time of 1:45.10 in prelims... Second place vs. Brown... Second place vs. Columbia... Second place vs. Penn State... Eleventh place at Nike Invitational... 400-yard IM: Twelfth place at Ivies with season-best time of 3:54.43.

2014-2015 (Junior): 100-yard backstroke: Twenty-third place at 2015 Ivy League Men''s Swimming and Diving Championships, sesason-best time of 49.85 in prelims... First place vs. SCSU... Third place vs. Columbia... Third place vs. Boston University... Fourth place at Cornell...  Fifth place vs. Dartmouth and Penn... Seventh place vs. Penn State... Eighth place at Bucknell Invitational... 200-yard backstroke: Fifteenth place at Ivies, season-best time of 1:46.01 in prelims... First place vs. Brown... Second place vs. Columbia... Second place vs. Boston University... Fourth place vs. Dartmouth and Penn... Fourth place vs. Penn State...  Fifth place at Bucknell Invitational... 200-yard IM: Seventh place vs. Dartmouth and Penn... 21st place at Bucknell Invitational... 400-yard IM: 13th place at Ivies, season-best time of 3:53.82 in prelims... Third place vs. Penn State... Ninth place at Bucknell Invitational.

2013-2014 (Sophomore): 400-yard IM: Third place at 2014 Ivy League Men''s Swimming and Diving Championships, with career-best time of 3:50.22... Fifth at Bucknell Inivitational... 100-yard backstroke: 11th place at Ivy League Championships, season-best time of 49.53... Second vs. Cornell...Third vs. Dartmouth and Penn... 200-yard backstroke:  Seventh place at Ivy League Championships, career-best time of 1:45.00... First vs. Dartmouth and Penn... First vs. Cornell... First vs. BU... First at Bucknell Invitational.

2012-2013 (Freshman): 100-yard backstroke: Fourteenth place at 2013 Ivy League Men''s Swimming and Diving Championships with a time of 49.64... 200-yard backstroke: 4th place at the Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships, with NCAA B cut time of 1:45.30 ... Won the event against Brown...400-yard IM: 9th place at Ivy''s, with a time of 3:50.74, another NCAA B cut.

Before Yale: Swam all four years in high school… Earned four varsity letters… Team captain and MVP senior year… Holds six school and varsity records… Helped team to four consecutive State Championships… Three-time All-American… USA Swimming Scholastic All-American… National and Olympic Trial qualifier.

Personal: Member of Berkeley College… Sister graduated from Middlebury College.

Why I Chose Yale: “I felt that Yale was a place I could grow both academically and athletically.”

Historical Player Information

  • 2012-13First Year

    Backstroke/IM
  • 2013-14Sophomore

    Backstroke/IM
  • 2014-15Junior

    Backstroke/IM
  • 2015-16Senior