2015-16 Men's Swimming and Diving

William Yang

  • Weight 0
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Baltimore, Md.
  • Highschool Centennial

Biography

Best Times:

200 Free: 1:41.57

500 Free: 4:29.74

1000 Free: 9:20.63

1650 Free: 15:44.73

2015-2016 (Senior): 200-yard butterfly: Season-best time of 1:56.77 vs. Brown, finished sixth... 200-yard freestyle: Second place vs. Southern Connecticut... Recorded season best time of 1:42.30 vs. Harvard and Princeton... 500-yard freestyle: Third place vs. Boston University and the University of Connecticut with season-best time of 4:40.67.

2014-2015 (Junior): Competed in 100 and 200-yard butterfly time trials at 2015 Ivy League Men''s Swimming and Diving Championships... 200-yard butterfly: Fourth place vs. Southern Connecticut... Fifth place vs. Penn State... 17th place at Bucknell Invitational... 200-yard freestyle: Second place vs. SCSU... Ninth place vs. Dartmouth and Penn... Sixth place vs. Brown... 11th place at Bucknell Invitational... 500-yard freestyle: Second place vs. Cornell... Second place vs. Brown... Fourth place vs. Dartmouth and Penn... 12th place vs. Harvard and Princeton, recorded season best time of 4:36.96... 27th place at Bucknell Invitational... 1,000-yard freestyle: Third place vs. Boston University... Fifth place at Cornell... 1,650-yard freestyle: 24th place at Bucknell Invitational... 

2013-2014 (Sophomore): 500-yard freestyle: 31st at Ivy League Championships, career-best time of 4:29.74... Second vs. Cornell... Sixth at Bucknell Invitational... 1000-yard freestyle: 21st at Ivy League Championships... Third vs. Cornell... 1650-yard freestyle: 22nd at Ivy League Championships... Career-best time of 15:44.73 in ninth place finish at HYP.

2012-13 (Freshman): 1000-yard freestyle: 19th place at the Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships... 1650-yard freestyle: Finished 18th at Ivy''s.

Before Yale: Swam for Eagle Swim Team for seven years… Maryland Long Course Swimmer of the Year from 2007-2011… Earned a score of 5 on all 8 AP tests taken during sophomore and junior year.

Personal: Member of Jonathan Edwards College... Planning on doing pre-med.

Why I Chose Yale“I really liked the rooming system.”

Historical Player Information

  • 2012-13First Year

    Distance/Mid–Distance Freestyle
  • 2013-14Sophomore

    Distance/Mid–Distance Freestyle
  • 2014-15Junior

    Distance/Mid–Distance Freestyle
  • 2015-16Senior