2015-16 Men's Swimming and Diving

Yubin Kim

  • Weight 0
  • Class Sophomore
  • Hometown Westlake Village, Calif.
  • Highschool Westlake

Biography

100 Butterfly: 49.35

200: Butterfly 1:50.54
50 Freestyle: 21.31
100 Freestyle: 46.64

Class Aquatics  Coach: Steve Reardon

2015-2016 (Sophomore): Swam in two relays in Yale''s 189-153 victory over Penn State... 100-yard butterfly: Season-best time of 49.47 in 10th-place finish vs. Harvard and Princeton... Third place vs. Brown... Fifth place vs. Dartmouth and Penn... 28th place at Nike Cup...  200-yard butterfly: Season-best time of 1:51.94 in 12th-place finish vs. Harvard and Princeton... 32nd place at Nike Cup.

2014-2015 (Freshman): 100-yard butterfly: Second place vs. Dartmouth and Penn... Third place at Cornell... Sixth-place vs. SCSU... 16th place at Bucknell Invitational... Fifth place vs. Dartmouth and Penn... Ninth place vs. Harvard and Princeton... 200-yard butterfly: Fourth place vs. Boston University... Fifth place vs. Dartmouth and Penn... Tenth place at Bucknell Invitational.

Before Yale: Swam for four years in high school, team MVP in freshman year... Two-time Varsity Letter Award... Three-time Marmonte League Champion, holds three school records...Holds Southern California Record in 400 Meter Medley Relay... Two-time Scholastic All-American.

Personal: Born in Seoul, South Korea... Has an older brother, Eric... Plans to major in Economics.
Why Yale: "I chose Yale because of its strong sense of community and the infinite opportunities created by going to a school with such esteem and prestige."

Historical Player Information

  • 2014-15First Year

    Freestyle

  • 2015-16Sophomore

    Freestyle