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2023-24 Men's Swimming and Diving Roster

Alex Petty

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Lincoln, Neb.
  • High School Lincoln East
  • Event Breaststroke
  • Concentration Applied Mathematics

Biography

Top Collegiate Times

50-Yard Breaststroke: 27.32 (10/23/21)
100-Yard Breaststroke: 54.80 (2/24/23)
200-Yard Breaststroke: 1:59.50 (1/28/23)
100-Yard Butterfly: 51.68 (12/2/22)
200-Yard Butterfly: 2:00.46 (11/16/19)
200-Yard Individual Medley: 1:53.31 (1/29/22)

2023-24 - Senior

Swam the 100 breast in 54.87 and the 200 breast in 1:59.61 at HYP…Recorded a 1:55.53 in the 200 IM at the Minnesota Invitational…Competed in the 400 free, 200 medley and 400 medley relays…Helped the Crimson win the Ivy League title for the seventh straight season.

2022-23 - Junior

Set a personal best in the 100 breast at the Ivy League Championships (54.80) ... Swam a PR in the 200 breast at HYP (1:59.50) ... Competed in the 200 medley relay and 400 medley relay.

2021-22 - Sophomore

Posted season-best times of 27.32 in the 50 breast, 55.17 in the 100 breast, 2:00.97 in the 200 breast, and 1:53.31 in the 200 IM … Also competed in the 200 free relay and 200 medley relay … Helped the Crimson win the Ivy League championship for the fifth straight season.

2020-21

Season canceled due to COVID-19.

2019-20 - First-Year

Posted personal-bests at the annual H-Y-P meet ...  Third-best Harvard swimmer in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:00.31) at H-Y-P ... Registered a time of 56.08 in the 100-yard breaststroke and a 1:54.01 mark in the 200-yard IM.

Before Harvard

USA Swimming first-team Scholastic All-American (2018) … Nebraska School Activities Association Academic All-State Award recipient (2018) … Four-time Midwestern Swimming Swimmer of the Year … Midwestern Swimming All-Academic first-team member (2017) and second-team selection in 2016 … Held nine different Midwestern Swimming records … 10-time Midwestern Swimming IMX points leader (5 long course, 5 short course) … Posted an all-time top-10 performance in the state of Nebraska in the 100 breaststroke ... Broke three Lincoln East High pool records ... Helped his high school team to a pair of conference championships and three city titles ... Finished his prep career as a five-time Heartland Conference individual champion ... Two-time Lincoln Public Schools Scholar-Athlete Award recipient (2017, 2018) … Heartland Athletic Conference All-Academic team (2017, 2018) … Graduated No. 1 in his senior class of 475 students ... 2018 AP Scholar … National Honor Society president (2018-19) … National Merit Scholarship finalist (2019) ... 2018-19 We The People state champion/national team member ... Recipient of The Office of Naval Research Naval Science Award for Outstanding Achievement in STEM ... Kiwanis Key Club Senior Class Representative in 2018-19 ... Served as his junior class president … Volunteered his time raising money for the Team Jack Foundation to benefit research on pediatric brain cancer.

Historical Player Information

  • 2019-20First-Year

    Breaststroke
  • 2021-22Sophomore

    Breaststroke
  • 2022-23Junior

    Breaststroke
  • 2023-24Senior

    Breaststroke