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2025-26 Men's Swimming and Diving Roster

Mert Iravul (he/him/his)

  • Class Sophomore
  • Hometown Ankara, Turkey
  • High School Ted Ankara College
  • Event Butterfly/IM

Biography

Top Collegiate Times

200-Yard Backstroke: 1:48.72 (2/1/25)
100-Yard Butterfly: 49.30 (2/1/25)
200-Yard Butterfly: 1:47.52 (1/10/25)
200-Yard Invididual Medley: 1:51.36 (12/5/24)
400-Yard Individual Medley: 4:02.60 (1/17/25)

First-Year - 2024-25

Top 200 back (1:48.72) and 100 fly (49.30) came at HYP... Best 200 fly (1:47.52) and 400 IM (4:02.60) came a week apart at Arizona and at Brown, respectively... Fastest 200 IM came at Minnesota Invitational (1:51.36)... Swam in the 200 medley relay and 400 medley relay during the campaign.

Before Harvard

Competed for four years at Ted Ankara College, serving as team captain in 2023-24… Also swam for Fenerbahce Sports Club from 2021-24… Recipient of Best Athlete of the Year Award in 2019-20 and 2023-24… Set multiple Turkish records… Finalist at the European Junior Championships… Competed at the World Junior Championships… Won several medals domestically and abroad… Helped team to a third-place finish at Turkish nationals in 2023… Guided Fenerbahce to a national title in 2021, 2022, and 2023… Participated as Java developer for a software development team… Developed an AI project for Alzheimer Classification with MRI images using deep learning algorithms, compared the performance of machine learning algorithms, and submitted a report to TUBITAK.

Historical Player Information

  • 2024-25First-Year

    Butterfly/IM
  • 2025-26Sophomore

    Butterfly/IM