Harvard University

Top Collegiate Times

50-Yard Freestyle: 21.95 (12/5/24)
100-Yard Freestyle: 49.20 (11/18/22)
200-Yard Freestyle: 1:45.53 (11/18/22)
500-Yard Freestyle: 4:52.79 (11/11/22)
100-Yard Backstroke: 50.45 (2/2/24)
200-Yard Backstroke: 1:49.75 (2/3/24)

Junior - 2024-25

Set a personal record in the 50 free, finishing in 21.95 at the Minnesota Invitational ... Top 100 and 200 back times came at HYP (100 - 50.92; 200 - 1:52.30) ... Swam on the 400 free relay and 200 medley relay during the season.

Sophomore - 2023-24

Swam his fastest 50 free at the Minnesota Invitational (24.10) … Swam the 100 free in 49.28 against Brown … Recorded 50.45 in the 100 back and 1:49.75 in the 200 back at HYP … Competed in the 200 free relay, 400 free relay, 200 medley relay and 400 medley relay … Helped the Crimson win the Ivy League title for the seventh straight season.

First-Year - 2022-23 

Top 100- (49.20) and 200-yard free (1:45.53) times came against Columbia ... Fastest 500-yard free (4:52.79) and 100-yard back (53.69) performances occurred at Dartmouth/vs. Cornell ... Also competed in the 200 medley relay.

Before Harvard

Gained Boston Globe All-Scholastic accolades as a junior and senior … Earned Dual County League All-Star honors four times … Set four Newton South team records in the 100 back, 200 free, 200 medley relay, and 400 free relay … Captured DCL and state titles in the 100 backstroke in 2021 … Claimed DCL titles in the 200 free and 100 back in 2022; came in third at the Division I state championships in the 100 back … Garnered Team MVP plaudits as a junior and senior … Served team as a captain as a senior … Won team’s Rookie of the Year award in 2018-19 and team’s Coach’s Award in 2019-20 … Competed on the club level for Crimson Aquatics … Earned four varsity letters … Ran the 2022 Boston Marathon, raising over $10,000 for the Rett Syndrome Association of Massachusetts … Plays percussion … Son of Michela Fagiolini and Takao Hensch; Takao is a member of the Harvard men’s swimming and diving Class of 1988 … Brother, Luca, is a member of the Harvard men’s swimming and diving Class of 2022 and brother, Carlo, is a member of the Harvard Class of 2024.