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2025-26 Men's Swimming and Diving Roster

Richard Poplawski III

  • Class Sophomore
  • Hometown Clifton, N.J.
  • High School Seton Hall Prep
  • Event IM/Butterfly/Freestyle

Biography

Top Collegiate Times

100-Yard Butterfly: 50.59 (1/17/25)
200-Yard Butterfly: 1:46.16 (3/1/25)
200-Yard Individual Medley: 1:46.47 (2/27/25)
400-Yard Individual Medley: 3:47.30 (2/28/25)

First-Year - 2023-24

CSCAA Scholar All-America Second Team... Swam the fifth-fastest 400 IM (3:47.30) in school history at the Ivy League Championships... Top 200 IM (1:46.47) and 200 fly (1:46.16) performances also came at the Ivy meet... Fastest 100 fly effort came at Brown when he finished in 50.59... Also swam in the 200 free relay, 400 free relay, 800 free relay, 200 medley relay and 400 medley relay during the season.

Before Harvard

Earned four varsity letters at Seton Hall Prep and served as its team captain as a senior… Competed for Clifton Boys and Girls Club from 2014-17, before representing Scarlet Aquatics… Earned NISCA All-America honors… Named to the All-State First Team… Voted to the Essex County First Team… Secured Most Valuable Swimmer honors at Seton Hall Prep (2021-24)… Recipient of the Cullen Jones Award as the Most Valuable Swimmer in Essex County (2022, 2024)… Set the national age group record in the 200 and 400 individual medley… Set records at the state level, at Scarlet Aquatics and at Seton Hall Prep… Qualified for the 2024 Olympic Trials… Graduated summa cum laude… Earned Seton Scholar honors all four years… Named a Scholastic All-American (2021-24)… Part of the National Honor Society… Graduated as an AP Scholar with Distinction, National Merit Commended Scholar, and Essex County Scholar Athlete.

Historical Player Information

  • 2024-25First-Year

    IM/Butterfly/Freestyle
  • 2025-26Sophomore

    IM/Butterfly/Freestyle