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2023-24 Men's Swimming and Diving Roster

Simon Lamar

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Hacienda Heights, Calif.
  • High School Sonora
  • Event Freestyle/IM
  • Concentration Human Evolutionary Biology
  • House Affiliation Mather

Biography

Top Collegiate Times

100-Yard Freestyle: 50.54 (1/12/19)
200-Yard Freestyle: 1:48.59 (1/13/19)
500-Yard Freestyle: 4:23.06 (2/29/24)
1000-Yard Freestyle: 9:02.11 (2/2/24)
1650-Yard Freestyle: 15:05.35 (3/2/24)
100-Yard Butterfly: 56.49 (1/13/19)
200-Yard Butterfly: 2:00.23 (1/4/20)
200-Yard Individual Medley: 2:05.42 (1/12/19)
400-Yard Individual Medley: 4:10.86 (1/21/23)

2023-24 - Senior

CSCAA Scholar All-America Second Team ... Rejoined the team after winter break ... Recorded 4:23.06 in the 500 free and 15:05.35 in the 1,650 free at the Ivy Championships … Swam the 1000 free in 9:02.11 at HYP … Helped the Crimson win the Ivy League title for the seventh straight season.

2022-23 - Senior

Set personal bests in the four events in which he competed ... Enjoyed top 500 free effort (4:23.88) at HYP ... Established a new personal record in the 1,000 free (9:03.14) and 1,650 free (15:08.87) at the Ivy League Championships ... Set a PR in the 400 IM (4:10.86) at Penn ... Named to the U.S. Open Water National Team in May 2023.

2021-22 - Junior

Posted season-best times of 4:26.81 in the 500 free, 9:21.33 in the 1000 free, 15:15.70 in the 1650 free, and 4:11.16 in the 400 IM … Notched an NCAA B cut time in the 1650 free … Earned a spot on the 2021-22 U.S. Open Water National Team in the 10K in October 2021 … Helped the Crimson win the Ivy League title for the fifth straight season … Earned Second Team CSCAA Individual Scholar All-America honors.

2020-21

Competed at Wave I of the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in the 1,500-meter freestyle (16:02.61) ... Collegiate season canceled due to COVID-19.

2019-20 - Sophomore

Posted an NCAA B-cut time and season-best mark in the 1,650-yard free (15.22.79) to finish ninth ... Placed 10th in the 500-yard free (4:31.68) and 12th in the 1,650-yard free (15:46.31) at the annual H-Y-P meet ... Finished sixth in a dual meet with Brown in the 500-yard free (4:38.85).

2018-19 - First-Year

Swam a 10:07.86 in the 1,000 free against Bryant.

Before Harvard

U.S. National Team in 2017-18 … Member of the U.S. National Junior Team (2015-17) … Competed on the U.S. World Championships Team in 2017 … 2017 U18 Open Water National Champion … Bronze medalist in the 5K relay at the 2014 Junior World Championships and 7.5K at the 2016 Junior World Championships … Won four bronze medals at the Junior National Championships … CIF champion in the 500 freestyle … Holds the Freeway League record in the 500 freestyle … Two-time 500 freestyle All-America … Special Olympics volunteer … Four-time member of the principal’s honor roll … Son of Simon and, the late, Maria Lamar.

Historical Player Information

  • 2019-20Sophomore

    Freestyle/IM
  • 2021-22Junior

    Freestyle/IM
  • 2022-23Senior

    Freestyle/IM
  • 2023-24Senior

    Freestyle/IM