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2022-23 Women's Swimming and Diving Roster

Alison Hu

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Huntsville, Ala.
  • High School Virgil I. Grissom
  • Event Breaststroke
  • Concentration Applied Mathematics
  • House Adams

Biography

Top Collegiate Times

50-Yard Freestyle: 24.63 (12/6/19)
100-Yard Freestyle: 53.79 (2/2/20)
500-Yard Freestyle: 5:21.17 (11/13/21)
100-Yard Backstroke: 1:02.25 (11/18/22)
100-Yard Breaststroke: 1:04.60 (12/3/21)
200-Yard Breaststroke: 2:20.74 (12/4/21)
100-Yard Butterfly: 59.66 (11/5/21)
200-Yard Butterfly: 2:10.32 (1/28/23)
200-Yard Individual Medley: 2:09.29 (12/2/21)

2022-23 (Senior)

Recorded her best 50-free time at Brown (25.33) ... Competed in the 100 back for the first time at Harvard and turned in a time of 1:02.25 vs. Columbia ... Top 200 breast performance (2:26.17) and 200 fly effort (2:10.32) came at the annual HYP meet ... Had a season-best time of 1:00.92 in the 100 fly vs. Columbia ... Competed in the 200 IM at the Minnesota Invitational and produced a season-best 2:10.64 ... Competed in the 200 and 40 free relays, as well as the 200 medley relay. 

2021-22 (Junior)

Swam season-best times of 54.76 in the 100 freestyle, 5:21.17 in the 500 freestyle, 1:04.60 in the 100 breaststroke, 2:20.74 in the 200 breaststroke, 59.66 in the 100 butterfly, and 2:09.29 in the 200 individual medley … Also competed in the 200 free relay, 400 free relay, 200 medley relay, and 400 medley relay … Helped the Crimson win the 2022 Ivy League title.

2020-21 (Sophomore)

Season canceled due to COVID-19.

2019-20 (First-Year)

Swam season bests in the 100 free (53.79), 100 breast (1:05.19), and 200 breast (2:22.49) at the H-Y-P meet ... Logged a season-best 24.63 in the 50 free at the Minnesota Invitational.

Before Harvard

Wendy's High School Heisman state winner ... Two-time USA Swimming Scholastic All-American ... National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association (NISCA) Swimming All-American ... Selected for the USA Swimming National Diversity Select Camp ... Named the Huntsville Hospital Female Athlete of the Year in 2019 ... 2017 Alabama High School Swimming state champion ... Is a former 6A-7A state record holder in the 100 breaststroke ... U.S. Open qualifier and Junior National qualifier ... Competed for Huntsville Swim Association from 2010-19 ... Named a U.S. Presidential Scholar, National Merit Scholar, National AP Scholar and class valedictorian ... Mu Alpha Theta president in 2018-19 and vice president in 2017-18 ... Member of the Key Club from 2016-19, serving as co-president in 2018-19 ... Part of the National Art Honor Society in 2018-19 ... A Math Team member from 2015-19 ... Competed with the Science Olympiad, State Team from 2017-19, and won the state title twice ... Is a four-time Alabama Music Teachers Association piano winner ... Piano accompanist for Valley United Methodist Church in Huntsville, Ala. ... Served as Rocket City Math League director from 2016-19 ... Was a volunteer swim instructor for the Huntsville Inner City Learning Center Summer Swim Camp (2015-19) ... Volunteer as a pianist at a nursing home from 2017-19 ... Brother, Johnny, was part of the Harvard Class of 2011 ... Daughter of Margaret and Zhengwei.

Historical Player Information

  • 2019-20First-Year

    Breaststroke
  • 2020-21Sophomore

    Breaststroke
  • 2021-22Junior

    Breaststroke
  • 2022-23Senior

    Breaststroke