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2017-18 Men's Swimming & Diving Roster

Chad Moody

  • Position Freestyle/Backstroke
  • Ht./Wt. 6-3 / 195
  • Class Senior
  • Major Business (Leonard N. Stern School of Business)
  • Hometown Fort Lauderdale, FL
  • High School Cardinal Gibbons

Biography

2016-17: Earned three All-America honors by finishing fourth in the 100-yard backstroke (school-record 48.22), seventh in the 400-yard freestyle relay (3:01.20) and seventh in the 400-yard medley relay (3:17.63) at the NCAA Championships (3/15-18)…also earned Honorable Mention All-America honors by placing 15th in the 50-yard freestyle at the NCAA’s (personal-best 20.62)…won the 100-yard freestyle (45.23), took third in the 100-yard backstroke (48.98) and fourth in the 100-yard butterfly (49.69) at the UAA Championships (2/8-11) …recorded 11 total wins on the season…UAA Winter Sport All-Academic…IAAC Fall Honor Roll.
 
2015-16: Earned All-American honors as a member of the Violets’ seventh-place 400-yard medley relay (3:18.74) at the NCAA Championships (3/16-19)…won the 100-yard backstroke (49.46) at the UAA Championships (2/17-20)…ECAC Metro Swimmer of the Week (1/27)…CSCAA Scholar All-American…IAAC Spring Honor Roll.
 
2014-15: Earned NCAA All-America Honorable Mention for the 200-yard freestyle relay (14th place, 1:23.05) and 400-yard free relay (13th place, 3:02.29)…won the 100-yard backstroke (personal-best 49.74), helped set the NYU record in the 200-yard free relay (third place, 1:21.95), and recorded career-best times in the 100-yard butterfly (49.87), 100-yard free (45.90), 50-yard free leg (21.17) of the 200-yard free relay preliminary, and in the 50-yard back leg (23.78) of the 200-yard medley at the UAA Championships (2/11-14)…member of the Violets’ record-setting 400-yard free relay (3:01.61) at the ECAC Championships (12/5-7)…won both the 50-yard free and the 100-yard free in his collegiate debut vs. SUNY Cortland (10/11)…UAA Athlete of the Week (10/13)…two-time ECAC Metro Rookie of the Week (1/21, 2/18).
 
High School: Four-year team member…served as captain during his senior year…team MVP as a junior and senior…Sun Sentinel Student Athlete Scholarship recipient…also a two-year water polo team member.
 
Personal: Concentration in finance and accounting…minoring in public policy and management…plans to get his MBA…aspires to work at an investment bank.

Historical Player Information

  • 2014-15Freshman

    Freestyle/Backstroke
    6'2" 175 lbs
  • 2015-16Sophomore

    Freestyle/Backstroke
    6'2" 175 lbs
  • 2016-17Junior

    Freestyle/Backstroke
    6'3" 195 lbs
  • 2017-18Senior

    Freestyle/Backstroke
    6'3" 195 lbs