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2014-15 Men's Swimming & Diving Roster

Alex Maquet-Diafouka

  • Position Freestyle/Breaststroke
  • Ht./Wt. 6-1 / 175
  • Class Junior
  • Major Individualized Study (Gallatin School of Individualized Study)
  • Hometown Millburn, NJ
  • High School Millburn

Biography

2014-15: Finished third in the 50-yard freestyle (career-best 21.68), sixth in the 100-yard breaststroke (season-best 1:01.50), 10th in the 100-yard free (48.52), and also contributed to NYU’s third-place 200-yard free relay (1:25.55) and 200-yard medley relay (1:38.55) at the NYU Invitational (2/6-7)…posted a career-best time in the 200-yard breast (2:17.48) at the ECAC Championships (12/5-7)…Intercollegiate Athletic Advisory Committee Spring Honor Roll.
 
2013-14: Earned career best times in the 50 free (21.86) and 100 breast (59.85), and placed 20th in the 100 free (48.70) at the UAA Championships (2/14-15)…contributed to the 400 free relay win (3:23.68) vs. SUNY Cortland (10/12) and its second-place finish (3:18.03) vs. TCNJ (11/16)…UAA Winter Sport All-Academic.
 
2012-13: Contributed to Violet victories in the 400 free relay (3:28.70) vs. Stevens Tech (11/10) and in the 200 medley relay (1:39.84) vs. Vassar (1/26)…also posted season-best times in the 50 free (23.43) and 200 breast (2:21.45) vs. Vassar…helped NYU to second-place finishes in the 400 free relay with times of 3:37.12 vs. Springfield (1/12) and 3:24.70 vs. USMMA (1/25)…swam season-best times in the 100 breast (1:03.02) and 100 free (48.99) at the UAA Championships (2/13-16)…Intercollegiate Athletics Advisory Committee Fall and Spring Honor Rolls.
 
High School: Four-year team member…served as captain during his senior campaign…All-County as a sophomore, junior and senior…also competed for the Summit Area Y Seals club team…went on a Catholic Youth Group/Service trip…earned French Academic Excellence Award.
 
Personal: Concentration in economics and marketing…Albert Gallatin Scholar…enjoys playing foosball…born in Brussels, Belgium, and can speak French…aspires to a career in marketing management…worked for L’Envol Service Project in France.

Historical Player Information

  • 2012-13Freshman

    Sprints/Breaststroke
    6'0" 165 lbs
  • 2013-14Sophomore

    Sprints/Breaststroke
    6'0" 165 lbs
  • 2014-15Junior

    Freestyle/Breaststroke
    6'1" 175 lbs