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2015-16 Men's Swimming & Diving Roster

Austin Palmer

  • Position Butterfly/Individual Medley
  • Ht./Wt. 6-1 / 198
  • Class Sophomore
  • Major Economics and Mathematics (College of Arts and Science)
  • Hometown Fayetteville, GA
  • High School Starr’s Mill

Biography

2014-15: Earned NCAA All-America honors for his fifth-place finish in the 1,650-yard freestyle (NYU-record 15:29.54), and All-America Honorable Mention in the 400-yard IM (12th place, 3:58.51, season-best 3:57.91 in preliminary) and 500-yard free (15th place, 4:34.83, NYU-record 4:30.33 in preliminary) at the NCAA Championships (3/18-21)…set a Palladium Natatorium record in the 1,000-yard free (9:36.10) in his collegiate debut vs. SUNY Cortland (10/11)…finished first and set Palladium Natatorium records in the 1,650-yard free (16:02.00) and 400-yard IM (4:07.02), won the 500-yard free (4:45.49) and posted a career-best time in the 100-yard backstroke leg (55.53) of the 400-yard medley relay (3:39.95) at the NYU Invitational (2/6-7)…CSCAA Scholar All-American…Intercollegiate Athletic Advisory Committee Fall Honor Roll.
 
High School: Four-year team member…state champion in the 200 breast in 2010…National Merit Scholarship semifinalist…also a four-year water polo team member.
 
Personal: Enjoys writing, reading and water polo…aspires to be a novelist.

Historical Player Information

  • 2014-15Freshman

    Butterfly/Individual Medley
    6'1" 198 lbs
  • 2015-16Sophomore

    Butterfly/Individual Medley
    6'1" 198 lbs