2024-2025 Team Facts
This season, UCSD Club Swim hosted the largest non-nationals championship meet to date.
What is CCS Western Regionals?
Regarded by many as the greatest swimmer of all time, this olympian is also known for sinking the longest televised putt on the golf course at 160 feet (bonus points if you can name how many medals they won)
Who is Michael Phelps (28 medals)?
Holding many memories (hopefully), MCWP's hosts their socials at this infamous house.
What is Atlantis?
Sitting at the top of Jacob's School of Engineering, this house is a can't miss as you walk to the pool from campus.
Being a 2 time CCS National Champion, she currently holds the most team records!
Who is Erin Swift?
These 9 individuals were on Club Swim's Board this year (bonus points if you name their positions)
Erin - Pres
Morgan - Vice Pres
Warren - BoboTreasurer
Leo - Merch Manager
Flip - Fundraising
Yu - Social Events
Andrew - Social Media
Kat - Logistics
Garrett - Meet Director
Having been part of the World Swimming Championships Program since 2001, these 3 events will be added to the Olympic program for the first time in the 2028 games in LA.
What are the 50 breaststroke, 50 butterfly, and 50 backstroke?
To this day, you can hear the phrase "God I love swimming" echoing across the pool deck, but truly, we are proud to have swimming's #1 glazer.
Who is Matthew Swida?
This school year, UCSD's total student population reached a new high.
45,273 total students
He has served as the Merchandise Manager and President of Club Swim.
Who is Dylan Shafer?
Every Tuesday and Thursday, Club Swim goes to Spanos and has Weights under the guidance of this UCSD athletic trainer (bonus points if you can name our OLD athletic trainer)
Who is Vinny (bye Angelo)
The world record holders in the 100 Free LCM (men and women)
Men's: Pan Zhanle 46.40
Women's: Sarah Sjostrom 51.71
If you ask any UCSD Club Swimmer, Soulja Boy's hit song "Crank That" references this individual.
Who is Yu Ishii?
UCSD currently has 8 colleges, with more to come, but can you name the colleges in order from oldest to newest? (Bonus points if you can name who they are named after)
Revelle, Muir, Marshall, Warren, ERC, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth
Celebrating our 11th season as a club team this year, one can deduce that club swim was founded during this school year
2014-2015
Club Swim was more competitive than ever this year! To be exact, we participated in how many meets? (NOT counting intersquads)?
7
UCLA Fall
Regionals
UCLA Winter
Stanford
Triton invitational
Colorado
Nationals
At the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the men's 100 butterfly had 4 people on the podium, how could that be? That's because there was one gold medalist and 3 silver medalists!
Who are Joseph Schooling, Michael Phelps, Chad le clos, and Laszlo Cseh?
In the 2023-2024 season, UCSD Club swim went to the ASU Winter Invitational, but this travel meet is better known for two things (one had two separate incidents).
What is getting pulled over for speeding and the Rodeway Inn?
In 1986, Terry Allen added to the Stuart Art Collection at UCSD by coating 3 trees with lead and personifying them. You can find them in the Eucalyptus Forest next to Library Walk.
What are the singing, talking, and silent trees?
The Club swim board used to have this position, but it was discontinued in favor of the current positions today.
What is the Team Photographer?
How many of our current swimmers also work or used to work at CV (bonus points if you can name who is a lead)? *They are counted if they even came to half a practice this year AND also include swim instructors, also taken from member info form
25 swimmers (leads include ryan, christian, naomi, yu, and aidan)
The University of Virginia women's swimming program currently holds how many NCAA records (bonus if you can name how many Gretchen Walsh is apart of)
12, Gretchen walsh is apart of 9 of those (4 individual, 5 relay)
Make your case for the best 5-person car to an ASU travel meet, Yu is the judge.
Some of our swimmers will be living in the new Marshall College residence next year. Funny enough, some of our graduate students and seniors were the first to live in the new Sixth College! However, Sixth college used to be located at this part of UCSD Campus. (Bonus if you can say the name of the dorms)
Sixth College used to be where Pepper Canyon West Housing and Epstein Amphitheater were. Better know as Camp Snoopy
Every member of Club Swim gets a team shirt. Name the color of the team shirts by year, dating back to the 2021-2022 season.
2021-2022: Gray
2022-2023: Blue
2023-2024: Gold
2024-2025: Black
Potentially white next year??? Give your suggestions to the new merch manager!