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2024-25 Men's Swimming and Diving Roster

Brian Li

  • Height 5-8
  • Year Graduate Student
  • Hometown Austin, Texas
  • High School Westlake
  • Event Free
  • Major Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Biography

Accolades:

  • 3x All American:
    •  2021-22: 800 Free Relay
    •  2022-23: 800 Free Relay
    •  2023-24: 800 Free Relay
  • 2x CSCAA First Team Scholar All-American (2021-22, 2023-24)
  • CSCAA Second Team Scholar All-American (2022-23)
  • 3x NEWMAC Champion:
    •  2021-22: 800 Free Relay
    •  2022-23: 800 Free Relay
    •  2023-24: 800 Free Relay
  • 4x NEWMAC All-Conference:
    •  2021-22: 800 Free Relay (1st), 1,650 (2nd)
    •  2022-23: 800 Free Relay (1st)
    •  2023-24: 800 Free Relay (1st)
  •  4x NEWMAC Academic All-Conference (2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25)
2024-25:
  • Swam in eight meets
  • Took fourth in the 200 Free at the NEWMAC Championship
2023-24:
  •  Competed in eight meets during the season, including NCAA Championships
  •  Placed third in the 200-Free at NEWMAC Championships

2022-23:

  •  NCAA Qualifier 
  •  Member of 800-Free relay team that posted the fifth-fastest time in school history
  •  Finished fourth in the 500-Free and fifth in the 200-Free at NEWMACs

2021-22:

  •  NCAA Qualifier
  •  Member of 800 Free Relay which set school record
  •  Swam in eight meets
  •  Finished third at NEWMACs in the 500-Free and second in the 1,650

2020-21:

  •  Season Cancelled Due to Covid-19

Before MIT:

  •  A 2020 graduate of Westlake High School
  •  Two-time All-American
  •  Two-time All-State
  •  Attended districts and regionals all four years of high school
  •  Attended the state championship twice
  •  Four-time varsity letterwinner in swimming
  •  Also competed for the Austin Swim Club
  •  Placed first in the 400m and 800m free relays at the 2019 Futures Championship
  •  Mu Alpha Theta
  •  Vice President of the Westlake Design & Create Club
  •  Vice President of the Westlake Investment Club
  •  Leader/Founder of the Westlake Business Incubator
  •  Consultant for the Westlake Featherduster
  •  Water Rocket Designer & Engineer
  •  Founder of GivingTreeATX
  •  IEEE TryEngineering Camp
  •  Future City Competition
  •  Volunteered with the Central Texas Food Bank
  •  Lead Violin Player in the Austin Chamber Music
  •  2018 and 2019 Bronze Medalist in the National French Contest
  •  2019 National Merit Scholar
  •  2019 AP National Scholar
  •  2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Nine-Time Academic Achievement Awardee
  •  Ranked in top 10 students among Westlake High School's Class of 2020

Personal:

  •  Major is Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  •  SpaceX Starlink internship
  •  UROP with MIT Haystack Observatory working on meteor radar signal processing
  •  Interned with Livingroom Analytics through the MISTI Denmark program. 
  •  Launch Lead for MIT Rocket Team
  •  UROP Technical Assistant at MIT Lincoln Laboratory 
  •  Modeling Multipath research
  • Danfoss Prize for MIT Green Campus Challenge

Favorite Sports Memory:

  •  Jumping off the diving board at NEWMACS

Favorite Memory as an MIT Student-Athlete:

  •  IAP training and going on training trip in California

Historical Player Information

  • 2020-21First Year

    Free
    5'8"
  • 2021-22Sophomore

    Free
    5'8"
  • 2022-23Junior

    Free
    5'8"
  • 2023-24Senior

    Free
    5'8"
  • 2024-25Graduate Student

    Free
    5'8"