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2017-18 Men's Swimming and Diving

Christian Hwa

  • Height 6-0
  • Year First Year
  • Hometown Hong Kong
  • High School The Lawrenceville School
  • Event IM, Free
  • Major Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Biography

Collegiate Personal Bests
200-Free - 1:47.74
500-Free - 4:51.96
1000-Free - 10:19.18
100-Back - 54.50
200-Back - 1:57.89
100-Breast - 59.68
200-Breast - 2:10.60
200-IM - 1:58.47
400-IM - 4:17.32

2017-18:
At the MIT Winter Invitational, placed fifth in the 800 free relay in a time of 6:53.66 … during the regular season, had his best swims when he touched the wall second in the 500 free (4:56.05) against Springfield and when he touched the wall third in the 200 back (1:59.91) against Coast Guard … he bested those times later in the season against Cornell and WPI/Bowdoin as he clocked a time of 4:51.96 and 1:57.89, respectively.

Out of the Pool at MIT:
Majoring in biological engineering.

High School: A 2017 graduate of The Lawrenceville School … four-time varsity letterwinner in swimming and three-time varsity letterwinner in water polo … National Interscholastic All-American Swimming Team … Harold B. Wilder Trophy … Captain of the water polo team … 2014 and 2015 New Jersey State Swimming Champions … Eastern Interscholastic Swimming Championship A Finalist … Founding member of the school's first weekly news broadcasting network, L10 … Founder of the multi-rotor club … Publication in the Journal of Medical Primatology as first author (Hwa et al. 2017) … Poster Presentation at the 34th Annual Symposium on Nonhuman Primate Models for AIDS.