2019-20 Men's Swimming & Diving Roster

Coley Sullivan
- Class:
- Senior
- Position:
- Back, IM, Free
- Hometown:
- Louisville, Ky.
- High School:
- Louisville Collegiate
2019-20: CoSIDA Academic All-America At-Large First Team and CoSIDA Academic All-District At-Large Team selection ... Named Academic All-Ivy ... Captain ... Competed in all eight meets for the Bears … Finished third and broke the school record in the 200 backstroke (1:44.11) at the Ivy League Championships … Member of the 800 freestyle relay team that broke the school record at championships (6:25.56) … Also placed fourth in the 200 IM and fifth in the 100 backstroke at Ivies … Also competed in the 200 medley relay, 400 medley relay and 200 freestyle relay at championships … Finished third in the 200 backstroke and fourth in the 100 backstroke at Cornell … Was also a member of the 400 medley relay team that broke the pool record (2:58.58) against the Big Red … Won the 200 backstroke and came in third in the 100 backstroke against Columbia … Placed third in the 100 backstroke at Harvard … Took second in the 100 backstroke, 200 backstroke and 200 IM at the Big Al Open … Was also a member of the 400 medley relay team that broke the school record at the Big Al Open (3:13.10) … Won the 200 backstroke and finished second in the 100 backstroke versus UConn … Placed second in the 200 backstroke and third in the 100 backstroke at Penn … Won the 100 backstroke and claimed second in the 200 backstroke at Yale.
2018-19: Captain ... CoSIDA Academic All-America At-Large Third Team and CoSIDA Academic All-District At-Large Team selection ... Broke six school records at the Ivy League Championships, two individual and four relays ... Set the program mark in the 100 backstroke, 200 IM, 200 freestyle relay, 400 freestyle relay, 200 medley relay and the 400 medley relay ... Second Team All-Ivy in the 100 backstroke and 200 freestyle relay ... Named Academic All-Ivy ... Finished second in the 100 backstroke, third in the 200 backstroke and fifth in the 200 IM at Ivies ...  Broke the 200 freestyle relay record again at the Tar Heel Last Chance Meet … Placed second in both the 100 backstroke and 200 IM against Cornell and was fourth in the 200 backstroke ... Took second in both the 100 and 200 backstroke at Columbia ... Finished fourth in the 200 backstroke versus Harvard and Penn ... Appeared in three meets for the Bears.Â
2017-18: Competed in all five meets on the season ... Broke the 100 backstroke, 200 backstroke and 200 IM school records and was also part of program records on the 400 freestyle relay and 800 freestyle relay teams ... Won the 200 backstroke and finished fourth in both the 100 backstroke and 200 IM at Cornell ... Placed second in the 200 backstroke and fourth in the 100 backstroke against Columbia ... Won the 100 backstroke, 200 backstroke and 200 IM at the Big Al Invite ... Won both the 100 and 200 backstroke versus MIT ... Finished third in the 200 backstroke at Yale.
2016-17: Finished 11th in the 200 backstroke and 12th in the 400 IM at the Ivy League Championships ... His 400 IM time at Ivies was the sixth best time at Brown ... Also competed in the 200 IM at the Championships ... Swam the second fastest time at Brown in the 200 backstroke (1:45.49) and the 200 IM (1:48.34) at the Brown Invitational and his 100 backstroke time (49.79) was ninth best ... Won the 200 backstroke against Cornell and UMass/Yale ... Competed in all six meets on the season.
Before Brown: Competed for Louisville Collegiate and the Lakeside Swim Team … Swam a 49.6 100 back, 1:47.0 200 back and a 1:51.1 200 IM as a senior … Named Team MVP as a junior and senior … Won the State Championship in the 200 IM … Selected All-Region and Second Team All-State … State relay champion and All-American in the 100 free relay … Was also a state relay champion in the 400 free relay and the 400 medley relay … Individual state runner-up … Member of the relay teams that hold the state 800 free and 400 medley relay records … National Merit Finalist and National AP Scholar … Member of the National Honor Society.
Personal: Coley is the son of Brenda and Terry Sullivan … Has one brother, Tyler, who is on the Princeton swim team … Enjoys playing the guitar, reading and listening to music … Concentrating in Applied Mathematics-Economics.Â
Personal Records | ||
Event | Time | Date |
100 Free | 46.33 | 12/4/2016 |
200 Free | 1:39.72 | 12/3/2016 |
100 Back | 47.13 | 3/1/2019 |
200 Back | 1:44.11 | 2/29/2020 |
200 IM | 1:45.11 | 2/28/2019 |
400 IM | 3:53.19 | 12/2/2017 |