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2024-25 Men's Swimming & Diving Roster

Tom Killips
Tom Killips

Mike Dowd

  • Position Freestyle
  • Ht./Wt. 6-2 / 175
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Holbrook, NY

Biography

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2024-25: NCAA qualifier ... Placed first in 200 free (1:38.36) and second in 50 free (20.28) at Liberty League Championships ... Also a member of the 200 and 400 medley relays that finished runner-up at the league championships ... Competed in the 50, 100, and 200 free at NCAA Championships ... 

2023-24: Set school records in 50 free (20.50 in prelims) and 200 free (1:39.41, 1st overall) at Liberty League Championships ... Placed 19th in 50 free (20.26) and 23rd in 100 free (44.94) at NCAA Championships ... Member of record-setting 800 free relays ... Selected once as the Liberty League Swimmer of the Week ...

2022-23: FINA score of 666.65 ... Personal-bests in 50 back (26.79 vs. Oneonta vs. Saint Rose), 50 free (20.52), 100 free (46.01), and 200 free (1:39.53 and 1st overall) all at Liberty League Championships ... First on team in 50 free (20.52), 100 free (46.01), and 200 free (1:39.53) all at Liberty League Championships ... School record holder in 50 free (20.52), and 200 free (1:39.53) both at Liberty League Championships ... 

2021-22: FINA score of 629.00 ... Fourth on team ... Personal-bests in 50 back (27.18) and 100 back (56.09) vs. Skidmore ... Personal-best 50 free (21.12) and 200 free (1:41.46) at Liberty League Championship ... First on team in 50 free (21.12), 100 free (21.52), 200 free (1:41.46), 200 medley relay (1:34.15), 400 free relay (3:08.27) and 800 free relay (6:57.62), all at Liberty League Championship ... Liberty League Weekly Honor Roll once ... Liberty League Rookie of the Week once ...

High School: Five years of swimming ... Captain for two ... School record in two individual events ... Three relay school records (1 in 2016, 2 in 2020) ... All-County (2016-20) ... All-State twice ... Team's Academic Award ... National Honor Society ... AP Scholar ... 

Personal: Computer Science major ... Dean's Honor List ... Son of Betsy and Edward Dowd ... Sister swam at Ithaca.

Historical Player Information

  • 2020-21Freshman

    Freestyle
    6'2" 175 lbs
  • 2021-22Sophomore

    Freestyle
    6'2" 175 lbs
  • 2022-23Junior

    Freestyle
    6'2" 175 lbs
  • C

    2023-24Senior

    Freestyle
    6'2" 175 lbs
    C
  • C

    2024-25Graduate Student

    Freestyle
    6'2" 175 lbs
    C