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Jaycee Yegher

Breast/IM
Position
Graduate Student
Class
Darnestown, Md.
Hometown
Harvard
Previous School
Jaycee Yegher - Swimming & Diving - Virginia Cavaliers

Career Best Times
50 Free: 24.44 (2/1/20)*
100 Breast: 59.39 (2/21/20)*
200 Breast: 2:08.47 (2/22/20)*
200 IM: 2:06.19 (2/15/18)*
*Times swam while at Harvard

AT VIRGINIA

2022-23
• Won the 100 breast and 200 breast at the Cavalier Invite
• Placed sixth in the 100 breast at the Tennessee Invitational
• All-ACC Academic Team
• ACC Academic Honor Roll
• SCAA Scholar All-America First Team

2021-22
• Did not compete
• ACC Academic Honor Roll

AT HARVARD

2020-21
Did not compete due to season cancelation by the Ivy League.

2019-20
Earned All-Ivy first team honors in the 100- and 200-yard breaststrokes as well as part of hte 200- and 400-yard medley relay squads … Qualified for the NCAA Championships with a personal-bests in the 100- and 200-yard breaststrokes at the Ivy League Championships … Broke the program in the 100- and 200-yard breaststroke at the Ivy Championships, with a pair of NCAA B-cut times of 59.39 and 2:08.47, respectively … Registered four first place finishes in dual meets against Brown and Penn … Against Brown placed first in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:02.91) and 200-yard breaststroke (2:13.48) … Finished first in 100-yard breaststroke (1:03.42) against Penn … Claimed first place in the 200-yard breaststroke at the annual H-Y-P meet with a time of 2:12.91.

2018-19
Earned all-Ivy League second-team accolades while swimming the second leg of the 400 medley relay … Owned the team”s top 100 and 200 breast times of the season … Posted a 1:02.19 in the 100 breast at the Ivy League Championships … Finished the 200 breast in 2:13.47 at Ivies … The 400 medley relay team posted a time of 3:38.58 at the Ivy meet to earn it all-league honors … Swam on the team”s second-fastest 200 medley relay of the season (1:42.93) at the Hall of Fame Invitational … Competed in the 200 IM at the Hall of Fame Invite and turned in a season-best time of 2:06.33, which was good for the ninth-best effort on the team … Swam the 50 free in 24.74, at the Hall of Fame Invite.

2017-18
Broke the Harvard record in the 200 breaststroke at HYP with a personal-best and an NCAA B-cut time of 2:11.72 … Recorded a pair of NCAA B-cut times at the Ivy League Championship Meet … Finished third in the 200 breaststroke (2:13.05) and eighth in the 100 breaststroke (1:02.78) … Second in the 100 breaststroke (1:05.59) and third in the 200 breaststroke (2:21.37) … Placed seventh in the 200 breaststroke at the Texas Invitational with an NCAA B-cut time of 2:13.77 … Second in the 100 breaststroke (1:06.57) against Cornell.

BACKGROUND
Three-time state champion in the 100 breast…Three-time record holder in the 100 breast…Competed in the 2013 World Maccabiah Games in Israel…Competed in the 2015 Pan American Maccabiah Games in Chile…Montgomery County Swim League record holder in the 100 and 200 breaststroke…High School MVP from 2013-17…National Honors Society Member…President of Rho Kappa…Senior Olympics volunteer.