Arthur Balva

Position:
IM/Fly
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Palo Alto, Calif.
High School:
Palo Alto

Honors
NCAA All-America Honors (2026): 800 freestyle relay

CSC Academic All-District (2026)

2x Ivy League Champion (First Team All-Ivy): 800 freestyle relay (2025,2026)

1x Ivy League Runner Up (Second Team All-Ivy); 500 freestyle (2025)

NCAA Championships Qualifier: 800 freestyle relay (2025, 2026)

CSCAA Scholar All-American: Second Team (2024); First Team (2025, 2026)

Dermod F. Quinn Memorial Award Recipient (2025)

Lifetime Bests

200 freestyle – 1:34.77
500 freestyle – 4:14.71
100 butterfly – 47.76
200 butterfly – 1:41.99
200 IM – 1:47.58
400 IM – 3:45.54

2025-26: Finished first in the 800 freestyle relay at the Ivy League Championships, setting a new Ivy Meet and program record (6:09.80) for the fifth-fastest time in the nation for the season...Finished third in the 500 freestyle, setting a new pogram record (4:14.71)...Finished fifth in the 400 IM and third in the 200 yard butterfly...Competed as part of the 800 freestyle relay at the NCAA Championships and beat the previous record in the event (6:09.16).

2024-25: Competed as part of the 800 freestyle relay at the NCAA Championships and set a new program record in the event (6:13.71)…Finished second in the 500 freestyle and third in the 200 butterfly at the Ivy League Championships…finished third in the 500 freestyle, fifth in the 400 IM and sixth in the 200 freestyle at HYP…won the 200 butterfly, finished second in the 400 IM and third in the 100 butterfly in the Kenyon-Navy tri-meet…won the 500 freestyle, finished second in the 400 IM and third in the 200 butterfly at the Big Al Invitational…finished second in the 500 freestyle, fourth in the 200 freestyle and seventh in the 200 IM in dual-meet with Columbia…won the 200 butterfly and the 500 freestyle, finished fourth in the 400 IM in the season opener Brown-Dartmouth tri-meet

2023-24: Finished fourth in the 400 IM, sixth in the 200 butterfly and 22nd in the 500 freestyle at the Ivy League Championships … won the 200 butterfly and finished sixth in the 500 freestyle at the Big Al Invitational … won the 500 freestyle, finished second in the 20 butterfly and fifth in the 400 IM at the H-Y-P meet … finished second in the 200 butterfly and sixth in the 200 IM at the Notre Dame-Navy tri-meet … competed in seven regular season meets

Pre-Princeton Top Times: SCM 200 Fly 1:44.55, 400 IM 3:53.32, 200 IM 1:47.58, 100 Fly 47.76 LCM 200 Fly 2:00.47, 400 IM 4:29.45, 200 IM 2:05.48, 100 Fly 55.12

Before Princeton: 2022 International Team Trials Qualifier - 200 Fly … 2x USA Swimming 2022 Futures Champion - 200 Fly, 200 IM … 3x USA Swimming Scholastic All-American ... Swam Legs on two Pacific Swimming Record Relays: 15-18 200 Meter Relay (1:33.21), 15-16 200 Yard Free Relay (1:23.98) … 4x Individual CCS Champion (Our High School Section) in the 200 IM and 100 Fly both in 2022 and 2023 … 2x Team CCS Champions (only two in school history) … Swam Legs on three High School Record Relays: 200 Medley Relay (1:31.19), 200 Free Relay (1:21.81), 400 Free Relay (2:59.67) … Runner-up in 200 Free Relay at 2022 CIF (California) State Meet and 400 Free Relay at 2023 CIF State Meet, 2023 200 Free Relay broke previous state record though placed third … 2021-22 Most Valuable Team member from Club Team (PASA) … Coaches Award 2023 from High School Team … 2023 Team Captain of both Club and High School Team … 2023 Design and Build Lead on Community FTC Robotics Team … in 2022, that same team won the Design Award at the World FTC Competition … 2022 AP Scholar with Distinction … 2022 TSA TEAMS Club President

Personal: Son of Alex and Ann Balva … has a younger brother, Maxwell Balva … majoring in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering