Max Seidel

Position:
Breast/IM
Weight:
null
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Lexington, Mass.
High School:
Lexington

Honors
2x CSCAA Scholar All-American (2024, 2023)

Lifetime Bests

100 breaststroke – 55.46
200 breaststroke – 1:58.58
200 IM – 1:46.74
400 IM – 3:44.94

2024-25: Finished third in the 400 IM, 18th in the 200 breaststroke and 20th in the 200 IM at the Ivy League Championships…finished seventh in the 400 IM at HYP…finished seventh in the 200 butterfly, eighth in the 200 IM and ninth in the 200 breaststroke at the Penn State/Virginia Tech tri-meet…finished second in the 400 IM and fourth in the 200 IM at the Big Al Invitational…finished second in the 200 IM in dual-meet with Columbia

2023-24: Finished third in the 400 IM, 18th in the 200 breaststroke and 19th in the 200 IM at the Ivy League Championships … finished third in the 400 IM and 10 th in the 100 breaststroke and the 200 breaststroke at the H-Y-P meet … finished second in the 400 IM, eighth in the 200 breaststroke and 12th in the 200 IM at the Big Al Invitational … competed in seven regular season meets

2022-23: Finished first in the 100 breaststroke, first in the 200 IM and third in the 200 breaststroke at the ECAC Championships … finished 10th in the 200 breaststroke, and 14th in the 200 IM at the Big Al Invitational … competed in eight regular season meets.

Before Princeton: Swiss Junior national team member for four-straight years … Swiss National Team member, made the team in 2018 for the first time … Competed at Junior European Championships in Helsinki, Finland as a member of team Switzerland in 2018 … 12-time Swiss Junior National Champion (19-time medalist) … Many-time New England Age Group Champion … Swiss national record holder in the 15-16 4x100 medley relay … 2016 Open New England Champion in the 400 IM … Gator Swim Club team Captain Junior and Senior year (2017-2019) … Many time Gator Swim Club team record holder in the breaststroke, IM and relay events … Finalist in the 400 IM at the 2018 Summer US Junior National Championships ... Invited to the USA Swimming Zone Select Camp … US summer nationals and Olympic trials qualifier … Lived, trained and Competed abroad in Switzerland for a year (gap year) after High School at the Swiss National Training Center in Tenero, Switzerland … threw Varsity Javelin senior year of High School … eight time honor role student … three-time USA Swimming Scholastic All-American

Personal: Son of Francesca and Joachim Seidel (mother from Italy and Father from Switzerland) … has one a brother Leo, who plays soccer in high school as a goalkeeper … enjoys playing guitar, drawing and favorite artist is Kygo … majoring in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering