Tyler Hong

Position:
IM/Fly/Back
Weight:
null
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Westlake, Ohio
High School:
Saint Ignatius

Honors
6x Ivy League Runner-Up (Second Team All-Ivy)
2025: 100 backstroke
2024: 200 IM
2023: 200 medley relay, 400 medley relay
2022: 100 backstroke, 400 medley relay

William B. Nash Memorial Trophy Recipient (2022)
CSCAA Scholar All-American (2023)
War Memorial Trophy (2025)

Lifetime Bests

100 backstroke – 46.00
200 backstroke – 1:41.57
100 butterfly – 46.64
200 butterfly – 1:43.91
200 IM – 1:43.49

2024-25: Served as a team captain for the 2024-25 season…was the Ivy League runner up in the 100 backstroke at the Ivy League Championships, finished seventh in the 200 backstroke and fourth in the 200 IM, finished fourth as part of the 400 medley relay and third as part of the 400 freestyle relay…won the 200 backstroke at HYP…won the 100 backstroke and finished second in the 200 backstroke at the Penn State/Virginia Tech tri-meet…won the 100 backstroke and 200 backstroke in Kenyon/Navy tri-meet…set a new program record in the 200 backstroke (1:41.57) at the Big Al Invitational and was part of the 400 freestyle relay team that set a new program record in the event (2:49.93)...won the 100 backstroke and 200 backstroke at the Big Al Invitational…won the 200 butterfly and 200 backstroke at the Penn/Cornell tri-meet…won the 100 backstroke and 200 backstroke in season opener meet with Brown and Dartmouth

2023-24: Finished second in the 200 IM, third in the 100 backstroke and ninth in the 200 butterfly at the Ivy League Championships … won the 200 butterfly and 200 IM at the Big Al Invitational … won the 100 butterfly and 200 butterfly at the Cornell-Penn tri-meet … won the 100 backstroke and 100 butterfly at the Brown-Dartmouth tri-meet … competed in seven regular season meets

2022-23: Finished second in the 200 medley relay, second in the 400 medley relay, third in the 100 backstroke, fourth in the 200 IM and seventh in the 200 backstroke at the Ivy League Championships … finished third in the 100 butterfly, third in the 200 backstroke, fourth in the 100 backstroke and fourth in the 200 IM at the Big Al Invitational … competed in eight regular season meets.

2021-22: Second team All-Ivy in the 100 backstroke and 400 medley relay ... Finished third in the 200 medley relay and fifth in the 200 IM at the Ivy League Championships ... Set top times in the 200 IM (1:44.76), 100 backstroke (46.71) and the 100 butterfly (46.64) at the Ivy League Championships and the 200 backstroke (1:43.04) at the Princeton Last Chance meet ... Awarded the William B. Nash Memorial Trophy for outstanding sportsmanship and performance by a first year swimmer or diver.

Before Princeton: 2x Ohio High School State Division 1 Champion in 200 IM (1st place in grades 11, 12)…2021 Greater Cleveland Male High School Athlete of the Year…2021 Lake Erie Swimming Senior Athlete of the Year…Invited and attended National Select Camp at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO- 2x in 2019…Varsity HS Swim Team MVP 4x and Team Captain during the Senior year…High School Record holder in multiple events…2020/2021 Canadian Olympic Trial Qualifier- but did not attend due to COVID border restrictions…2019 World 100 Ranked Swimmer in 200 Individual Medley- awarded to 18&Under swimmers ranked top 100 in the world in an Olympic swim events…USA Swimming Scholastic All American- 4x recipient…NISCA High School All American Scholar- 4x recipient…Graduated with First Honors on the Dean's List.

Personal: Son of Kyoko Ozawa Hong and Richard Hong…has two older brothers, Marcus (swims for Kenyon College class of 2022) and Nicholas (swims for Kenyon College, class of 2023)…has one younger brother, Jaimeson (swims year-round on a club swim team).