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2018-19 Men's Swimming & Diving Roster
Derek Cox
- Position:
- Breast/Fly/IM
- Weight:
- null
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Decatur, Ga.
- High School:
- The Westminster Schools
At Princeton — 2019-20: Earned CSCAA Scholar-Athlete All-America honors...Ivy League Champion in the 100 breaststroke and 200 breaststroke, collecting first team All-Ivy honors in both events...holds top-10 times in the 100 breaststroke, 200 breaststroke, 100 butterfly and 200 butterfly ... 2018-19: First-team All-Ivy in the 100 breaststroke, clocking 53.23 at the Ivy League meet ... set top times of 20.20 in the 50 free and 47.33 in the 100 fly at the Ivy meet as well ... set top times of 49.71 in the 100 back, 1:45.46 in the 200 fly and 1:47.59 in teh 200 IM at the Bruno Invite ... set top 200 breaststroke time of 1:59.18 in the HYP meet ... 2017-18: posted Princeton’s fourth-fastest 100 breast (56.11) and fourth-fastest 200 breast (2:01.32) of the season, both coming during the Big Al Open … added fifth-fastest 100 fly (48.70) and fourth-fastest 200 fly (1:47.58) of the year during the Big Al Open.
Before Princeton — ranked in the national Top 60 of incoming recruits by collegeswimming.com … three-time state champion in the 200 IM, and also won state titles in the 100 breast, 200 free relay and 200 medley relay … competed at Zone Select Camp, both Winter and Summer Junior Nationals and the Phillips 66 National Championships … lifetime bests include: 48.88 (100 fly); 1:47.59 (200 fly); 54.79 (100 breast); 2:01.34 (200 breast); 1:48.77 (200 IM); 20.53 (50 free) … holds nine individual or relay records for high school, as we well as two club records … AP Scholar with Distinction … member of the National Honor Society.
Personal — born Sept. 13, 1997 … son of Naomi and Eric Cox … has a twin brother Erek … considering studying Computer Science or Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton.
