Matthew George
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- Height:
- 6-3
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- Weight:
- 185
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- Hometown:
- Manchester, England
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- Year:
- Junior
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- High School:
- Holycross Sixth Form College
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- Events:
- Freestyle, Fly, Backstroke
Bio
2020-2021: George set a sleuth of top-five program times over a multitude of events, including a pair of top-five times in the men's 200-yard backstroke and the men's 200-yard individual medley. Gathered six top-five finishes in all of his events during C-N's home meet versus Wingate. Gathered a top-eight finish in the men's 200-yard backstroke at Bluegrass Mountain Conference Championships with a time of 1:49.17. Finished top-20 in the men's 200-yard freestyle at the 2021 NCAA Division II National Championships with a time of 1:38.68.
2019-2020: In C-N's dual-meet against Wingate, George won the 500-yard freestyle in a season-best time of 4:38.05. He also finished first in the 200-yard freestyle and took second place in the 200-yard butterfly. On the opening day of competition at the Emory Invitational, George finished in second place in the 200-yard individual medley at a time of 1:54.82. George opened up the University of Tennessee Invitational in the 400-yard freestyle relay alongside Nikola Tadic, Chad Andoljsek and Andrei Ungur. The squad set a new school record with a time of 2:57.51, automatically qualifying them for nationals. On day three of the Bluegrass Mountain Conference Championships, George won the 'B' final of the 500-yard freestyle in a time of 4:31.31.
2018-2019: The foursome of Andrei Ungur, Howell, Matthew George, and Nikola Tadic narrowly missed a first-place time in the event as the Wingate 'A' side held the advantage by .20 seconds vs. Wingate... his time in the 200-yard freestyle helped push the Eagles lead in Event 30 with a time of 1:43.30... finished third in the 200-yard IM in the Emory Invitational and then won the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 1:52:89...George won the Men's 500-Yard Freestyle with a time of 5:26.90 vs. Lees-McRae. This puts George as the third fastest in Carson-Newman's history and eighth in the country for the year...George broke the school record for the 500 freestyle at the UT Invitational with a time of 4:26.51. In another program record-breaking performance, the men's 400 medley relay of Ungur, Howell, George and Chad Andoljsek in a time of 3:18.60. Had a season-best time in the 200-yard butterfly at 1:48.55... Won the 200-yard butterfly vs. Emmanuel... Grabbed two victories in the 200-yard freestyle (1:41.67) and 100-yard butterfly (51.49) vs. King... earned third in the 800 free relay with an NCAA provisional qualifier and season-low time by seven seconds of 6:36.58 at the BMC Championships with Jon Lancaster, Nikola Tadic and Marcelo Figueiredo. Collected his first individual All-BMC swim in his first season as an Eagle after turning in a fifth-place performance in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:38.75, nearly a full second faster than the preliminary swim. Placed sixth in the 200-yard butterfly, earning an All-BMC honor...George competed and finished in 13th place with a time of 4:28.37 in the 500 freestyle at the National Championships
News mentions
The time has come for Carson-Newman Swimming to make their mark on the Nationals stage from Birmingham, Alabama.
Carson-Newman swimming sees more school records on the final night of competition from the Palmetto State.
Another successful night of competition for the Eagles of Carson-Newman swimming Saturday.
Senior CJ Jensen (Copenhagen, Denmark) and sophomore Raphael Lima (Sao Paulo, Brazil) continued to cement themselves in the Carson-Newman swimming record books Friday night.
Carson-Newman Swimming sees three separate school records fall during night one of action at the Bluegrass Mountain Conference Championships along with multiple top-five finishes.
Team Orange now holds the 3-2 series advantage in the annual Blue v. Orange meet for Carson-Newman Swimming.
As the 2020-21 season regular season comes to a close in the coming weeks, the Carson-Newman swim team will host its annual Blue vs. Orange Intrasquad meet on Friday, Jan. 22nd in the MSAC pool
Sophomore Raphael Lima (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and senior CJ Jensen (Copenhagen, Denmark) broke a pair of school program records during day 2 of the inaugural Winter Round Robin hosted by Queens University.
The Carson-Newman Swimming program saw action against Queens University to start the mid-season competition at the inaugural Winter Round Robin.