Michael Brienza '14 Recruiting Profile

I am a multi-faceted student athlete excelling in swimming, triathlon, cross country, in the classroom and in the community.  I will be building upon my recent success in the pool and extend my 2013 swim season into long course and fully commit my training to swimming year-round.  Thus, I am forgoing my senior year of cross country and scaling back my triathlon training to fully dedicate myself to swimming.

I have been a member of SwimMAC Carolina for five years and have principally focused only on short course swimming from November to February each year.  I am a nationally ranked triathlete (#44 national rank 2012 age 16-17; #102 national rank in 2013 age 18-19)) and three year varsity cross country runner.  I was recentIy named co-captain and MVP (two years in a row) of my high school swim team.  My season was highlighted by my second place finish in the 200 Free at the NCISAA State Championship Meet in February, 2014.

I intend to major/minor with an economics and math science/engineering dual degree.  I am an honor student with a 3.7 GPA (4.0 junior year GPA), Chairman of our school's Honor Council, Founding President of Mu Alpha Theta (math honor society), recognized as an extremely active civic leader and volunteer, and winner of several awards and grants for community service projects.

I look forward to additional significant drops in my times as I focus entirely on swimming and continue my intensity in the pool, on land and in the weight room.  My goal is to contribute to a swim team of a high level academic school who is looking for a dedicated swimmer that can swim many different events although my recent strengths have been in the mid-distance events.