2006-07 Swimming and Diving Roster

Brian Freeman Swimming and Diving Roster

Back/Free/IM


Height 5'11''
Weight 165 lbs.
Class Senior
Hometown Sanger, CA
High School Immanuel
Brian Freeman - Swimming and Diving - Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Bio

Bio • Career Bests Factor for Irish in 200 free and 200 back … three-time monogram winner … 2006 BIG EAST champion in the 800 freestyle relay with a University record time of 6:35.47 … also earned all-BIG EAST honors in that event as a freshman … ranks as sixth-quickest ever in the 200 back (1:50.57) … also sixth in the 200 free (1:40.12) … is seventh in school history in the 500 free (4:30.04) … swam the 800-meter freestyle for the Irish Aquatics at the 2005 and 2006 ConocoPhillips Swimming National Championships … multiple-time All- American prior to collegiate days … extremely talented. AS A JUNIOR
Part of BIG EAST champion 800-yard freestyle relay unit that posted a school-record and NCAA ‘B’ cut time of 6:35.47 … placed 11th at the BIG EAST meet in the 200 free with a mark of 1:41.29 … had a career-best mark of 1:40.12 in the prelims of the event … registered another 11th-place finish in the 500 free with a career-best time of 4:30.04 … finished 18th in the 200 back at the conference meet with a time of 1:52.67 … top season time in the 200 back (1:50.73) came during the Notre Dame Invitational … captured three individual wins on the year … won both the 200 free and back against Evansville … part of five winning relay teams … third on the team in the 200 free and fourth in the 200 back … earned a monogram. AS A SOPHOMORE
Member of 800- yard freestyle relay quartet that established the school record with a time of 6:40.79 at the BIG EAST Championships … that time earned them a fourth-place finish … registered four BIG EAST ‘A’ cuts with seasonbest times in the 200 free (1:40.80), 200 back (1:50.80), 100 breast (59.97) and the 200 IM (1:53.47) … posted conference ‘B’ cuts in the 500 free (4:43.80) and the 100 back (54.32) … clocked the team’s fourth-fastest 200-yard free and 200-yard back time … fifth on the team in the 100 back … … ranked 13th on the Irish with 190.25 total points (154 individual, 36.25 relay) … second in the 200 back versus No. 17 Pittsburgh and Michigan State … captured four victories on relays … member of victorious 800-yard freestyle relay at Louisville … swam on the 800 free relay squad that posted a win at the Notre Dame Invitational. AS A FRESHMAN
Contributed for Irish in backstroke and IM events in 2003-04 … also was part of the 800 freestyle relay that broke the oldest school record on the books (12 years old) at the Notre Dame Invitational with a time of 6:45.44 … improved on that time by nearly three seconds in resetting record (6:42.55) in third-place finish at the BIG EAST Championships … gained all-conference honors for that performance, which ranked 45th in Division I … ranked third on Irish in 200 backstroke (1:50.57) and was fourth in 200 freestyle (1:41.56) … scored 151.5 points, including 16 in the BIG EAST meet … finished 11th in the 200 back and 15th in the 200 free … ended up 26th in the 200 IM … qualified second and finished fourth in the 200 back at the Notre Dame Invitational … won 200 back vs. Oakland … took part in two meet records in Dennis Stark Relays: 800 free (7:05.76) and 400 back (3:29.41). HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL DATA
Earned All-America honors in four different events – 100 backstroke, 200 individual medley, 200 freestyle and 100 breaststroke … holds several central California records … 200 backstroke champion at junior nationals in ’02 … member of four undefeated Immanuel teams … father Michael and brother Kevin are both Notre Dame graduates … youngest of two children … born April 2, 1984, in Fresno, Calif. … son of Michael and Mary Freeman … enrolled in the College of Arts & Letters as a psychology major.

FREEMAN’S CAREER BESTS
`04 BE `05 BE `06 BE School Rank Career Wins
200 Free 1:40.12 • `06 BIG EAST 15th 8th 11th 6th 2
500 Free 4:30.04 • `06 BIG EAST 11th 7th
200 Back 1:50.57 • `03 ND Invit. 11th 9th 18th 7th 2
200 IM 1:53.47 • `04 ND Invit. 26th 17th