Sam Schechter
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- Birth Date:
- 1-20-95
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- Height:
- 6-1
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- Weight:
- 165
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- Hometown:
- Knoxville, Tenn.
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- Year:
- Junior
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- High School:
- Farragut
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- Major:
- Business
Bio
2015-16: Two-time All-BMC honoree in the 200 Free Relay and 50 Free... Won a team-high 10 races during the season with four wins coming against Bellarmine (50 and 100 Free, 200 Medley Relay and 400 Free Relay), four against the University of the Cumberlands (50 and 100 Free, 200 Medley Relay and 400 Free Relay) and one win each against King (400 Medley Relay) and and Limestone (50 Free)... Placed 14th in the 50 Free at the Georgia Tech Fall Invitational against a multitude of Division I athletes.
2014-15: 2015 All-American... School record holder in the: 200 Free Relay, 400 Free Relay, 200 Medley Relay, 400 Medley Relay... Member of the 200 Free Relay team that finished eighth at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships... Finished 32nd in the 50 Free at the NCAA Championships... Totaled seven wins during his sophomore season.
2013-2014: Winning member of the 400 free relay at the Lenior-Rhyne/Catawba tri-meet,
High School: Schecter has swum year round with Atomic City Atomic Club since 2006 under the tutelage of coaches Mike Bowman and Betsey Hondorf. In the summer, he races for GKAISA. Schecter's top finishes include 22.59 in the 50 free, 49.53 in the 100 free and a 53.88 in the 100 back at the 2012 Southeastern Short Course Championships.
Personal: Sam's parents are Chris Schechter and Ann Bowman. He has 3 younger brothers.
News mentions
ROCK HILL, S.C. – The Carson-Newman men’s swim team is leading the 18th-annual Bluegrass Mountain Conference Championships after the first day of the four-day meet with a team total of 185 and lead the top-ranked Queens (N.C.) Royals by seven points with freshman Jon Lancaster (Ringgold, Ga.) taking All-BMC honors in the 1000 Free and set a school record in the process.
EMORY, Va. – Carson-Newman freshman Lisa Posta (Leiden, Holland) and sophomore Margaret Stansberry (Knoxville, Tenn.) registered three wins in the 50 and 100m Free and the 400 Free Relay and helped guide the Eagles to a tri-meet win over the Emory & Henry Wasps and King Tornado Saturday afternoon at Emory & Henry Aquatic Center in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. — The men and women's Carson-Newman swim teams took care of business Saturday afternoon in the lone home meet Maddox Pool had to offer this season as the Eagles outmatched the Bellarmine Knights with a combined score of 387-131.
JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – The lone home meet of the season for the Carson-Newman swim program has arrived as the Eagles will host the Bellarmine Knights of the Great Lakes Valley Conference Saturday afternoon in Maddox Pool at 1 p.m.
ATLANTA – A Carson-Newman swimmer reset the third school record of the weekend during Saturday’s session of the Georgia Tech Invitational at McCauley Aquatic Center in Atlanta.
ATLANTA – Carson-Newman sophomore swimmer Maggie Melhorn (Knoxville, Tenn.) set a new school record in the 100 Breast and sophomore Ryan Burcham recorded the Eagles’ best individual finish in the 100 Fly during the second day of the Georgia Tech Invitational in McCauley Aquatic Center in Atlanta.
ATLANTA – A Carson-Newman school record fell during the first day of the Georgia Tech Fall Invitational at McAuley Aquatic Center as the Eagles’ swim team competed against 14 Division I programs and the teams registered five provisional B-cut times.
JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – The lone representative for Division II swimming at this weekend’s Georgia Tech Mid-Season Invitational at the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta will be the Carson-Newman Eagles.
GAFFNEY, S.C. – Freshman Jon Lancaster (Ringgold, Ga.) won three events and set a school record and sophomores Maggie Melhorn (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Margaret Stansberry (Knoxville, Tenn.) each picked up three wins as the Carson-Newman swim team competed against the Limestone Saints at Timkin Aquatic Center in Gaffney, S.C.
JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – Two of the top teams in the Bluegrass Mountain Conference will be in the same pool on Saturday night at the Timken Aquatic Center in Gaffney, S.C. as the Carson-Newman swim team visits BMC rival Limestone for a 6 p.m. first dive.
WILLIAMSBURG, Ky. – The Carson-Newman swim team opened the 2015-16 regular season with a 356.5-158.5 combined victory over the University of the Cumberlands Patriots Saturday afternoon at the Dinah Taylor Aquatic Center.
JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – The Carson-Newman swim teams set two new school records during Thursday night’s Triple Splash swam in Maddox Pool.
JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. -- The third season for the Carson-Newman swim program is on the brink of existence as the Eagles open the season with the Triple Splash at 6 p.m. in Maddox Pool on Thursday night.