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2019-20 Men's Swimming and Diving Roster

Erek Cox

  • Position Freestyle/Breaststroke/IM
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Decatur, Ga.
  • Previous School The Westminster School
  • College Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  • Major Engineering

Biography

Top Times:
50 Free: 21.08 (2019 ECAC Championships, 03/01/19)
100 Breast: 55.32 (2020 ECAC Championships, 02/29/20)
200 Breast: 2:02.04 (2020 ECAC Championships, 03/01/20)
200 IM: 1:51.63 (2018 ECAC Championships, 02/23/18)

2019-20 (Senior)
Competed primarily in the breaststroke events throughout the dual season ... Posted career-best times in both the 100 and 200 breaststroke at the ECAC Championships ... Finished sixth in the 100 breast (55.72) and ninth in the 200 breast (2:02.04).

2018-19 (Junior)
Swam season-best times in both the 50 free and 100 breast at the 2019 ECAC Championships ... Took 11th in the 100 breast at ECACs with a personal-best 55.53 ... Finished 16th overall in the 50 free at ECACs in 21.28 ... Finished second in the 100 breast against Brown on Jan. 19 in 57.86.

2017-18 (Sophomore)
Member of the 200 medley relay squad which beat Dartmouth (2/3) ... Placed eighth in the 200 IM at the ECAC Championships with a time of 1:53.28 ... Also finished eighth in the 100 back at the ECAC meet with a time of 50.52 ... Ninth in the 200 back at the ECAC Championships in 1:51.85. 

2016-17 (First-Year)
Runner-up finish in the 50 free with a time of 21.90 vs. Dartmouth (2/4)... Third-place finish in the 200 free with a time of 1:41.83 vs. Princeton on Dec. 9.

PERSONAL
Enrolled in the Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Sciences.

Historical Player Information

  • 2016-17First Year

    Freestyle/Breaststroke/Individual Medley
  • 2017-18Sophomore

    Freestyle/Breaststroke/Individual Medley
  • 2018-19Junior

    Freestyle/Breaststroke/Individual Medley
  • 2019-20Senior

    Freestyle/Breaststroke/IM