2016-17 Swimming and Diving Roster

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Nelson Chenault
Nelson Chenault
Nelson Chenault
Nelson Chenault

Jinson Kang

  • Position:
    Butterfly/Individual Medley
  • Class:
    Senior
  • Experience:
    0
  • Hometown:
    Bryant, Ark.
  • Prev School:
    Bryant HS
  • High School:
    Bryant HS

Summary

Biography

2016-17: Had a personal-best time of 1:11.10 in the 100-yard breaststroke against Saint Louis, Marshall and McKendree... Her 100-yard butterfly time of 1:00.27 against Evansville was a personal best... Won the 400-yard IM against Saint Louis and Western Illinois with a time of 4:41.07... Finished 10th in the 200-yard butterfly with a season-best 2:05.31 at the MVC Championships... Had a season-best time of 2:07.79 in the 200-yard IM at the Kansas Classic... Recorded a season-best time of 4:29.99 in the 400-yard IM at the Kansas Classic.

2015-16: Named All-Missouri Valley Conference Honorable Mention... Named to the MVC Scholar-Athlete Team... Broke the 200-yard individual medley record with a time of 2:06.20 at the MVC Championships... Broke her own school record in the 400-yard IM at the MVC Championships with a time of 4:23.14 and placed fourth... Helped break the 800-yard freestyle relay record with a time of 7:29.27 at the MVC Championships... Set a new personal-best and finished sixth with a time of 2:05.05 at the MVC Championships... Set a new personal-best time of 54.82 in the 100-yard freestyle while swimming in the 400-yard free relay at the Little Rock Christmas Invitational... Recorded a personal-best time of 5:09.72 in the 500-yard freestyle at the Little Rock Christmas Invitational... Tallied a new personal-best time of 1:04.36 in the 100-yard backstroke while swimming the 400-yard medley relay at the North Texas Relays... Recorded a personal-best in the 100-yard breaststroke against Vanderbilt with a time of 1:11.21... Set a personal-best time of 2:32.21 in the 200-yard breaststroke against North Texas, Ouachita Baptist and Southern Illinois... Earned a personal-time of 1:01.82 in the 100-yard butterly against Vanderbilt... Had four first-place finishes for the season.

2014-15: Named to the MVC All-Conference Team... Broke her own school record for the 400-yard IM twice and finished third at MVC Championships with a time of 4:25.52... Finished fourth at the MVC Championships in the 200-yard butterfly with a team and career-best time of 2:05.39... Finished the season with eight wins across four different events... Finished 16th in the 200-yard IM at the MVC Championships with a team and season-best time of 2:09.42... Set a season-best time of 5:14.60 in the 500-yard freestyle at the UALR Christmas Invitational... Owned eight of the top 10 times for the 200-yard IM and seven of the top 10 in the 400-yard IM.

2013-14: Earned a spot on the All-Missouri Valley Conference Honorable Mention list with her performance at the MVC Championships… Owns the Little Rock record in both the 200 yard IM and 400 yard IM… Broke both of her own school records at the MVC Championships with a 12th-place finish in the 200 IM (2:09.33) and eighth-place finish in the 400 yard IM (4:32.14)… Won the 400 yard IM in the first meet of the year at Tulane… Picked up another win at the Hendrix Classic by winning the 200 yard IM while getting second in the 500 yard freestyle… Placed third in the 400 yard IM at the Drury Invite with a time of 4:41.37… Won the 200 yard IM and finished second in the 400 yard IM at the UALR Christmas Invitational… Posted the team’s top-6 times in the 400 yard IM.

Bryant HS:  Swam for the Hornets under head coach Angel Dale… Helped the Hornets to four South District championships (2010-2013)… Individually, won south district championships in the 200 IM and 100 fly… Graduated top 10% of her class at Bryant HS… Also named an Arkansas Scholar and inducted into the National Honor Society at Bryant HS.

Personal:  Born April 2, 1993 in South Korea… Lives in Bryant, Ark… Parents are Sookkyung Chong and Sae-Hwan Kang… Has one brother, Minki… Majoring in interdisciplinary studies.

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Historical Player Information

  • 2013-14Freshman

    IM/FR MD
  • 2014-15Sophomore

    IM/FR MD
  • 2015-16Junior

    Fly/IM
  • 2016-17Senior

    Butterfly/Individual Medley