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2020-21 Men's Swimming & Diving Roster

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Murray Coueslant

  • Position Fly/Free
  • Height 6-1
  • Weight 170
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Aberdeen, Scotland
  • High School Robert Gordon College

Biography

2020-21 Season
Accolades: CoSIDA Academic All-District, Marist President's Academic Achievement Award Recipient, Marist James E. Pizzani Award Recipient, MAAC All-Academic Team, MAAC Student-Athlete of the Week (10/14), Marist CSAE Student-Athlete of the Month (3/25)
  • Season canceled due to disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic.
 
2019-20 Junior Year
Accolades: MAAC All-Academic Team.
  • Part of the 800-yard free relay team that took 2nd at the MAAC Championships.
  • Took 7th in the 200-yard fly at the MAAC Championships.
  • Finished 5th in the 1650-yard free and 200-yard fly at the H20unds Invitational.
  • Part of the 200-yard medley relay team that took first against Colgate. Also won the 100-yard fly.
  • Placed 2nd in the 200-yard fly and 100-yard fly against Bryant.
 
2018-19 Sophomore Year
Accolades: MAAC All-Academic Team.  
  • Competed in the 200 Free, 500 Free, and 200 butterfly at the ECAC Championships, finishing as high as fifth in the 200 butterfly
  • Competed in the 200 Free, 1000 Free, 1650 Free, and 200 butterfly at the MAAC Championships, finishing in fifth in the 1650 Free and seventh in the 200 butterfly
  • Won both the 100 Free and the 1000 Free at Southern Connecticut State
  • Finished first in both the 200 Free and 200 Fly at Fordham
 
2017-18 Freshman Year
  • Placed second in 200 butterfly, eighth in the 100 butterfly and fourth in the 200 freestyle at MAAC Championships
  • Won the B-final for the 200 butterfly in 1:50.49 at ECAC championships to finish ninth overall
  • Also swam 100 butterfly and 200 freestyle at ECAC Championships
  • Was on top of the podium for the 200 butterfly, 100 butterfly and 200 freestyle against Boston College
  • Placed first in the 200 fly and second in the 200 freestyle against Fordham
 
General
Prior to Marist: Coueslant has had success at home and abroad as captain of his high school swim team. He was in the top 10 in the United Kingdom in the 100-meter freestyle and top five in the 200-meter butterfly during his career. The consolation final winner in the 200 fly at the Scottish Short Course Championships, he was also a silver medalist in the same event at the Edinburgh International Swim Meet and took bronze at the Geneva International Swim Meet. Coueslant competed in the A final of the 200 fly at the Luxembourg International Swim Meet. He is a five-time national medalist and participated in the 100- and 200-meter butterfly at the Rio Olympic trials.    
 
Academically, Coueslant had five ‘A’ grades at Scottish Higher Level and was a high school Prefect Leader.

Marist Records Book: 200-Yard Butterfly (1:49.08), 800-Yard Freestyle Relay (6:37.23)

Historical Player Information

  • 2017-18Freshman

    Fly/Free
    6'0" 170 lbs
  • 2018-19Sophomore

    Fly/Free
    6'0" 170 lbs
  • 2019-20Junior

    Fly/Free
    6'0" 170 lbs
  • 2020-21Senior

    Fly/Free
    6'1" 170 lbs

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