Upcoming Event: Swimming & Diving versus Boston College on September 26, 2025 at 4 p.m. Diving / 5 p.m. Swimming
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4 p.m. Diving / 5 p.m. Swimming
Swimming & Diving
vs Boston College
2019-20 Swimming & Diving Roster
Matsuda, Daichi
Daichi Matsuda
- Position:
- Fly/IM/Mid-Free
- Height:
- 5-10
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Henry M Gunn
- Hometown:
- Palo Alto, Calif.
Bio
Career: Four-year letterwinner ... Graduated with the seventh-fastest 200 butterfly (1:47.91) in program history ... Earned ACC Academic Honor Roll recognition as a senior.
Honors:
- ACC Academic Honor Roll (2019-20)
2019-20: Placed second in the 200 butterfly with a season-best time on Senior Day versus North Carolina (2/1) ... Placed first in the 400 individual medley at NC State (1/18) ... Reached the consolation finals in two events, the 200 butterfly and 400 individual medley, at the NC State GAC Invitational in November ... Touched first in the 200 butterfly at Queens (1/11).
2018-19: Reached the 200 butterfly championship final at the Tennessee Invitational ... Clocked a career-best 400 individual medley time of 3:58.52 in a 14th-place showing in Knoxville ... Wrapped up the season with a career-best time in the 500 freestyle preliminaries at the ACC Championships.
2017-18: Notched a career-best mark of 49.39 in the 100 butterfly preliminaries at the ACC Championships to close out the season. Â
2016-17:Â Rounded out his rookie campaign at the Janis Hape Dowd Carolina College Nike Invitational, where he took fourth in the 100 butterfly ... Preliminaries mark of 1:47.91 ranked him fifth on the Blue Devils' all-time performance list and was Duke's second-fastest time of the season in that event.Â
Prior to Duke: Summer and winter junior nationals qualifier … 2016 NISCA All-American in the 100 butterfly ... Three-time Central California finalist in 100 butterfly and 500 freestyle ... Took second in 200-meter butterfly at 2016 USA Swimming Futures Championships ... Competed for Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics club program ... USA Swimming Scholastic All-American.Â
Personal:Â Born Daichi Christopher Matsuda Jan. 20, 1998 in Redwood City, Calif. ... Son of Yasuhiro and Yumi Matsuda ... Has one brother (Aska).Â
Matsuda Career Bests:
100 Free: 48.65 ... at Queens University of Charlotte (1/11/20)
500 Free: 4:32.96 ... 2019 ACC Championships
1,000 Free: 9:26.09 ... at Harvard (11/9/19)
100 Back: 52.89 ... at Harvard (11/9/19)
100 Breast: 57.94 ... 2019 Nike Invitational
100 Fly: 49.39 ... 2018 ACC Championships
200 Fly: 1:47.91 ... 7th all-time at Duke ... 2016 Nike Cup
200 IM: 1:51.96 ... 2016 Nike Cup
400 IM: 3:57.39 ... 2019 ACC Championships
Last updated on 8/26/2020
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