2019-20 Men's Swimming & Diving Roster

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Tennessee Athletics

Chandler Bray

  • Position Breast
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Avon, Ind.
  • Highschool Avon

Biography

Career Accolades
  • Three-time All-American
  • 2020 SEC Academic Honor Roll
  • 2020 SEC Brad Davis Community Service Leaders Award Nominee 
  • 2019 CSCAA Scholar All-America selection
  • 2018 SEC Champion (200 MR)
  • 2018 All-SEC First Team
  • 2018 SEC Academic Honor Roll
  • 2017 SEC Champion (200 MR, 400 MR)
  • 2017 All-SEC First Team
  • 2017 All-Freshman Team
  • One-time SEC Male Freshman of the Week
  • 2017 SEC First Year Academic Honor Roll
  • UF Records Held:
    • 200 MR - 1:22.23 - 2018 NCAA Championships
2019-20 (Senior)
SEC Championships
  • Member of the SEC Championship-winning team
  • Notched a new personal-best swim of 1:48.69 in the 200 IM prelims (37th-place)
  • Posted a 12th-place finish in the 200 breast finals with a season-best swim of 1:55.94
  • Finished in seventh-place (15th-overall) in the 100 breast B-final with a swim of 53.27 after setting a season-best in the prelims (53.11)
Regular Season
  • Posted season-bests at the Georgia Tech Invite in the 100 breast (54.05), 200 breast (1:58.23) and 200 IM (1:53.21)
2018-19 (Junior)
Regular Season
  • Ended his season at Florida’s Last Chance Meet where he won the 200 breast in a season-best time of 1:57.46
  • Collected one indivudal victory and three relay wins 
 
2017-18 (Sophomore)
NCAA Championships
  • Qualified for NCAA Championships as a relay alternate, earning All-American honors in the 200 MR
  • The MR finished with a school record of 1:22.33 and Bray swam a 23.83 breaststroke split
SEC Championships
  • Member of the 2018 SEC Championship-winning team, scoring points in three events
  • He earned gold in the 200 MR, swimming a 23.75 breaststroke split
  • Finished 15th overall in the 100 breast with a time of 54.06 and swam to a 16th place finish in the 200 breast (1:57.78)
Regular Season
  • Totaled three relay wins over the course of the season
  • Notched B-cuts in the 100 breast (53.26) and 200 breast (1:56.06)
 
2016-17 (Freshman)
NCAA Championships
  • Qualified for the 2017 NCAA Championships, finishing fifth in the 200 medley relay (1:23.08), eighth in the 400 medley relay (3:04.90), 23rd in the 200 breast (1:55.21) and 35th in the 100 breast (53.18)
SEC Championships
  • Member of the 2017 SEC championship-winning team, winning the 200 medley relay title (1:23.44), winning the 400 medley relay title (3:04.52), finishing seventh in the 100 breast A-final (52.71) and seventh in the 200 breast A-final (1:55.86) and tying for 34th in the 200 IM (1:49.34)
Regular Season
  • Named SEC Male Freshman of the Week on Jan. 31 after Florida's win over Tennessee in its only home meet of the year
  • Totaled one individual and four relay wins on the season
 
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION:
  • Participated in the 2017 US Open Swimming Championships in August, swimming in the 100m and 200m breast
  • He set the current Florida record for the 100m breast, swimming a 1:01.52 in a swim-off for the A final
  • The previous record had stood since the 2014 season
  • He finishd sixth in the preliminary round of the 200m breaststroke, posting a time of 2:15.69
  • Competed at the 2017 Phillips 66 National Championships, racing in the 50m, 100m and 200m breaststrokes
  • Made the B Final in each one of those races, with his best finish coming in the 200m breast, where he finished 3rd in the final and 11th overall with a time of 2:12.97
  • Recorded a time of 1:02.02 in the B Final of the 100m breast, good for fourth in the final and 12th place overall
  • Lastly, he posted a time of 28.36 in the B Final of the 50m breast, good for sixth in the final
  • Participated in the 2016 United States Olympic Trials, finishing 23rd in the 200m breast with a time of 2:16.11
  • Also raced in the 100m breast, finishing in 72nd with a mark of 1:03.35.
 
Career-Best Times at Florida:
50 Free 21.80 Purdue Invitational Nov. 16-18, 2017
100 Free 50.68 All-Florida Sept. 25, 2016
100 Back 56.93 All-Florida Sept. 24, 2016
100 Breast 52.61 Last Chance Meet Feb. 25, 2017
200 Breast 1:55.21 NCAA Championships March 25, 2017
100 Fly 53.72 Georgia Tech Invite Nov. 18, 2016
200 IM 1:48.69 SEC Championships Feb. 18-22, 2020
 
Prior to Florida
  • Swam for the Avon Community Swim Team
  • 2016 state champion in the 100 breast and finished fourth in the 200 IM
  • In the 100 breast prelims, he set a new national high school record at 52.65
At the 2015 Phillips 66 National Championships, he finished 14th in the 200 breast and 17th in the 100 breast

Historical Player Information

  • 2016-17Freshman

    Breast
    6'0"

  • 2017-18Sophomore

    Breast
    6'0"

  • 2018-19Junior

    Breast
    6'0"

  • 2019-20Senior

    Breast

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