2024-25 Men's Swimming Roster

Mike Strauss

Baxter Smelzer

  • Height:
    6-2
  • Class:
    Senior
  • Hometown:
    Greensboro, N.C.
  • High School:
    Page
  • Major:
    Business Administration

Summary

Biography

2024-25
  • W&L Scholar Athlete (Fall)
  • First Team All-ODAC
ODAC FINAL TIMES
  • 50 Freestyle (2nd - 20.55)
  • 100 Butterfly (7th - 51.55)
  • 100 Freestyle (6th - 45.51)
2023-24:
  • First Team All-ODAC
  • First Team All-State (200 & 400 Free Relay, 200 Medley Relay)
  • Second Team All-State (Free Sprint)
  • CSCAA Second Team All-American (400 Free Relay)
  • W&L Scholar Athlete (Winter)
  • Academic All-ODAC
NCAA Final Times
  • 400 Free Relay (12th - 3:00.39)
ODAC Final Times
  • 200 Free Relay (1:21.66; ODAC & Meet Record)
  • 200 Medley Relay (1:29.88; ODAC, Meet and Program Record)
  • 400 Medley Relay (3:17.98; ODAC, Meet and Program Record)
  • 400 Free Relay (2:48.98; ODAC, Meet and Program Record)
  • 50 Free (2nd - 20.81s)
  • 100 Free (2nd - 45.36s)
2022-23:
  •  W&L Scholar Athlete (Winter)
ODAC Final Times
  •  200 Free Relay (1st - 1:23.27)
  •  400 Free Relay (1st - 3:02.25)
  •  200 Medley Relay (1st - 1:30.77)
  •  400 Medley Relay (1st - 3:21.08 - ODAC, meet, program record)
  •  100 Free (1st - 45.18)
  •  50 Free (2nd - 20.75)
  •  100 Fly (5th - 51.03)
2021-22:
  •  1st Team All-ODAC
  •  VaSID 1st Team All-State (Sprint Freestyle, 200 Freestyle Relay, 200 Medley Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay)
ODAC Final Times
  • 400 Freestyle Relay (1st - 3:03.63)
  • 50 Freestyle (1st - 20.80)
  • 200 Medley Relay (1st - 1:31.62 - ODAC and Meet Record)
  • 100 Butterfly (7th - 52.32)
  • 100 Freestyle (1st - 45.55)
  • 400 Freestyle Relay (1st - 3:03.63)
High School: Four-year member and three-year letterwinner on the swim team at Page High School … member of the National English Honor Society and National Spanish Honor Society … three-year member of Principal’s Council and was the junior class president … co-founder, vice president and head instructor of the boating club.
 
Personal: Member of the Fly Fishing Club and First-Year Orientation Committee at W&L ... serves with Students Against Rockbridge Area Hunger ... was a John Newman Medical Intern over the summer ... Ducks Unlimited Co-Chair & Treasurer... Member of Students Against Rockbridge Area Hunger, campus kitchen and the fly fishing club....Volunteer at the Pantry at Feeding Hawaii Together in Honolulu...Spent the summer of 2023 as a Newman Medical Intern at YMCA Camp Sea Gull...President and Founder of the W&L Nutritional Advocacy Club...W&L Campus Kitchen Volunteer...Director of Strength & Wellness at YMCA Camp Sea Gull...Volunteer at ThePantry by Feeding Hawaii Together...Domestic Student at the University of Hawaii...Enjoys Fly Fishing...

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Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22First Year

    6'1" 190 lbs

  • 2022-23Sophomore

    6'1" 195 lbs

  • 2023-24Junior

    6'1" 195 lbs

  • 2024-25Senior

    6'2" 190 lbs