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2024-25 Men's Swimming & Diving Roster

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Chris Mykkanen

  • Event Freestyle
  • Class GS
  • Height 6-3
  • Weight 200
  • Hometown Tustin, Calif.
  • Previous School Foothill

Biography

All-America Honors: 800 free relay (2024, honorable mention)
 
NCAA Standards (‘B’ standards unless otherwise noted): 100 free (2024) … 200 free (2025, 2024) … 500 free (2024) … 800 free relay (2025, A standard, 2024, A standard) … 400 free relay (2024)
 
School Records: 400 medley relay – 3:07.68 (2024)
 
Conference Championships: 400 free relay (2024) … 800 free relay (2024) … 200 free (2024) … 400 medley relay (2024)
 
All-Conference Honors: 500 free (2024) … 200 free (2024) … 400 medley relay (2024) … 800 free relay (2024) … 400 free relay
 
Awards and Honors: ASUN Men’s Scholar Athlete of the Year (2024) … ASUN Academic Team (2024) … CSC Academic All-District (2024)
 
2024-25 (Graduate Student): Saw action at seven meets during the season ... was a member of the Mustangs' 800 free relay squad that swam an NCAA A standard during the SMU Invite.

2023-24 (Graduate Student): Competed in nine meets during his first season at SMU … won the ASUN Championship in the 200 free with a personal-best mark of 1:34.01 … claimed victories in the 200 and 500 free during the SMU Invite … won the 200 free (1:40.51) and 500 free (4:28.91) against OCU and UIW.
 
2022-23 (Senior at UNLV): Did not appear.
 
2021-22 (Junior at UNLV): Earned second place in both the 500 free (4:17.42) and in the 1650 free (15:16.86) with an NCAA 'B' cut at the WAC ... clocked 1:34.71 to place third in the 200 free with an NCAA 'B' cut ... recorded a school record and placed second (20.55) at the UNLV First Chance Invite.
 
2020-21 (Sophomore at UNLV): Notched a second-place finish in the 500 free (4:18.94) and third-place finish in the 1650 free (15:12.70) at the WAC Championships … achieved his first U.S. Olympic Trial cut in the 400-meter free with a mark of 3:54.10 at the UNLV LCM Invite … earned NCAA “B” cut times in the 200 free (1:35.72), 500 free (4:18.94) and 1650 free (15:12.70) at the WAC meet … named to the Academic All-WAC Team.
 
2019-20 (Freshman at UNLV): Saw action in 11 meets … claimed a WAC Championship in the 500 free with a time of 4:21.86.
 
Prep: In 2019, was a conference champion in the 500 free … lettered all four years at Foothill High School … helped his team at Foothill to the CIF Division II Team Championship.
 
Personal: Comes from a family of swimmers with both collegiate and Olympic experience … plans to study Civil Engineering as a graduate student at SMU.  

Historical Player Information

  • 2023-24GS

    Freestyle
    6'3" 200 lbs
  • 2024-25GS

    Freestyle
    6'3" 200 lbs