William & Mary Athletics

2019-20
Named All-American by the CSCAA in both the 50 free and the 100 free, after the NCAA Championships were cancelled due to CoVID-19 ... Earned NCAA invitations in both events, the first for a W&M men's swimmer since 1963 ... Voted the VaSID State Men's Swimmer of the Year ... Also first-team all-state in the freestyle and on the 200 free relay ... Second-team All-State on both 400 free relay and the 400 medley relay ... Named the CAA Swimmer of the Year ... Ranked fourth in the nation in the 50 free and eighth in the 100 free ... Most Outstanding Swimmer of the CAA Championships for the second year in a row ... Won all seven of his CAA events for the second year in a row ... Broke the conference's all-time records with 24 event wins and 15 relay wins ... Set the CAA all-time record in all seven events ... Swam on the gold-medal 800 free relay on the first night, breaking the five-year-old conference record in 6:26.86 ... Thursday, broke the conference record in the 50 free prelims at 19.17 before winning the title in 19.18 ... Just the 16th time ever that someone has won the same event four years in a row, and the first time it was ever done in the 50 free ... Led-off the gold-medal 200 free relay in 18.98 seconds, becoming just the fourth non-Power 5 swimmer to ever break 19 seconds ... First swimmer to ever do so from a university in the state of Virginia ... Team swam 1:17.42 to win and break the conference record ... The next day, the same team time-trialed a new conference record 1:17.19, just 0.02 off the NCAA qualifying standard ... Also on Friday, broke the school record in the 200 free prelims at 1:35.96 before timing a conference record 1:35.04 to win the title ... Anchored the 400 medley relay to the championship in a record-setting 3:09.89 ... Saturday, broke the conference record in the prelims of the 100 free in 42.01 ... Went on to win the championship in 42.19 ... Led-off the 400 free relay to the win in 2:54.07 ... Earned three sub 19.5 lead-offs at the Princeton Last Chance Meet, trying to lead the 200 free relay under 1:17.17 ... Best time of the day was 1:17.65 ... Named CAA Swimmer of the Week three times, on Oct. 8, Nov. 26, and Jan. 21 ... Broke the W&M pool record in the 50 free twice, and the 100 free and the 200 free once each ... Also broke two pool records in the 200 free relay and the 200 medley relay and once in the 400 free relay ... Totaled 10 dual-meet records over the course the season ... At the mid-season West Virginia Invitational, finished second in both the 50 free and the 100 free ... Also took sixth in the 100 fly ... Led W&M with 439.5 points and 23 wins ... His points were the third-most ever in a single season ... Wrapped up his career with 1,430.25 points, second-most ever in program history ... Also ranked fourth in school history with 75 wins ... CAA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll during the fall for having a GPA over 3.0.

2018-19
Finished 12th in the nation in the 50m free at the Phillips 66 USA Summer Nationals ... Earned Olympic Trials qualifiers and school records in both the 50m free (22.49) and the 100m free (49.79) ... Finished the NCAA season ranked 46th in the 50 free and 53rd in the 100 free ... Named the CAA Most Outstanding Swimmer of the Championships, after becoming the first man since 2006 and just the fourth all-time to win seven championships in a week .... Swept the 50 free, 100 free, and 200 free, all with school record times ... Set the conference records in both the 50 and the 100 free ... Also won four relays, leading-off the 200 free relay and 400 free relay, swimming second on the 800 free relay, and anchoring the 400 medley relay ... Set conference records in all but the 800 free relay ... Second man in conference history to win the three sprint free events, joining Richmond's Brent Holsten (1994) ... Became just the third man to win the 50 free three times, alongside JMU's John McLaren (1999, 2001, and 2003) and Old Dominion's Sidni Hoxha (2011-13) ... Only man in conference history to win the 100 free in non-consecutive years ... With one year to go, already ranks third in CAA history with 17 career championships ... Just the second man in CAA history to win five or more championships in three consecutive years, alongside JMU's Mark Gabriele (1993-95) who is the all-time record-holder with 22 conference titles ... Wright is the first man to achieve the feat in each of his first three seasons ... Named first-team all-state in the free events on the inaugural VaSID all-state swimming team ... Also earned second-team all-state honors as part of W&M's 200 free relay and 400 medley relay ... Named the CAA Swimmer of the Week twice ... First came on Oct. 23, after he went 8-for-8 in individual event against Navy, Towson, Johns Hopkins, and UMBC ... Scared the pool record in the 100 free at UMBC that's held by Michael Phelps ... Also honored on Jan. 29, after shattering W&M's dual-meet and pool records in both the 50 free and 100 free against VMI ... At the TYR Invitational in November, finished third in both the 50 free and the 100 free ... Also took 12th in the 100 fly ... Led W&M on the year with 418.25 points, including 25 wins and 35 podium finishes ... Won each of his first 10 races of the year ... Finished lower than third just three times all season ... CAA Academic Honor Roll for having a GPA over 3.0.

2017-18
Won five CAA Championships for the second year in a row, becoming just the seventh man in conference history with multiple 5s in his career ... Repeated as the CAA Champion in the 50 free ... Also swam on four winning relays as W&M became the first school to sweep all five relays ... Led-off the 200 free relay to a conference record time of 1:18.95 ... Also swam second on the conference-record 400 free relay (2:56.51) ... Anchored both the 200 medley relay and the 400 medley relay, the latter to a third conference record of 3:13.29 ... Also finished second in both the 100 free and the 200 free individually, swimming a lifetime-best 1:37.80 in the longer event ... Led W&M on the year with 356.5 points and 18 wins ... Also had 10 runner-up finishes, for 28 first or second-place finishes out of 33 swims ... Never finished worse than second at any meet other than the Big Al Invitational in December ... At that meet, finished sixth in the 50 free, eighth in the 100 free, and 21st in the 100 fly ... Broke his own Rec Center record and W&M dual-meet record in the 50 free with a 20.46 on Senior Day against Davidson ... Also helped reset both records in both the 200 medley relay (1:30.08) and the 400 free relay (3:02.53) in that meet as well ... During the summer, qualified for the USA Swimming Summer Nationals in the 50m free ... Finished 51st nationally ... Also swam the 100m free in a time trial, breaking the school record with a time of 51.22 seconds ... At the Virginia Long Course State Championships, swam on all four of W&M's state championship relays (all but the 4x200m free) ... Individually, finished fourth in the state in the 100m free, sixth in the 50m free, and seventh in the 100m fly.

2016-17
CAA Rookie of the Year ... Won five gold medals at the CAA Championships, tied for the most ever by a freshman and most since 2000 and 2001 ... Individually, swept the 50 free and the 100 free ... Swam a school-record 19.62 in the prelims of the 50 free, becoming the first man to ever break 20 seconds in school history and coming within .03 of the conference record ... Also swam a school-record 43.77 in the 100 free, becoming the first man under 44 seconds at W&M ... Led-off the gold-medal 200 and 400 free relays ... Also anchored the 200 medley relay to the win ... Finished sixth in the 100 fly in his final individual event ... Finished the year with 216 points and 10 wins ... At the Hokie Fall Invitational, finished sixth in the 50 free and 11th in the 100 free ... During the summer, broke W&M's school record and won the state title in the 50m free at the Virginia Long Course State Championships, swimming 22.90 seconds ... Also finished fourth in the 100m fly and third in the 100m free.

Prep
State champion at the Virginia 4A championships in both the 50 free and 100 free as a senior ... Set the state record in the 50 free ... Prep All-American ... Named the Men's Swimmer of the Year by the Virginia Gazette.

Personal
Son of Jim and Debbie Wright ... Enjoys playing the bass.