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2018-19 Swimming & Diving Roster

Porter Barnes

  • Position Breast/IM
  • Height 5-10
  • Weight 170
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Columbus, NJ
  • Highschool Northern Burlington Regional

Biography

2018-19
- Named to the MAAC All-Academic Team.
- Part of the 400 medley relay that finished second and won a silver medal at the MAAC Championships.
- Finished fourth in the 100 breast with a time of 56.07 at the MAAC Championships.
- Came in 11th in the 200 IM at the MAAC Championships.
- Finished 10th in the 200 breast at the MAAC Championships.
- Set a new program record in the 200 breast with a time of 2:01.89 to finish in 10th-place at the ECAC Championships.
- Part of the 200 medley relay that won a gold medal at the ECAC Championships.


2017-18
- Named to the MAAC All-Academic Team.
- Finished 11th in the 200 breast with a time of 2:05.86 at the MAAC Championships.
- Came in 13th in the 200 individual medley at the MAAC Championships.
- Finished 10th in the 100 breast at the MAAC Championships.
- Landed in second in the 200 free in a dual meet with Monmouth.  

2016-17
- Finished ninth in the 100 breast, ninth in the 200 individual medley and sixth in the 200 breast at the MAAC Championships as Rider won the conference crown for the sixth year in a row.
- Came in 15th in the 400 individual medley at the ECAC Championships as Rider took second-place. 
- Named to the MAAC All-Academic Team.

2015-16
- As a Rider rookie, finished ninth in the 400 IM at the 2016 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championships (4:14.14), helping Rider win its fifth straight conference title.
- Swam a season-best 2:08.87 in the 200 breast at MAACs, placing 12th.
- Season-best times of 25.81 in the 50 back against UMBC, 54.27 in the 100 back at the 2016 Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championships and also swam 59.52 in the 100 breast in the same meet.

BEFORE RIDER
Attended Northern Burlington Regional High School… Four-year varsity letterwinner for swimming, competing in the free, back and IM…Burlington County Second Team honors as a senior in the 200 IM and earned Burlington County Second Team honors as a junior in the 100 back…NBC record holder in the 100 yard back, 200 yard IM, 200 yard medley (backstroke), 200 yard free relay and 400 yard free relay.

PERSONAL
Finance major with a Science for Business minor…in the Business honors program… son of Scott and Nanette Barnes, older siblings Victoria and Logan…also swims for the South Jersey Aquatic Club.

College Swimming Bio -> https://www.collegeswimming.com/swimmer/301985/

Historical Player Information

  • 2015-16Freshman

    Breast/IM
    5'10" 170 lbs
  • 2016-17Sophomore

    Breast/IM
    5'10" 170 lbs
  • 2017-18Junior

    Breast/IM
    5'10" 170 lbs
  • 2018-19Senior

    Breast/IM
    5'10" 170 lbs