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2019-20 Men's Swimming Roster

Bayley Zobel
Natalie Baker
Bayley Zobel

Pedro Terres Illescas

  • Yr. Senior
  • Events Butterfly
  • Hometown Orihuela, Alicante, Spain
  • High School Gabriel Miro
  • Prev School Emmanuel

Biography

Overall Career Honors
  • 7x Overall CSCAA All-American
    • 2019 National Runner-Up & First Team All-American (200 Fly)
    • 2020 First Team All-American (200 Fly)
    • 5x Honorable Mention All-American
      • 2019 - 100 Fly & 400 Medley Relay
      • 2020 - 100 Fly, 200 Medley Relay & 400 Medley Relay
  • 8x RMAC Champion
    • 2020 - 100 Fly, 200 Fly, 200 Medley Relay, 400 Medley Relay, 800 Free Relay
    • 2019- 100 Fly, 200 Fly, 400 Medley Relay
  • RMAC Championship Record Holder - 200 Fly (1:45.60)
  • 8x First Team All-RMAC
  • 5-event School Record Holder
    • 50 Fly (22.42)
    • 100 Fly (47.66)
    • 200 Fly (1:44.28)
    • 200 Medley Relay (1:28.00)
    • 400 Medley Relay (3:14.11)
2019-20 (Senior): Competed in six meets, including the RMAC and NCAA Division II National Championships… Swept the butterfly events while winning five total conference titles at the RMAC Championships… Won the 100 fly in 48.13 and the 200 fly in 1:48.13… Also helped the Mavs win the 200 and 400 medley relays as well as the 800 free relay… Finished with five first team All-RMAC honors… Also finished 11th in the 100 free while turning in a personal-best 50 free split of 22.00 seconds during that effort… Was invited to the NCAA Division II National Championships in both butterfly events and was seeded fourth in the 200 with a season-best altitude-adjusted best of 1:45.34, set at the A3 Performance Invitational… Was not able to compete in that event as the national meet would be terminated after 1 ½ days due to COVID-19… Was selected as a First Team CSCAA All-American in the 200 fly… Also earned three additional honorable mention all-America honors, claiming those in the 100 fly as well as the 200 and 400 medley relays… Finished 15th in the preliminaries of the 100 fly with a time of 47.89 and was due to swim in the consolation final later that evening… Also helped the Mavs finish 14th in the 200 medley relay on the opening night of the national meet… On the next morning, helped the squad finish ninth in the preliminaries of the 400 medley relay in what would end up being the final swimming event of the meet… Had set a season-best and altitude-adjusted 100 fly time of 47.67 at the A3 Performance Invitational… Also helped the Mavs set a school-record time of 1:28.00 in the 200 medley relay at that meet… Had a season-best 200 free time of 1:40.54 in the 800 free relay at that meet as well.

2018-19 (Junior) at CMU: Competed in five meets, including the RMAC and NCAA Division II National Championships… Earned three total CSCAA All-America honors, including first team honors in the 200 fly, while setting new school records in each of his three events at the national meet… Was the national runner-up in the 200 fly with a school-record smashing time of 1:44.28… Also set a school-record time of 47.66 to place tenth in the 100 fly to earn honorable mention honors… Swam the butterfly leg of CMU’s tenth place 400 medley relay team, which posted a CMU record time of 3:14.11… Won the RMAC title in each of those three events as well… Set a RMAC Championship record time of 1:45.60 in the 200 fly… Earned three first team all-conference honors… Also won the consolation final in the 200 back at the RMAC Championships with a NCAA “B” Cut and personal best time of 1:47.92… Was the lead-off on CMU’s fifth place 800 free relay “B” team… Ranks third in school history with that time… Had won the 100 and 200 fly at the A3 Performance Invitational.

2017-18 (Sophomore) at Emmanuel College: Won three events at the ECAC Winter Championships, taking victory in the 100 fly (48.60), 200 fly (1:47.29) and 200 IM (1:53.00).

2016-17 (Freshman) at Emmanuel College: Placed third in the 200 fly (1:45.86) and fourth in the 100 fly (48.69) at the 2017 ECAC (Eastern College Athletic Conference) Championships as a freshman for the Emmanuel College Lions of Franklin Springs, Georgia... Set school-records in both, turning in a time of 48.65 in the prelims of the 100 fly... Won both of those events and the 200 back (1:48.71) at the Appalachian Swimming Conference Championships.... Also helped the Lions set school records in the 200 medley (1:30.43) and 400 medley (3:18.77) relays.

Prep: Attended Gabriel Miro school.

Personal: Is majoring in geology... Aspires to become a mineral expert exploring the world.

Why I Chose CMU: "CMU has a very competitive swimming and study program to help achieve my goals."

Historical Player Information

  • 2018-19Junior

    Butterfly/Backstroke/Mid-Distance Freestyle
  • 2019-20Senior

    Butterfly