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Overall Career Honors
- 5x CSCAA All-American
- First Team (2023-1650 Free)
- 4x Second Team
- 2019 - 400 IM (@CUI)
- 2023 - (500 Free, 1000 Free & 400 IM)
- 3x NCAA Division II Naitonal Championship Qualifier (2019, 2020, 2023)
- CUI Male Athlete of the Year (2021-22)
- PCSC Swimmer of the Year (2019-20)
- 3x PCSC Championship Swimmer of the Meet (2019, 2020, 2021)
- 13x PCSC Champion
- 2019 - 400 IM, 500 Free, 1650 Free, 800 Free Relay
- 2020 - 400 IM, 500 Free
- 2021 - 400 IM, 500 Free, 800 Free Relay
- 2022 - 400 IM, 500 Free, 1650 Free, 800 Free Relay
- 4x Overall All-RMAC
- 2x First Team
- 2x Second Team
- First Team CSCAA Scholar All-American - 2023
- PCSC Second Team Academic All-Conference (2021)
- 7x PCSC Swimmer of the Week
CMU Career Honors
- 4x CSCAA All-American
- First Team (2023-1650 Free)
- 3x Second Team (2023 - 500 Free, 1000 Free & 400 IM)
- 4x Overall All-RMAC
- 2x First Team
- 2x Second Team
- First Team CSCAA Scholar All-American - 2023
Joined the Maverick squad as a graduate transfer to use his fifth year of eligibility after a record-setting career at fellow Division II Concordia University Irvine, where he was one of the most decorated Golden Eagle swimmers in program-history.
2022-23 (Graduate Student @ CMU): Competed in all 11 swim meets, including the RMAC and NCAA Division II National Championships… Earned four total CSCAA All-America honors, including first team honors with a sixth place finish in the 1650 free… Posted a personal-best time of 15:17.45 to cap his career and move into the No. 2 spot in CMU history… Also ranks second in Maverick lore for the 1000 free at 9:10.77, which was good for 11
th place at the NCAA Championships… Also finished 12
th in the 400 IM and 14
th in the 500 free to score 26 ½ team points at the national meet… Won four medals and All-RMAC honors at the RMAC Championships… Claimed the silver and first team honors in both the 500 and 1650 free… Was third in both the 400 IM and 1000 free… Accounted for 66 team points in his four individual events, third most in the entire meet… Also helped the Mavs with the “B” heat of the 800 free relay… Won three events (400 IM, 500 free, 1650 free) at the TYR CMU Invitational, while setting three other CMU top-10 ranking times… Set NCAA “B” cut times in four disciplines during that invitational… Ranks third in the 400 IM at 3:52.12, fourth in the 500 free at 4:25.63 and ninth in the 200 breast (2:02.62)… Named as CSCAA First Team Scholar All-American.
2021-22 (As a Senior @ Concordia Irvine): Won four Pacific Collegiate Swim Conference titles for the Golden Eagles while leading them to the team title… Was later named as the school’s Male Athlete of the Year (all sports)… Won the 500 free, 1650 free, 400 IM and 800 free relay titles setting season-best and NCAA “B” cut times in each of his three individual events… Also set a personal best and NCAA “B” cut time of 1:40.26 for the 200 free as the lead-off leg on the winning relay team… Won the 500 free in 4:30.72, the 1650 free in 15:46.43 and the 400 IM in 3:55.48… Was ranked 24
th nationally in the 400 IM, 32
nd in the 1650 free, 46
th in the 500 free and 56
th in the 200 breast (2:02.49) after winning the preliminary heats of that discipline at the PCSC Championship before scratching out of the finals in order to focus on his other events… Won his school-record seventh career PCSC Men’s Swimmer of the Week honor on Nov. 23 after setting a 100 IM school-record and winning time of (52.62) at the La Verne Invite… Had also earned the weekly honor on Oct. 26 after claiming two event wins in a dual victory over Cal Lutheran.
2020-21 (As a Junior @ Concordia Irvine): Named as the PCSC Championship Swimmer of the Meet for the third straight year after claiming three conference titles (400 IM, 500 Free, 800 Free Relay) at the championship meet, which was held in April after the NCAA Division II Championships during the unusual pandemic effected season… Won the 500 free with a school-record time of 4:29.69… Also placed second in the 200 breast with a personal-best time of 2:02.17 while winning the 400 IM in 3:55.33, a season-best… Had a season-best 200 free relay time of 1:40.75 to lead-off the Golden Eagles’ winning 800 free relay team… Named as the PCSC Men’s Swimmer of the Week twice and PCSC Second Team Academic All-Conference pick… Had set NCAA “B” cut times of 4:31.84 (500 Free) and 3:58.09 (400 IM) during a Feb. 27 dual with Cal Lutheran.
2019-20 (As a Sophomore @ Concordia Irvine): Named as the PCSC Championship Swimmer of the Meet for the second straight year… Also selected as the PCSC Swimmer of the Year… Qualified for the NCAA Division II Championships for the second straight year, becoming the Golden Eagles’ first and only 2-time qualifier… Finished 19
th in the 400 IM (3:57.20) in his only completed event at the NCAA Championships before the remainder of the meet was canceled after 1 ½ days at the onset of the COVID pandemic… Won PCSC individual titles in both the 400 IM (3:57.74) and 500 free (4:31.67)…Has posted NCAA qualifying times of 3:55.03 (400 IM) and 4:30.17 (500 Free) to win those events at La Verne’s Collegiate Winter Invitational… Named as the PCSC Men’s Swimmer of the Week twice.
2018-19 (As a Freshman @ Concordia Irvine): Named as the PCSC Championship Swimmer of the Meet for the first of three times as a freshman after winning four titles while helping the Golden Eagles claim their first team title… Went on to become CUI’s first ever NCAA Division II All-American after earning second team honors thanks to a 13
th place finish in the 400 IM at the NCAA Division II National Championships… Set a school-record time of 3:54.45 in the prelims… Also placed 18
th in the 1650 free (15:44.19) and 22
nd in the 500 free (4:31.46) at the national meet in Indianapolis… Won his conference titles in the 500 free (4:30.54), 1650 free (15:37.77), 400 IM (3:55.24) and as the anchor leg on the 800 free relay… All of those individual times were NCAA “B” cut marks and were personal bests at the time… Named as the PCSC Men’s Swimmer of the Week on Dec. 5, 2018.
Prep: 2018 graduate of Perry High School…. Set school-records in the 500 free, 400 free relay and 200 medley relay… Was a 3-time Arizona state qualifier… Was a USA Scholastic All-America… Also earned All-CUSD team and 6A All-Premier Region First Team plaudits.
Club: Swims for the Mesa Aquatics Club… Won the 400 IM at the Arizona Senior State Championships in the summer of 2022… Also took second in the 200 breast and fourth in the 200 IM… Finished seventh in the 200 breast at the USA Swimming Futures Championship in College Station, Texas in July, 2022… Was a 5-event finalist and 3-event runner-up at the 2021 Arizona Senior Long Course Championships… Reached the finals in both IM events at the 2019 Speedo Champions Series (Mount Hood)… Finished third in the 400 IM at the 2018 USA Swimming Futures Championships at the end of a strong club season, that included reaching five combined finals at Speedo Champions Series meets.
Personal: Is working towards a master’s degree in sports management… Aspires to become a director of operations for a university or work in Indiana at the NCAA Eligibility Center…. Son of John and LeAnne Benjamin… Has two siblings— Kelli and Mark.
Why I Chose CMU: “After my four years at Concordia and with granting everyone an extra year via covid, I choose CMU because it had the classes in their master’s program that would set me up in the future for my career. Also, the coaches had the same goals as I had for myself as well as the team atmosphere. Everyone took me in like I have been there from the very beginning and the team had everything I was looking for in my final year.”
