2024-25 Women's Swimming and Diving Roster

Alex Massey

  • Height 5-11
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Nashville, Tenn.
  • High School Harpeth Hall

Biography

2024-25:
  • Finished first in the 200 back (2:03.91) against UMass
  • Was first in the 100 fly (56.72) and 200 fly (2:03.07) against Delaware
  • Won the 50 back (26.46) against SCSU
  • Finished third (1:56.09) in the 200 back against Harvard, Princeton
  • Was a part of the 200 free relay quartet that finished third (1:31.20) on day two of the Ivy League Championships
  • Won bronze in the A final of the 100 fly (52.82) on day three of the Ivy League Championships
  • Secured bronze in the 400-yard medley relay A final (3:35.78) on day three of the Ivy League Championship
  • Recipient of the Ivy League Career High Point Award

2023-24:
  • Named College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Scholar All-American Team
  • Earned College Sports Communicators Academic All-District
  • Top finisher for Yale at the Ivy League Championships in the 200 backstroke, placing 12th with a time of 1:58.92.
  • Won the 100 and 200 butterfly against George Washington
  • Won the 200 butterfly and 200 backstroke versus Dartmouth and Penn
  • Part of 200 free relay victory versus Dartmouth and Penn
  • Part of 200 medley relay victory versus Cornell
  • Won 200 butterfly and 200 backstroke versus Cornell
  • Finished second in the 200 butterfly at the HYP meet
2022-23:
  • Won the 100 and 200 butterfly versus Brown 
  • Won the 200 backstroke and 200 individual medley versus UMass 
  • Placed ninth in the 200 butterfly in the Ohio State Invitational
  • Competed in the 200 medley relay team that took first versus Columbia 
  • Won the 50 freestyle and the 100 backstroke versus Southern Connecticut 
  • Won the 200 backstroke and placed third in the 100 butterfly versus Cornell 
  • Won the 100 and 200 butterfly and the 200 individual medley in the Penn-Dartmouth meet 
  • Won the 100 and 200 butterfly and placed second in the 200 backstroke in the HYP meet 
  • Placed second in the 200 butterfly and third in the 100 butterfly in the Ivy Championship 
  • Placed seventh in the 200 individual medley in the Ivy Championship
  • Competed in the 200 medley relay team that took second in the Ivy Championship 
  • CSC Academic All-District 
  • Heaton High Point team award recipient 
  • Scholar All-America 
2021-22:
  • Competed in the 200-medley relay that set a pool record versus Columbia 
  • Won the 100 and 200 butterfly versus Brown 
  • Won the 200 backstroke and the 50 free versus Southern Connecticut 
  • Won the 100 and 200 butterfly and the 200 backstroke in the Penn-Dartmouth meet 
  • Won the 100 backstroke and placed third in the 200 individual medley versus Cornell 
  • Won the 200 backstroke and the 200 butterfly in the HYP meet 
  • Finished second in the 200 backstroke in the Ivy Championship 
  • Placed third in the 200 butterfly and fourth in the 100 butterfly in the Ivy Championship
  • Competed in the 400 medley relay team that took first in the Ivy Championship 
  • First Team All-Ivy in the 400 medley relay 
2020-21:
  • Season canceled due to pandemic
Before Yale:
  • All-state selection in each of her four years swimming for the Harpeth Hall School
  • Part of the Independent Schools national record in the 200 medley and 200 freestyle relays
  • Part of the school record in all three relays
  • Helped lead Harpeth to national championship as a junior and state championship as a first year
  • Earned all-state recognition in cross country and track
  • Swam for the Nashville Aquatic Club. 
Personal: Father played basketball at Rhodes College and is a member of the school’s Hall of Fame.
 
Why Yale? “During my short visits to campus, I was able to make incredible connections with the team and coaching staff. I realized pretty quickly that these were the people I wanted to be surrounded by and become. I am absolutely thrilled to join the family.”

Historical Player Information

  • 2020-21First Year

    Butterfly/IM
    5'11"
  • 2021-22Sophomore

    Butterfly/IM
    5'11"
  • 2022-23Junior

    Butterfly/IM
    5'11"
  • 2023-24Junior

    Butterfly/IM
    5'11"
  • 2024-25Senior

    Butterfly/IM
    5'11"