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Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges

2023-24 Men's Swimming and Diving

Ben Smith

  • Year Senior
  • Hometown Glendale, CA
  • High School Pasadena Poly
  • Events Dive
  • College Claremont McKenna

Biography



SwimCloud Results

At CMS

Completed his senior season competing as a diver for the CMS swimming and diving team ... Graduated ranked No. 6 in program history in the one-meter dive (493.10).

2023-24 (Senior)
SCIAC All-Academic Team ... Finished seventh in the one-meter and ninth in the three-meter at the SCIAC Championships ... Won the one-meter dive in a dual with Pomona-Pitzer ... Was second on both boards in a dual with Caltech ... Took third in the one-meter at the Pomona-Pitzer Invitational and in a tri-meet with Whittier and Chapman ... Was third in the three-meter in a tri-meet with Cal Lutheran and La Verne ... Was third in the three-meter in a dual with Occidental.

2022-23 (Junior)
Earned 387.40 points in the one-meter dive at the SCIAC Championships ... Was third in the one-meter in a SCIAC tri-meet with Cal Lutheran and La Verne ... Finished third on both boards in a dual with Redlands. 

2021-22 (Sophomore)
CSCAA Scholar All-America Team ... SCIAC All-Academic Team ... Earned sixth place finishes in both diving events at the SCIAC Championships ... Earned 382.90 points in the three-meter and 381.20 points in the one-meter.    

Prior to CMS
Attended Polytechnic School in Pasadena, where he was a member of the swimming and diving team ... Also competed in diving with Rose Bowl Aquatics. 

Personal
Attends Claremont McKenna, where he majors in economics and engineering in the 3/2 program ... Chose CMS "because of the incredible community, rigorous liberal arts academics, and the one of a kind programs like the speaker series at the Athenaeum."

Historical Player Information

  • 2019-20Freshman

    Fly, IM
    6'0"
  • 2020-21Sophomore

    Fly, IM
    6'0"
  • 2021-22Sophomore

    Fly, IM
  • 2023-24Senior

    Dive